' In this 'the sanded floor,' the 'twelve good rules' and the
broken tea-cups all played their parts as accessories, and even the
double-dealing chest had its prototype in the poet's night-cap, which
was 'a cap by night -- a stocking all the day.' A year or two later he
expanded these lines in the 'Citizen of the World', and the scene
becomes the Red Lion in Drury Lane. From this second version he adapted,
or extended again, the description of the inn parlour in 'The Deserted
Village'. It follows therefore, either that he borrowed for London the
details of a house in Ireland, or that he used for Ireland the details
of a house in London. If, on the other hand, it be contended that those
details were common to both places, then the identification in these
particulars of Auburn with Lissoy falls hopelessly to the ground.
[footnote] *What follows is taken from the writer's 'Introduction' to
Mr. Edwin Abbey's illustrated edition of 'The Deserted Village', 1902,
p. ix..
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THE EPITHET 'SENTIMENTAL.
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