As Wilkie collins expresses it, the Land's End is "the sort of place where the last man in England would be most likely to be found waiting for death at the end of the world!"
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
I need not say how collins was interested by Highland superstition and Gray impressed by Mallet's Northern Antiquities, and how in other directions the labours of the antiquarian were beginning to provide materials for the poetical imagination.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Gray and collins still held to the main Pope principles.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen