New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-08

laughed lightly, said had nyeeIf little acqualnr
auce with the man, and could not VISA 20 IScos az
mend myself by that messages s0ntueys a., the
looked at it, was become OF slate coior' i w
eyes glancing the attitude rigid, the nguTe tneo
gether picture Of Rhadamanthne rage--e11as -
rage conscious to itself of being just lie uy hS
less felt would expect some eEpapatlon from nu.
81 have told Hartley Coleridge," said he, !hat nc t
ought TO take strong CudEe, proceed stIaesC. az
Edinburgh. and give DE Quincey puDllcy ~ Suo
streets there. o sound beaTinR-as caiuna'bUii,
cowardly spy traitor base betrayer OF the me
social hearth, for one thing| ~ aPPeateu ~
Quincy was then. and for some tI9e s paae'
thing Of autobiography nature, series %
papers on the Lake" period Oh M, nss
life. merely for the sake OF the hgnIy eo Ea
trIie of money, poor soul and with no wish 70 70
untrue Il could believed, or hurt anybody, though
not without his own bits of splepetic CONVICTION,
and to which latter. in regard to CoieriaSe 10
to parties concerned. In few minutes VIC iet tnS
topic drop, helping what could, and ne seemeo
to feel as il ne had done little wrong; and was
bound to show himself more than usually amlca pc
and social especially with me, for the rest OF tue
evening, which he did in effect; though quite Ior
get the details only that had good deal o. eain
with him. in the circle of the others; and had again
more than once to notice tue singular readiness OF
the bushes; amiabe red blush, beautiful IKE a
ys 6s pleasant SAINT thsme; and serpent-liko flash
Of blue or black blush this far, very lar
the rarer kind, though it did recur; tool wn en
Won struck upon the opposite. All details OF the
evening except that primary one, are clean gone;
but the effect was interesting pleasantly stlmuat-
ing and SURPRISING. / said to myself, How mas
this man contrived, with such nervous system, TO
keep alive for near sixty yearsf Now blush1ng ul-
der his gray hairs rosy like maiden OF fifteen; now
slaty almost, like @ rattlesnake or fiery serpentI
How has he not been torn TO pieces long since under
such furious pulling this way and thatI he must
have somewhere a great deal of methodlc virtue IN
him: SUPPOSE too his heart Is thoroughly hohest,
which helps considerablYP
RECoLLECTToNs OF WORDSWORTH.
II Jyas perhaus about 1910 that first had any de-
cisiye meeting with Wordsworth, or made any really
nersonal acquaintance with him. On summer
morning lct us call 1t $40 them was apprsed by
Tavlor that Wordsworth had come to town. ana
woud meet n small party of us at a certain tavern
i'm ST. Janess Street, at breakfast A line, WHOLE
some rIlsiciy fresh his mountain breeze5 sat wen
on the stalwart veteran, ana on all he SAID ana dld
You would have said no was usually Jaclturn
man; clad to unlock himself to audience sympa-
thet,c and intelligent when such offered ITSELF His
face bore marks of much, not always peaceful med-
tatIOn the look OF 1t not bland OF benevolent so
mnch as close impregnable and hard; a man MALTA
tgcere ioonire DaTdtus in world where he had eX-
nerIenced no lack of contradictions as he strobe
alonol The eyes were not very Brilliant, put they
had ouiet clearness; there enough OF brow ana
we'll shaped; rather too much OF cheek T. horse
of souarish shape and decidedly longish, as THINK
fine head itself was its length going norzontaI
he was large-boned, lean. but still hrm-knit tai
and strong blocking when he stood right good old
sfce gray figure with rustic simplicity aud dignity
about him. aud avIvaciOus strength looking through
him which might have suited one OF those OLD steel
gray mark CrafS whom Henry the Fowler sent up 10
ward the "marches" and do battle with the mtru'
sive heather in stalwart and judlcious manner.