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	Gentleman's Magazine 1834 part 2 p.549 and a splendour, an ease and a power, which almost seem inspired. "So much of the intellectual life and influence of Mr. Coleridge has consisted in the oral communication of his opinions, that no sketch could be reasonably complete with a distinct notice of the peculiar character of his powers in this particular. We believe it has not been the lot of any other literary man in England, since Dr. Johnson, to command the devoted admiration and steady zeal of so many and such widely differing disciples. The fulness, the inwardness, the ultimate scope of his doctrines, has never yet been published in print, and if disclosed, it has been from time to time in the higher moments of conversation, when occasion, and mood, and person begot an exalted crisis. More than once has Mr. Coleridge said, that with a pen in hand he felt a thousand checks and difficulties in the expression of his meaning; but that - authorship aside - he never found the smallest hitch or impediment in the fullest utterance of his most subtle fancies by word of mouth. His abstrussest thoughts became rhythmical and clear, when chaunted to their own music." Mr. Coleridge died under the roof of his invaluable friend Mr. Gillman, at Highgate, and his body was laid in the ground in the vaults of the new church there. His funeral was strictly private, and his hearse was followed by a very few intimate friends only. Many of the admirers of his great attainments and his high literary fame and reputation would have wished to attend, but they were not invited, some even excluded, by the friends who had the conduct of his funeral, and who were best acquainted with the dislike of the deceased to empty ostentation, and with the just but meek and Christian feelings and sentiments of his last moments. A month or two before his death, he wrote his own humble and affectionate epitaph:- Stop, Christian passer by! Stop, Child of God! And read with gentlest breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seemed he;- O, lift a prayer in thought for S.T.C.! That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death! Mercy for praise - to be forgiven for fame - He asked, and hoped through Christ. Do thou the same.
obituary   Edward Tatham
	Obituary, Rev Edward Tatham REV. EDWARD TATHAM, D.D. April 24. At Coombe rectory, Oxford-shire, aged 85, the Rev. Edward Tatham, D.D. Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, Rector of Whitchurch, Salop, and Perpetual Curate of Twyford, Berks. Dr. Tatham was a native of Cumberland, and was originally of Queen's college, where he took his degree of M.A. in 1776. He was afterwards elected Fellow of Lincoln, and proceeded to B.D. 1783, D.D. 1787. In 1778 he published in 8vo., an Essay on Journal Poetry; and in 1780, Twelve Discourses introductory to the study of Divinity. In 1789 he preached the Bampton Lecture; and his discourses delivered on that occasion, were published under the title of "The Chart and Scale of Truth," in two volumes, the first of which appeared in 1790, the second not until 1792. Dr. Tatham was at that time deeply interested in politics. He addressed through the public prints, a remonstrative Letter to the Revolution Society. In 1791 he published "Letters to Edmund Burke, on Politics." 8vo; and in 1792,a Sermon preached before the University, Nov. 5, the anniversary of the Revolution of 1688. In the year 1792 he was elected Rector of Lincoln College, with the annexed living of Twyford. In 1793 he published a "Sermon suitable to the Times," which he had then recently preached four times; and in 1797 he published "Letters to Mr. Pitt, on the National Debt and a National Bank;" in 1807, "An Address to the Members of Convocation, on the proposed new statute respecting Public Examinations;" in 1811, "An Address to Lord Grenville on Abuses in the University;" in 1813, "Oxonia Purgata, consisting of a series of addresses on the subject of the new discipline in the University of Oxford; in 18-- "Oxonia Ornata," treating of the architectural improvements of Oxford; and in 1816 a pamphlet containing "Observations on the Scarcity of Money, and its effects on the Public." He was presented in 1829 to the rectory of Whitchurch in Shropshire, a living in the patronage of the trustees of the Bridgewater estate, it having been held until that time, for nearly fifty years, by the late Earl, the Prebendary of Durham.

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