...absolute." Undoubtedly, it is to this period that one should refer Lamb's well-known description of " Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Logician, Metaphysician,...disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold in thy deep and sweet intonations the mysteries of Iamblichus or Plotinus...

...absolute." Undoubtedly it is to this period that one should refer Lamb's well-known description of " Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Logician, Metaphysician,...disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold in thy deep and sweet intonations the mysteries of lamblichus or Plotinus...

...quoting, has the ring of true insight into the potent attractiveness of a rarely gifted personality : " Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column beVOL. LXXVI. — NO. 455. 26 fore thee,-^the dark pillar not yet turned, — Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...

...age. Lamb's loving and exquisite invocation remains the classic picture of Coleridge in his boyhood: "Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring...the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, intranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the...

...toils abstruse etc.: Cf. the words of Lamb in his essay Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Tear1 Ago: 'How have I seen the casual passer through the cloisters...disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thce unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of Jamblichus, or...

...of Coleridge as the young Bluecoat boy of Christ's Hospital described so memorably by Charles Lamb: »Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies How I have seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while...