Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: he read this Poem to me, it was with so much jocularity as to convince me that, without bitterness, it was designed as a mere joke. In conformity with my determination to state occurrences, plainly, as they arose, I must here mention that strange as it may appear in Pantisocritans, I observed at this time a marked coolness between Mr. Coleridge and Robert Lovell, so inauspicious in those about to establish a " Fraternal Colony ;" and, in the result, to renovate the whole face of society ! They met without speaking, and consequently appeared as strangers. I asked Mr. C. what it meant. He replied, " Lovell, who at first, did all in his power to promote my connection with Miss Fricker, now opposes our union." He continued, " I said to him, 'Lovell! you are a villain!' '' " Oh," I replied, " you are quite mistaken. Lovell is an honest fellow, and is proud in the hope of having you for a brother-in-law. Rely on it he only wishes you from prudential motives to delay your union." In a few days I had the happiness of seeing them as sociable as ever. This is the last time poor Robert Lovell's name will be mentioned in this work, as living. He went to Salisbury, caught a fever, and, in eagerness to reach his family, travelled when he ought to have lain by ; reached his home, and died! We attended his funeral, and dropt a tear over his grave ! Mr. Coleridge, though at this time embracing every topic of conversation, testified a partiality for a few, which might be called stock subjects. Without noticing his favorite Pantisocracy, (which was an everlasting theme of the laudatory,) he generally contrived, either by direct amalgamation or digression, to notice in the warmest encomiastic language, Bishop Berkeley, David Hartley, or Mr. Bowles; whose sonnets he delighted in reciting. He ...