text: ] These expressions are at least as fervid as those which you would reclaim from Porson now that like a pettifogging practitioner you want to retain him as counsel against the most illustrious of Southey's friends--the individual of whom in this same dialogue you cause Southey to ask "What man ever existed who spent a more retired a more inoffensive a more virtuous life than Wordsworth or who has adorned it with nobler studies?"--and what does Porson answer? "I believe so; I have always heard it; and _those who attack him with virulence or with levity are men of no morality and no reflection_