BIB_ID
211901
Accession number
MA 2033.6
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, 1818 December 3.
Credit line
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett, 1960.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.0 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Watermark, Muggeridge & Ansell 1817.
Part of a collection of autograph notes and autograph manuscript fragments for essays and lectures.
Date of writing and explanation of the genesis of the essay from published manuscript cited below which indicates Coleridge was asked by William Mudford at The Courier to write "...a column or more on the character of the late Queen." Queen Charlotte died November 17, 1818.
Part of a collection of autograph notes and autograph manuscript fragments for essays and lectures.
Date of writing and explanation of the genesis of the essay from published manuscript cited below which indicates Coleridge was asked by William Mudford at The Courier to write "...a column or more on the character of the late Queen." Queen Charlotte died November 17, 1818.
Provenance
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett, 1960.
Summary
Being the draft of an essay; opening with "The characteristics of this reforming and enlightening Age, as far as the Reforming and Enlightening Part of it is concerned, ipsâ suâ copiâ inopes; but that they all spring from one and the same Root, a restless overweening Conceit of Rights without reference to Duties. For between these two words, twin brothers in days of yore, such a sad estrangement has taken place, that the comparative frequency, with which the one is used by an Individual, may be considered as a symptom of his oppugnancy to the other. The less regard he pays to his duties, the more parade he is sure to make about his Rights."
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