ABSTRACT
The charm of the political regeneration of nations, though thus warped for a moment, was not broken. Coleridge, Lovell and Southey, finding the old world would be reformed after their mode, determined to try and found a new one, in which all was to be liberty and happiness. On leaving the University, Coleridge was full of enthusiasm in the cause of freedom, and occupied with the idea of the regeneration of mankind. He found ardent coadjutors in the same enthusiastic undertaking in Robert Lovell, Robert Southey, the present courtly laureate. Coleridge had married before he possessed the means of supporting a family, and he depended principally for subsistence, at Stowey, upon his literary labours, the remuneration for which could be but scanty. In temper and disposition Coleridge is kind and amiable. His person is bulky, his physiognomy is heavy, but his eye is remarkably fine; and neither envy nor uncharitableness have wade any successful impression in attacking his moral character.
