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Footnote from Review of Wordsworth by F. L. Lucas

Footnote(1)....
Cf., for instance, Coleridge's rather owlish complaint that Wordsworth ascribed an exaggerated delight to dancing with daffodils, as compared with..
    "the joy of retrospection, when the images and virtuous actions of a whole well-spent life pass before that conscience which...." etc.,

a joy of which, in any case, poor Coleridge cannot have known much; and which uncomfortably suggests a pleasant Sunday afternoon at Mr. Pecksniff's.

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