Bitter lines against Popery inserted in _The Task_ were struck out, because the writer had made the acquaintance of Mr.and Mrs.Throckmorton, who were Roman Catholics.

Smoking was detestable, except when practised by dear Mr.Bull.

Even gambling, the blackest sin of fashionable society, is not to prevent Fox, the great Whig, from being a ruler in Israel.

Besides, in all his social judgments, Cowper is at a wrong point of view.

He is always deluded by the idol of his cave.