...which is the cement of human society."30 The Pedlar himself is a man of feeling: "by nature tuned . . . To sympathy with man, he was alive / To all that was...enjoyed where'er he went, / And all that was endured" (RC &? P, p. 183). He is curiously indifferent to the lot of those whom he observes. The equality of...

...varieties of joy or grief. Unoccupied by sorrow of its own, His heart lay open; and, by Nature tuned 275 And constant disposition of his thoughts To sympathy...enjoyed where'er he went, And all that was endured; and, in himself Happy, and quiet in his chearfulness, 280 He had no painful pressure from within Which...

...wild varieties of joy or grief. Unoccupied by sorrow of its own His heart lay open and by nature tuned And constant disposition of his thoughts To sympathy...enjoyed where'er he went, And all that was endured and in himself Happy and quiet in his chearfulness He had no painful pressure from within Which made...

...is cited as an affective advantage, because it paradoxically gives him both autonomy and sympathy: in himself Happy, and quiet in his cheerfulness, He had no painful pressure from within That made him turn aside from wretchedness With coward fears. He could afford to suffer With...

...varieties of joy or grief; Unoccupied by sorrow of its own 370 His heart lay open; and, by Nature tuned And constant disposition of his thoughts To sympathy...enjoyed where'er he went And all that was endured; and in himself Happy, and quiet in his cheerfulness, He had no painful pressure from without Which...

...varieties of joy and grief. Unoccupied by sorrow of its own, His heart lay open; and, by nature tuned And constant disposition of his thoughts To sympathy...his cheerfulness, He had no painful pressure from within That made him turn aside from wretchedness Witl1 coward tears. He could afford to suffer With...

...endured; for, in himself Happy, and quiet in his cheerfulness, He had no painful pressure from within That made him turn aside from wretchedness With coward...could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. (Exc., 1.347-71) The Wanderer is presented as the self-sufficingy0m/«*zft<5 or "happy man" of Virgilian...

...d'empathie du colporteur : Unoccupied by sorrow of his own His heart lay open; and, by nature tuned And constant disposition of his thoughts To sympathy...alive To all that was enjoyed where'er he went, And ail that was endured; [. . .] He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Hence it came...

...diversities in man'. 7 Martineau's second chapter, entitled 'Moral Requisites', opens with the epigraph 'He was alive / To all that was enjoyed where'er he went, / And all that was endured', which is Wordsworth's account, in the Excursion, of the Wanderer's field of celebratory and stoical...