The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (Volume 10) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1911. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NOTES VOLUME I 1. These lines are only applicable to the middle part of that lake. 2. In the beginning of the winter, these mountains are frequented by woodcocks. 8. The word intake is local, and signifies a mountain enclosure. 4. Ghyll is also, I believe, a term confined to this country: ghyll and dingle have the same meaning. 5. The reader who has made a tour of this country, will recognise, in this description, the features which characterise the lower waterfall in the grounds of Bydal. 6. "Vivid rings of green." -- Greenwood's Poems on Shooting. 7. "Dolcemente feroce." -- Tasso. In this description of the cock, I remembered a spirited one of the same animal in L'Agriculture, ou Les Georgiques Francois, of M. Bossuet. 8. From Thomson. 9. See a description of an appearance of this kind in Clark's Survey of the Lakes, accompanied by vouchers of its veracity, that may amuse the reader. 10. CoUins's "Ode on the Death of Thomson," the last written, I believe, of the poems which were published during his lifetime. This Ode is also alluded to in the next Stanza. 11. The lyre of Memnon is reported to have emitted melancholy or cheerful tones, as it was touched by the sun's evening or morning rays. 12. Alluding to the crosses seen on the tops of the spiry rocks of the Chartreuse, which have every appearance of being inaccessible. 13. Names of rivers at the Chartreuse. 14. Name of one of the valleys of the Chartreuse. 15. The river along whose banks you descend in crossing the Alps by the Simplon Pass. 16. Most of the bridges among the Alps are of wood, and covered: these bridges have a heavy appearance, and rather injure the effect of the Scenery in some places. 17. The Catholic religion prevails here: these cells are, as is well known, very common in the Catholic cou...