...east! Germ of unnumber'd virtues! This was the prevailing tone which had previously reached its climax in that humbler poet in England, whose appeal began with:-- Inoculation! heavenly maid. Coleridge and the rest of his circle went through this period of impassioned declamation, and Whittier could not hope to escape it. At the dinners of the Atlantic Club, during the first few years of the ma...