Notes and Queries, Vol. 10: Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc;; July December, 1854 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 10: Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc;; July December, 1854

"The course will extend to fifteen lectures, which will be given on Monday and Thursday evenings successively. The lecture to commence at half-past seven o'clock.

"Single Tickets for the whole course, two guineas, or three guineas with the privilege of introducing a lady, may be procured at J. Hatchard's, 190. Piccadilly; J. Murray's, Fleet Street; J. & J. Arch's, Booksellers and Stationers, Cornhill; Godwin's Juvenile Library, Skinner Street; W. Pople's, 67. Chancery Lane; or by letter (post paid) to Mr. S. T. Coleridge, J. J. Morgan's, Esq., No. 7. Portland Place, Hammersmith."

The above is all the information that was given anterior to the delivery of the lectures, and so far it is unlike the prospectus of 1818, in which the particular matters, to be treated of in fourteen lectures, were especially pointed out. Thus in reference to Shakspeare we are told that Lectures IV., V., and VI. would be "On the dramatic works of Shakspeare: in these lectures will be comprised the substance of Mr. Coleridge's former courses on the same subject, enlarged and varied by subsequent study and reflection." One of these former courses was that of 1812; but I learn from a diary I kept at the time (of which only fragments remain), that in the preceding year Coleridge had delivered a series of lectures on Poetry at the Royal Institution. I did not attend them, and perhaps might not have heard of them, but that Coleridge himself mentioned them in a conversation at my father's on 21st of October, 1812. It was on the same occasion that he announced to us his intention of giving the lectures, of seven of which I have notes, and which commenced on the 16th November following. On the subject of his lectures at the Royal Institution, I may be excused for extracting the following passage from the daily record I then wrote:

"Coleridge said that for his first lecture at the Royal Institution he prepared himself fully, and when it was finished he received many high-flown but frigid compliments, evidently, like his lecture, studied. For his second lecture he prepared himself less elaborately, and was much applauded. For the third lecture, and indeed for the remainder of the series, he made no preparation, and was liked better than ever, and vociferously and heartily cheered. The reason was obvious, for what came warm from the heart of the speaker, went warm to the heart of the hearer; and although the illustrations might not be so good, yet being extemporaneous, and often from objects immediately before his eyes, they made more impression, and seemed to have more aptitude."

The lectures of 1812 were delivered, as far as my memory serves me, without notes, but I do not think that the room was particularly full; the applause was general and encouraging, and among the auditors on one occasion I saw Mr. Canning. My short-hand notes (some of which I wrote out at the time) are still very legible, but as they are too much in detail for your pages, I will endeavour on a future occasion to make some acceptable quotations: to them this note must be considered merely introductory.

Notes on Pepys's Diary.

Vol. i. p. 2. (note.) Sir George Downing. A confirmation of Lord Braybrooke's account of Downing's birth, by Downing himself, occurs in a letter from T. Howard to the king, April 5, 1660, in Carte's Letters, ii. 319. Downing had made Howard an offer of his services to the king, and apologises for the past, "alleging to be engaged in a contrary party by his father, who was banished into New England, where he was brought up." Ludlow, who is generally very accurate, states that Downing had been a preacher and chaplain to Colonel Okey's regiment (iii. 99. original edition). After the Restoration, Downing, being the king's envoy at the Hague, prevailed on the S

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1330488261
• ISBN 13: 9781330488263
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 667