FOOTNOTES:

FOOTNOTES:[1]Memoirs, ii. 97-8.[2]Mr. Walker's charity being of that kind which 'seeketh not her own,' he would rather forego his rights than distrain for dues which the parties liable refused, as a point of conscience, to pay.[3]Memoirs, ii. pp. 57-58.[4]('According to Baronius the humiliation of the Emperor was a voluntary act of prostration on his part.Ann. Eccl. ad Ann. 1177.'Memoirs, ii. 111.)[5]Extract: September 4th, 1842:Memoirs, ii. 389-90.[6]In pencil—This is a mistake, dear Father. It was the following evening, when the Liddells were gone, and only ourselves and Mr. Allan present.[7]Memoirs, ii. p. 114.[8]Memoirs, ii. pp. 386-7.[9]Extract: January 13th, 1841 (Memoirs, ii. p. 374-5).[10]In pencil on opposite page, by Mrs. Quillinan—Daddy dear, I don't like this. Think how many reasons there were to depress his Muse—to say nothing of his duties as a Priest, and probably he found poetry interfere with them. He did notrequiresuch praise to make him write, but it just put it into his heart to try again, and gave him the courage to do so. (See Notes and Illustrations at close. G)[11]In pencil on opposite page—But this first stanza of 'We are Seven' is Coleridge's Jem and all (Mr. Quillinan).[12]Which took place in March, 1843.[13]In pencil on opposite page—Sarah went to Kendal on our mother's death, but Mr. P. died in the course of a year or two. M.W.[14]Excursion; book the last, near the conclusion.[15]Sir George Vandeput.[16]The original is as follows, some of the abbreviations being expanded: 'HOC OPUS FIEBAT ANNO DOMINI MCCCXXV EX SUMPIU WLLLELMI WOBDESWORTH FILII W. FIL. JOH. FIL. W. FIL. NICH. VIRI ELIZABETH FILIAE ET HEREDIS W. PROCTOR DE PENYSTON QUORUM ANIMABUS PROPITIETUE DEUS.'On the almery are carved the letters 'I.H.S.' and 'M.;' also the emblem of the Holy Trinity.For further information concerning this oak press, see Mr. Hunter's paper inGentleman's Magazinefor July, 1850, p. 43.[17]See Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part III. Sonnet xxii. 'On Catechising.'[18]He was succeeded by Dr. Craven in 1789.[19]Prelude, book vi.[20]Ibid, book xiv.[21]This is not quite correct; the time of his absence did not exceed thirteen months.[22]Memoirs, i. pp. 7-17.[23]Letter to Rev. H.J. Rose (1828),Memoirs, i. 33.[24]Letter to a nephew,Memoirs, i. 48-9.[25]Memoirs, pp. 57-66.[26]Letter to William Mathews,Memoirs, i. 70.[27]Ibid.Memoirs, i. 71.[28]Memoirs, i. 71.[29]Extract of letter to Mathews, May 17, 1792,Memoirs, i. 75.[30]Memoirs, i. 76.[31]Extract of letter to Mathews,Memoirs, i. 79-80.[32]Memoirs, i. 82.[33]Ibid. i. 82-3.[34]Memoirs, i. 85.[35]Letter to Mathews, Nov. 9, 1794.[36]Memoirs, i. 85-6.[37]Captain John Wordsworth, who perished by shipwreck a short time before the date of this letter.[38]Memoirs, i. 88-9.[39]Ibid. i. 94.[40]Memoirs, i. 95-6.[41]Ibid. i. 104-5.[42]Letter to Cottle,Memoirs, i. 116.[43]Ibid. i. 116-17.[44]1799:Memoirs, i. 145.[45]Ibid. i. 147.[46]Memoirs, i. 148-9.[47]Memoirs, i. 149-54.[48]Note to Coleridge,Memoirs, i. 174-5.