WORDSWORTH.[105] [104] It was on hearing these lines repeated by his friend, Mr.H.C.
Robinson, that Wordsworth exclaimed, 'Well! I am not given to envy other people their good things; but I _do_ wish I had written _that_.' He much admired Mrs.Barbauld's Essays, and sent a copy of them, with a laudatory letter upon them, to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
[105] _Memoirs_, ii.

220-22.
66.

_Hamilton's 'Spirit of Beauty:' Verbal Criticism: Female Authorship: Words_.
Where there is so much sincerity of feeling in a matter so dignified as the renunciation of poetry for science, one feels that an apology is necessary for verbal criticism.

I will therefore content myself with observing that 'joying' for joy or joyance is not to my taste.

Indeed I object to such liberties upon principle.