Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Dorothy Wordsworth

[36] Compare the account given of this incident in The Excursion, towards the close of book ii.; also in the Fenwick note to The Excursion.—

Ed.

[37] A curious recast of this journal by his sister was published by Wordsworth, in his Description of the Scenery of the Lakes.—Ed.

[38] A charge was made for wax candles.—D. W.

[39] Compare in Tintern Abbey, ll. 16, 17—

"these pastoral farms,
Green to the very door."Ed.

[40] See Il Penseroso, ll. 109, 110.—Ed.

[41] Compare the sonnet Malham Cove, in "Poetical Works," vol. vi. p. 185.—Ed.

[42] This was when writing out her Journal, begun two months after her return to Rydal Mount.—Ed.

[43] Hockheim on the right bank of the Rhine, nearly opposite Mayence.—Ed.