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David Hartley was known as Hartley and was named after the "great Master of Christian Philosophy" David Hartley
David Hartley (1705-1757) Author of Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and his Expectations (1749)
Nickname"Job", see New Letters of Robert Southey Vol. I 1792-1810 by Kenneth Curry, Prof. of English, University of Tennessee, Columbia University Press Ltd. (1965) p. 399, end note 6
Wordsworth selected the place for his grave, indicating at the same time the spot immediately adjoining where he himself was laid little more than twelve months afterwards.
May, 1840 Hartley Coleridge
A lovely morn, so still, so very still,
It hardly seems a growing day of Spring,
Though all the odorous buds are blossoming,
And the small matin birds were glad and shrill
Some hours ago; but now the woodland rill Murmurs along, the only vocal thing,
Save when the wee wren flits with stealthy wing,
And cons by fits and bits her evening trill.
Lovers might sit on such a morn as this An hour together, looking at the sky,
Nor dare to break the silence with a kiss,
Long listening for the signal of a sigh;
And the sweet Nun, diffused in voiceless prayer,
Feel her own soul through all the brooding air.
Hartley was staying with the Wordsworths when he died.
source:
A Passionate Sisterhood, Kathleen Jones, p. 276, Constable-London 1997