[1] The word "accursed" was italicised in the editions of 1815-43.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] Compare The Excursion (book iv. l. 763)—
We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love,
and S. T. C. in The Friend (vol. i. p. 172). "What an awful duty, what a nurse of all others, the fairest virtues, does not Hope become! We are bad ourselves, because we despair of the goodness of others."—Ed.
EPISTLE
TO SIR GEORGE HOWLAND BEAUMONT, BART.
FROM THE SOUTH-WEST COAST OF CUMBERLAND.—1811
Composed 1811.—Published 1842