MR. COLERIDGE’S LECTURES
This course of Lectures began on Jan. 27, and ended on March 13, 1818. Hazlitt was lecturing on Poetry at the same time. For Coleridge’s prospectus see Lectures on Shakespeare (ed. Ashe), 170.
[416]. ‘Those fair parts,’ etc. Cf. Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 1. [417]. ‘Unhouselled,’ [unhoused] etc. Othello, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘This island’s mine,’ etc. The Tempest, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Independently of his conduct,’ etc. Cf. vol. III. (Political Essays), p. 285. ‘He had peopled else,’ etc. The Tempest, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Lunes and abstractions.’ Cf. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV. Sc. 2. [418]. ‘Conquering and to conquer.’ Revelation vi. 2. Bertram. Cf. vol. X. p. 158, and ante, pp. 412–3. ‘Tedious and brief.’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘The man may indeed be a reviewer,’ etc. This saying does not seem to have been reported elsewhere. Coleridge and Wordsworth were often accused of ridiculing Southey’s poetical genius. [419]. ‘Fie, Sir!’ etc. Milman, Fazio, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘To leave this keen encounter,’ etc. Richard III., Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Reason [reasons] as plenty,’ etc. 1 Henry IV., Act II. Sc. 4. ‘The inconstant moon.’ Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 2. [420]. ‘His large discourse of reason,’ etc. Hamlet, Act IV. Sc. 4.