COK

"His poems may perhaps be consulted with advantage by those who search after anecdotes of contemporary characters."-Ellis's Specimens.

The following is so conclusive an evidence of the good taste of Sir Aston, that we quote it to his credit, and for After reviewing the claims of the benefit of our readers. the various attractions which the world offers to its votaries, he thus announces his own preference:

of society should become deeply imbued with the wisdom
and the courage of those mighty men of old, who in the
advocacy of what they knew to be right, treated with equal
popu-
lace. When the judges were questioned, whether if the
contempt the wrath of the king and the rage of the
king should desire them to stay proceedings in any case
before them, until he had consulted with them, they would
consent to such interference, all answered in the affirmative,
until it came to the turn of the stout Lord Chief Justice

"Give me a study of good books, and I
Envy to none their hugg'd felicity."
Cokaine, or Cockaine, Sir Thomas. A Short Coke, who courageously responded that,
Treatise on Hunting, Lon., 1591, 4to.
Cokayne, George. See COCKAYN.

Cokayne, William. The Foundation of Prudence
Vindicated, Lon., 1649, 4to.

Coke. Circumcision of Mustapha, Lon., 1676, fol. Reprinted in Harleian Miscellany, vol. v.

Coke, Sir Edward, 1551-52-1632, a native of Mile-
ham, Norfolk, was entered of Trinity College, Cambridge,
in 1567; became a member of the Inner Temple in 1572;
and was called to the Bar in 1578. In 1593 he was elected
a Member of Parliament for Norfolk, and was chosen
In 1594 he was ap-
Speaker of the House of Commons.
pointed Attorney-General, notwithstanding the strenuous
effort of the Earl of Essex to secure the vacant post for
Francis Bacon. Hence arose the enmity which existed
In 1598 he was left a widower,
between Coke and Bacon.
and in the same year married the widow of Sir William
Hatton, a grand-daughter of Lord High Treasurer Burleigh.
Upon the accession of James I., Coke received the honour
In 1603 he conducted the proceedings
of knighthood.
against Sir Walter Raleigh, and incurred merited censure
In 1606 he was promoted
for his professional insolence.
to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and in 1613
His resist-
to the Chief Justiceship of the King's Bench.
ance to the arbitrary and illegal acts of the king brought
down upon him the royal displeasure, and in 1622 he was
committed to the Tower, and there imprisoned for more
In 1625 he was returned to Parliament
than seven months.

for Norfolk, and in 1629 represented the county of Buck-
ingham. Though now in his 79th year, an attack upon
the constitutional rights of Englishmen proved that his
eagle eye, jealous in the cause of liberty, was not too dim
to decipher the imperishable lines of Magna Charta, and
that his "natural strength was not abated" in the cham-
At the close of this session
pionship of political freedom.
he retired to his estate at Stoke Pogis, where he devoted
himself to literary pursuits until the coming of that "night
when no man can work." Repeating with his last breath
the solemn invocation-"Thy kingdom come, thy will be
done," he resigned his soul to his Maker on the 3d of Sep-
tember, 1632, and was buried at Titeshall Church in Nor-
folk. His principal works are Reports from 1600 to 1615.
1. A Book of Entries, 1614, fol. 2. Complete Copyholder,
1630, 4to. 3. A Treatise of Bail and Mainprise, 1637, 4to.
4. Reading on the Statute of Fines, 27 Edw. I., 1662, 4to.
The work by which as a writer he is principally known to
the present generation, and will be famous for all future
ages, is Institutes of the Laws of England, in four parts,
the first of which contains the Commentary on Littleton's
Tenures,(1628,) the second, a Commentary on Magna Charta
and other statutes, (1642,) the third, the Criminal Laws,
or Pleas of the Crown, (1664,) and the fourth, an Account
of the Jurisdiction of all the Courts in the Kingdom, (about
1644.) The first part of the Institutes, or Coke upon Lit-
tleton, has been styled "The Bible of the Law."

We can

hardly do justice to our subject without noticing this cele-
brated Commentary somewhat at length. The edits. from
the 1st to the 14th were pub. in folio; those pub. subse-
Edit. 1st, 1628, is very incorrect;
quently are in octavo.

2d, 1629, had the advantage of the author's revision;
14th edit., with Notes, References, &c. by F. HARGRAVE
and C. BUTLER, (q. v.) 1789; to folio 195 by Hargrave, and
from 196 to the end by Butler; 17th edit., with addit. notes
by Charles Butler, 2 vols. 8vo; 18th ed., 1823, 2 vols. 8vo,
and 1832, 2 vols. 8vo, are reprints of the 17th edit., with
some addits. from Butler and Hargrave's Notes. (See arti-
cle Coke in Marvin's Legal Bibl.) Thomas's Arrangement
can hardly be called an edit. of Coke. American edits.,
Phila., by Thomas Day, 1812, 3 vols. 8vo; this is a reprint,
with some addits, by the American editor, of the 15th Lon-
don edit. Phila., beautifully printed by R. H. Small, from
We trust that
the 19th London edit., 1853, 2 vols. 8vo.
the publication of this very cheap and excellent edit. will
have a tendency to increase the study of Coke upon Little-
ton by our young lawyers. Although belonging to the lay
class, we feel a deep interest that those who are intrusted
to so large an extent with the conservation of the interests

"When that case should be, he would do that should be fit for a judge to do."

