"I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought; For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils." The justice of these opinions should be tested by each student from his own experience. A FABLE FOR CRITICS 36. ignified: melted. 40. An example of Lowell's puns, which are generally critcized as belonging to a low order of humor. 41. Parnassus: a mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and hence the domain of the arts in general. 49. inter nos: between us. bl. ices. Isis was the Egyptian goddess of the arts and of agriculture. 60. bemummying: a word coined by Lowell to mean causing one to dry up like a mummy. 68.. Pythoness: woman with power of prophecy. 69. tripod: a bronze altar over which the Pythoness at Delphi uttered her oracles. "Most of his judgments are, however, those of posterity though often, as in the case of Hawthorns, he was characterizing writers who had not done their best work." --CAIRNS. 92. scathe: injury. 93. rathe: early in the season. 96. John Bunyan Fouque is an extraordinary combination of names as of characteristics. Bunyan is known everywhere for his devotion to truth as he saw it; the oak in character. Friederich Heinrich Karl, Baron de Lamotte-Fouque, was a German soldier, but is better known as a romantic writer. His best-known work is "Undine," the anemone in daintiness of fancy and delicacy of expression. A Puritan Tieck is another anomaly. From the early poems in this anthology the Puritan type is evident; Tieck was a German writer who revolted against the sternness of life and believed in beauty and romance. 110. In 1821 Scott published The Pilot, a novel of the sea, which was very popular. Cooper, however, thought he could improve upon it and so in 1823 he published "The Pilot," hoping to show his superiority. 112. The bay was used for a garland of honor to a poet. 124. Nathaniel Bumpo was "Leatherstocking," who gave his name to the series of Cooper s novels. 126. Long Tom Coffin was the hero in The Pilot. 130. derniere chemise. A pun upon the word "shift," which here means stratagem. 148. Parson Adams is one of the most delightful of all notion characters. Fielding pictures him in his novel Joseph Andrews in such a manner that you always sympathize with him even if you must laugh at his simplicity. Dr. Primrose in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield is a direct literary descendant of Parson Adams. He is one of the best-known characters in English fiction. To be classed with these two men is high praise for Natty Bumpo. 161. Barnaby Rudge, the hero of Dickens's novel of that name, kept a tame raven. 162. fudge: nonsense, rubbish.