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[454]. ‘Hope told a flattering tale.’ An anonymous song sung to Paisiello’s famous air, ‘Nel cor più non mi sento,’ from La Molinara. [455]. ‘Pierceable.’ ‘Not perceable with any power of any starr’ (The Faerie Queene, I. I. 7) is quoted elsewhere by Hazlitt. ‘The drops,’ etc. As You Like It, Act. II. Sc. 7. [456]. ‘Swept and garnished.’ S. Matthew xii. 44. ‘Knowledge at each entrance,’ etc. Paradise Lost, III. 50. Note. Mr. Allston. See ante, note to p. 189. Note. ‘A temple,’ etc. Cf. 2 Corinthians, v. 1. [457]. ‘Nor seem’d’ [appeared], ‘etc. Paradise Lost, I. 592–4. Better than nothing. At this point in the Magazine there is a footnote by the editor, protesting against the view that Rogers’s Human Life is ‘nothing,’ and the Lyrical Ballads only ‘something.’ He adds ‘Who told this lively writer that Mr. Southey ever preferred the Excursion to Paradise Lost?’ The preference given, etc. A review of Human Life by Jeffrey in The Edinburgh Review (XXXI. 325) contains a contemptuous reference to ‘a Lakish ditty.’