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personages in the class of society who are the
last to feel the influence of that general polish
which assimilates to each other the manners
of different nations. Among the same class f
have placed some of the scenes, in which I
have endeavoured to illustrate the operation of
the higher and more violent passions; both
because the lower orders are less restrained by
the habit of suppressing their feelings, and be¬
cause I agree with Mr Wordsworth , that they
seldom fail to express them in the strongest
and most powerful language. This is, I think,
peculiarly the case with the peasantry of my
own country, a class with whom I have long been
familiar. The antique force and simplicity of their
language often tinctured |with the oriental elo-