Afternoon lectures on literature and art[Fourth series, 1866 . erland, Rarely has love found a tendererinterpreter, or separation breathed a sweeter sorrow. Iadmit, indeed, that the poets growth has been stuntedby his own theory. He knows so much analyticallyof his art that his creative powers have been pre-maturely exhausted. He has studied eff*ect sothoroughly that he has, perhaps, become unable toproduce it. His intellect is with the ancients, hisheart and talent with the moderns. Yet we find inhim qualifications, rare at all times, especially rare atpresent, finish of detail, music of vers
Afternoon lectures on literature and art[Fourth series, 1866 . erland, Rarely has love found a tendererinterpreter, or separation breathed a sweeter sorrow. Iadmit, indeed, that the poets growth has been stuntedby his own theory. He knows so much analyticallyof his art that his creative powers have been pre-maturely exhausted. He has studied eff*ect sothoroughly that he has, perhaps, become unable toproduce it. His intellect is with the ancients, hisheart and talent with the moderns. Yet we find inhim qualifications, rare at all times, especially rare atpresent, finish of detail, music of versification, purity of5tylc. Above all, we find a conscientious abstinencefrom that sensationalism which begins by corruptingthe taste, and ends by corrupting the principles of anation. I must regret, even upon critical, as well asupon other grounds, that we do not trace in the inform-ing spirit of these volumes a flame which I thinkmight have been grander if it had been kindled at adifferent altar. COLERIDGE. BY THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS OHAGAN. *-m^ 1 |HEN I proposed to myself to speak toyou of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, I wasprompted by pleasant memories of ear-lier days, which had made me some-what familiar with his writings, and filled me withadmiration of his genius. I had not very recently re-curred to the fragments of Philosophy and Song be-queathed by him,-—poorly representing his own mani- .fold and marvellous endowments, but still sufficient,in their beauty and their power, to fix his impresson the intelligence of every English-speaking to address you, I have glanced throughthem again, after a long lapse of years, with a renewalof all my old delight and reverence:—but they haveaff^ected me with an almost painful sense of the temerityof my endeavour to present, in a lecture such as this,any adequate delineation of the intellectual life andaction oi one who, more perhaps than any other ofhis time, might claim the epithet which he madecurrent in
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