In plain language, I am draining a bit of spungy ground.[109] In the field where this goes on I am making a green terrace that commands a beautiful view of our two lakes, Rydal and Windermere, and more than two miles of intervening vale with the stream visible by glimpses flowing through it.

I shall have great pleasure in showing you this among the other returns which I hope one day to make for your kindness.
Adieu, yours, W.W.[110] 69.

_Works of Webster, &c.: Elder Poets: Dr.Darwin: 'Excursion:' Collins, &c._ LETTER TO REV.

ALEXANDER DYCE.
[No date, but Postmark, 1830.] I am truly obliged, my dear Sir, by your valuable present of Webster's Dramatic Works and the 'Specimens.'[111] Your publisher was right in insisting upon the whole of Webster, otherwise the book might have been superseded, either by an entire edition separately given to the world, or in some _corpus_ of the dramatic writers.

The poetic genius of England, with the exception of Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope, and a very few more, is to be sought in her drama.