[63] “The Race of Banquo.” Southey’s Poetical Works, 1837, ii. 155.
[64] The Editor of the Cambridge Intelligencer.
[65] “To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution.” Poetical Works, p. 6.
[66] Compare “Sonnet to the Author of The Robbers.” Poetical Works, p. 34.
[67] The date of this letter is fixed by that of Thursday, November 6, to George Coleridge. Both letters speak of a journey to town with Potter of Emanuel, but in writing to his brother he says nothing of a projected visit to Bath. There is no hint in either letter that he had made up his mind to leave the University for good and all. In a letter to Southey dated December 17, he says that “they are making a row about him at Jesus,” and in a letter to Mary Evans, which must have been written a day or two later, he says, “I return to Cambridge to-morrow.” From the date of the letter to George Coleridge of November 6 to December 11 there is a break in the correspondence with Southey, but from a statement in Letter XLIII. it appears plain that a visit was paid to the West in December, 1794. But whether he returned to Cambridge November 8, and for how long, is uncertain.
[68] “Lines on a Friend who died of a Frenzy Fever,” etc. Poetical Works, p. 35. A copy of the same poem was sent on November 6 to George Coleridge.
[69] “The Sigh.” Poetical Works, p. 29.
[70] Probably Thomas Edwards, LL. D., a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, editor of Plutarch, De Educatione Liberorum, with notes, 1791, and author of “A Discourse on the Limits and Importance of Free Inquiry in Matters of Religion,” 1792. Natural Dictionary of Biography, xvii. 130.
[71] Compare “Lines on a Friend,” etc., which accompanied this letter.
To me hath Heaven with liberal hand assigned
Energic reason and a shaping mind,
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Sloth-jaundiced all! and from my graspless hand
Drop Friendship’s precious pearls, like hour-glass sand.