Did any freeman ever make a bolder answer, and did any lawyer ever make a wiser one? We shall quote a few from the many testimonies we might adduce to the value of the professional labours of this great ornament of the

Bench and the Bar:

"His most learned and laborious works on the law will last to be admired by judicious posterity whilst Fame hath a trumpet left for an oracle in law; and if, since, the credit thereof hath careher, and any breath to blow therein. His judgment lately passed himself, living in an incredulous age, found cause to complain, lessly been questioned, the wonder is not great. If the prophet "Who hath believed our report?' it need not seem strange that our licentious times have afforded some to shake the authenticalness of the reports' of any earthly judge."-Fuller's Worthies of Norfolk.

Lord Bacon, whilst praising Coke's large and fruitful mind, complains (though not with reference to his Com"When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander inmentary) of his habit of straying from his text: deed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of elec tion, when you have a large and fruitful mind, which should not so much labour what to speak, as to find what to leave unspoken." -LORD BACON: Letter to Coke.

This desultory habit is very perceptible in the commentary upon Littleton:

"The Institutes of Sir Edward Coke are unfortunately as deficient in method as they are rich in matter; at least the two first parts of them; wherein, acting only the part of a commentator, he hath thrown together an infinite treasure of learning in a loose, desultory order."-SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE,

This want of method induced Mr. J. H. Thomas to prePlan of Sir Matthew Hale's Analysis, Lon., 1818, 3 vols. We canpare a Systematic Arrangement of the Commentary, on the 8vo. American edit., Phila., 1836, 3 vols., 8vo. not recommend this Arrangement in place of the original to the legal student. We agree with Judge Sharswood:

"It may be that the original wants method:-but the life and spirit of it are lost when it is hacked to pieces to be refitted to For notices of Coke's Reports, &c., we refer the reader to gether upon a new and different skeleton." the works mentioned below.

"A knowledge of ancient legal learning is absolutely necessary to a modern lawyer, Sir Edward Coke's Commentary upon Littleton is an immense repository of every thing that is most neces Were it not for his writings, we should still have to search for it in the vo sary or useful in the legal learning of ancient times. luminous and chaotic compilations of cases contained in the Year Books, or in the dry, though valuable abridgments of Statham, Fitzherbert, Brooke, and Rolle. Every person who has attempted it must be sensible how very difficult and disgusting it is to pursue a regular investigation of any point of law through these works. The writings of Coke have considerably abridged. if not

entirely taken away, the necessity of this labour."-CHARLES BUTLER.

Mr. Butler, who declares that he is the best lawyer who best understands Coke upon Littleton, did much to increase the general usefulness of Coke:

"One cannot help observing how much the annotations of Mr. Butler excel those of his predecessor, Mr. Hargrave, both in succinctness of order, comprehensiveness of style, and elegance of diction."-HAWKSHEAD.

But Mr. Martin dissents from this judgment:

"Butler's notes, though deservedly esteemed, were confessedly too hastily prepared to reach the high standard of his predecessor. His knowledge appears to have been more various than profound." See Mart. Conv.; Bart. Com.; and Ritso's Introduction.

"Sir Edward Coke-that great oracle of our law."-EDMUND BURKE: Reflections on the Revolution in France.

"To Coke's opinion I must attribute more than to any single professors of the law; no one man in any human profession hath opinion of any judge. No one man hath deserved so well of the written so much and with so few errors as he."-SIR ORLANDO BRIDGMAN.

We may properly conclude this article with the opinions of some eminent American Jurists:

"The Commentary ought to be studied and mastered by every grounds of the law, and to adorn the noble science he professes." lawyer who means to be well acquainted with the reasons and -CHANCELLOR KENT.

"His favourite law-book was the Coke upon Littleton, which he had read many times. Its principal texts he had treasured up in his memory, and his arguments at the bar abounded with per rich mine of common law learning."-Wheaton's Life of Pinkney. petual recurrences to the principles and analogies drawn from this

"Let not the American student of law suppose that the same necessity does not here exist, as in England, to make this 'golden

Colbatch, John, a London surgeon, wrote several "Joh. Leland the antiquary was Dr. Cole's acquaintance, and medical treatises, vindicating the theory that disease in having had experience of his learning, hath eternized his memory the system arises principally from an excess of the alka-among other learned men of our nation and of his time, in his lies in the blood and humours. He liberally administered acids to his patients. Collection of Med. and Chir. Tracts, Lon., 1700, 8vo.

