Chapter XXX: Act II: Scene 3

_In the Courier._ Coleridge wrote two letters in _The Courier_
(March 17, 18, 1817) and two letters for the _Westminster
Review_ (which were not printed there) vindicating Southey from
the charge of apostacy. All these letters were reprinted in
_Essays on his own Times_, pp. 939–962. See J. D. Campbell’s
_Samuel Taylor Coleridge_, p. 230.

201. ‘_Somewhat smacks._’ _Merchant of Venice_, Act II. Scene 2.

_The Editor of this Paper._ Leigh Hunt.

203. ‘_The Man of Humanity._’ The reference is to Canning’s and Frere’s
well-known parody of Southey, ‘The Friend of Humanity and the
Knife-Grinder.’

_‘This, this,’ etc._ _Julius Caesar_, Act III. Scene 2.

_‘That the law,’ etc._ Wordsworth, _The Excursion_, Book IV.

204. _His Irish pension._ Southey was for a short time (1800–1) private
secretary to Isaac Corry, the Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer.

205. _His Joan of Arc._ _Joan of Arc_ was published in 1796, the
Sonnets, etc., in 1797 and 1801, _Letters written during a short
residence in Spain and Portugal_ in 1797, the _Annual Anthology_
in 1799–1800.

_The Fall of Robespierre._ _The Fall of Robespierre: An Historic
Drama._ _By S. T. Coleridge, of Jesus College, Cambridge._
Published at Cambridge in 1794. Southey wrote Acts II. and III.

_All that Mr. Coleridge ever did in poetry._ _The Ancient Mariner_
appeared in _Lyrical Ballads_ (1798); _Christabel_, written at
various times between 1797 and 1800, was not published till
1816, though Wordsworth had at first intended to include it in
the _Lyrical Ballads_ of 1800; _The Three Graves_, written
between 1797 and 1809, was published in _Sibylline Leaves_
(1817); a volume of _Poems_ appeared in 1796 (2nd edit. 1797);
and _Remorse, A Tragedy in Five Acts_, written in 1797, was
published in 1813.

206. _With a single exception._ Hazlitt presumably refers to Scott.

_‘Their lofty,’ etc._ Coleridge, _Essays on his own Times_, iii.
948.

_‘Left behind by him,’ etc._ _Ib._ p. 945.

_‘Tuning his mystic harp,’ etc._

‘Coleridge and Southey, Lloyd and Lamb and Co.,
Tune all your mystic harps to praise Lepaux.’
Canning’s _The New Morality_ in _The Anti-Jacobin_.

‘_Quiring to the young-eyed cherubins._’ _Merchant of Venice_, Act
V. Scene 1.

207. _‘Every moment brings,’ etc._ _Wat Tyler_, Act II. Scene 2.

208. _‘Is not poetry, etc._ _As You Like It_, Act III. Scene 3.

_‘Constant chastity,’ etc._ Spenser, _Epithalamion_, 191–3.

209. _‘Through the allegiance,’ etc._ Spenser, _The Faerie Queene_,