[49]Life of Scott, by Lockhart, vol. ii. 165-7 (1856). The following from the same source, earlier, may fitly find a place here: 'It was in the September of this year [1803] that Scott first saw Wordsworth. Their common acquaintance, Stoddart, had so often talked of them to each other, that they met as if they had not been strangers; and they parted friends. Mr. and Miss Wordsworth had just completed that tour in the Highlands of which so many incidents have since been immortalised, both in the poet's sense and in the hardly less poetical prose of his sister's Diary. On the morning of the 17th of September, having left their carriage at Rosslyn, they walked down the valley to Lasswade, and arrived there before Mr. and Mrs. Scott had risen. "We were received," Mr. Wordsworth has told me, "with that frank cordiality which, under whatever circumstances I afterwards met him, always marked his manners; and, indeed, I found him then in every respect—except perhaps that his animal spirits were somewhat higher—precisely the same man that you knew him in later life; the same lively, entertaining conversation, full of anecdote, and averse from disquisition; the same unaffected modesty about himself; the same cheerful and benevolent and hopeful views of man and the world. He partly read and partly recited, sometimes in an enthusiastic style of chant, the first four cantos of the "Lay of the Last Minstrel;" and the novelty of the manners, the clear picturesque descriptions, and the easy glowing energy of much of the verse, greatly delighted me."' (pp. 160-1).[50]Memoirs, i. 282.[51]Memoirs, i. 287.[52]Due to Wordsworth's father from James, Earl of Lonsdale, at whose death, in 1802, it was paid by his Lordship's successor, and divided among the five children.[53]Vol. ix. p. 395, ed. Bekker. Oxon. 1837.[54]Memoirs, i. 288-98.[55]From Lockhart'sLife of Scott, vol. ii. pp. 287-9 (edit. 1856).[56]Lockhart'sLife, iii. 45-6.[57]Memoirs, i. 385-6.[58]'Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.'Aen. vi. 664.[59]Memoirs, i. 386-8.[60]Memoirs, i. 388-90.[61]Ibid, i. 390-1.[62]Mr. Southey's opinions on the Convention of Cintra, at the time of its ratification, were in unison with those of his friend. See Southey'sCorrespondence, vol. iii. p. 177-180.[63]Memoirs, i. 391-8.[64]Letter to Lord Lonsdale, Jan. 8. 1813:Memoirs, ii. 2.[65]Memoirs, i. 433, with important additions from the MS. G.[66]Reasons for declining to become a Subscriber to the British and Foreign Bible Society, by Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Dean of Bocking. Lond. 1810. See also hisLetter to Lord Teignmouthin vindication of the above Letter. Lond. 1810.[67]Memoirs, ii. 8-9.[68]Memoirs, ii. 9-10.[69]'The Excursion,' published 1814.[70]Memoirs, ii 10-11.[71]As has been said by Demosthenes.[72]Who died Feb. 7, 1827.[73]Memoirs, ii. 20-1.[74]Memoirs, ii. 22.[75]Memoirs, ii. 23-27.[76]Memoirs, ii. 52-4.[77]See his 'Letter to a Friend of Burns.'[78]Memoirs, ii. 60-1.[79]Memoirs, ii. 62-3.[80]Vol. i. p. 382.[81]Philological Museum, edit. Camb. 1832, vol. i. p. 382.[82]Memoirs, ii. 68-9.[83]Memoirs, ii. 69.[84]Memoirs, ii. 69-74.[85]Memoirs, ii. 90-104.[86]Memoirs, ii. 116.[87]Memoirs, ii. 129-131.[88]Extract of Letter to Professor Hamilton, 12th Feb. 1829, here first printed. G.[89]This refers to Dr. Wordsworth's volume on the authorship ofIcôn Basiliké. London, 1824.