I thought might be
reckoned
.
William Wordsworth
Cottle was the publisher of the first edition of "Lyrical
Ballads," 1798 (Mr. Carter 1850). --Ed. ]
[Footnote C: The district round Cockermouth. --Ed. ]
[Footnote D: Possibly an allusion to the hanging gardens of Babylon,
said to have been constructed by Nebuchadnezzar for his Median queen.
Berosus in Joseph, _contr. Ap. _ I. 19, calls it a hanging _Paradise_
(though Diodorus Siculus uses the term [Greek: kaepos]). --Ed.
The park of the Emperor of China at Gehol, is called 'Van-shoo-yuen',
"the paradise of ten thousand trees. " Lord Macartney concludes his
description of that "wonderful garden" by saying,
"If any place can be said in any respect to have similar features to
the western park of 'Van-shoo-yuen,' which I have seen this day, it is
at Lowther Hall in Westmoreland, which (when I knew it many years ago)
. . .
I thought might be reckoned . . . the finest scene in the British
dominions. "
See Barrow's 'Travels in China', p. 134. --Ed. ]
[Footnote E: 150 miles north-east of Pekin. See a description of them in
Sir George Stanton's 'Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of
Great Britain to the Emperor of China' (from the papers of Lord
Macartney), London, 1797, vol. ii. ch. ii. See also 'Encyclopaedia
Britannica', ninth edition, article "Gehol. "--Ed. ]
[Footnote F: Compare 'Paradise Lost', iv. l.
Ballads," 1798 (Mr. Carter 1850). --Ed. ]
[Footnote C: The district round Cockermouth. --Ed. ]
[Footnote D: Possibly an allusion to the hanging gardens of Babylon,
said to have been constructed by Nebuchadnezzar for his Median queen.
Berosus in Joseph, _contr. Ap. _ I. 19, calls it a hanging _Paradise_
(though Diodorus Siculus uses the term [Greek: kaepos]). --Ed.
The park of the Emperor of China at Gehol, is called 'Van-shoo-yuen',
"the paradise of ten thousand trees. " Lord Macartney concludes his
description of that "wonderful garden" by saying,
"If any place can be said in any respect to have similar features to
the western park of 'Van-shoo-yuen,' which I have seen this day, it is
at Lowther Hall in Westmoreland, which (when I knew it many years ago)
. . .
I thought might be reckoned . . . the finest scene in the British
dominions. "
See Barrow's 'Travels in China', p. 134. --Ed. ]
[Footnote E: 150 miles north-east of Pekin. See a description of them in
Sir George Stanton's 'Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of
Great Britain to the Emperor of China' (from the papers of Lord
Macartney), London, 1797, vol. ii. ch. ii. See also 'Encyclopaedia
Britannica', ninth edition, article "Gehol. "--Ed. ]
[Footnote F: Compare 'Paradise Lost', iv. l.