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"In this summary Commentary the godly reader will see how blessedly this great man opened and taught the word of God." Observations on our Public Schools, 1846, 8vo. Cole, Henry, the promoter of the "Art Manufactures," and editor of the Journal of Design, has pub. several useful books under the name of FELIX SUMMERLY, q. v. Cole, James L., d. 1823, aged 24, a native of Canandaigua, pub. some fugitive poetry in the New York Statesman, and in the Ontario Repository, under the signa

ture of Adrian.

Cole, John. Mathemat. Tracts, 1812, 8vo.

Cole, John. Herveiania: illustrative of the Life and
Writings of Rev. James Hervey, 1822, '23, '26, 3 parts 8vo.
Bibliographical and Descriptive Tour from Scarborough,
&c., 1824, 8vo. The Scarborough Repository, 1824, 8vo.
Cata-
The Scarborough Album of History, 1825, p. 8vo.
logue of a Select Portion of his Collection of Books, 1825,
8vo. Hist. and Antiquities of Ecton, 1825, 8vo. Life,
Writings, &c. of Thomas Hinderwell, 1826, 8vo. Anti-
quarian Trio, 1826, 8vo. Tour round Scarborough, 1826,
8vo. Book-Selling Spiritualized, 1826, 8vo. Hist. and
Hist. and Antiq. of
Antiq. of Weston Fovell, 1827, 8vo.
Filey, 1828, 8vo. Catalogue of Standard Books, made
Other works. See
out on an entirely new plan, 12mo.
Lowndes's Bibl. Man.

Cole, John Webb. Commentary on the Prophecies
and the New Testament, &c., Lon., 1826, 2 vols. 8vo.
Cole, Josiah. Con. to Edin. Med. Ess., 1736.
Cole, Mary. Cookery, Confectionary, &c., 1789, 8vo.
Serms. and theolog. treatises,
Cole, Nathaniel.

1615-33.

Cole, Robert. News from Ireland, Lon., 1642, 4to. Cole, T. Account of fat Mr. Bright, Phil. Trans., 1751. Cole, Thomas. Serm. against Anabaptists, Lon., 1553, 8vo.

Cole, Thomas, Archd. of Essex. Serm., Lon., 1564. Cole, Thomas, d. 1697, student of Christ Church, Oxford; Principal of St. Mary's Hall, 1656; ejected for Nonconformity, 1660; Tutor to John Locke. Three of his serms. are in the Morning Exercises. Discourse of Regeneration, Faith, and Repentance, Lon., 1689.

I survive her. That I will, most religiously, and make it as happy
as it is possible."-Horace Walpole to Cole, May 4, 1781.

"I congratulate the little Parisian dog that he has fallen into
Busy, full as great a favourite, and never out of my lap. I have
the hands of so humane a master. I have a little diminutive dog,
already, in case of an accident, ensured it a refuge from starvation
and ill usage. It is the least we can do for poor harmless, shiftless,
pampered animals, that have amused us, and we have spoilt."-
Cole to Walpole, May 7, 1781.

"How could he ever have got through the transcript of a Bishop's

Register or a Chartulary, with Busy on his lap?" See Nichols's

Literary Anecdotes.

Cole made large MS. Collections for the compilation of an Athenæ Cantabrigienses. We have already strenuously insisted upon the preparation of a work of this kind, (see Cole also collected towards a BAKER, THOMAS, &c.,) and never intend to be satisfied until such an one we have! county history of Cambridge, and seems to have commenced both this and the preceding compilation as early as 1724. His "purposes were not broken off in the midst," but like THOMAS BAKER'S (q. v.) delayed until death would wait no longer. He left 100 small folio volumes of MSS., mere than 50 of which relate to his projected Athenæ. of despondency respecting the completion of his labours, he thus laments:

In a fit

"In good truth, whoever undertakes this drudgery of an Athenæ Cantabrigienses must be contented with no prospect of credit and reputation to himself, and with the mortifying reflection that after

ll his pains and study, through life, he must be looked upon in an humble light, and only as a journeymen to Anthony Wood, whose excellent book of the same sort will ever preclude any other, who shall follow him in the same track, from all hopes of fame; and will only represent him as an imitator of so original a pattern. For at this time of day, all great characters, both Cantabrigians and Oxonians, are already published to the world, either in his book, or various others; so that the collection, unless the same characters are reprinted here, must be made up of second-rate persons, and the refuse of authorship. However, as I have begun, and made so large a progress in this undertaking, it is death to think of leav is to be expected from it."-Quoted by Disraeli from a fly-leaf of ing it off-though, from the former considerations, so little credit 1777. See Miscellanies of Literature.

