[125]Sir Walter Scott's Works, 48 vols., 1829; "The Antiquary," ch. VIII.
[126]Lockhart's "Life," X. 217.
[127]The Jansenists, the Puritans, and the Methodists are the extremes of this class.
[128]See the preface of his second edition of "Lyrical Ballads."
[129]"Feter Bell, The White Doe, The Kitten and Falling Leaves," etc.
[130] "This dull product of a scoffer's pen
Impure conceits discharging from a
heart
Hardened by impious pride!"
—Wordsworth's Works, 7 vols. 1849; "The Excursion," book 2; "The Solitary."
[131]Wordsworth's Works, 7 vols. 1849, VII; "The Excursion," Preface, 11.
[132]Wordsworth's Works, 7 vols. 1849, VII. book 9; "Discourse of the Wanderer," opening verses, 315.
[133]Ibid. VII; "The Excursion," book 4; "Despondency Corrected," 137.