[383] The opening sentence of a famous criticism of the Excursion published in the Edinburgh Review for November, 1814, no. 47. It was written by ~Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey~ (1773-1850), Scottish judge and literary critic, and first editor of the Edinburgh Review.
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[384] Macbeth, III, ii.
[385] Paradise Lost, VII, 23-24.
[386] The Recluse, l. 831.
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[387] From Burns's A Bard's Epitaph.
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[388] The correct title is The Solitary Reaper.