Now, no one could better confute this sophistry than Cole could, and did himself by his protracted labours. When will some Cambridge man, endued with the spirit of John Caius,-vide De Antiquitate Cantabrigienses Academicæ, -arise to take away the reproach from his alma mater? Cole, William. Nature of Light, Col., 1777, 8vo. Cole, William. Key to the Psalms, Camb., 1788, Con. to Archæol., 1789: 8vo. Poems, &c., 1790, '96, '99. The Horns given by Henry I. to the Cathedral of Carlisle. Cole, William, D.D., Preb. Westminster. Serm., 1798. Cole,William. Conversations on Algebra, 1818,12mo. Colebrook, Sir George. Letters on Intolerance, Lon., 1791, Svo.

Colebrook, Josiah. Antiquarian, Astronom., and Medical Con. to Archæol., 1772, '76; Phil. Trans., 1759. Colebrooke, Henrietta. Thoughts of Rousseau, 1788. Colebrooke, Henry Thomas, 1765-1837, an eminent Oriental scholar, settled in India in 1782, and He completed the Digest held many high positions there. of the Hindu Law on Contracts and Successions, from the Original Sanscrit, which was left unfinished by the death of Sir William Jones, Calcutta, 1797, 3 vols. 8vo; Lon., 1801, 3 vols. 8vo. 2. Collection of Compositions in Sans4. Dictionary of the SansAlso several other crit, &c., Calcutta, 1804, 4to. 3. Grammar of the Sanscrit Language, Calcutta, 1805, fol. Oriental works, and many contributions Oriental, sciencrit Language, Calcutta, 1808, 4to. tific, and literary. 5. Remarks on the Husbandry and Internal Commerce of Bengal, Lon., 1806, 8vo.

"Highly evangelical and judicious."-DR. E. WILLIAMS. Cole, Thomas. Sermons, 1683, '90, '93. Cole, Thomas. British Herring-Fishery, Lon., 1753. Cole, Thomas. Discourses. Poems, Lon., 1762, '95, '97. Cole, Thomas, 1801-1847, artist and author, b. in Lancashire, Eng.; settled in the U.S., 1819. The Spirit of the Wilderness; a Dramatic Poem, MS., 1835. See Eulogy by Wm. C. Bryant, and Life and Works, by his friend, Rev. L. L. Noble, N.Y., 1855, 12mo. The Irish Cabinet, Lon., 1645, fol. Cole, William. Cole, William, 1628-1662, an English botanist, entered of Merton College, Oxford, 1642; secretary to Duppa, The Art of Simpling, Lon., Bishop of Winchester, 1660. 1656, 12mo. Adam in Eden, or Nature's Paradise: the Hist. of Plants, Herbs, and Flowers, 1657, fol. This work was a favourite in its day. "Cole became the most famous simpler or botanist of his time." Cole, William, M.D., graduated at Oxford, 1666, De Secretione Animali Cogitati, practised at Bristol. Oxon., 1674, 8vo. Purpurea Anglicana; on a Fish found near the Severn, Lon., 1689, 4to. De Mechanica, &c., 1693, 8vo. Treatise on Apoplexies, 1689, 8vo; on Fevers, 1693, 8vo. Epilepsy, 1702, 8vo. Con. to Phil. Trans., 1676, '85. Cole, William. Rod for the Lawyers, 1659, 4to. Cole, William. Impris. for Debt, 1680, 4to. "Notwithstanding the lapse of nearly half a century since its Cole, William, 1714-1782, an eminent antiquary and a divine, a native of Cambridgeshire, was educated at Clare publication, Mr. Colebrooke's account of the husbandry and internal Hall and King's College, Cambridge; F.S.A., 1747; Rec- commerce of Bengal continues to be by far the best and most trusttor of Hornsey, 1749; of Bletchley, 1767; Vicar of Burn-worthy work on the subject."-MCCULLOCH: Lit. of Polit. Econ. ham, 1774. In 1765 he accompanied his friend Horace Walpole to France, and had some thoughts of a permanent residence there; probably in consequence of his partiality for the Roman Catholic religion. He was an industrious antiquary, and contributed to Grose's Antiquaries; Bentham's Ely; Ducarel's publications; Philip's Life of Cardinal Pole; Gough's British Topography; Memoirs of the Gentlemen's Society at Spalding; Nichols's Collection of Poems; Anecdotes of Hogarth; History of Hinkley; Life of Bowyer, &c. He was a zealous collector of portraits, and the letters between Horace Walpole and himself are sufficiently amusing, especially that relating to the "Algerine Hog," who carried off "187 of my most valuable and favourite heads." The following extracts from two of the letters of these friends will not be unacceptable to the

reader:

"My poor dear Madame du Deffand's little dog is arrived. She made me promise to take care of it, the last time I saw her, should

Miscellaneous Essays, Lon., 1837, 2 vols. 8vo.
On Barren Island and its
Colebrooke, Robert.

Coleeber. Existence and Nature of God, 1718, 8vo.
Volcano: Trans. of the Soc. of Bengal, iv. 397.
Coleire, Richard, of Isleworth. Serms., 1708-45.
Coleman. Letters to M. Le Chaise, 1678, 4to.
Coleman, Benjamin. Serms., 1717, '28, 35.
Coleman, Charles. Satirical Peerage of England,
1784, 4to.

