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SPECIMENS

OF THE

TABLE TALK

OF THE LATE

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXXXV.

BIBLIO

BOD

ΤΟ

JAMES GILLMAN, ESQUIRE,

OF

THE GROVE, HIGHGATE,

AND TO

MRS. GILLMAN,

These Uolumes

ARE

GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED.

DIRECTIONS FOR THE PLATES.

Portrait of Mr. Coleridge, to face Title of Vol. I.

The Study of Mr. Coleridge, in which he died, to face Title of Vol. II.

PREFACE.

It is nearly fourteen years since I was, for the first time, enabled to become a frequent and attentive visiter in Mr. Coleridge's domestic society. His exhibition of intellectual power in living discourse struck me at once as unique and transcendant; and upon my return home, on the very first evening which I spent with him after my boyhood, I committed to writing, as well as I could, the principal topics of his conversation in his own words. I had no settled design at that time of continuing the work, but simply made the note in something like a spirit of vexation that such a strain of music as I had just

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