Note 34 — Chapter XII
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[31] Soldanella Alpina.
[32] I would have Mr. Landseer, before he gives us any more writhing otters, or yelping packs, reflect whether that which is best worthy of contemplation in a hound be its ferocity, or in an otter its agony, or in a human being its victory, hardly achieved even with the aid of its more sagacious brutal allies over a poor little fish-catching creature, a foot long.
[33] Compare Milton.
"They at her coming sprung And touched by her fair tendance, gladlier grew"
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"Type of the wise—who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home."
(Wordsworth.—To the Skylark.)