Some Writings And Speeches of Richard Monckton Milnes Lord Houghton in the Las
Some Writings And Speeches of Richard Monckton Milnes Lord Houghton in the Las
Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton
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88 Coleridge, The Company included Lord Chief Juflice Coleridge, Lord Aber- dare, Lord Houghton, Sir Theodore Martin, Mr. Juflice Grove, The Bifhop of Oxford, Mr. Robert Browning, &c. , &c. , &c. [Speech by Mr. Lowell. ] Lord Houghton was then called on by the Dean of Weftminfter to fpeak, and faid : — I remember, when a ftudent at Cambridge, going with Arthur Hal- lam to call on Coleridge, who re- ceived us as Goethe or as Socrates might have received us. In the courfe of converfation, the poe...t allied us if either of us intended to goto America. He faid, " Go to America if you have " the opportunity. I am known ** there ; you will hear of me there. ** I am a poor poet in England, but " I am a great philofopher in Ame- ** rica. " That was fifty years ago, when circumftances had brought Coleridge. 89 about what I might call identity be- tween EngHfh and American litera- ture and thought. I think that that remark indicated even at that com- paratively early period, the meta- phyfical fpirit which grew up and became dominant in the moft practi- cal of all nations, lifting their thoughts above material interefts and enabling them at once to become the moft practical and moft thoughtful nation of the world.
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