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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: ploughman's collie. It is interesting, at first, and then it
becomes a little irritating; for when we think of other
passages so much more finished and adroit, we cannot help
feeling, that with a little more ardour after perfection of
form, criticism would have found nothing left for her to
censure. A similar mark of precipitate work is the number of
adjectives tumultuously heaped together, sometimes to help
out the sense, and sometimes (as one cannot but suspect) to
help out the sound of the verses. I do not believe, for
instance, that Lord Lytton himself would defend the lines in
which we are told how Laocoon 'Revealed to Roman crowds, now
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