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His habits remained the same, and he occa- sionally, though undesignedly, led others into the same excess with himself. Yet he was not without bodily and intellectual strength, had he but chosen to use it. Li one of his letters to his brother he says : " I cannot find that either , my cares or my follies have materially diminished my bodily 820 HARTLEY COLERIDGE. or intellectaal vigor." He was perfectly conscious of the foUj and unworthiness of the course he was pursuing, and often overflowed w...ith wise moral reflections on the subject. But he would make no effort to rise, and only sunk to lower depths. One of the most eminent of his friends on the Lakes relates that he latterly ceased to call on him, — " it was so ridiculous and pitiable to find the poor, harmless creature, amid the finest scenery in the world, and in beau- tiful summer weather, dead drunk at ten o'clock in the morning." A publisher at Leeds having engaged him to write a book on the "Worthies of Yorkshire," found that the work pro- ceeded so slowly, — Hartley procrastinating from day to day, as was his wont, — that he induced him to go over to Leeds and write it there.
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