[From Early Years and Late Reflections, by Clement Carlyon, M.D., 1856, i. 143-4.]
APPENDIX V
ADAPTATIONS
For a critical study of Coleridge's alterations in the text of the quotations from seventeenth-century poets, which were inserted in the Biographia Literaria (2 vols., 1817), or were prefixed as mottoes to Chapters in the rifacimento of The Friend (3 vols., 1818), see an article by J. D Campbell entitled 'Coleridge's Quotations,' which was published in the Athenæum, August 20, 1892, and 'Adaptations', P. W., 1893, pp. 471-4. Most of these textual alterations or garblings were noted by H. N. Coleridge in an edition of The Friend published in 1837; Mr. Campbell was the first to collect and include the mottoes and quotations in a sub-section of Coleridge's Poetical Works. Three poems, (1) 'An Elegy Imitated from Akenside', (2) 'Farewell to Love ', (3) 'Mutual Passion altered and modernized from an Old Poet', may be reckoned as 'Adaptations'. The first and third of these composite productions lay no claim to originality, whilst the second, 'Farewell to Love', which he published anonymously in The Courier, September 27, 1806, was not included by Coleridge in Sibylline Leaves, or in 1828, 1829, 1834. For (1) vide ante, p. 69, and post, Read:—p. [1123]; for (2) ante, p. 402; and for (3) vide post, p. [1118].
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FULKE GREVILLE. LORD BROOKE
God and the World they worship still together,
Draw not their lawes to him, but his to theirs,
Untrue to both, so prosperous in neither,
Amid their owne desires still raising feares;
'Unwise, as all distracted powers be; 5
Strangers to God, fooles in humanitie.'