Whom Obloquy pursues with hideous bark:" (page 432). The list of foul names bestowed upon those poor creatures is long and curious-and, as is, alas! too natural, most of the opprobrious appellations are drawn from circumstances into which they were forced by their persecutors, who even consolidated their miseries into one reproachful term, calling them Patarenians, or Paturins, from pati, to suffer. "Dwellers with wolves, she names them, for the pine " "And the green lizard and the gilded newt These two lines are adopted from a MS., written about the year 1770, which accidentally fell into my possession. The close of the preceding Sonnet on inonastic voluptuousness is taken from the same source, as is the verse. "Where Venus sits,' &c., and the line, "Once ye were holy, ye are holy still," in a subsequent Sonnet.-W. 'Richard, I do not give, but lend you my hore: dem In this age a word cannot be said in prale Laud, or even in compassion for his fate, with incurring a charge of bigotry; but fears such imputation, I concur with Hume, "that 3 is sufficient for his vindication to observe tha his errors were the most excusable of all this "One (like those prophets whom God sent of old) which prevailed during that zealous pe Transfigured,""&c. (page 437). "M. Latimer suffered his keeper very quietly to pull off his hose, and his other array, which to looke unto was very simple: and being stripped into his shrowd, he seemed as comely a person to them that were present, as one should lightly see: and whereas in his clothes hee appeared a withered and crooked sillie (weak) olde man, he now stood bold upright, as comely a father as one might lightly behold. Then they brought a faggotte, kindled with fire, and laid the same downe at doctor Ridley's feete. To whome M. Latimer spake in this manner, 'Bee of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man: wee shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never bee put out."-Fox's Acts, &c. Similar alterations in the outward figure and deportment of persons brought to like trial were not uncommon. See note to the above passage in Dr. Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical Biography," for an example in an humble Welsh fisherman. -W. "The gift exalting, and with playful smile:" (page 438). "On foot they went, and took Salisbury in their way, purposely to see the good Bishop, who made Mr. Hooker sit at his own table; which Mr. Hooker boasted of with much joy and gratitude when he saw his mother and friends; and at the Bishop's parting with him, the Bishop gave him good counsel and his benediction, but forgot to give him money; which when the Bishop had considered, he sent a servant in all haste to call Richard back to him, and at Richard's return, the Bishop said to him, 'Richard, I sent for you back to lend you a horse which hath carried me many a mile, and I thank God with much ease,' and presently delivered into his hand a walkingstaff, with which he professed he had travelled through many parts of Germany; and he said, A key to the right understanding of these para THE PILGRIM FATHERS (pages 42, # American episcopacy, in union with the ch in England, strictly belongs to the general & ject; and I here make my acknowledgme my American friends. Bishop Doane, and Henry Reed of Philadelphia, for having suc" to me the propriety of adverting to it, and p out the virtues and intellectual qualities of E White, which so eminently fitted him fr great work he undertook. Bishop White consecrated at Lambeth, Feb. 4. 1787, by A bishop Moore; and before his long life was c twenty-six bishops had been consecrated America, by himself. For his character opinions, see his own numerous Works a "Sermon in commemoration of him, by Ge Washington Doane, Bishop of New Jersey." "A genial hearth And a refined rusticity, belong To the neat mansion" (page 444, XVII, IL Among the benefits arising, as Mr. Caleri has well observed, from a Church establis of endowments corresponding with the weat he country to which it belongs, may be reckoned is eminently important, the examples of civility nd refinement which the clergy stationed at utervals, afford to the whole people. The stablished clergy in many parts of England have ong been, as they continue to be, the principal ulwark against barbarism, and the link which nites the sequestered peasantry with the inellectual advancement of the age. Nor is it elow the dignity of the subject to observe, that heir taste, as acting upon rural residences and cenery often furnishes models which country entlemen, who are more at liberty to follow the aprices of fashion, might profit by. The preincts of an old residence must be treated by cclesiastics with respect, both from prudence nd necessity. I remember being much pleased, me years ago, at Rose Castle, the rural seat of ae See of Carlisle, with a style of garden and rchitecture, which, if the place had belonged to wealthy layman, would no doubt have been rept away. A parsonage-house generally stands ot far from the church; this proximity imposes wourable restraints, and sometimes suggests an ffecting union of the accommodations and eleancies of life with the outward signs of piety and ortality. With pleasure I recall to mind a appy instance of this in the residence of an old nd much-valued friend in Oxfordshire. The ouse and church stand parallel to each other, at small distance; a circular lawn or rather grasslot, spreads between them; shrubs and trees arve from each side of the dwelling, veiling, but ot hiding, the church. From the front of this welling, no part of the burial-ground is seen; at as you wind by the side of the shrubs towards e steeple-end of the church, the eye catches single, small, low, monumental headstone, mossFown, sinking into, and gently inclining towards e earth. Advance, and the churchyard, popuus and gay with glittering tombstones, opens on the view. This humble, and beautiful rsonage called forth a tribute, for which see e seventh of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets," art III-W. Sonnet XXXII. (page 448). This is still continued in many churches in estmoreland. It takes place in the month of ly, when the floor of the stalls is strewn with esh rushes; and hence it is called the "Rusharing."