"The moon, as it hung over the southernmost shore of Esthwaite, with Gunner's How, as seen from Hawkshead rising up boldly to the spectator's left hand, would be thus described."
(H. D. Rawnsley.)—Ed.
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[Footnote R:] Esthwaite. Compare [Volume 2 link: [Peter Bell]] (vol. ii. p. 13):
'Where deep and low the hamlets lie
Beneath their little patch of sky
And little lot of stars.'
Ed.
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[Footnote S:] See in the [Appendix] to this volume, [Note II], p. 388.—Ed.
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[Footnote T:] See Paradise Lost, ix. l. 249.—Ed.
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[Footnote U:] The daily work in Hawkshead School began—by Archbishop Sandys' ordinance—at 6 A.M. in summer, and 7 A.M. in winter.—Ed.
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[Footnote V:] Esthwaite.—Ed.
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[Footnote W:] The Rev. John Fleming, of Rayrigg, Windermere, or, possibly, the Rev. Charles Farish, author of The Minstrels of Winandermere and Black Agnes. Mr. Carter, who edited The Prelude in 1850, says it was the former, but this is not absolutely certain.—Ed.
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[Footnote X:] A "cottage latch"—probably the same as that in use in Dame Tyson's time—is still on the door of the house where she lived at Hawkshead.—Ed.
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[Footnote Y:] Probably on the western side of the Vale, above the village. There is but one "'jutting' eminence" on this side of the valley. It is an old moraine, now grass-covered; and, from this point, the view both of the village and of the vale is noteworthy. The jutting eminence, however, may have been a crag, amongst the Colthouse heights, to the north-east of Hawkshead.—Ed.
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[Footnote Z:] Compare in the Ode, Intimations of Immortality:
'... those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings,' etc.
Ed.
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[Footnote a:] Coleridge's school days were spent at Christ's Hospital in London. With the above line compare S. T. C.'s Frost at Midnight:
'I was reared
In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim.'
Ed.
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[Footnote b:] Compare [Volume 2 link: Stanzas written in my Pocket Copy of Thomsons "Castle of Indolence,">[ vol. ii. p. 305.—Ed.
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