[90]This alludes to Dr. Wordsworth's second publication, entitled 'King Charles the First the Author ofIcôn Basiliké.' London, 1828.[91]Memoirs, ii. 132-3.[92]Memoirs, ii. 134.[93]Memoirs, ii. 135.[94]Memoirs, ii. 155-6.[95]Memoirs, ii. 205-9.[96]Ibid.ii. 211-12.[97]Memoirs, ii. 212-14, with important additions from the original. G.[98]i.e.convinced by what Wordsworth had remarked to me, that those portions of Collins's 'Ode on the Superstitions of the Highlanders,' which first appeared in Bell's edition of that Ode, were forgeries.A.D.[99]Memoirs, ii. 214-16.[100]Memoirs, ii. 216-17.[101]An Annual, to which Wordsworth had been induced to become a contributor.[102]Memoirs, ii. 217-18.[103]Memoirs, ii. 219-220.[104]It was on hearing these lines repeated by his friend, Mr. H.C. Robinson, that Wordsworth exclaimed, 'Well! I am not given to envy other people their good things; but Idowish I had writtenthat.' He much admired Mrs. Barbauld's Essays, and sent a copy of them, with a laudatory letter upon them, to the Archbishop of Canterbury.[105]Memoirs, ii. 220-22.[106]Extract of letter to Professor Hamilton, Dublin, Dec. 23d, 1829.[107]Memoirs, ii. 223.[108]On a proposed tour.[109]In the field to the S.W. below the garden at Rydal.[110]Memoirs, ii. 224.[111]Specimens of British Poetesses. A.D.[112]In Mr. W.'s lines 'To Enterprise.'A.D.[113]I had mentioned to Mr. W. that, when I had a curacy in Cornwall, I used frequently to carry 'The Excursion' down to the sea-shore, and read it there.A.D.[114]Two volumes, 1755.A.D.[115]Mr. W. means, that Ihaveinserted that poem in my 'Specimens.'A.D.[116]Memoirs, ii. 225-30.[117]Memoirs, ii. 230-1.[118]Here first printed. G.[119]Memoirs, ii. 241-2. Given completely (instead of the brief extract) from the original. The autograph, &c. cut away. G.[120]Memoirs, ii. 242-4.[121]Memoirs, ii. 244.[122]As revolutionary.[123]Memoirs, ii. 252-4.[124]Memoirs, ii. 255-7, with important additions from the original. G.[125]Memoirs, ii. 257.[126]Ibid.ii. 258-9.[127]Memoirs, ii. 259-60.[128]Memoirs, ii. 260, with important additions from the original. G.[129]Memoirs, ii. 261-2.[130]Memoirs, ii. 263-4.[131]Ibid.ii. 267-8.[132]Memoirs, ii. 274-5.[133]Memoirs, ii. 275-6.[134]Memoirs, ii. 276-7, with important additions from the original.[135]Memoirs, ii. 277-8.[136]I had requested permission to dedicate a little book,Specimens of English Sonnets, to Mr. W.A.D.[137]Memoirs, ii. 278-81.[138]i.e.To Mr. W.'s request that I would, if possible, furnish him with some particulars about her.A.D.[139]Where I then was.A.D.[140]Memoirs, ii. 281-3.[141]Memoirs, ii. 283.[142]Specimens of English Sonnets. A.D.[143]This letter is in the handwriting of Miss D. Wordsworth, but signed by Mr. W.A.D.[144]Memoirs, ii. 284-6.[145]Memoirs, ii. 286-7.[146]Excursion, book i.[147]Memoirs, ii. 287-8.[148]This hope, alas! was not realised. Mrs. Hemans died in the following year, May 16, 1835.[149]Memoirs, ii. 291-2.[150]Memoirs, ii. 292-4.[151]Mr. Montgomery informed the (now) Bishop of Lincoln that 'this poem when forwarded to Wordsworth was not in the condition in which it is now, but that it had been almost rewritten, and was also his earliest poem—composed when he was nineteen.' G.

