[1140:1] The ancient little Wits wrote many poems in the shape of Eggs, Altars, and Axes. (MS. Note by S. T. C.)
[1140:2] The title of the volume is 'Sonnets and Odes, by Henry Francis Cary. Author of an Irregular Ode to General Elliot. London 1787.'
Lines 6-9 of the Sonnet read thus:—
From him deriv'd who shun'd and spurn'd the throng
And warbled sweet, thy Brooks and streams among,
Lonely Valclusa! and that heir of Fame
Our English Milton—
Line 14 reads:—
A grandeur, grace and spirit all their own.
The Poems were the first publication of 'Dante' Cary, then a boy of fifteen, whom Coleridge first met at Muddiford in October, 1816, and whose translation of the Divina Commedia he helped to make famous.
[1141:1] The three Sonnets of Bowles are not in any Edition since the last quarto pamphlet of his Sonnets. (MS. Note by S. T. C.)
[1144:1] Ossian.
[1146:1] Compare The Pursuits of Literature, Dialogue 1, lines 50, 55, 56.