Book V

. of _The Excursion_.

The short paragraph on p. 122 reads in _The Examiner_:—

‘We think it is pushing our love or admiration of natural objects a good deal too far, to make it a set-off against a story like the preceding, which carries that concentration of self-interest and callousness to the feelings of others to its utmost pitch, which is the general character of those who are cut off by their mountains and valleys from an intercourse with mankind, even more than of the country people.’

In _The Examiner_, after the words ‘the beautiful poem of _Hart Leap Well_,’ the essay concludes as follows:—

‘We conceive that about as many fine things have passed through Mr. Wordsworth’s mind as, with five or six exceptions, through any human mind whatever. The conclusion of the passage we refer to is admirable, and comes in like some dying close in music:—[_The Excursion_,