[1]Memoirs, ii. 97-8.

[2]Mr. Walker's charity being of that kind which 'seeketh not her own,' he would rather forego his rights than distrain for dues which the parties liable refused, as a point of conscience, to pay.

[3]Memoirs, ii. pp. 57-58.

[4]('According to Baronius the humiliation of the Emperor was a voluntary act of prostration on his part.Ann. Eccl. ad Ann. 1177.'Memoirs, ii. 111.)

[5]Extract: September 4th, 1842:Memoirs, ii. 389-90.

[6]In pencil—This is a mistake, dear Father. It was the following evening, when the Liddells were gone, and only ourselves and Mr. Allan present.

[7]Memoirs, ii. p. 114.

[8]Memoirs, ii. pp. 386-7.

[9]Extract: January 13th, 1841 (Memoirs, ii. p. 374-5).

[10]In pencil on opposite page, by Mrs. Quillinan—Daddy dear, I don't like this. Think how many reasons there were to depress his Muse—to say nothing of his duties as a Priest, and probably he found poetry interfere with them. He did notrequiresuch praise to make him write, but it just put it into his heart to try again, and gave him the courage to do so. (See Notes and Illustrations at close. G)

[11]In pencil on opposite page—But this first stanza of 'We are Seven' is Coleridge's Jem and all (Mr. Quillinan).

[12]Which took place in March, 1843.

[13]In pencil on opposite page—Sarah went to Kendal on our mother's death, but Mr. P. died in the course of a year or two. M.W.

[14]Excursion; book the last, near the conclusion.

[15]Sir George Vandeput.

[16]The original is as follows, some of the abbreviations being expanded: 'HOC OPUS FIEBAT ANNO DOMINI MCCCXXV EX SUMPIU WLLLELMI WOBDESWORTH FILII W. FIL. JOH. FIL. W. FIL. NICH. VIRI ELIZABETH FILIAE ET HEREDIS W. PROCTOR DE PENYSTON QUORUM ANIMABUS PROPITIETUE DEUS.'On the almery are carved the letters 'I.H.S.' and 'M.;' also the emblem of the Holy Trinity.For further information concerning this oak press, see Mr. Hunter's paper inGentleman's Magazinefor July, 1850, p. 43.

On the almery are carved the letters 'I.H.S.' and 'M.;' also the emblem of the Holy Trinity.

For further information concerning this oak press, see Mr. Hunter's paper inGentleman's Magazinefor July, 1850, p. 43.

[17]See Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part III. Sonnet xxii. 'On Catechising.'

[18]He was succeeded by Dr. Craven in 1789.

[19]Prelude, book vi.

[20]Ibid, book xiv.

[21]This is not quite correct; the time of his absence did not exceed thirteen months.

[22]Memoirs, i. pp. 7-17.

[23]Letter to Rev. H.J. Rose (1828),Memoirs, i. 33.

[24]Letter to a nephew,Memoirs, i. 48-9.

[25]Memoirs, pp. 57-66.

[26]Letter to William Mathews,Memoirs, i. 70.

[27]Ibid.Memoirs, i. 71.

[28]Memoirs, i. 71.

[29]Extract of letter to Mathews, May 17, 1792,Memoirs, i. 75.

[30]Memoirs, i. 76.

[31]Extract of letter to Mathews,Memoirs, i. 79-80.

[32]Memoirs, i. 82.

[33]Ibid. i. 82-3.

[34]Memoirs, i. 85.

[35]Letter to Mathews, Nov. 9, 1794.

[36]Memoirs, i. 85-6.

[37]Captain John Wordsworth, who perished by shipwreck a short time before the date of this letter.

[38]Memoirs, i. 88-9.

[39]Ibid. i. 94.

[40]Memoirs, i. 95-6.

[41]Ibid. i. 104-5.

[42]Letter to Cottle,Memoirs, i. 116.

[43]Ibid. i. 116-17.

[44]1799:Memoirs, i. 145.

[45]Ibid. i. 147.

[46]Memoirs, i. 148-9.

[47]Memoirs, i. 149-54.

[48]Note to Coleridge,Memoirs, i. 174-5.

