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P. 88, l. 32.  ‘Faber.’  Among the treasures (unpublished) of the Wordsworth Correspondence are various remarkable letters of Faber—­one, very singular, announcing his going over to the Church of Rome.

P. 90, l. 34.  ‘Mr. Robinson.’  Cf.  ‘Reminiscences’ onward.

P. 97, ll. 9-10, &c.  ‘Dyer.’  Cf. note, Vol.  II., on p. 296, l. 35.

P. 97, l. 18.  ‘Mr. Crowe;’ i.e. Rev. William Crowe, Public Orator of Oxford.  His poem was originally published in 1786 (4to); reprinted 1804 (12mo).

P. 98, l. 19.  ‘Armstrong.’  See on p. 78, l. 6.

P. 98, l. 20.  ‘Burns.’  Verse-Epistle to William Simpson, st. 13; but for ‘nae’ read ‘na,’ and for ‘na’ read ‘no.’

P. 101, l. 9.  ‘Rev. Joseph Sympson.’  This poet, so pleasantly noticed by
Wordsworth, appears in none of the usual bibliographical authorities. 
Curiously enough, his ‘Vision of Alfred’ was republished in the United
States—­Philadelphia.

P. 116, ll. 33-34.  Quotation, Shakspeare, ‘Henry VIII.’ iii. 2.

P. 120, l. 22.  Quotation from Milton, ‘Paradise Lost,’ viii. l. 282.

P. 125, l. 4.  ‘Mr. Hazlitt quoted,’ &c.  See Index, s.n. for
Wordsworth’s estimate of Hazlitt; also our Preface.

P. 130, l. 17.  Hill at St. Alban’s.  See ‘Eccl.  Hist.’ s.n.

P. 130, l. 31.  ‘Germanus.’  Bede, ‘Eccl.  Hist.’ b. ii. c. xvi.

P. 131, l. 10.  ‘Fuller;’ viz. his ‘Church History.’

P. 131, l. 16.  ‘Turner.’  The late laborious Sharon Turner, whose
‘Histories’ are still kept in print (apparently).

P. 131, l. 21.  ‘Paulinus.’  Bede, ‘Eccl.  Hist.’ b. ii. c. xvi.

P. 131, l. 26.  ‘King Edwin.’  Bede, ‘Eccl.  Hist.’ b. ii. c. xiii.

P. 136, l. 28.  ‘An old and much-valued friend in Oxfordshire;’ viz.  Rev.
Robert Jones, as before.

P. 137, l. 10.  ‘Dyer’s History of Cambridge,’ 2 vols. 8vo, 1814.

P. 137, l. 14.  ‘Burnet,’ in his ‘History of the Reformation;’ many editions.

P. 119, ll. 4-5.  Latin verse-quotation, Ovid, ‘Metam.’ viii. 163, 164.

P. 151, l. 11.  ‘Charlotte Smith.’  It seems a pity that the Poems of this genuine Singer should have gone out of sight.

P. 155, l. 31.  ‘Russel.’  Should be Russell.  Some very beautiful Sonnets of his appear in Dyce’s well-known collection, and to it doubtless Wordsworth was indebted for his knowledge of Russell.  He has cruelly passed out of memory.

P. 165, ll. 7-9.  ‘Is not the first stanza of Gray’s,’ etc.  Gray himself prefixed these lines from Aeschylus, ‘Agam.’ 181: 

[Greek:  Zena

           * * * * *
    ton phronein brotous hodo-
    santa, ton pathos
    thenta kurios echein.]

He seems to have been rather indebted to Dionysius’ Ode to Nemesis, v.  Aratus.

P. 182, l. 9.  ‘Dr. Darwin’s Zoonomia;’ i.e. ’The Laws of Organic Life,’ 1794-96, 2 vols. 4to.

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