[Footnote DG: Rational self-control being regarded as the chief good by the Stoics, the emotion of happiness was looked upon as an interruption of the equilibrium in which the wise man should live. All the emotions were diseases, or disturbances of human nature less or more. They had therefore to be uprooted, rather than regulated: and virtue consisted in being emotionless, passionless, apathetic, with life conformed to the laws of the pure reason, so that one came to be A reasoning self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all. ED. ] [Footnote DH: Compare the No. vi. Sonnet on _The Trosachs_ (ll. 1-5), in "Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems" (1831).--ED.] [Footnote DI: These are reminiscences of Wordsworth's life at Racedown and Alfoxden. His sister wrote thus of their residence at Alfoxden:--"We are three miles from Stowey, and not two miles from the sea. Wherever we turn we have woods, smooth downs, and valleys with small brooks running down them, through green meadows, hardly ever intersected with hedgerows, but scattered over with trees. The hills that cradle these valleys are either covered with fern and bilberries, or oak woods, which are cut for charcoal.... Walks extend for miles over the hill-tops; the great beauty of which is their wild simplicity: they are perfectly smooth, without rocks."--_Memoirs of William Wordsworth_, by his nephew Christopher Wordsworth, late Bishop of Lincoln, vol. i. p. 103.--ED.] [Footnote DJ: See the note on the preceding page.--ED.] [Footnote DK: Wordsworth's own children, Catherine and Thomas, were removed by death, in a manner very similar to this, in June and December 1812, while they were living in the Grasmere Parsonage. Compare the two sonnets-- Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind, (1815) and Desponding Father! mark this altered bough, (1835).--ED.] [Footnote DL: Compare _The Borderers_, act IV. 11. 124, 125 (see vol. i. p. 198)-- Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. ED. ] [Footnote DM: See _The Prelude_, book ix. 1. 68 (vol. iii. p. 295).--ED.] [Footnote DN: During the American War of Independence, trees were planted as symbols of freedom. This custom passed over to France. The Jacobins planted the first tree of Liberty in Paris in 1790, and the practice spread rapidly. At each revolutionary period it was revived, and during the Empire again suppressed. A treatise has been written on the custom, by the Abbé Grégoire.--ED.] [Footnote DO: It is recorded by Dion Cassius (see _Dionis Cassii Cocceiani Historiarum Romanarum quae supersunt_, lib. xlvii. § 49) that Brutus before his death repeated this saying of Hercules, O misera virtus, nomen inane. Te quidem Ceu rem colebam; at serva tu Fortunae eras. ED. ]