Coleman, Charles. Serms., 1817, 8vo.
Coleman, Charles. Mythology of the Hindus, Lon..
1832, 4to. Commended by Lon. Athn.

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Coleman, Edward. Legacies; a Poem, &c., 1679, fol. Coleman, Edward. Foot of the Horse, 1798-1802, vols. 4to.

"An esteemed work."-LOWNDES.

Other veterinary, &c. works, 1791, 1800, '01.

Coleman, J. N. Serms., Doct. and Pract., 1827, 8vo.

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Coleman, John, D.D., b. 1803, at Baltimore, Md., an Episcopal clergyman of great worth and talents, resident in St. Louis. Editor of Faber's Difficulties of Romanism, with an Introductory Essay, Phila., 1840; of the Episcopa! Manual by Dr. Wilmer, with addits. and emendations, 1841. Contributions to various religious journals. Editor of the Banner of the Cross, Phila., in conjunction with the Rev. Frederick Ogilby.

Coleman, Lyman, D.D., born 1796, Mass., grad. Yale Coll., after which, during three years, he was Principal in the Latin Gram. School at Hartford; was then more than four years tutor in Yale Coll., where he studied theology; was pastor of a church in Belchertown, Mass., for seven years; Principal of the Burr Seminary in Vermont five years; Principal of the English Department of Phillips Academy in Andover; spent a year in study in Germany, and in travel; Professor of German in Princeton Coll., from which he received the degree of S.T.D. Antiquities of the Christian Church, (trans. from the German; pub. in Ward's Library of Standard Divinity: see Williams's Christ. Preacher.) The Apostolical and Primitive Church, 12mo; with an Introduc. Essay by Dr. Augustus Neander, Prof. Univ. of Berlin.

"Its well digested, and rightly applied, learning, catholic spirit, and comprehensive plan, cannot fail to place it among standard works in its particular department, and to render it subservient to the final triumph of Scriptural Christianity."-JOHN HARRIS, D.D. "It is too calm, judicious, and scholar-like a production to be allowed to remain unanswered with safety."-Lon. Quar. Review, July, 1844.

"We know of no work in our language which contains the same amount of information on the Antiquities of the Church. It is a work which, we doubt not, will long remain without a rival in that

field."-Princeton Review.

Historical Geography of the Bible, Phila., 1850, 12mo, pp. 516. Ancient Christianity, Phila., 1852, 8vo, pp. 645. "It is the fruit of laborious and conscientious research. It is based upon a diligent study of the sources of Christian archæology; and it presents the results in a form better adapted to our practical needs than any similar work. It is clear and also candid in its statements."-Bibliotheca Sucra, Jan. 1853. Historical Text-Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography, Phila., 1854, r. 8vo; new ed., revised, 1858.

"Dr. Coleman's style is easy, and adapted to the subject. As he recapitulates and unfolds the statements of the Sacred writers, in the form of a continuous narrative, the reader finds himself borne along by the story, with unflagging interest, from beginning to end, while so many new lights are thrown upon the subject from the discoveries of modern research that he hardly remembers that they are the same topics about which he has been reading and hearing all his life."-Christian Review.

Coleman, Thomas, 1598-1647, a Puritan divine, a native of Oxford, was Vicar of Blyton, and subsequently Rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill, London. Serms. and theolog. treatises, 1643-46.

Colenso, John William, Rector of Forncett St. Mary, Norfolk. Works on Arithmetic, Algebra, and Plane Trigonometry for schools, Lon.

Coleny, Thomas. England and other northern reformed Countries reconciled to Rome, Coimbra, 1738, 8vo. Colepepper, J. S. Important Facts, 1793, 8vo. Colepepyr, Robert. Proposals rel. to Harbours, fol. Colepresse, S. Con. to Phil. Trans., 1667, 8vo; Chemistry, Magnetism, &c.

Coler, Richard. Christian Experience, 1652. Coleraine, Henry Hare, Lord. La Scala Santa; a scale of Devotions upon the 15 Psalms of degrees, Lon., 1670, '81, fol. The situation of Paradise found out; being the History of a Late Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1683, Svo. This work has been attributed to Lord Coleraine. Mr. Todd, in his Life of Milton, points this work out as being the earliest that notices Milton's Paradise Lost.

Coleridge, Rev. Derwent, son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (q..;) b. 1800, and finished his education at St. John's College, Cambridge; Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Principal of St. Mark's College, Chelsea. The Scriptural Character of the English Church Considered: in a Series of Serms., with Notes, &c., Lon., 1839, 8vo.

whole."

Sound to the Human Ear, and Prayer. Mr. Coleridge
pub. Biographia Borealis; or, Lives of Distinguished North-
Poems: vol. i., Leeds, 1833, 8vo. The
men, 1833, 4to.
Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire, 1836, 8vo; new ed.,
by Derwent Coleridge, Lon., 1852, 3 vols. 12mo.

