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...rats you are." That night as Hatto sat down to a glutton's feast at his table, fierce rats assailed him in droves. He fled on horseback, rowed to a tower in the middle of the Rhine, locked himself in. There the rats followed and devoured him. Poet Southey celebrated this event in "God's judgment upon a Wicked Bishop...
...entire collection is composed of more-than 50 separate pieces. On last Friday another shipment was received from Mr. Perkins, containing a "History of Comic Literature" in German, which was printed a century and a half ago. These volumes are interesting because they belonged to Robert Southey, whose signature is on the title page of the first volume, and later to Harry Buxton Forman, the editor of Shelley's writings, whose book-plate they contain. Between these two periods, they were in Coleridge's library...
This work was evidently read with great care by Southey and Coleridge, since they both made numerous marginal comments in criticism and elucidation of the author's statements. Those by Coleridge are especially long and throw a good deal of light on his own literary and critical development...
...Swan '12, "Ode, written during negotiations with Buonaparte in January, 1814," by Robert Southey...
From Mrs. Charles C. Smith, of Boston the Library has received two volumes to which interesting associations are attached. One is Antonio de Solis's "Varias poesias sagradas y profanas," Madrid, 1716, with the autograph and bookplate of the poet Southey; the other, Leigh Hunt's copy of Troya's "Del Veltro allegorico di Dante," Firenze, 1826, with manuscript marginal annotations in Hunt's hand. His autograph, from some other source, has been pasted on the title-page. A miniature edition of Solis's "Historia de la Conquista de Mejico," Paris, 1826, in three volumes, is also included...