Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh.
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PREFATORY NOTE.
THE Story is reprinted from the Author's Essays Biographical and Critical: chiefly on English Poets, published in 1856. In several pages of Part II. there has been a correction of the facts. The reasons
