]
[Footnote H: The following extract from a letter of Dorothy Wordsworth's
illustrates the above and other passages of this book.
[Footnote H: The following extract from a letter of Dorothy Wordsworth's
illustrates the above and other passages of this book.
William Wordsworth
"There are still some remains of the mill here celebrated by Chaucer
in his Reve's Tale. "
(Lewis' 'Topographical Dictionary of England', vol. iv. p. 390. )--Ed. ]
[Footnote E: S. T. C. , who entered Cambridge when Wordsworth left
it. --Ed. ]
[Footnote F: On certain days a surplice is worn, instead of a gown, by
the undergraduates. --Ed. ]
[Footnote G: Compare the poem 'Floating Island', by Dorothy
Wordsworth. --Ed.
]
[Footnote H: The following extract from a letter of Dorothy Wordsworth's
illustrates the above and other passages of this book. It was written
from Forncett, on the 26th of June, 1791. She is speaking of her two
brothers, William and Christopher. Of Christopher she says:
"His abilities, though not so great, perhaps, as his brother's, may be
of more use to him, as he has not fixed his mind upon any particular
species of reading or conceived an aversion to any. He is not fond of
mathematics, but has resolution sufficient to study them; because it
will be impossible for him to obtain a fellowship without them.
William lost the chance, indeed the certainty, of a fellowship, by not
combating his inclinations. He gave way to his natural dislike to
studies so dry as many parts of the mathematics, consequently could
not succeed in Cambridge. He reads Italian, Spanish, French, Greek,
Latin, and English; but never opens a mathematical book. . . . Do not
think from what I have said that he reads not at all; for he does read
a great deal, and not only poetry, in these languages he is acquainted
with, but History also," etc. etc.
Ed. ]
[Footnote I: 'Date obolum Belisario'. Belisarius, a general of the
Emperor Justinian's, died 564 A.
