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St Paul’s assertion that the Spirit of God bears witness to
the Spirit of Man ? ” This very fine and important
MS. is in the form of a Holograph Letter Signed. It covers
12 pp. 4to, and is dated Bury St Edmunds, 13 Oct. 1806.
Coleridge sent it to T. Clarkson, the Slave Trade Abolitionist.
£85
Unpublished.
Coleridge states he must reduce the first two questions to the form
of the third and fourth. That the Spirit of God and the Soul is he
dare not suppose himself capable of conceiving . . . “ they are
known by those to whom they are revealed.” “ Our faith is built
wholly either on blind bodily feelings arising in ourselves or caught
contagiously by sympathy with the agitation of a superstitious
crowd around the Fanes (Fanatics) . . . Seraphs and purified
Spirits may burn unextinguished in the pure elementary fire of
direct knowledge . . . our Faith resembles sublunary Fire, that
needs the Fuel of the Congruous ... to maintain it.” Goes on
about the difference between Thing and Thought. “ I have a
distinct Thought of a Rose Tree ; but what countless properties
and goings on of that plant are there, not included in my
Thought of it ? But the Thoughts of God, in the strict nomenclature
of Plato, are all Ideas, archetypal, and anterior to all but himself
alone.” “ Unitarianism ... is Atheism or Spinosism—God be-
comes a mere power in darkness, even as Gravitation, and instead
of a moral Religion of practical Influence we shall have only a
physical Theory to Gratify ideal curiosity—no Sun, no Light with
vivifying Warmth, but a cold and dull moonshine, or rather star-
light which shews itself but shews nothing else.” Etc.
This precious and highly important Manuscript is believed to be
unpublished.
88 COLLIER (John Payne), Editor of Shakespeare. Ten Un-
published MS. Diaries from Nov. 1872 to July 1882. 1087
pp., 10 vols. 8vo. 1872-82. £50
These important Diaries are Note Books measuring 7 by 4J inches,
all filled with Collier’s Notes, and all, but one, are signed by him in
various places. They are numbered 12 to 23, and Collier’s note on
the cover of the first, states : “I have destroyed the eleven preceding
parts of this sort of Diary, I took something from them from my
‘old Man’s Diary.’” Crammed with literary and other notes of
great interest. Authors from the earliest times are mentioned, and
anecdotes from them, in many cases, recorded. Such names as the
following occur throughout—-Livy, Plutarch, Pliny, Chaucer,
Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Drayton, Raleigh,
Young, Arthur Brooke, Wither, Quarles, Donne, Breton, Nash,
Isaac Walton, Dr Kerr, Sir Thos. Browne, Philemon Holland,
Fielding, Johnson, Burns, Coleridge, Keats, Lamb, Hazlitt, Tennyson,
Dickens, Disraeli, Cervantes, Sannoza, etc. Of Shakespeare’s
immortal Plays, and Collier’s own edition of them, there are
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St Paul’s assertion that the Spirit of God bears witness to
the Spirit of Man ? ” This very fine and important
MS. is in the form of a Holograph Letter Signed. It covers
12 pp. 4to, and is dated Bury St Edmunds, 13 Oct. 1806.
Coleridge sent it to T. Clarkson, the Slave Trade Abolitionist.
£85
Unpublished.
Coleridge states he must reduce the first two questions to the form
of the third and fourth. That the Spirit of God and the Soul is he
dare not suppose himself capable of conceiving . . . “ they are
known by those to whom they are revealed.” “ Our faith is built
wholly either on blind bodily feelings arising in ourselves or caught
contagiously by sympathy with the agitation of a superstitious
crowd around the Fanes (Fanatics) . . . Seraphs and purified
Spirits may burn unextinguished in the pure elementary fire of
direct knowledge . . . our Faith resembles sublunary Fire, that
needs the Fuel of the Congruous ... to maintain it.” Goes on
about the difference between Thing and Thought. “ I have a
distinct Thought of a Rose Tree ; but what countless properties
and goings on of that plant are there, not included in my
Thought of it ? But the Thoughts of God, in the strict nomenclature
of Plato, are all Ideas, archetypal, and anterior to all but himself
alone.” “ Unitarianism ... is Atheism or Spinosism—God be-
comes a mere power in darkness, even as Gravitation, and instead
of a moral Religion of practical Influence we shall have only a
physical Theory to Gratify ideal curiosity—no Sun, no Light with
vivifying Warmth, but a cold and dull moonshine, or rather star-
light which shews itself but shews nothing else.” Etc.
This precious and highly important Manuscript is believed to be
unpublished.
88 COLLIER (John Payne), Editor of Shakespeare. Ten Un-
published MS. Diaries from Nov. 1872 to July 1882. 1087
pp., 10 vols. 8vo. 1872-82. £50
These important Diaries are Note Books measuring 7 by 4J inches,
all filled with Collier’s Notes, and all, but one, are signed by him in
various places. They are numbered 12 to 23, and Collier’s note on
the cover of the first, states : “I have destroyed the eleven preceding
parts of this sort of Diary, I took something from them from my
‘old Man’s Diary.’” Crammed with literary and other notes of
great interest. Authors from the earliest times are mentioned, and
anecdotes from them, in many cases, recorded. Such names as the
following occur throughout—-Livy, Plutarch, Pliny, Chaucer,
Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Drayton, Raleigh,
Young, Arthur Brooke, Wither, Quarles, Donne, Breton, Nash,
Isaac Walton, Dr Kerr, Sir Thos. Browne, Philemon Holland,
Fielding, Johnson, Burns, Coleridge, Keats, Lamb, Hazlitt, Tennyson,
Dickens, Disraeli, Cervantes, Sannoza, etc. Of Shakespeare’s
immortal Plays, and Collier’s own edition of them, there are
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