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'An Englishman in chartered freedom born.
'An Englishman in chartered freedom born.
William Wordsworth
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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: This motto was added in the edition of 1837. --Ed. ]
[Footnote B: Compare S. T. C. in 'The Friend' (edition 1818, vol. iii.
p. 62),
"Its instinct, its safety, its benefit, its glory is to love, to
admire, to feel, and to labour. "
Ed. ]
[Footnote C: Compare Churchill's 'Gotham', i.
49:
'An Englishman in chartered freedom born. '
Ed. ]
[Footnote D: Compare in 'Sartor Resartus',
"Happy he for whom a kind of heavenly sun brightens it [Necessity]
into a ring of Duty, and plays round it with beautiful prismatic
refractions. "
Ed. ]
[Footnote E: Compare Persius, 'Satura', ii. l. 38:
'Quidquic calcaverit hic, rosa fiat. '
And Ben Jonson, in 'The Sad Shepherd', act I. scene i. ll. 8, 9:
'And where she went, the flowers took thickest root,
As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot. '
Also, a similar reference to Aphrodite in Hesiod, 'Theogony', vv. 192
'seq. '--Ed. ]
[Footnote F: Compare S. T.
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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: This motto was added in the edition of 1837. --Ed. ]
[Footnote B: Compare S. T. C. in 'The Friend' (edition 1818, vol. iii.
p. 62),
"Its instinct, its safety, its benefit, its glory is to love, to
admire, to feel, and to labour. "
Ed. ]
[Footnote C: Compare Churchill's 'Gotham', i.
49:
'An Englishman in chartered freedom born. '
Ed. ]
[Footnote D: Compare in 'Sartor Resartus',
"Happy he for whom a kind of heavenly sun brightens it [Necessity]
into a ring of Duty, and plays round it with beautiful prismatic
refractions. "
Ed. ]
[Footnote E: Compare Persius, 'Satura', ii. l. 38:
'Quidquic calcaverit hic, rosa fiat. '
And Ben Jonson, in 'The Sad Shepherd', act I. scene i. ll. 8, 9:
'And where she went, the flowers took thickest root,
As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot. '
Also, a similar reference to Aphrodite in Hesiod, 'Theogony', vv. 192
'seq. '--Ed. ]
[Footnote F: Compare S. T.
