Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . andkept one moreterm; but hepassed the timein writing lettersto Southey andin preaching pan-tisocracy. In De-cember he quittedthe universitywithout taking a degree. His first work, The Fall of Robespierre,an Historic Drama, of which Southey wrote thesecond and third acts, was published at Cam-bridge in September 1794. The first act containsthe well-known lines, Tell me on what holyground May domestic
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . andkept one moreterm; but hepassed the timein writing lettersto Southey andin preaching pan-tisocracy. In De-cember he quittedthe universitywithout taking a degree. His first work, The Fall of Robespierre,an Historic Drama, of which Southey wrote thesecond and third acts, was published at Cam-bridge in September 1794. The first act containsthe well-known lines, Tell me on what holyground May domestic peace be found. For a few weeks he lingered in London, writingsonnets for the Morning Chronicle, and sitting-late, drinking late with Charles Lamb at the Catand Salutation in Newgate Street; but early inFebruary, at Southeys instance or insistence, re-moved to Bristol. For some months the friendslodged together and endeavoured to make a livingby lecturing on politics, history, and theology (forspecimens of Coleridges political lectures, see Con-dones ad Populum, printed in pamphlet form atBristol, November 1795, arid republished in Essayson His Own Times, 1850, vol. i. pp. 1-55) ; but in. the autumn they quarrelled and dissolved partner-ship. Southey had been the first to reaHse thatpantisocracy was impracticable, and, to his friendsdismay and indignation, determined to pass thewinter with his uncle at Lisbon. The result wasthat Coleridge, relying on the offer of a new friendand patron, Joseph Cottle, a Bristol bookseller,married (4th October 1793) and settled with hiswife in a myrtle-bound cottage at , for a brief while, domestic peace was found, but wantof books, friends,and, perhaps, thenecessaries of lifein less than threemonths led toa domesticationwith his mother-in-law at spring of 1796was taken up withthe publication ofthe Watchman, aperiodical whichprofessed to be theorgan of the WhigClub and otherpatriotic first numberappeared on
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