No More Learning

iii, pp. 425,
426, and 431. London, 1810. ) Potts speaks of the "pellucid waters" of
the Dove. "It is transparent to the bottom. " (See Whately, 'Observations
on Modern Gardening', p. 114. )--Ed. ]


[Footnote L: Doubtless Wharfedale, Wensleydale, and Swaledale. --Ed. ]


[Footnote M: Compare 'Paradise Lost', v. 310, and in Chapman's 'Blind
Beggar of Alexandria':

'Now see a morning in an evening rise. '

Ed. ]


[Footnote N: For glimpses of the friendship of Dorothy Wordsworth and
Coleridge, see the 'Life' of the poet in the last volume of this
edition. --Ed.
]


[Footnote O: The absence referred to--"separation desolate"--may refer
both to the Hawkshead years, and to those spent at Cambridge; but
doubtless the brother and sister met at Penrith, in vacation time from
Hawkshead School; and, after William Wordsworth had gone to the
university, Dorothy visited Cambridge, while the brother spent the
Christmas holidays of 1790 at Forncett Rectory in Norfolk, where his
sister was then staying, and where she spent several years with their
uncle Cookson, the Canon of Windsor. It is more probable that the
"separation desolate" refers to the interval between this Christmas of
1790 and their reunion at Halifax in 1794. In a letter dated Forncett,
August 30, 1793, Dorothy says, referring to her brother, "It is nearly
three years since we parted. "--Ed. ]


[Footnote P: Thomas Wilkinson's poem on the River Emont had been written
in 1787, but was not published till 1824. --Ed. ]


[Footnote Q: Brougham Castle, at the junction of the Lowther and the
Emont, about a mile out of Penrith, south-east, on the Appleby road.
This castle is associated with other poems. See the 'Song at the Feast
of Brougham Castle'. --Ed. ]


[Footnote R: Sir Philip Sidney, author of 'Arcadia'. --Ed. ]


[Footnote S: Mary Hutchinson. --Ed. ]


[Footnote T: The Border Beacon is the hill to the north-east of Penrith.
It is now covered with wood, but was in Wordsworth's time a "bare
fell.