Wordsworth Collection

Excerpt from Wordsworth Collection

As the audience whom I addressed consisted mainly of young persons whose chief employ ments la-y elsewhere than in libraries, I felt that I had no right to reckon on any wide acquaint ance with English literature. This will account for. The occurrence in the later chapters of many well-known passages of English Poetry, which to persons at all conversant with letters may seem too familiar even for quotation. If, however, the passages quoted served to illustrate the views I wished to impress, I was not desirous to travel beyond well-worn paths.