No doubt the garden has
been reduced in size, by the use of that part of it fronting the lane
for building purposes.
been reduced in size, by the use of that part of it fronting the lane
for building purposes.
William Wordsworth
ll.
499-506, p.
148.
--Ed.
]
[Footnote K: There is no trace and no tradition at Hawkshead of the
"stone table under the dark pine," For a curious parallel to this
'sunny seat
Round the stone table under the dark pine,'
I am indebted to Dr. Cradock. He points out that in the prologue to
'Peter Bell', vol. ii p. 9, we have the lines,
'To the stone-table in my garden,
Loved haunt of many a summer hour,'
Ed. ]
[Footnote L: There can be little doubt as to the identity of "the famous
brook" "within our garden" boxed, which gives the name of Flag Street to
one of the alleys of Hawkshead.
"Persons have visited the cottage," wrote Dr. Cradock, "without
discovering it; and yet it is not forty yards distant, and is still
exactly as described. On the opposite side of the lane leading to the
cottage, and a few steps above it, is a narrow passage through some
new stone buildings. On emerging from this, you meet a small garden,
the farther side of which is bounded by the brook, confined on both
sides by larger flags, and also covered by flags of the same Coniston
formation, through the interstices of which you may see and hear the
stream running freely. The upper flags are now used as a footpath, and
lead by another passage back into the village.
No doubt the garden has
been reduced in size, by the use of that part of it fronting the lane
for building purposes. The stream, before it enters the area of
buildings and gardens, is open by the lane side, and seemingly comes
from the hills to the westwards. The large flags are extremely hard
and durable, and it is probably that the very flags which paved the
channel in Wordsworth's time may still be doing the same duty. "
The house adjoining this garden was not Dame Tyson's but a Mr. Watson's.
Possibly, however, some of the boys had free access to the latter, so
that Wordsworth could speak of it as "our garden;" or, Dame Tyson may
have rented it. See Note II. in the Appendix to this volume, p.
386. --Ed. ]
[Footnote M: Not wholly so. --Ed. ]
[Footnote N: See note on preceding page. --Ed. ]
[Footnote O: Compare the sonnet in vol. iv.
[Footnote K: There is no trace and no tradition at Hawkshead of the
"stone table under the dark pine," For a curious parallel to this
'sunny seat
Round the stone table under the dark pine,'
I am indebted to Dr. Cradock. He points out that in the prologue to
'Peter Bell', vol. ii p. 9, we have the lines,
'To the stone-table in my garden,
Loved haunt of many a summer hour,'
Ed. ]
[Footnote L: There can be little doubt as to the identity of "the famous
brook" "within our garden" boxed, which gives the name of Flag Street to
one of the alleys of Hawkshead.
"Persons have visited the cottage," wrote Dr. Cradock, "without
discovering it; and yet it is not forty yards distant, and is still
exactly as described. On the opposite side of the lane leading to the
cottage, and a few steps above it, is a narrow passage through some
new stone buildings. On emerging from this, you meet a small garden,
the farther side of which is bounded by the brook, confined on both
sides by larger flags, and also covered by flags of the same Coniston
formation, through the interstices of which you may see and hear the
stream running freely. The upper flags are now used as a footpath, and
lead by another passage back into the village.
No doubt the garden has
been reduced in size, by the use of that part of it fronting the lane
for building purposes. The stream, before it enters the area of
buildings and gardens, is open by the lane side, and seemingly comes
from the hills to the westwards. The large flags are extremely hard
and durable, and it is probably that the very flags which paved the
channel in Wordsworth's time may still be doing the same duty. "
The house adjoining this garden was not Dame Tyson's but a Mr. Watson's.
Possibly, however, some of the boys had free access to the latter, so
that Wordsworth could speak of it as "our garden;" or, Dame Tyson may
have rented it. See Note II. in the Appendix to this volume, p.
386. --Ed. ]
[Footnote M: Not wholly so. --Ed. ]
[Footnote N: See note on preceding page. --Ed. ]
[Footnote O: Compare the sonnet in vol. iv.
