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Hereditary Genius
Chaucer, Geoffrey; wrote the “Court of Love” aet. 18. Illustrious poet; father of
English poetry and, in some sense, of the English language also.
S. Sir Thomas; was Speaker of the House of Commons and ambassador to France.
Chenier, Andre Marie de; eminent French poet. His mother was a Greek, and
inspired him with a passionate taste for Greek literature. He was guillotined
aet. 32. It was he who touched his forehead on the scaffold, and said
regretfully, just before his execution, “Pourtant j'avais quelque chose la.”
B. Marie-Joseph; also a poet He wrote dramas and lyrical pieces. Among the latter
was the “Chant du Depart,” which nearly rivalled the “Marseillaise.” He was a
leading politician under the republic and the empire. His first play was acted
aet. 20, and was hissed.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; poet and metaphysician; was filled with poetry and
metaphysics aet. 15; always slothful and imprudent. He had warm friendships,
but was singularly regardless of duties, and somewhat querulous; of a
peculiarly hesitating disposition; opium eater. Fully eight members of this
family—indeed, nearly all of its male representatives—have been gifted with
rare abilities.
S. Hartley, poet; a precocious child, who had been a visionary boy. His imaginative
and colloquial powers were extraordinary. He was morbidly intemperate.
s. Sara; had in a remarkable degree the intellectual characteristics of her father. She
was authoress and principal editor of her father's works. She married her
cousin, H. Nelson Coleridge, and was mother of Herbert. See below.
S. The Rev. Derwent Coleridge, author. Principal of St. Mark's College, Chelsea; is
the remaining child of the poet.
N. Sir John Taylor Coleridge, judge; eminent in early life as an accomplished
scholar and man of letters.
N. Edward Coleridge, master at Eton, now fellow.
N. Henry Nelson Coleridge, scholar; a well-known writer of many articles in
periodicals; married his cousin Sara. See above.
P. also BP. Herbert Coleridge, philologist.
[NS.] Henry, late Fellow of Oriel College; now Roman Catholic.
NS. Sir John Duke Coleridge, Solicitor-General.
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