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26 June 2024

• 17:4817:48, 26 June 2024 diff hist +475 Index talk:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf →Commons file name: Reply current Tag: Reply
• 17:2617:26, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,103 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/277 →Not proofread: Created page with "when we landed, and on entering the house I was sick with cold. The good woman had provided, according to her promise, a better fire than we had found in the morning ; and indeed when I sate down in the chimney-corner of her smoky biggin’ I thought I had never been more comfortable in my life. Coleridge had been there long enough to have a pan of coffee boiling for us, and having put our clothes in the way of drying, we all sate down, thankful for a she... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2617:26, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,120 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/275 →Not proofread: Created page with "least six closely-printed pages with the Trossachs, he concludes thus, “In a word, the Trossachs beggar all description,’—a conclusion in which everybody who has been there will agree with him. I believe the word Trossachs signifies “many hills”: it is a name given to all the eminences at the foot of Loch Ketterine, and about half a mile beyond. We left the hut, retracing the few yards of road which we had climbed; our boat lay at anchor under the rock... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2517:25, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,110 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/273 →Not proofread: Created page with "Here I ought to rest, as we rested, and attempt to give utterance to our pleasure: but indeed I can impart but little of what we felt. We were still on the same side of the water, and, being immediately under the hill, within a considerable bending of the shore, we were en- closed by hills all round, as if we had been upon a smaller lake of which the whole was visible. It was an entire solitude ; and all that we beheld was the perfection of loveliness an... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2517:25, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,082 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/271 →Not proofread: Created page with "window-places, one of which was within the recess of the fireplace, and made a frame to a little picture of the restless lake and the opposite shore, seen when the outer door was open. The woman of the house was very kind: whenever we asked her for anything it seemed a fresh pleasure to her that she had it for us; she always answered with a sort of softening down of the Scotch exclamation, “Hoot!” ‘Ho! yes, ye’ll get that,” and hied to her cupboard in th... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2517:25, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,090 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/269 →Not proofread: Created page with "fining the factor of the Duke of Montrose in one of the islands of Loch Ketterine, after having taken his money from him—the Duke’s rents—in open day, while they were sitting at table. He was a formidable enemy of the Duke, but being a small laird against a greater, was overcome at last, and forced to resign all his lands on the Braes of Loch Lomond, including the caves which we visited, on account of the money he had taken from the Duke and could not re... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2417:24, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,085 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/267 →Not proofread: Created page with "ing at the Garrison.” In explaining herself she informed us that the large building which had puzzled us in the morning had been built by Government, at the request of one of the Dukes of Montrose, for the defence of his domains against the attacks of Rob Roy. I will not answer for the truth of this; perhaps it might have been built for this purpose, and as a check on the Highlands in general ; certain it is, however, that it was a garrison ; soldiers us... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2417:24, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,094 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/265 →Not proofread: Created page with "endeavoured to make it appear not so very foolish, by informing them that it was a place much celebrated in England, though perhaps little thought of by them, and that we only differed from many of our countrymen in having come the wrong way in consequence of an erroneous direction. After a little time the gentleman said we should be accommodated with such beds as they had, and should be welcome to rest in their house if we pleased. William came back fo... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2417:24, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,059 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/263 →Not proofread: Created page with "me. Walked through the heather with some labour for perhaps half a mile, and found William sitting on the top of a small eminence, whence we saw the real head of the lake, which was pushed up into the vale a considerable way beyond the promontory where we now sate. The view up the lake was very pleasing, resem- bling Thirlemere below Armath. There were rocky promontories and woody islands, and, what was most cheering to us, a neat white house on the oppo... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2317:23, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,043 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/261 →Not proofread: Created page with "Lomond terminated the view, which under certain accidents of weather must be very grand. Our Highland companion had not English enough to give us any information concerning this Strange building ; we could only get from her that it wasa “ large house,” which was plain enough. We walked about a mile and a half over the moor without seeing any other dwelling but one hut by the burn-side, with a peat-stack and a ten-yards-square enclosure for potatoes ; th... