The Life


of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by

James Gillman


1838

'... But some to higher hopes
Were destined; some within a finer mould
Were wrought, and temper'd with a purer flame:
To these the Sire Omnipotent unfolds
The world's harmonious volume, there to read
The transcript of himself ....'

To Joseph Henry Green, F. R. S.

Professor of Anatomy of the Royal Academy, etc. etc.

The Honoured Faithful and Beloved Friend of

Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

These Volumes

Are Most Respectfully and Affectionately Inscribed.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter I
  Birth-place of Coleridge — Slight Sketch of his Parents — Whimsical Anecdotes he Used to Relate of his Father, &c — As a Pastor, how Much Beloved — His Brothers and Sisters Enumerated — The Death of his Father — His Entrance at Christ's Hospital — Lamb's Account of him when at School — Writes this Account under the Name of Elia — Lamb's Admission that he Meant Coleridge for the "Friendless Boy" — The Delicacy of his Stomach — His First Attempt at Making Verse when a School Boy — And Continuation of his Sufferings when at School — His Water Excursions, the Origin of Most of his Subsequent Suffering
• Chapter II
  Coleridge's First Entry at Jesus' College —His Simplicity and Want of Worldly Tact —Anecdotes and Different Accounts of Him During his Residence at College —Intimacy with Middleton — with Southey —Quits College for Bristol.
• Chapter III
  Leaves the Lakes on Account of his Health for Malta — his Employment inMalta in 1805 — goes to Syracuse and Rome — Winters at Naples 15th ofDecember, 1806.
• Chapter IV
  Coleridge's Arrival at Highgate — Publication Of 'Christabel' — 'BiographiaLiteraria', &c.

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Preface

The more frequently we read and contemplate the lives of those eminentmen so beautifully traced by the amiable Izaak Walton, the more we areimpressed with the sweetness and simplicity of the work. Walton was aman of genius — of simple calling and more simple habits, though bestknown perhaps by his book on Angling; yet in the scarcely lessattractive pages of his biographies, like the flowing of the gentlestream on which he sometimes cast his line, to practise "the all oftreachery he ever learnt," he leads the delighted reader imperceptiblyon, charmed with the natural beauty of his sentiments, and theunaffected ease and simplicity of his style.

In his preface to theSermons of (that pious poet and divine,) Dr. Donne, so much may be foundapplicable to the great and good man whose life the author is nowwriting, that he hopes to be pardoned for quoting from one so much moreable to delineate rare virtues and high endowments:

"And if he shall nowbe demanded, as once Pompey's poor bondman was, who art thou that alonehast the honour to bury the body of Pompey the great?"

so who is he whowould thus erect a funeral pile to the memory of the hono

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