Produced by Robert Connal, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr.) THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY _EDITED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MSS., WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES_ BY ALEXANDER H. JAPP LL.D., F.R.S.E. _VOLUME II._ LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1893 [_All rights reserved_] CONVERSATION AND COLERIDGE With Other Essays _CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, IMAGINATIVE AND HUMOROUS_ BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1893 PREFACE. All that is needful for me to say by way of Preface is that, as in the case of the first volume, I have received much aid from Mrs. Baird Smith and Miss De Quincey, and that Mr. J. R. McIlraith has repeated his friendly service of reading the proofs. ALEXANDER H. JAPP. LONDON, _March 1st, 1893._ CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 I. CONVERSATION AND S. T. COLERIDGE 7 II. MR. FINLAY'S HISTORY OF GREECE 60 III. THE ASSASSINATION OF CAESAR 91 IV. CICERO (SUPPLEMENTARY TO PUBLISHED ESSAY) 95 V. MEMORIAL CHRONOLOGY 107 VI. CHRYSOMANIA; OR, THE GOLD-FRENZY IN ITS PRESENT STAGE 157 VII. DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH PEERAGE 169 VIII. THE ANTI-PAPAL MOVEMENT 174 IX. THEORY AND PRACTICE 182 X. POPE AND DIDACTIC POETRY 189 XI. SHAKSPEARE AND WORDSWORTH 197 XII. CRITICISM ON SOME OF COLERIDGE'S CRITICISMS OF WORDSWORTH 201 XIII. WORDSWORTH AND SOUTHEY: AFFINITIES AND DIFFERENCES 208 XIV. PRONUNCIATION 213 XV. THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN NO MODERN ERA 221 XVI. DISPERSION OF THE JEWS, AND JOSEPHUS'S ENMITY TO CHRISTIANITY 225 XVII. CHRISTIANITY AS THE RESULT OF PRE-ESTABLISHED HARMONY 228 XVIII. THE MESSIANIC IDEA ROMANIZED 238 XIX. CONTRAST OF GREEK AND PERSIAN FEELING IN CERTAIN ASPECTS 241