_Paragraphs in the Courier._ Many of Coleridge’s contributions to
_The Courier_, chiefly from 1809 to 1811, are published in
_Essays on his own Times_ (1850).
_A poet-laureate or stamp-distributor._ The reference is of course
to Southey and Wordsworth.
‘_Bourne from whence_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Scene 1.
219. _One splendid passage._ ‘Alas! they had been friends in youth,’
etc., lines 408–426. Cf. Hazlitt’s _Lectures on the English
Poets_ (on the Living Poets).
_The Friend._ See note to vol. III. p. 139.
220. ‘_He cannot be constrained by mastery._’ Wordsworth, _The
Excursion_, Book VI. See note to vol. III. p. 166.
221. ‘_Taught with the little nautilus to sail._’ Pope, _Essay on Man_,
III. 177.
‘_Youth at its prow_,’ _etc._ Gray, _The Bard_, II. 2.
_It was a misfortune_, _etc._ This concluding paragraph was added
in the second edition.
_Instead of gathering_, _etc._ Cf. Hazlitt’s essay ‘On Poetical
Versatility’ in _The Round Table_ (vol. III. p. 151).
‘_From the pelting of the pitiless storm._’ _King Lear_, Act III.