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2317:23, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,087 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/259 →Not proofread: Created page with "close to it was a hut, which we were told was the ferry- house, On the other side of the lake was a pretty farm under the mountains, beside a river, the cultivated grounds lying all together, and sloping towards the lake from the mountain hollow down which the river came. It is not easy to conceive how beautiful these spots appeared after moving on so long between the solitary steeps. We went a considerable way further, and landed at Rob Roy’s Caves, wh... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2217:22, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,075 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/257 →Not proofread: Created page with "inn. As travellers, we were glad to see the moon over the top of one of the hills, but it was a cloudy night, without any peculiar beauty or solemnity. After tea we made inquiries respecting the best way to go to Loch Ketterine ; the landlord could give but little information, and nobody seemed to know anything distinctly of the place, though it was but ten miles off. We applied to the maid-servant who waited on us: she was a fine- looking young woman, d... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2217:22, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,168 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/255 →Not proofread: Created page with "fore we did not see this prospect so distinctly as we could have wished, but there was a grand obscurity over it which might make the mountains appear more numerous. I have said so much of this lake that I am tired myself, and I fear I must have tired my friends. We had a pleasant journey to Tarbet ; more than half of it on foot, for the road was hilly, and after we had climbed one small hill we were not desirous to get into the car again, seeing anothe... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2117:21, 26 June 2024 diff hist +1,969 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/253 →Not proofread: Created page with "which were very few: there was the village of Luss, the two gentlemen’s houses, our favourite cottages, and here and there a hut; but I do not recollect any comfortable- looking farm-houses, and on the opposite shore not a single dwelling. The whole scene was a combination of natural wildness, loveliness, beauty, and barrenness, or rather bareness, yet not comfortless or cold; but the whole was beautiful. We were too far off the more distant shore to dis... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2117:21, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,122 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/251 →Not proofread: Created page with "like what we beheld: it was an outlandish scene—we might have believed ourselves in North America. The islands were of every possible variety of shape and sur- face—hilly and level, large and small, bare, rocky, pastoral, or covered with wood. Immediately under my eyes lay one large flat island, bare and green, so flat and low that it scarcely appeared to rise above the water, with straggling peat-stacks and a single hut upon one of its out-shooting prom... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2117:21, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,007 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/249 →Not proofread: Created page with "posts—seemed to produce no effect ; and I was obliged, after five minutes’ conversation, to leave the affair of the beds undecided. Coleridge had some talk with her daughter, a smart lass in a cotton gown, with a bandeau round her head, without shoes and stockings. She told Coleridge with some pride that she had not spent all her time at Luss, but was then fresh from Glasgow. It came on a very stormy night; the wind rattled every window in the house, an... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2017:20, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,031 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/247 →Not proofread: Created page with "smoke, and over that a slate placed upon four sticks— sometimes the whole leaned as if it were going to fall. The fields close to Luss lie flat to the lake, and a river, as large as our stream near the church at Gremere flows in the end of the village, being the same w nied comes down the glen penind: the inn; it is very much like our stream—beds of blue pebbles Gpon the shores. We walked towards the head of the lake, and from a large pasture field near... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:2017:20, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,085 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/245 →Not proofread: Created page with "escaping from the business of the house, and as safe from intruders, with his boat anchored beside him, as if he had locked himself up in the strong tower of a castle. We were unwilling to leave this sweet spot; but it was so simple, and therefore so rememberable, that it seemed almost as if we could have carried it away with us. It was nothing more than a small lake enclosed by trees at the ends and by the way-side, and opposite by the island, a steep b... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1917:19, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,132 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/243 →Not proofread: Created page with "a magnificent vale. But, having lost’ the pastoral char- acter which it had in the youthful days of Smollett—if the description in his ode to his native stream be a faithful one—it 1s less interesting than it was then. The road carried us sometimes close to the lake, sometimes at a considerable distance from it, over moorish grounds, or through half-cultivated enclosures; we had the lake on our right, which is here so wide that the opposite hills, not b... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1917:19, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,127 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/241 →Not proofread: Created page with "the first of the Scottish lakes with our cheerfullest and best feelings. Crossed the Leven at the end of Dum- barton, and, when we looked behind, had a pleasing view of the town, bridge, and rock; but when we took ina reach of the river at the distance of perhaps half a mile, the swamp ground, being so near a town, and not in its natural wildness, but seemingly half cultivated, with houses here and there, gave us an idea of extreme poverty of soil, or th... