It was a grand, high-thoughted, pure-lived, unique course that was run in those sequestered vales.

The closer one gets to the man, the greater he proves, the truer, the simpler; and it is a benediction to the race, amid so many fragmentary and jagged and imperfect lives, to have one so rounded and completed, so august and so genuine: 'Summon Detraction to object the worst That may be told, and utter all it can; It cannot find a blemish to be enforced Against him, other than he was a man, And built of flesh and blood, and did live here, Within the region of infirmity; Where all perfections never did appear To meet in any one so really, But that his frailty ever did bewray Unto the world that he was set in clay.' (Funeral Panegyric on the Earl of Devonshire, by Samuel Daniel.) ALEXANDER B.GROSART.
_Park View, Blackburn, Lancashire_.
NOTE .-- It is perhaps right to mention, for Editor and present Printers' sake, that WORDSWORTH'S own capitals, italics, punctuation, and other somewhat antique characteristics, have been faithfully reproduced.

At the dates, capitals, italics, and punctuation were more abundant than at present.

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