504.) The Author's personal relations to the Lowthers semi-unconsciously coloured his opinions, and intensified his partisanship and glorified the commonplace.

But with all abatements these 'Two Addresses' supply much material for a right and high estimate of WORDSWORTH as man and thinker.

As invariably, he descends to the roots of things, and almost ennobles even his prejudices and alarms and ultra-caution.

There is the same terse, compacted, pungent style in these 'Two Addresses' with his general prose.

Bibliographically the 'Two Addresses' are even rarer and higher-priced than the 'Convention of Cintra.' _( e) Of the Catholic Relief Bill_, 1829.
To the great names of EDMUND SPENSER and Sir JOHN DAVIES, as Englishmen who dealt with the problem of the government of Ireland, and found it, as more recent statesmen have done, to be in infinite ways 'England's difficulty,' has now to be added one not less great--WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
If at this later day--for even 1829 seems remote now--much of the present letter to the Bishop of London (BLOMFIELD) is mainly of historical noticeableness, as revealing how 'Catholic Emancipation' looked to one of the foremost minds of his age, there are, nevertheless, expressions of personal opinion--_e.g._ against the Athanasian Creed in its 'cursing' clauses, and expositions of the Papacy regarded politically and ecclesiastically in its domination of Ireland, that have a message for to-day strangely congruous with that of the magnificent philippic 'Of the Vatican Decrees,' which is thundering across Europe as these words are written.