'In glory will they sleep and endless sanctity.'
[P. 161], l. 22. 'Milton compares,' &c. In 'Paradise Lost,' ii. 636-7.
[P. 163], l. 2. 'Duppa is publishing a Life of Michael Angelo,' &c. It appeared in 1806 (4to); reprinted in Bohn's 'Illustrated Library.'
[P. 163], footnote A. Alexander Wilson, who became the renowned 'Ornithologist' of America, was for years a 'pedlar,' both at home and in the United States. His intellectual ability and genius would alone have given sanction to Wordsworth's conception; but as simple matter-of-fact, the class was a peculiarly thoughtful and observant one, as the Biographies of Scotland show.
[P. 167], ll. 30-1. 'A tale told,' &c. From Shakspeare, 'Macbeth,' v. 5.
[P. 170], l. 34. 'Houbraken,' &c. Reissued from the old copper-plates.
[P. 171], l. 30. 'I have never seen the works,' &c. In the Fuller Worthies' Library I have collected the complete Poems of Sir John Beaumont, 1 vol.
[Pp. 178]Pp. 178-9. Quotation (bottom). From Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' book iv. ll. 604-9; but 'How' is inadvertently substituted for 'Now.'
[P. 196], l. 35. John Dyer. Wordsworth's repeated recognition and lofty estimate of Dyer recalls the fact that a collection of his many-sided Writings is still a desideratum that the present Editor of Wordsworth's Prose hopes some day to supply—invited to the task of love by a lineal descendant.