[105]"The Task," IV; The Winter Evening.
[106]Crabbe may also be considered one of the masters and renovators of poetry, but his style is too classical, and he has been rightly nicknamed "a Pope in worsted stockings."
[107]"The Task," I; The Sofa.
[108]1793-1794.
[109]Wordsworth's Works, new edition, 1870, 6 vols.; "Descriptive Sketches during a Pedestrian Tour," I. 42.
[110]In English poetry as since modified, no one dreams of limiting the number of syllables, even in blank verse.—Tr.
[111]See "The Fudge Family."
[112]"The Epicurean."
[113]"Lalla Rookh."
[114]See also "The History of the Caliph Vathek," a fantastic but powerfully written tale, by W. Beckford, published first in French in 1784.