307.) He says, "Bedford has seen the review which Scott has written of it, and which, from his account, though a very friendly one, is, like that of the 'Cid,' very superficial.

He sees nothing but the naked story; the moral feeling which pervades it has escaped him.

I do not know whether Bedford will be able to get a paragraph interpolated touching upon this, and showing that there is some difference between a work of high imagination and a story of mere amusement." Either Bedford was mistaken in saying that Scott had ignored the moral aspect of the poem, or else he succeeded in getting a passage interpolated, for the review is sufficiently definite on that point.] [Footnote 282: _Lockhart_, Vol.

I, p.

481.] [Footnote 283: _Ibid._, Vol.