Note 23 — TABLE TALK; OR, ORIGINAL ESSAYS ON MEN AND MANNERS (continued 2)
Reading edition
Quarto poetry, as well as quarto metaphysics, does not always sell. Going one day into a shop in Paternoster-row to see for some lines in Mr. Wordsworth’s Excursion to interlard some prose with, I applied to the constituted authorities, and asked if I could look at a copy of the Excursion? The answer was—‘Into which county, Sir?’