Now in Dr. Johnson's _Life of Gray_, we find this sentence:--

"In the first stanza 'the azure flowers that blow' show resolutely a

rhyme is sometimes made when it cannot easily be found."

My notion is, that the word _how_ has been omitted in the printing, from

the similarity of blow, show, how; and thus the sentence will be--

"_The azure flowers that blow_ show how resolutely a rhyme is sometimes

made when it cannot easily be found."

But Gilbert Wakefield was a critic by profession, and apparently as great

in English as he was in Greek.

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