And perfect witness of all-judging Jove;
As he pronounces lastly in each deed,
Of so much fame in heav’n expect thy meed.
The sweetest music does not fall sweeter on my ear than this stanza on both mind and ear, as often as I repeat it aloud.]
[115] Neither my Literary Life (2 vols.), nor Sibylline Leaves (1 vol.) nor Friend (3 vols.), nor Lay Sermons, nor Zapolya, nor Christabel, has ever been noticed by the Quarterly Review, of which Southey is yet the main support.
[116] [Shepherd’s Calendar: October.]
[117] [Letter CCXXIX follows 173.]
[118] [Mrs. Aders was the daughter of Raphael Smith, the engraver. Coleridge’s poem The Two Founts was written to her.]
[119] Let it always be borne in mind, that this and other expressions in these pages were the opinions which he ever expressed to me, and are not to be taken as evidences of doubt generally, but of disbelief in the corruptions of the vulgar Christianity in vogue. [Allsop.]
[120] In after years he excepted Elliot, the smith, though he held his judgment in very slight estimation. [Allsop.]