"They all went to Stickle Tarn. A very fine, warm, sunny, beautiful morning. We walked to the fair. ... It was a lovely moonlight night. We talked much about our house on Helvellyn. The moonlight shone only upon the village. It did not eclipse the village lights; and the sound of dancing and merriment came along the still air. I walked with Coleridge and William up the lane and by the church...." Ed.] [Footnote B: These lines are from a descriptive Poem--'Malvern Hills'--by one of Wordsworth's oldest friends, Mr. Joseph Cottle of Bristol. Cottle was the publisher of the first edition of "Lyrical Ballads," 1798 (Mr. Carter 1850).--Ed.] [Footnote C: The district round Cockermouth.--Ed.] [Footnote D: Possibly an allusion to the hanging gardens of Babylon, said to have been constructed by Nebuchadnezzar for his Median queen. Berosus in Joseph, _contr. Ap._ I. 19, calls it a hanging _Paradise_ (though Diodorus Siculus uses the term [Greek: kaepos]).--Ed. The park of the Emperor of China at Gehol, is called 'Van-shoo-yuen', "the paradise of ten thousand trees." Lord Macartney concludes his description of that "wonderful garden" by saying, "If any place can be said in any respect to have similar features to the western park of 'Van-shoo-yuen,' which I have seen this day, it is at Lowther Hall in Westmoreland, which (when I knew it many years ago) ... I thought might be reckoned ... the finest scene in the British dominions." See Barrow's 'Travels in China', p. 134.--Ed.] [Footnote E: 150 miles north-east of Pekin. See a description of them in Sir George Stanton's 'Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China' (from the papers of Lord Macartney), London, 1797, vol. ii. ch. ii. See also 'Encyclopaedia Britannica', ninth edition, article "Gehol."--Ed.] [Footnote F: Compare 'Paradise Lost', iv. l. 242.--Ed.] [Footnote G: Compare 'Kubla Khan', ll. 1, 2: 'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree.' Ed.] [Footnote H: The Hawkshead district.--Ed.] [Footnote I: Compare 'Michael', vol. ii. p. 215, 'Fidelity', p. 44 of this vol., etc.--Ed.] [Footnote K: See Virgil, 'Æneid' viii. 319.--Ed.] [Footnote L: See Polybius, 'Historiarum libri qui supersunt', vi. 20, 21; and Virgil, 'Eclogue' x. 32.--Ed.] [Footnote M: See 'As You Like It', act III. scene v.--Ed.] [Footnote N: See 'The Winter's Tale', act IV. scene iii.--Ed.] [Footnote O: See Spenser, 'The Shepheard's Calendar (May)'.--Ed.] [Footnote P: An Italian river in Calabria, famous for its groves and the fine-fleeced sheep that pastured on its banks. See Virgil, 'Georgics' iv. 126; Horace, 'Odes' II. vi. 10.--Ed.] [Footnote Q: The Adriatic Sea. See Acts xxvii. 27.--Ed.] [Footnote R: An Umbrian river whose waters, when drunk, were supposed to make oxen white. See Virgil, 'Georgics' ii. 146; Pliny, 'Historia Naturalis', ii. 103.--Ed.]