[49]Life of Scott, by Lockhart, vol. ii. 165-7 (1856). The following from the same source, earlier, may fitly find a place here: 'It was in the September of this year [1803] that Scott first saw Wordsworth. Their common acquaintance, Stoddart, had so often talked of them to each other, that they met as if they had not been strangers; and they parted friends. Mr. and Miss Wordsworth had just completed that tour in the Highlands of which so many incidents have since been immortalised, both in the poet's sense and in the hardly less poetical prose of his sister's Diary. On the morning of the 17th of September, having left their carriage at Rosslyn, they walked down the valley to Lasswade, and arrived there before Mr. and Mrs. Scott had risen. "We were received," Mr. Wordsworth has told me, "with that frank cordiality which, under whatever circumstances I afterwards met him, always marked his manners; and, indeed, I found him then in every respect—except perhaps that his animal spirits were somewhat higher—precisely the same man that you knew him in later life; the same lively, entertaining conversation, full of anecdote, and averse from disquisition; the same unaffected modesty about himself; the same cheerful and benevolent and hopeful views of man and the world. He partly read and partly recited, sometimes in an enthusiastic style of chant, the first four cantos of the "Lay of the Last Minstrel;" and the novelty of the manners, the clear picturesque descriptions, and the easy glowing energy of much of the verse, greatly delighted me."' (pp. 160-1).

[50]Memoirs, i. 282.

[51]Memoirs, i. 287.

[52]Due to Wordsworth's father from James, Earl of Lonsdale, at whose death, in 1802, it was paid by his Lordship's successor, and divided among the five children.

[53]Vol. ix. p. 395, ed. Bekker. Oxon. 1837.

[54]Memoirs, i. 288-98.

[55]From Lockhart'sLife of Scott, vol. ii. pp. 287-9 (edit. 1856).

[56]Lockhart'sLife, iii. 45-6.

[57]Memoirs, i. 385-6.

[58]'Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.'Aen. vi. 664.

[59]Memoirs, i. 386-8.

[60]Memoirs, i. 388-90.

[61]Ibid, i. 390-1.

[62]Mr. Southey's opinions on the Convention of Cintra, at the time of its ratification, were in unison with those of his friend. See Southey'sCorrespondence, vol. iii. p. 177-180.

[63]Memoirs, i. 391-8.

[64]Letter to Lord Lonsdale, Jan. 8. 1813:Memoirs, ii. 2.

[65]Memoirs, i. 433, with important additions from the MS. G.

[66]Reasons for declining to become a Subscriber to the British and Foreign Bible Society, by Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Dean of Bocking. Lond. 1810. See also hisLetter to Lord Teignmouthin vindication of the above Letter. Lond. 1810.

[67]Memoirs, ii. 8-9.

[68]Memoirs, ii. 9-10.

[69]'The Excursion,' published 1814.

[70]Memoirs, ii 10-11.

[71]As has been said by Demosthenes.

[72]Who died Feb. 7, 1827.

[73]Memoirs, ii. 20-1.

[74]Memoirs, ii. 22.

[75]Memoirs, ii. 23-27.

[76]Memoirs, ii. 52-4.

[77]See his 'Letter to a Friend of Burns.'

[78]Memoirs, ii. 60-1.

[79]Memoirs, ii. 62-3.

[80]Vol. i. p. 382.

[81]Philological Museum, edit. Camb. 1832, vol. i. p. 382.

[82]Memoirs, ii. 68-9.

[83]Memoirs, ii. 69.

[84]Memoirs, ii. 69-74.

[85]Memoirs, ii. 90-104.

[86]Memoirs, ii. 116.

[87]Memoirs, ii. 129-131.

[88]Extract of Letter to Professor Hamilton, 12th Feb. 1829, here first printed. G.

[89]This refers to Dr. Wordsworth's volume on the authorship ofIcôn Basiliké. London, 1824.

[90]This alludes to Dr. Wordsworth's second publication, entitled 'King Charles the First the Author ofIcôn Basiliké.' London, 1828.

