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 degree in which they encourage or repress the impulses of his moral sentiments. He would be neither an angel, an anchorite, nor a saint; but a man in the most complete and lofty meaning of the name—a man to whom the "child is father," perhaps in more senses than the poet thought, and who is no degenerate offspring, but a development of all the features impressed on that heaven-born parent.

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