The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 8 (of 8)Wordsworth, William
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 8 (of 8)
Wordsworth, William
English poetry -- 18th century; English poetry -- 19th century
Influence, at least among a scattered few,
To soberness of mind and peace of heart
Friendly; as here to my repose hath been
This flowering broom’s dear neighbourhood,[101] the light
And murmur issuing from yon pendent flood, 370
And all the varied landscape. Let us now
Rise, and to-morrow greet magnificent Rome.[102]
[62] Wordsworth himself, his nephew tells us, had no sense of smell
(see the _Memoirs_, by his nephew Christopher, vol. ii. p. 322).--ED.
[63] Afterwards Father Faber, priest of the Oratory of St. Philip
Neri.--ED.
[64] Monte Amiata,--ED.
[65] On the old high road from Siena to Rome.--ED.
[66] The mountain between Rydal Head and Helvellyn.--ED.
[67] Seat Sandal is the mountain between Tongue Ghyll and Grisedale
Tarn on the south and east, and the Dunmail Raise road on the west.--ED.
[68] Compare _The Eclipse of the Sun_, l. 78, in “Memorials of a Tour
on the Continent in 1820” (vol. vi. p. 345).--ED.
[69] Keppelcove, Nethermost cove, and the cove in which Red Tarn lies
bounded by the “skeleton arms” of Striding Edge and Swirrel Edge.
Compare _Fidelity_, l. 17, vol. iii. p. 45--
It was a cove, a huge recess,
That keeps, till June, December’s snow.
ED.
[70] Descending to Ullswater from Helvellyn, Greenside Fell and Mines
are passed.--ED.
[71] The Glenridding Screes are bold rocks on the left as you descend
Helvellyn to Patterdale.--ED.
[72] Glencoign is an offshoot of the Patterdale valley between
Glenridding and Goldbarrow.--ED.
[73] 1845.
… but …
1842.
[74] See the Fenwick note.--ED.
[75] These words were quoted to me from _Yarrow Unvisited_, by Sir
Walter Scott, when I visited him at Abbotsford, a day or two before his
departure for Italy: and the affecting condition in which he was when
he looked upon Rome from the Janicular Mount, was reported to me by a
lady who had the honour of conducting him thither.--W.W. 1842. See also
the Fenwick note to this poem, and compare Lockhart’s _Memoirs of the
Life of Sir Walter Scott_ (chapter lxxx. vol. x. p. 104).--ED.
[76] The Janicular Mount.--ED.
[77] See the Fenwick note prefixed to this poem.--ED.
[78] He was then sixty-seven years of age.--ED.
[79] See the Fenwick note.--ED.
[80] The Campo Santo, or Burial Ground, founded by Archbishop Ubaldo
(1188-1200).--ED.
[81] “There are forty-three flat arcades, resting on forty-four
pilasters.… In the interior there is a spacious hall, the open
round-arched windows of which, with their beautiful tracery, sixty-two
in number, look out upon a green quadrangle.… The walls are covered
with frescoes by the Tuscan School of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, below which is a collection of Roman, Etruscan, and
mediaeval sculptures.… The tombstones of persons interred here form the
pavement.” (Baedeker’s _Northern Italy_, p. 324.)--ED.
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