Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey . e in the serenity of faith and hope. Before the effect of this letter, the eccentricities ofS. T. Coleridge—^his indiscretions, his frailties, vanishaway. There is in it a mellowed character, accordantwith a proximity to the eternal state, when alone theobjects of time assume their true dimensions; when,earth receding; eternity opening; the spirit, called tolaunch its untried bark on the dark and stormy watersthat separate both worlds, descries liffAt afar, and leans,as its only solace, on the hope of the christian. Checkered indeed
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey . e in the serenity of faith and hope. Before the effect of this letter, the eccentricities ofS. T. Coleridge—^his indiscretions, his frailties, vanishaway. There is in it a mellowed character, accordantwith a proximity to the eternal state, when alone theobjects of time assume their true dimensions; when,earth receding; eternity opening; the spirit, called tolaunch its untried bark on the dark and stormy watersthat separate both worlds, descries liffAt afar, and leans,as its only solace, on the hope of the christian. Checkered indeed was the life of this great butimperfect man. His dawn was not without and blessings attended him in his course, butmists obscured his noon, and tempests long followedhim; yet he set, it is hoped, serene and in splendor,looking on, through faith in his Eedeemer, to thatcloudless morning, where his sun shall no more godown. The attention of the reader wiU now be directed to lettersof Mr. Southey, briefly relating to Mr. Coleridge, and; ^i AX^.
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