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constantly occurred which the user felt certain that his hearer or readers would recognise, until our literature has become tessellated with Tennysonian expressions, and they have always given that satisfaction which results from feeling that in using his words we have said the thing we wished to say in a form which could not be improved upon. In this respect of "daily popularity and application," I think Shakespeare alone excels him, though Pope and Wordsworth may run him close.

Little Steeping.