[Footnote C:  See p. 35 [’French Revolution’].—­Ed.]

[Footnote D:  Compare ‘Ruth’, in vol. ii. p. 112: 

  ’Before me shone a glorious world—­
  Fresh as a banner bright, unfurled
  To music suddenly: 
  I looked upon those hills and plains,
  And seemed as if let loose from chains,
  To live at liberty.’

Ed.]

[Footnote E:  In 1795.—­Ed.]

[Footnote F:  Referring probably to Napoleon’s Italian campaign in 1796.—­Ed.]

[Footnote G:  In 1794 he returned, with intermittent ardour, to the study of mathematics and physics.—­Ed.]

[Footnote H:  In the winter of 1794 he went to Halifax, and there joined his sister, whom he accompanied in the same winter to Kendal, Grasmere, and Keswick.  They stayed for several weeks at Windybrow farm-house, near Keswick.  The brother and sister had not met since the Christmas of 1791.  It is to those “days,” in 1794, that he refers.—­Ed.]

[Footnote I:  Compare in the first book of ‘The Recluse’, l. 91: 

  Her voice was like a hidden Bird that sang;
  The thought of her was like a flash of light,
  Or an unseen companionship.

Ed.]

[Footnote K:  In 1804 Bonaparte sent for the Pope to anoint him as ‘Empereur des Francais’.  Napoleon wished the title to be as remote as possible from “King of France.”—­Ed.]

[Footnote L:  Coleridge was then living in Sicily, whither he had gone from Malta.  He ascended Etna.  See Cottles’ ’Early Recollections, chiefly relating to the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge’ (vol. ii. p. 77), and also compare note [Book 6, Footnote U], p. 230 of this volume.—­Ed.]

[Footnote M:  Timoleon, one of the greatest of the Greeks, was sent in command of an expedition to reduce Sicily to order; and was afterwards the Master, but not the Tyrant, of Syracuse.  He colonised it afresh from Corinth, and from the rest of Sicily; and enacted new laws of a democratic character, being ultimately the ruler of the whole island; although he refused office and declined titles, remaining a private citizen to the end. (See Plutarch’s Life of him.)—­Ed.]

[Footnote N:  See book vi. l. 240.—­Ed.]

[Footnote O:  Compare ‘Paradise Lost’, book iv. l. 269.—­Ed.]

[Footnote P:  Empedpocles, the philosopher of Agrigentum, physicist, metaphysician, poet, musician, and hierophant.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Q:  The geometrician of Syracuse.—­Ed.]

[Footnote R:  The pastoral poet of Syracuse.—­Ed.]

[Footnote S:  Theocrit.  Idyll vii. 78. (Mr. Carter, 1850.)]

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BOOK TWELFTH

IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED