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I was present at that lecture by Coleridge, louboutinsdur¬ing which he spoke of Cary's Dante in high terms of praise: there were about a hundred and twenty persons in the room. But I doubt if that did much towards making it known. It owes some of its cele¬brity to me; for the article on Dante in The Edin¬burgh Review,f which was written by Foscolo, has Wordsworth once remarked to me, " It is a disgrace to the age that Cary has no church-preferment; I think his translation of Dante a great national work." verychaussures louboutin considerable additions by Mackintosh, and a few by myself. Cary was aware (though his bio¬grapher evidently is not) that I had written a por¬tion of that article ; yet he never mentioned it to me: perhaps there was something in it which he did not like. On the resignation of Baber, chief librarian at the British Museum, I wrote a letter to the Arch¬bishop of Canterbury, urging Cary's claim to fill the vacant place. The Archbishop replied, that his onlychaussures christian louboutin reason for not giving Cary his vote was the un¬fortunate circumstance of Cary's having been more than once, in consequence of domestic calamities, afflicted with temporary alienation of mind.f I had quite forgotten this; and I immediately wrote again to the Archbishop, saying that I now agreed with him concerning Cary's unfitness for the louboutin soldessituation. I also, as delicately as I could, touched on the subject to Cary himself, telling him that the place was not suited for him. Cary, as assistant-librarian, stood next in succession.¡ªED. It appears, however, from the Memoir of Cary by his son (vol. ii. 285), that afterwards, the Archbishop, in consequence of a medicallouboutin pas cher certificate of Cary's fitness for the office, was desirous that he should be appointed, " but could not prevail on his co-trustees to concur with him."