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Note 27 — II HENRY VAUGHAN 1621-1695

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Per´-spective was, of course, the general pronunciation from Shakespeare to Dr. Johnson, and is used with great beauty in Dryden’s Ode to the Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew. But it is a characteristic word with Vaughan, and it was from Vaughan that Wordsworth took it.

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