ABSTRACT
Mr. Wordsworth is one of the most amiable men I ever knew, he has great power in conversation; he has thought while other men have talked, and now when he chuses [sic] to talk, I assure you he makes other men think – he has mild, and modest, yet very firm manners, a perfect consciousness of his own talents, without any arrogance or affectation. – Coleridge talks eloquently, and incessantly, with the air of a man who has been in the habit of haranguing – I understand the Reviewers have made very free with Mr. Wordsworth’s new publication, I should suppose that ‘learned Body’ have at length fallen into the contempt they deserve; I was in company with an attorney’s Clerk who is not twenty years of age, and he very gravely told me he was sorry to be obliged to ‘cut up a friend of mine, but that he should review Wordsworth and he should give him a glorious trimming.’