"This collection of Lives is, in our judgment, a work of such unusual merit, that it seems equally an act of justice to the author, and a service to sound literature, to rescue it from the mass of county histories and provincial biographies, with which, in consequence of its title, it runs the risk of being confounded." -Quarterly Review.

"It is a book which has every title to be popular which a light and interesting subject, singular fulness and variety of interesting matter, and a playful brilliancy of execution, can give."-Edin burgh Review.

As a poet Hartley Coleridge holds a more than respectable rank. Some of his pieces are exquisitely beautiful, and there are not many sonnets in the language more highly finished than his: in these, indeed, his chief strength lies."-Eng. Lit. 19th Century. "Though we do not rank Hartley Coleridge with the greatest poets, the most profound thinkers, or the most brilliant essayists, yet we know of no single man who has left, as his legacy to the world, at once poems so graceful, thoughts so just, and essays so delectable."-Fraser's Mag.: reprinted in Living Age, xxx. 145. Read this article. See an interesting sketch of Hartley Coleridge, by a personal acquaintance, George S. Hillard, in Living Age,

xxi. 161.

Life of Andrew Marvell, Hull, 1835, 8vo. Essays and Marginalia, edited by Derwent Coleridge, 1851, 2 vols. p. 8vo. See Poems of Hartley Coleridge, with Life by his brother, Rev. D. Coleridge, Lon., 1850, 2 vols. 12mo.

Coleridge, Henry Nelson, d. 1843, nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, where he became Fellow. He accompanied WILLIAM HART COLERIDGE, Bishop of Barbadoes, (q. v.) on his outward voyage. We have the impressions he derived, in his work entitled, Six Months in the West Indies in 1825; anon.: 3d ed., with the author's name, 1832; now one of the series of Murray's Family Library. He was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple in 1826. Mr. Coleridge married his cousin SARA HENRY, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (She is noticed on p. 406.) As editor of many of his uncle's writings, the public are under great obligations to Mr. Coleridge. He edited his Literary Remains, Lon., 1836-39, 4 vols. 8vo; The Friend, 1844, 3 vols. 8vo; Constitution of Church and State, 1839, 8vo; Biographia Literaria; 2d ed., edited partly by H. N. C., and completed by his widow, 1847, 2 vols. in 3, 8vo; Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, 1849, 8vo. Mr. Coleridge contributed to the Quarterly Review, and was author of an excellent Introduction to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets; 1st ed., 1830; 3d ed., Lon., 1846, 8vo. "Written in that fresh and ardent spirit, which to the congenial mind of youth, will convey instruction in the most effective manner, by awakening the desire of it, and by enlisting the lively and buoyant feelings in the cause of useful and improving study; while by its pregnant brevity, it is more likely to stimulate than We shall be to supersede more profound and extensive research. much mistaken if it does not become as popular as it is useful."Quarterly Review.

Coleridge, James Duke, Vicar of Kenwin and Kea, Cornwall. Observations of a Parish Priest, or Scenes of Sickness and Death, Truro, 12mo. Practical Advice to the Young Parish Priest, Lon., 1834, 12mo.

Coleridge, Sir John Taylor, b. 1790, nephew of S. T. Coleridge, grad. at Oxford. Ed. Blackstone's Commentaries, with Notes, Lon., 1825, 4 vols. 8vo.

Coleridge, John, Vicar of Ottery St. Mary; father of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Critical Latin Grammar. "By no means an ordinary production."-Lon. Gent. Mag. Miscellaneous Dissertations arising from the 17th and 18th Chapters of the Book of Judges, Lon., 1768, 8vo.

"These dissertations contain a new translation of the above chapters, with critical remarks on them and on a number of other passages; besides disquisitions on the Proseuchæ, or the Star Gods; on the conversive Vau, and some other subjects. The author appears to have been a man of learning and research.”— Orme's Bibl. Bib.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, son of the preceding, 1772-1834, one of the most distinguished literary characters of modern days, was a native of the market-town of OtWritten exclusively for perusal, and arranged as a connected tery St. Mary, in Devonshire. He received his early education at Christ's Hospital, where he became senior-GreLay Serms.; 3d ed., 1852. Ed. S. S. Coleridge's Dra-cian, or head scholar, and obtained an exhibition to Jesus matic Works, 1852, 12mo. Notes on English Divines, 1853, 2 vols. 12mo. Poems by S. T. Coleridge, edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge, 1852, 12mo.

Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849, eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. He lived a secluded life at Grasmere, and on the banks of Rydal Water, contributing to Blackwood's Magazine, and occupied with other literary pursuits. He was a poet of no ordinary excellence, and his sonnets are among the best in modern literature. We may instance The First

College, Cambridge, where he remained from 1791 to 1793. Finding himself in London without resources or prospects, he enlisted in the 15th Elliot's Light Dragoons. That he was not happy in this situation, may be inferred from a Latin sentence which he one day wrote on the stable-wall under his saddle:

"Eheu! quam infortuni miserrimum est fuisse felicem!"

