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CONTENTS.
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in most cases spoken very ill.—English Type of Person.—Attend a Puseyite Chapel.—Puseyism a feeble Imitation of Popery.—Popish Cathedral.—Popery the true Resting-place of the Puseyite.—Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Puseyite Principle; its purposed Object not attained; Hostility to Science.—English Funerals. 252
CHAPTER XIV.
Drive from Birmingham to Stratford rather tame.—Ancient Building:'n a modern-looking Street; of rude and humble Appearance.—" The Immortal Shakspeare born in this House."—Description of the Interior.—The Walls and Ceiling covered with Names.—Albums.—Shakspeare Scott, Dickens; greatly different in their Intellectual Stature, but yet all of one Family.—Principle by which to take their Measure.—No Dramatist ever draws an Intellect taller than his own.—Imitative Faculty.—The Reports of Dickens.—Learning of Shakspeare.—New Place.—The Rev. Francis Gastrall.—Stratford Church.—The Poet's Grave; his Bust; far superior to the idealized Representations.—The Avon.—The Jubilee, and Cowper's Description of it.— The true Hero Worship.—Quit Stratford for Olney.—Get into bad Company by the way.—Gentlemen of the Fancy.—Adventure. 276
CHAPTER XV.
Cowper; his singular Magnanimity of Character; Argument furnished Dy his latter Religious History against the Selfish Philosophy.—Valley of the Ouse.—Approach to Olney.—Appearance of the Town.—Cowper's House; Parlor; Garden—Pippin-tree planted by the Poet. Summer-house written within and without.—John Tawell.—Delightful Old Woman.—Weston-Underwood.—Thomas Scott's House.—The Park of the Throckmortons.—Walk described in 'The Task'— Wil