185),
mentions
"the White Lion Inn at
Bownas.
Bownas.
William Wordsworth
]
[Footnote F: Furness Abbey, founded by Stephen in 1127, in the glen of
the deadly Nightshade--Bekansghyll--so called from the luxuriant
abundance of the plant, and dedicated to St. Mary. (Compare West's
'Antiquities of Furness'. )--Ed. ]
[Footnote G: What was the belfry is now a mass of detached ruins. --Ed. ]
[Footnote H: Doubtless the Cartmell Sands beyond Ulverston, at the
estuary of the Leven. --Ed. ]
[Footnote I: At Bowness. --Ed. ]
[Footnote K: The White Lion Inn at Bowness. --Ed. ]
[Footnote L: Compare the reference to the "rude piece of self-taught
art," at the Swan Inn, in the first canto of 'The Waggoner', p. 81.
William Hutchinson, in his 'Excursion to the Lakes in 1773 and 1774'
(second edition, 1776, p.
185), mentions "the White Lion Inn at
Bownas. "--Ed. ]
[Footnote M: Dr. Cradock told me that William Hutchinson--referred to in
the previous note--describes "Bownas church and its cottages," as seen
from the lake, arising "'above the trees'. " Wordsworth, reversing the
view, sees "gleams of water through the trees and 'over the tree
tops'"--another instance of minutely exact description. --Ed. ]
[Footnote N: Robert Greenwood, afterwards Senior Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge. --Ed. ]
[Footnote O: Compare 'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey',
vol. ii. p. 51. --Ed. ]
[Footnote P: Wetherlam, or Coniston Old Man, or both. --Ed. ]
[Footnote Q:
"The moon, as it hung over the southernmost shore of Esthwaite, with
Gunner's How, as seen from Hawkshead rising up boldly to the
spectator's left hand, would be thus described.
[Footnote F: Furness Abbey, founded by Stephen in 1127, in the glen of
the deadly Nightshade--Bekansghyll--so called from the luxuriant
abundance of the plant, and dedicated to St. Mary. (Compare West's
'Antiquities of Furness'. )--Ed. ]
[Footnote G: What was the belfry is now a mass of detached ruins. --Ed. ]
[Footnote H: Doubtless the Cartmell Sands beyond Ulverston, at the
estuary of the Leven. --Ed. ]
[Footnote I: At Bowness. --Ed. ]
[Footnote K: The White Lion Inn at Bowness. --Ed. ]
[Footnote L: Compare the reference to the "rude piece of self-taught
art," at the Swan Inn, in the first canto of 'The Waggoner', p. 81.
William Hutchinson, in his 'Excursion to the Lakes in 1773 and 1774'
(second edition, 1776, p.
185), mentions "the White Lion Inn at
Bownas. "--Ed. ]
[Footnote M: Dr. Cradock told me that William Hutchinson--referred to in
the previous note--describes "Bownas church and its cottages," as seen
from the lake, arising "'above the trees'. " Wordsworth, reversing the
view, sees "gleams of water through the trees and 'over the tree
tops'"--another instance of minutely exact description. --Ed. ]
[Footnote N: Robert Greenwood, afterwards Senior Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge. --Ed. ]
[Footnote O: Compare 'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey',
vol. ii. p. 51. --Ed. ]
[Footnote P: Wetherlam, or Coniston Old Man, or both. --Ed. ]
[Footnote Q:
"The moon, as it hung over the southernmost shore of Esthwaite, with
Gunner's How, as seen from Hawkshead rising up boldly to the
spectator's left hand, would be thus described.
