6. Miss Mitford, in her _Recollections of a Literary Life_,
interestingly records the active share taken by her father in
procuring the learned trooper's discharge.

7. "In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii
fuisse felicem."--_Boethius_.

8. Carrlyon's _Early Years and late Reflections_, vol. i. p. 27.




CHAPTER II.

The Bristol Lectures--Marriage--Life at Clevedon--The _Watchman_--
Retirement to Stowey--Introduction to Wordsworth.

[1794-1797.]


The reflections of the worthy Master of Jesus upon the strange reply of
the wayward young undergraduate would have been involved in even
greater perplexity if he could have looked forward a few months into
the future. For after a winter spent in London, and enlivened by those
_noctes conoque Deum_ at the "Cat and Salutation," which Lamb has
so charmingly recorded, Coleridge returned with Southey to Bristol at
the beginning of 1795, and there proceeded to deliver a series of
lectures which, whatever their other merits, would certainly not have
assisted Dr. Pearce to grasp the distinction between a Pantisocrat and