[Footnote 102: "The Task," IV; The Winter Evening.] [Footnote 103: Ibid.] [Footnote 104: Ibid.] [Footnote 105: "The Task," IV; The Winter Evening.] [Footnote 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."] [Footnote 107: "The Task," I; The Sofa.] [Footnote 108: 1793-1794.] [Footnote 109: Wordsworth's Works, new edition, 1870, 6 vols.; "Descriptive Sketches during a Pedestrian Tour," I. 42.] [Footnote 110: In English poetry as since modified, no one dreams of limiting the number of syllables, even in blank verse.--Tr.] [Footnote 111: See "The Fudge Family."] [Footnote 112: "The Epicurean."] [Footnote 113: "Lalla Rookh."] [Footnote 114: See also "The History of the Caliph Vathek," a fantastic but powerfully written tale, by W. Beckford, published first in French in 1784.] [Footnote 115: See the notes of Southey, worse than those of Chateaubriand in the "Martyrs."] [Footnote 116: "Edinburgh Review."] [Footnote 117: Lockhart, "Life of Sir Walter Scott," 10 vols. 2d ed. 1839, II. ch. XXXVII. p. 170.] [Footnote 118: Lockhart's "Life of Sir Walter Scott;" Autobiography, I. 62.] [Footnote 119: Lockhart's "Life of Sir Walter Scott," Autobiography, I. 72.] [Footnote 120: Ibid, VII; Abbotsford in 1825.] [Footnote 121: If Constable's "Memorials" (3 vols. 1873) had been published when M. Taine wrote this portion of his work he perhaps would have seen reason to alter this opinion, because it is clear that, so far from Sir Walter's printer and publisher ruining him, they, if not ruined by Sir Walter, were only equal sharers with him in the imprudences that led to the disaster.--Tr.] [Footnote 122: Lockhart's "Life," I. ch. VII. 269.] [Footnote 123: Ibid. VI. ch. XLIX. 252.] [Footnote 124: See the opening of "Ivanhoe": "Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects, who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate oppression." It is impossible to write in a heavier style.] [Footnote 125: Sir Walter Scott's Works, 48 vols., 1829; "The Antiquary," ch. VIII.] [Footnote 126: Lockhart's "Life," X. 217.] [Footnote 127: The Jansenists, the Puritans, and the Methodists are the extremes of this class.] [Footnote 128: See the preface of his second edition of "Lyrical Ballads."] [Footnote 129: "Feter Bell, The White Doe, The Kitten and Falling Leaves," etc.] [Footnote 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."] [Footnote 131: Wordsworth's Works, 7 vols. 1849, VII; "The Excursion," Preface, 11.]