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QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.



SONNET VIII.

Line 14.

Have power to cure all sadness—but despair!

'To the heart inspires
'Vernal delight and joy, able to drive
'All sadness but despair.'
Paradise Lost, Fourth Book.


SONNET IX.

Line 10.

And laugh at tears themselves have forced to flow.

'And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye,
'That mocks the tear it forced to flow.'
Gray.


SONNET XI.

Line 4.

Float in light vision round my aching head.

'Float in light vision round the poet's head.'
Mason.