by E.H.
Coleridge, Vol.

I., p.

180, note.] [Footnote 2: The uncertainty as to the color of his eyes is a tribute to their expressiveness.

Carlyle described him in 1824 as having "a pair of strange brown, timid, yet earnest-looking eyes." Emerson visited him in 1833 and found him "with bright blue eyes and fine clear complexion."] III.

THE REST OF THE STORY Coleridge lived for thirty-six years after he left Stowey for Germany in 1798.