ANQ, March 22nd, 2007
In his edition of Thomas Hood's correspondence, Peter Morgan suggests that the meaning of the sentence at the end of this extract (taken from a letter addressed to Charles Wentworth Dilke in 1836) is "obscure" (263): But, in either case, I do not agree with his prescription of "moderation, contentedness and humility," by which I understand a sort of waiters on Providence, gaping for "a thrice happy Prussian's" condition, a free, proprietary peasantry,--a contented and tolerant clergy, and well educated youth, at the hands of the Tories or their equivalents. But I, perhaps, misunderstand him,...
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