Coleridge, Samuel

TAYLOR, an English poet, philosopher, and theologian, B. 1772. Не was educated at Christ's Hospital, London, and at Jesus Coll., Cambridge, early distinguishing himself by his cla ical acquirements, and an extraordinary pa ion for metaphysical studies. Quitting Cambridge in 1792, he settled soon after at Bristol, and projected with Southey, and others, a model colony, "Pantisocracy," on the banks of the Susquehanna; but, eventually, stayed in England and devoted himself to a literary life. He visited Germany to acquaint himself more fully with the German language and literature, and then settled in the Lake District. He visited Malta in 1804, and in 1810 he left his family at Keswick and went to London, and soon after entered the house of his friend Gillman, at High gate, where he spent the rest of his life. The literary life of C. began with the publication of his poems, in 1794. His first volume was soon followed by others. Remorse, a tragedy, The Ancient Mariner, and Christ a bel, are among the best known of his poems. He published also a very admirable translation of Schiller's Piccolo mini, and Death of Wal lens tein. He projected a periodical entitled The Watchman, which did not succeed; preached occasionally, gave popular lectures, and contributed political and literary articles to some of the newspapers. The Friend began to appear as a periodical in 1809, and after his settlement in London appeared the completed work, the Biograph i a Literaria, Lay Sermons, Aids to Reflectiom, . Other works remained unpub lished till after his death: these are the Confe ions of an Inquiring Spirit, Literary Remains , and Table - Talk , edited by his nephew and son-in-law, Henry Nelson Cole ridge; and E ays on his own Times, and Notes on Shakspeare and the Dramatists, edited by his daughter, Sara Cole ridge. As philosopher and theologian, the influence of C. has been very great, and probably is so still, notwithstanding the apparent predominance of a Fig . 644.-COLE RIDGE'S COTTAGE. le spiritual philosophy than his. Although he did not live to complete the grand system of religious philosophy which he appears to have projected, the "ma ive fragments" he has left us suffice to show more than the outlines of the vast whole. Churchman and conserva about 12 m. S.W. of Mount Holly. Cole'-stuff, n . See COAL-STAFF. Coles'ville, in N. Carolina , a post-office of Stokes co. Coles'ville, in Maryland , a post-village of Montgomery co., about 40 m. W. by N. of Anna polis. Coles'ville, in New Jersey, a post-office of Su ex co. Coles'ville, in New York , a post-township of Broome co., on the Susquehanna River, 10 m. N.E. of Bing hampton. Colet'to Creek, in Tezas, rises in De Witt co., and flows S.E. into the Guadalupe River, abt. 8 m. S. of Victoria.