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on breath and nouriture receive! How brutish is it not to understand How much to her we owe that all us gave, That gave unto us all whatever good we have! His race shows itself also where he tells us that chiefly skill to ride seems a science Proper to gentle blood, which reminds one of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's saying that the finest sight God looked down on was a fine man on a fine horse. Wordsworth, in the supplement to his preface, tells us that the Faery Queen faded before Sylvester's translation of Du Bartas. But Wordsworth held a brief for himself in this case, and is no exception to the proverb about men who are their own attorneys. His statement is wholly unfounded. Both poems, no doubt, so far as popularity is concerned, yielded to the graver interests of the Civil War. But there is an appreciation much weightier than any that is implied in mere popularity, and the vitality of a poem is to be measured by the kind as well as the amount of influence it exerts.