This scrap of learning elicited an inquiry on the part of his captain, which led to the restoration of the young scholar to his friends. In 1794 he published The Fall of

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Robespierre, a Hist. Drama, and a volume of Poems; and
in the next year two political pamphlets-Conciones ad
Populum, or Addresses to the People, and a Protest against
certain Bills then pending for Suppressing Seditious
Meetings. At that time he was a zealous Democrat and
a Unitarian, with which sentiments his later tenets pre-
sented a remarkable contrast. Hunger, however, is
stronger than speculation, and as a means of livelihood,
our young enthusiast-who, with Southey, Wordsworth,
and Lovell, had contemplated the establishment of a Pan-
tisocracy on the banks of the Susquehanna-consented to
write politics for the Morning Post, a supporter of Govern-
ment. The three friends, instead of emigrating, married
three sisters, Misses Fricker of Bristol. In 1798, by the
liberality of Josiah and Thomas Wedgewood, he was
enabled to spend some time in Germany, where he pursued
his studies with great diligence. In 1812 he pub. a series
of Essays entitled The Friend, which extended to twenty-
seven numbers; in the year following appeared Remorse,
a Tragedy; and in 1816, by the persuasion of Lord Byron,
Christabel was given to the world. This poem, with the
Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Genevieve, attained a
popularity which has been perpetuated to the present day.
To these poetical pieces must be added Zapoyla, a Drama,
founded on The Winter's Tale, pub. in 1818, and some
minor poems.
A complete edition of his Poems in 3 vols.
was issued by Pickering, not long before the author's death.
Of his prose works may be mentioned The Statesman's
Manual, or the Bible the Best Guide to Political Skill and
Foresight; a Lay Sermon, 1816; a second Lay Sermon,
1817; Biographia Literaria, 1817, 2 vols.; Aids to Reflec-
tion, 1825; On the Constitution of Church and State, 1830;
Lectures on Shakspeare; Table Talk; Theory of Life.
He planned several great works which were never com-
mitted to paper. Indeed, an excessive use of opium,
added to a native want of energy, produced an indolent
habit, and lack of application, which were fatal to the pro-
secution of any extensive project. After a wandering life,
residing in the houses of friends, alternately lecturing and
contributing to periodicals, he settled in 1816 with Mr.
Gilman, a physician at Highgate, and remained in his
family until his death in 1834. A month or two before
his decease he composed his own epitaph:

"Stop, Christian passer-by! Stop, Child of God!
And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod
A poet lies, or that which once seemed he;

O lift a thought in prayer for S. T. C.!
That he who many a year with toil of breath
Found death in life, may here find life in death!
Mercy, for praise-to be forgiven, for Fame-

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He asked, and hoped through Christ. Do thou the same." His Poetical and Dramatic Works were pub. in 1847, 3 vols. 8vo. The Friend, edited by H. N. Coleridge, 1844, 3 vols. 8vo. Essays on his own Times; 2d series of The Friend; edited by his daughter, 1850, 3 vols. 8vo. to Reflection; 5th ed., enlarged, 1843, 2 vols. 8vo. stitution of Church and State; edited by H. N. Coleridge, 1839, 8vo. Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, &c., edited by H. N. Coleridge, 1849, 8vo. Literary Remains, collected and edited by H. N. Coleridge, 1836-39, 4 vols. 8vo. Biographia Literaria, partly edited by H. N., and partly by Mrs. H. N. Coleridge, 1838, 2 vols. 8vo; 5th and concluding vol., by Derwent Coleridge, 1853, who also contemplates issuing a Life of his father, and a collected edition of his works. To his works should be added The Ideal of Life, edited by Dr. Watson, his Life by James Gillman, Lon., 1838, 1 vol. 8vo, and Joseph Cottle's Reminiscences of Coleridge and Southey, Lon., 1847, 8vo. As a conversationist, Coleridge enjoyed a remarkable repuHe loved to keep the field entirely to himself; and hour after hour-if the auditors could spare the timewould he pour forth "things new and old," illustrated by a "boundless range of scientific knowledge, brilliancy and exquisite nicety of illustration, deep and ready reasoning, immensity of bookish lore, dramatic story, joke, and pun." His friend Charles Lamb gave a significant hint to Coleridge of his propensity to monopolize, in answering the ry of the latter-" Charles, did you ever hear me preach ?" (When young, he sometimes filled the Unitarian pulpit at Taunton.) "I never heard you do any thing else," replied Lamb. Dr. Dibdin gives us a graphic sketch of the impression produced upon him by Coleridge's conversation:

