[9] Op. cit. (Dr. Bernard’s translation), p. 141.
[10] Op. cit. p. 125.
[11] The conventional eighteenth-century attitude towards these scenes seems well expressed by a description in Paterson’s Road Book. ‘To the south of the Derwentwater,’ the passage runs, ‘is the rocky chasm of Borrowdale, a tremendous pass, at the entrance of which dark caverns yawn terrific as the wildness of a maniac, etc.,’ page 435.
[12] Wordsworth, Prelude, Bk. xii. 118-120.
[13] See Plate [XVI.] for the study for the Farnley picture.
[14] See Plate XXXVII.
[15] Plate XXXVIII.
[16] Plate XXVII (b).
[17] The Prelude, Bk. xiii. l. 2[87] sq.
[18] See, for example, Jeffrey’s account of the Sixth Book of the Excursion, quoted in Professor Raleigh’s Wordsworth, pp. 8 and 9.