Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey . From a Drawing by Hancock rf/ffdJifb lMIti/s^u)n,ofM:Cdtiie. S. T. COLERIDGE AND R. SOUTHEY. O of antiquity. Independently of which, they excited aninterest, and awakened a pecuhar sohcitude, from theirbeing about so soon to leave their father land, and todepart permanently for a foreign shore. One morning shortly after, Eobert Lovell called on me,and introduced Eobert Southey. Never will the impres-sion be effaced, produced on me by tliis young man. Tall,dignified, possessing great suavity of manners; an eyepiercing, with a counten
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey . From a Drawing by Hancock rf/ffdJifb lMIti/s^u)n,ofM:Cdtiie. S. T. COLERIDGE AND R. SOUTHEY. O of antiquity. Independently of which, they excited aninterest, and awakened a pecuhar sohcitude, from theirbeing about so soon to leave their father land, and todepart permanently for a foreign shore. One morning shortly after, Eobert Lovell called on me,and introduced Eobert Southey. Never will the impres-sion be effaced, produced on me by tliis young man. Tall,dignified, possessing great suavity of manners; an eyepiercing, with a countenance full of genius, kindliness, andinteUigence, I gave liim at once the right hand of fellow-ship, and to the moment of his decease, that cordialitywas never withdrawn. I had read so much of poetry, andsympathized so much with poets in all their eccentricitiesand vicissitudes, that, to see before me the realization ofa character, which in the abstract most absorbed myregards, gave me a degree of satisfaction which it wouldbe difficult to express. I must no
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