§  8.  I  cannot  better  conclude  this  transitional  or  intercalary  chapter
than  by  making  a  few  remarks  on  a  peculiar  class  of  compositions  in
which  England  is  unusually  rich,  which  are  marked  with  an  intense
impress  of  nationality,  and  which  have  exerted,  on  modern  literature
in  particular,  an  influence  whose  extent  it  is  impossible  to  overrate.
