"Bibliomania.".

  • John Taylor Brown
Date:
1867
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Credit: "Bibliomania.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    To the following lines in the concluding paragraph of his contribution— Nature's vast ever acting Energy ! la will, in deed, Impulse of All to all, he appends the following curious note:— Tho' these lines may bear a sane sense, yet they are easily, and more naturally interpretable into a very false and dangerous one. But I was at that time one of the mongrels—the Josephedites [Joseph- ides = the son of Joseph, a proper name of distinction from those who believe in, as well as believe, Christ, the only begotten Son of the living God, before all time.] The lines were allowed to stand as originally written, in The Destiny of Nations, the only change made being, that Energy and Impulse were not printed in capitals. In the line which im- mediately follows, Whether thy Law,'1 was changed to Love. In Book Third only two marginal remarks by Coleridge occur. On the following lines, at p. 107,— So have I seen the simple snowdrop rise Amid the russet leaves that hide the earth In early spring, so seen its gentle bend Of modest loveliness amid the waste Of desolation,—■ Coleridge writes— Borrowed from the Sacontala, a Drama translated from the Sanscrit by Sir Wm. Jones. And a little further on, at p. 110, in the maiden's speech, beginning— Father, In forest shade my infant years trained up, Knew not devotion's forms, etc., Coleridge remarks— How grossly unnatural an anachronism thus to transmogrify the fanatic votary of the Virgin into a Tom Paine in petticoats, a novel-palming (?) proselyte of the Age of Reason. Looking at the severity of these criticisms, it is a little