Note 1146:1 — BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reading edition
Compare The Pursuits of Literature, Dialogue 1, lines 50, 55, 56.
The self-supported melancholy Gray * * * * * With his high spirit strove the master bard, And was his own exceeding great reward.
The first Dialogue was published in May 1794. The lines on Gray may have suggested Coleridge's quotation from Genesis, chap. xv, ver. 1, which is supplied in a footnote to line 56.