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1917:19, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,111 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/239 →Not proofread: Created page with "the rails, while the wind beat about them furiously— there was nothing which it could set in motion but the garments of the women and the linen upon the rails ; the grass—for we had now come to green grass—was close and smooth, and not one pile an inch above another, and neither tree nor shrub. The standard pole stood erect without a flag. The rock has two summits, one much broader and higher than the other. When we were near to the top of the lower emin... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1817:18, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,080 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/237 →Not proofread: Created page with "anchor, with its bare masts, a clay hut and the shelving bank of the river, with a green pasture above. Perhaps you will think that there is not much in this, as I describe it: it is true; but the effect produced by these simple objects, as they happened to be combined, together with the gloom of the evening, was exceedingly wild. Our room was parted by a slender partition from a large dining-room, in which were a number of officers and their wives, who,... current Tag: Not proofread
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• 17:1817:18, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,124 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/235 →Not proofread: Created page with "like gentlemen’s children, followed us in great delight, admiring the car and longing to jump up. At last, though we were seated, they made several attempts to get on behind ; and they looked so pretty and wild, and at the same time so modest, that we wished to give them a ride, and there being a little hill near the end of the town, we got off, and four of them who still remained, the rest having dropped into their homes by the way, took our places; and... Tag: Not proofread
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• 17:1717:17, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,084 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/233 →Not proofread: Created page with "; A TOUR MADE IN SCOTLAND VII 209 high houses, with an intermixture of gable fronts towards the street. best style The New Town is built of fine of the very best London streets at of the town, stone, in the the west end not being of brick, they are greatly superior. One thing must strike every stranger in his first walk through Glasgow an appearance of business and bustle, but no coaches or gentlemen's carriages during all the time we walked in... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1717:17, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,088 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/231 →Not proofread: Created page with "for we were near enough to distinguish them by their branches—grow out of the walls, and overshadow a small but very elegant window. It can scarcely be conceived what a grace the castle and priory impart to each other; and the river Clyde flows on smooth and unruffled below, seeming to my thoughts more in har- mony with the sober and stately images of former times, than if it had roared over a rocky channel, forcing its sound upon the ear. It blended gen... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1717:17, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,041 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/229 →Not proofread: Created page with "and a cold blighting wind. It is a very beautiful dis- trict, yet there, as in all the other scenes of Scotland celebrated for their fertility, we found something which gave us a notion of barrenness, of what was not alto- gether genial. The new fir and larch plantations, here as in almost every other part of Scotland, contributed not a little to this effect. Crossed the Clyde not far from Hamilton, and had the river for some miles at a distance from us... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1617:16, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,091 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/227 →Not proofread: Created page with "sunny, and windy, and we were half tired before we reached the place; but were amply repaid for our trouble. The general face of the country near Hamilton is much in the ordinary English style ; not very hilly, with hedgerows, corn fields, and stone houses. The Clyde is here an open river with low banks, and the country spreads out so wide that there is no appearance of a regular vale. Baroncleugh is in a beautiful deep glen through which runs the river... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1617:16, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,055 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/225 →Not proofread: Created page with "now to have got into a country where poverty and riches were shaking hands together ; pears and apples, of which the crop was abundant, hung over the road, often grow- ing in orchards unfenced ; or there might be bunches of broom along the road-side in an interrupted line, that looked like a hedge till we came to it and saw the gaps. Bordering on these fruitful orchards perhaps would be a patch, its chief produce being gorse or broom. There was nothing l... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1617:16, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,130 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/223 →Not proofread: Created page with "left along the bed of the stream, and soon we were closed in by rocks on each side. They were very lofty—of limestone, trees starting out of them, high and low, overhanging the stream or shooting up towards the sky. No place of the kind could be more beautiful if the stream had been clear, but it was of a muddy yellow colour; had it been a large river, one might have got the better of the unpleasantness of the muddy water in the grandeur of its roaring,... