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This earlier notice of Wordsworth is certainly in exact sympathy with

Jeffrey on the Excursion, and may very well have come from the same pen.

At any rate, it introduces the Edinburgh attitude towards the Lakers.

The criticism of Maturin has all the tone of moral authority which provoked many readers of the Review, and was, probably, in part responsible for the less "measured" attitude adopted by the Quarterly.