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    D my sou thou art wretched , and miserable , and poor , and blind , and mated ! ****** whose soul is almost wrapped up in * * * hath had iiis heart purified by the horrors of desolation , and prostrates his spirit

    at the throne of God in believing silence . The terrors of the Almighty are the whirlwind , the earthquake , and the fire that precede the still , small voice of his love . The pestilence of our lusts must be scattered ; the strong-laid foundations of our pride blown up , and the stubble and shaff of our vanities burnt , ere we can give ear to the inspeaking voice of mercy . * Why will ye die T

    My answer to Godwin will be a six-shilling octavo ; and is feigned to show , not only the absurdities and wickedness of his system , but to depict what appear to me the defects of all the systems of morality before and since Christ ; and to show , that wherein they have been right , they have exactly coincided with the gospel , and that each has erred exactly where , and in proportion as he has

    leviated from that perfect canon . My last chapter will attack the ereklity , superstition , calumnies , and hypocrisy of the present race of nfidels . Many things have fallen out to retard the work ; but I hope : hat it will appear shortly after Christmas , at the farthest . I have enleavoured to make it a cheap book ; and it will contain as much matter is is usually sold for eight shillings . I perceive that in the New Monthly Magazine , the infidels have it all hollow . How our ancestors would

    lave lifted up their hands at tliat modest proposal for making expennents in favour of idolatry ! Before the 24 th of this month I will send you my poetic endeavours . i shall be as good as I can make it . The following lines are at your ervice , if you approve of them •—[ The lines are those addressed 4 To a Young Man of Fortune , ' &c ] ** ******** **

    seldom see any paper . Indeed I am out of heart with the French . n one of the numbers of my * Watchman , * I wrote a remonstrance to he French legislators ; it contained my politics ; and the splendid ictories of the French since that time have produced no alteration in hem . I am tired of reading butcheries ; and , although I should be worthy the name of man , if I did not feel my liead and heart awfully

    Uerested in the final event , yet , I confess , my curiosity is worn out r | th regard to the particulars of the process . The paper which con-* ined an account of the departure of your friend , had in it a sonnet , r ritten during a thunder-storm . In thought and diction it was sublime fid fearfully impressive . I do not remember to have ever read so fine * onnet . Surely , I thought , this burst from no common feelings , gitated by no common sorrow ! Was it yours ?

    / v young manor fortune ( his name ) wrote and puousjied a door horrible blasphemies , asserting that our blessed Lord deserved his fate ore than any malefactor ever did Tyburn . ( I pray heaven I may incur > guilt by transcribing it . ) And after a fulsome panegyric , adds , that le name of * * * will soon supersede that of Christ . * • wrote a U * r to this man , thanking him for liis admirable work , and soliciting € honour of his personal friendship !! ! With affectionate esteem , yours sincerely , S . T . Col , eru > cie .

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    Letters of the late S . T . Coleridge . 655

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 655, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/51/