[91]Memoirs, ii. 132-3.

[92]Memoirs, ii. 134.

[93]Memoirs, ii. 135.

[94]Memoirs, ii. 155-6.

[95]Memoirs, ii. 205-9.

[96]Ibid.ii. 211-12.

[97]Memoirs, ii. 212-14, with important additions from the original. G.

[98]i.e.convinced by what Wordsworth had remarked to me, that those portions of Collins's 'Ode on the Superstitions of the Highlanders,' which first appeared in Bell's edition of that Ode, were forgeries.A.D.

[99]Memoirs, ii. 214-16.

[100]Memoirs, ii. 216-17.

[101]An Annual, to which Wordsworth had been induced to become a contributor.

[102]Memoirs, ii. 217-18.

[103]Memoirs, ii. 219-220.

[104]It was on hearing these lines repeated by his friend, Mr. H.C. Robinson, that Wordsworth exclaimed, 'Well! I am not given to envy other people their good things; but Idowish I had writtenthat.' He much admired Mrs. Barbauld's Essays, and sent a copy of them, with a laudatory letter upon them, to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

[105]Memoirs, ii. 220-22.

[106]Extract of letter to Professor Hamilton, Dublin, Dec. 23d, 1829.

[107]Memoirs, ii. 223.

[108]On a proposed tour.

[109]In the field to the S.W. below the garden at Rydal.

[110]Memoirs, ii. 224.

[111]Specimens of British Poetesses. A.D.

[112]In Mr. W.'s lines 'To Enterprise.'A.D.

[113]I had mentioned to Mr. W. that, when I had a curacy in Cornwall, I used frequently to carry 'The Excursion' down to the sea-shore, and read it there.A.D.

[114]Two volumes, 1755.A.D.

[115]Mr. W. means, that Ihaveinserted that poem in my 'Specimens.'A.D.

[116]Memoirs, ii. 225-30.

[117]Memoirs, ii. 230-1.

[118]Here first printed. G.

[119]Memoirs, ii. 241-2. Given completely (instead of the brief extract) from the original. The autograph, &c. cut away. G.

[120]Memoirs, ii. 242-4.

[121]Memoirs, ii. 244.

[122]As revolutionary.

[123]Memoirs, ii. 252-4.

[124]Memoirs, ii. 255-7, with important additions from the original. G.

[125]Memoirs, ii. 257.

[126]Ibid.ii. 258-9.

[127]Memoirs, ii. 259-60.

[128]Memoirs, ii. 260, with important additions from the original. G.

[129]Memoirs, ii. 261-2.

[130]Memoirs, ii. 263-4.

[131]Ibid.ii. 267-8.

[132]Memoirs, ii. 274-5.

[133]Memoirs, ii. 275-6.

[134]Memoirs, ii. 276-7, with important additions from the original.

[135]Memoirs, ii. 277-8.

[136]I had requested permission to dedicate a little book,Specimens of English Sonnets, to Mr. W.A.D.

[137]Memoirs, ii. 278-81.

[138]i.e.To Mr. W.'s request that I would, if possible, furnish him with some particulars about her.A.D.

[139]Where I then was.A.D.

[140]Memoirs, ii. 281-3.

[141]Memoirs, ii. 283.

[142]Specimens of English Sonnets. A.D.

[143]This letter is in the handwriting of Miss D. Wordsworth, but signed by Mr. W.A.D.

[144]Memoirs, ii. 284-6.

[145]Memoirs, ii. 286-7.

[146]Excursion, book i.

[147]Memoirs, ii. 287-8.

[148]This hope, alas! was not realised. Mrs. Hemans died in the following year, May 16, 1835.

[149]Memoirs, ii. 291-2.

[150]Memoirs, ii. 292-4.

[151]Mr. Montgomery informed the (now) Bishop of Lincoln that 'this poem when forwarded to Wordsworth was not in the condition in which it is now, but that it had been almost rewritten, and was also his earliest poem—composed when he was nineteen.' G.

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