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1517:15, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,119 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/221 →Not proofread: Created page with "girls dressed in grey coming out of the factory, probably apprentices also. After dinner set off towards Hamilton, but on foot, for we had to turn aside to the Cartland Rocks, and our car was to meet us on the road. A guide attended us, who might almost in size, and certainly in activity, have been compared with William’s companion who hid him- self in the niche of the cavern. His method of walking and very quick step soon excited our attention. I could... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1517:15, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,120 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/219 →Not proofread: Created page with "gentleman, more expeditious tourists than ourselves, came to the spot; they left us at the seat, and we found them again at another station above the Falls. Cole- ridge, who is always good-natured enough to enter into conversation with anybody whom he meets in his way, began to talk with the gentleman, who observed that it was a majestic waterfall. Coleridge was delighted with the accuracy of the epithet, particularly as he had been settling in his own m... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1517:15, 26 June 2024 diff hist +1,967 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/217 →Not proofread: Created page with "SECOND WEEK Sunday, August 21st.—The morning was very hot, a morning to tempt us to linger by the water-side. | wished to have had the day before us, expecting so much from what William had seen; but when we went there, I did not desire to stay longer than till the hour which we had prescribed to ourselves ; for it was a rule not to be broken in upon, that the person who conducted us to the Falls was to remain by our side till we chose to depart. We lef... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1417:14, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,055 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/215 →Not proofread: Created page with "all the Scotch children whom I have questioned read in. I found it was a collection of hymns; she could repeat several of Dr. Watts’. We passed through a great part of the town, then turned down a steep hill, and came in view of a long range of cotton mills,! the largest and loftiest I had ever seen; climbed upwards again, our road leading us along the top of the left bank of the river; both banks very steep and richly wooded. The girl left me at the por... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1417:14, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,057 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/213 →Not proofread: Created page with "ally, who held that toleration was unscriptural, and would have all religions but their own exterminated. I have forgotten what name the man gave to this sect ; we could not learn that it differed in any other respect from the Church of Scotland. ‘Travelled for some miles along the open country, which was all without hedgerows, sometimes arable, sometimes moorish, and often whole tracts covered with grunsel.| There was one field, which one might have bel... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1317:13, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,051 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/211 →Not proofread: Created page with "who were mowing, or raking the grass of the common ; it was little better than rushes ; but they did not mow straight forward, only here and there, where it was the best; im such a place hay-cocks had an uncommon appearance to us, After a long descent we came to some plantations which were not far from Douglas Mill. The country for some time had been growing into cultivation, and now it was a wide vale with large tracts of corn; trees in clumps, no hedg... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1317:13, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,102 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/209 →Not proofread: Created page with "passed one farm-house, sheltered by fir trees, with a burn close to it ; children playing, linen bleaching. The ,vale was open pastures and corn-fields unfenced, the land poor. The village of Crawfordjohn on the slope of a hill a long way before us to the left. Asked about our road of a man who was driving a cart; he told us to go through the village, then along some fields, and we should come toa “herd’s house by the burn side.” The highway was right th... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1217:12, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,041 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/207 →Not proofread: Created page with "lovely than this place would have been if the valley and hillsides had been interspersed with trees, cottages, green fields, and hedgerows. But all was desolate ; the one large field which filled up the area of the valley appeared, as J have said, in decay, and seemed to retain the memory of its connexion with man in some way analogous to the ruined building ; for it was as much of a field as Mr. King’s best pasture scattered over with his fattest cattle... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1217:12, 26 June 2024 diff hist +1,991 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/205 →Not proofread: Created page with "praise—for the shopkeeper had told me she was a varra discreet woman—lI cannot say that her manners pleased me much. But her servant made amends, for she was as pleasant and cheerful a lass as was ever seen; and when we asked her to do anything, she answered, ‘‘ Oh yes,” with a merry smule, and almost ran to get us what we wanted. She was about sixteen years old: wore shoes and stockings, and had her hair tucked up with a comb. The servant at Brownhill w... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1217:12, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,050 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/203 →Not proofread: Created page with "Each man who had the benefit of it paid a small sum monthly—lI think about fourpence. The man we talked with spoke much of the comfort and quiet in which they lived one among another; he made use of a noticeable expression, saying that they were ‘very peaceable people considering they lived so much under-ground” ;—wages were about thirty pounds a year; they had land for potatoes, warm houses, plenty of coals, and only six hours’ work each day, so that t... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1117:11, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,028 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/204 →Not proofread: Created page with "by the burn-side ;—the graves overgrown with grass, such as, by industrious culture, had been raised up about the houses ; but there were bunches of heather here and there, and with the blue-bells that grew among the grass the small plot of ground had a beautiful and wild appearance. William left me, and I went to a shop to purchase some thread; the woman had none that suited me; but she would send a “wee lad” to the other shop. In the meantime I sat wi... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1017:10, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,097 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/206 →Not proofread: Created page with "degree of knowledge, health, and comfort that there was among them. The air was keen and cold; we might have supposed it to be three months later in the season and two hours earlier in the day. The landlady had not lighted us a fire; so I was obliged to get myself toasted in the kitchen, and when we set off I put on both grey cloak and spencer. Our road carried us down the valley, and we soon lost sight of Leadhills, for the valley made a turn almost im... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:1017:10, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,118 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/208 →Not proofread: Created page with "to walk for a considerable way. The air was cold and clear—the sky blue. We walked cheerfully along in the sunshine, each of us alone, only William had the charge of the horse and car, so he sometimes took a ride, which did but poorly recompense him for the trouble of driving. I never travelled with more cheerful spirits than this day. Our road was along the side of a high moor. I can always walk over a moor with a light foot ; I seem to be drawn more cl... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:0917:09, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,007 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/210 →Not proofread: Created page with "arable ground for a considerable way, on which were growing very good crops of corn and potatoes. Our friend accompanied us to show us the way, and Coleridge | and he had a scientific conversation concerning the uses and properties of lime and other manures. He seemed to be a well-informed man; somewhat pedantic in his manners ; but this might be only the difference between Scotch and English,} Soon after he had parted from us, we came upon a stony, rou... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:0917:09, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,087 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/212 →Not proofread: Created page with "and trees which were growing in the gardens seemed to be so unluxuriant, might be, that there being no hedgerows, the general appearance of the country was naked, and I could not help seeing the same coldness where, perhaps, it did not exist in itself to any great degree, for the corn crops are abundant, and I should think the soil is not bad. While we were sitting at the door, two of the landlady’s children came out ; the elder, a boy about six years ol... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:0817:08, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,073 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/214 →Not proofread: Created page with "and the Black Bull was at the entrance of the town, so we thought we would stop there, as the horse was obstinate and weary. But when we came to the Black Bull we had no wish to enter the apartments; for it seemed the abode of dirt and poverty, yet it was a large building. The town showed a sort of French face, and would have done much more, had it not been for the true British tinge of coal-smoke ; the doors and windows dirty, the shops dull, the women... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:0817:08, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,050 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/216 →Not proofread: Created page with "of the rocks on the near bank, even in broad daylight, as we saw it the next morning, is exactly like the fractured arch of an abbey. With the lights and shadows of evening upon it, the resemblance must: have been much more striking. William’s guide was a pretty boy, and he was exceed- ingly pleased with him. Just as they were quitting the waterfall, William’s mind being full of the majesty of the scene, the little fellow pointed to the top of a rock, ‘... Tag: Not proofread
• 17:0717:07, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,075 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/218 →Not proofread: Created page with "forgotten!—is upon a hill at a little distance. We walked, after we had entered the private grounds, perhaps two hundred yards along a gravel carriage-road, then came to a little side gate, which opened upon a narrow gravel path under trees, and in a minute and a half, or less, were directly opposite to the great waterfall. I was much affected by the first view of it. The majesty and strength of the water, for I had never before seen so large a cataract,... current Tag: Not proofread
• 17:0717:07, 26 June 2024 diff hist +2,068 N Page:Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan, 1897) (IA cu31924104001478).pdf/220 →Not proofread: Created page with "walk, for just below the bench, the walk elbowing out into a circle, there was a beautiful spring of clear water, which we could see rise up continually, at the bottom of a round stone basin full to the brim, the water gushing out at a little outlet and passing away under the walk. A reason was wanted for placing the hut where it is; what a good one would this little spring have furnished for bringing it hither! Along the whole of the path were openings... current Tag: Not proofread