Note A — "HERE PAUSE: THE POET CLAIMS AT LEAST THIS PRAISE"

Compare The Excursion (book iv. l. 763)—

and S. T. C. in The Friend (vol. i. p. 172). "What an awful duty, what a nurse of all others, the fairest virtues, does not Hope become! We are bad ourselves, because we despair of the goodness of others."—Ed.