L'ENVOY. He was one who with long and large arm still collected precious armfuls in whatever direction he pressed forward, yet still took up so much more than he could keep together, that those who followed him gleaned more from his continual droppings than he himself brought home;-nay, made stately corn-ricks therewith, while the reaper himself was still seen only with a strutting armful of newly-cut sheaves. But I should misinform you grossly if I left you to infer that his collections were a heap of incoherent miscellanea. No! the very contrary. Their variety, conjoined with the too great coherency, the too great both desire and power of referring them in systematic, nay, genetic subordination, was that which rendered his schemes gigantic and impracticable, as an author, and his conversation less instructive Auditorem inopem ipsa copia fecit.—Too much was given, all so weighty and brilliant as to preclude a chance of its being all received-so that it not seldom passed over the hearer's mind like a roar of many waters. as a man. CONTENTS. EXTRACT from a Letter written by Mr. Coleridge, in February, 1818, to a Gentleman who attended the Course of Lectures given in the PAGE Shakspeare's Judgment equal to his Genius.. Recapitulation, and Summary of the Characteristics of Shakspeare's Order of Shakspeare's Plays.. Lecture I. General Character of the Gothic Mind in the Middle Ages.. 232 II. General Character of the Gothic Literature and Art....... 234 IX. On the Distinctions of the Witty, the Droll, the Odd, and |