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"I shall never forget the effect his first conversation made upon me at the first meeting. It struck me as something not only out of the ordinary course of things, but as an intellectual exhibition altogether matchless. The party was unusually large, but the presence of Coleridge concentrated all attention towards himself. The viands were unusually costly, and the banquet was at once rich and varied; but there seemed to be no dish like Cole

ridge's conversation to feed upon-and no information so varied as his own. The orator rolled himself up, as it were, in his chair, and gave the most unrestrained indulgence to his speech-and how fraught with acuteness and originality was that speech, and in what copious and eloquent periods did it flow! The auditors seemed to be wrapt in wonder and delight, as one observation more profound, or clothed in more forcible language than another, fell from his tongue.... For nearly two hours he spoke with unhesitating and uninterrupted fluency. As I retired homeward I thought a SECOND JOHNSON had visited the earth to make wise the sons of men; and regretted that I could not exercise the powers of a second BOSWELL to record the wisdom and the eloquence which had that evening flown from the orator's lips. It haunted me as I retired to rest. It drove away slumber."-Dib din's Reminiscences, i. 254.

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In his Illustrations of Scripture, Mr. Coleridge was more largely indebted to Cocceius than to any other commentaThe reader should procure an essay, reprinted from the Eclectic Review, entitled, The Relation of Philosophy to Theology, and Theology to Religion, or S. T. Coleridge, his Philosophy and Theology. It is to be regretted that Coleridge did not devote himself in earnest to the preparation of the great undeveloped work which so long haunted his imagination. We must doubt if he could ever have succeeded in his ambitious aspirations to "reduce all knowledge into harmony"-"to unite the insulated fragments of truth, and therewith to frame a perfect mirror;" but that he could have produced a magnum opus, who can doubt? To those not familiar with the plaudits of Coleridge's admirers, the degree of admiration which was lavished upon him will appear almost absurd. No less a man than De Quincey speaks of him as

"This illustrious man, the largest and most spacious intellect, the subtlest and most comprehensive, in my judgment, that has yet existed amongst men."-Literary Reminiscences. Lord Egmont declares that

"No man had ever been better qualified to revive the heroic period of literature in England, and to give a character of weight to the philosophic erudition of the country upon the continent."— Ubi supra.

Another most respectable authority gravely records his judgment:

"I think, with all his faults, old Sam was more of a great man than any one that has lived within the four seas in my memory. It is refreshing to see such a union of the highest philosophy and poetry, with so full a knowledge, in so many points at least, of particular facts."-DR. ARNOLD: Letter to W. W. Hull, Esq.

John Foster, himself a moral philosopher of no ordinary rank, tells us that

"His mind contains an astonishing map of all sorts of knowledge, while in his power and manner of putting it to use, he displays more of what we mean by the term genius than any mortal I ever saw, or ever expect to see.”

A short extract from a well-known and favourite critic must bring our article to a conclusion:

"On his incomparable Genevieve' he has lavished all the melting graces of poetry and chivalry; in his 'Ancient Mariner' he has sailed, and in his Christabel' flown, to the very limits of inven tion and belief. and in his chaunt of Fire, Famine, and Slaughter,' he has revived the vehement strains of the sibyls, or rather furies, and given us a song worthy of the prime agents of perdition... His translation of Wallenstein' I have heard commended by good judges, as superior to the drama whose language it professes to speak; and his 'Remorse,' though a play for the closet rather than the stage, has passages full of passion and fire. In prose his powers are not all equal: he is occasionally, indeed, graphic and lively, as when he gives an account of his voyage; often dramatic in the description of his success as a preacher of lay sermons; but he is too frequently obscure and mystical.. fame will be settled by his best poems, he is as sure of future repuCrit. Hist. of the Lit. of the last 50 years. tation as any poet of this age."-ALLAN CUNNINGHAM: Biog, and

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Coleridge, Sara Henry, 1803-1852, only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and widow of his nephew, Henry Nelson Coleridge; b. at Keswick. As the able editor of her father's works, (q. v.,) as a translator, and by her original compositions, she has added to the family laurels.

Trans. from the Latin of Martin Dobrizhoffer's Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay, Lon., 1822, 3 vols. 8vo.

"My dear daughter's translation of this book is, in my judg ment, unsurpassed for pure mother English."-S. T. COLERIDGE. The reader will find the work a most interesting account of savage life. Phantasmion, a Tale, 1837, 8vo.

"Phantasmion' is not a poem; but it is poetry from beginning to end, and has many poems in it. A Fairy Tale, unique in its kind, pure as a crystal in diction, tinted like the opal with the hues of an ever-springing sunlit fancy."-Lom. Quarterly Review. Pretty Lessons for Good Children, 18mo.

"With an imagination like a prism, shedding rainbow changes on her thoughts, she shows study without the affectation of it, and a Greek-like closeness of expression."

Coleridge, William Hart, D.D., 1790-1850, Bishop of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, only son of Luke H. Coleridge, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1824 he was consecrated the first Bishop of Barbadoes, resigned in 1841, on account of the failure of his health.