-W. "Teaching us to forget them or forgive" (page 449, XXXV., L. 10). This is borrowed from an affecting passage in -. George Dyer's history of Cambridge.-W. -"Had we, like them, endured (page 449, XXXVн., ll. 5, 6). See Burnet, who is unusually animated on this ject; the east wind, so anxiously expected and yed for, was called the "Protestant wind."-W. "Yet will we not conceal the precious Cross, Like men ashamed;" (page 450, XL., 11. 9, 10). The Lutherans have retained the Cross within ir churches: it is to be regretted that we have I done the same.-W. "Or like the Alpine Mount, that takes its name From roseate hues," &c. (page 452, XLVI., ll. 5, 6). Some say that Monte Rosa takes its name from a belt of rock at its summit-a very unpoetical and scarcely a probable supposition.-W. "Wings at my shoulders seem to play" In these lines I am under obligation to the exquisite picture of "Jacob's Dream," by Mr. Alstone, now in America. It is pleasant to make this public acknowledgment to a man of genius, whom I have the honour to rank among my friends.-W. "But if thou, like Cocytus," &c. page 464, IV., 1. 5). Many years ago, when I was at Greta Bridge, in Yorkshire, the hostess of the inn, proud of her skill in etymology, said, that "the name of the river was taken from the bridge, the form of which, as every one must notice, exactly resembled a great A." Dr. Whitaker has derived it from the word of common occurrence in the North of England, "to greet;" signifying to lament aloud, mostly with weeping: a conjecture rendered more probable from the stony and rocky channel of both the Cumberland and Yorkshire rivers. The Cumberland Greta, though it does not, among the country people, take up that name till within three miles of its disappearance in the River Derwent, may be considered as having its source in the mountain cove of Wythburn, and flowing through Thirlmere, the beautiful features of which lake are known only to those who, travelling between Grasmere and Keswick, have quitted the main road in the vale of Wythburn, and, crossing over to the opposite side of the lake, have proceeded with it on the right hand. The channel of the Greta, immediately above Keswick, has, for the purposes of building, been in a great measure cleared of the immense stones which, by their concussion in high floods, produced the loud and awful noises described in the sonnet. "The scenery upon this river," says Mr. Southey in his "Colloquies," "where it passes under the woody side of Latrigg, is of the finest and most rememberable kind : "ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque, Occurrensque sibi venturas aspicit undas.""-W. By hooded Votaresses," &c. (p. 465, VII, 1. 11.) Attached to the church of Brigham was formerly a chantry, which held a moiety of the manor; and in the decayed parsonage some vestiges of monastic architecture are still to be seen.-W. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS LANDING AT WORKINGTON (page 465). "The fears and impatience of Mary were so great," says Robertson, "that she got into a fisherboat, and with about twenty attendants landed at Workington, in Cumberland; and thence she was conducted with many marks of respect to Carlisle." The apartment in which the Queen had slept at Workington Hall (where she was received by Sir Henry Curwen as became her rank and misfortunes) was long preserved, out of respect to her memory, as she had left it; and one cannot but regret that some necessary alterations in the mansion could not be effected without its destruction.-W. STANZAS, &c. (page 465). St. Bees' Heads, anciently called the Cliff of Baruth, are a conspicuous sea-mark for all vessels sailing in the N.E. parts of the Irish Sea. In a bay, one side of which is formed by the southern of love and faith. The ministers of relig headland, stands the village of St. Bees; a place however, can view without sorrow the ae distinguished, from very early times, for its religious and scholastic foundations. "St. Bees," says Nicholson and Burns, "had its name from Bega, an holy woman from Ireland, who is said to have founded here, about the year of our Lord 650, a small monastery, where afterwards a church was built in memory of her. "The aforesaid religious house, being destroyed by the Danes, was restored by William de Meschiens, son of Ranulph, and brother of Ranulph de Meschiens, first Earl of Cumberland after the Conquest; and made a cell of a prior and six Benedictine monks to the Abbey of St. Mary at York." Several traditions of miracles, connected with the foundation of the first of these religious houses, survive among the people of the neighbourhood; one of which is alluded to in these Stanzas; and another, of a somewhat bolder and more peculiar character, has furnished the subject of a spirited poem by the Rev. R. Parkinson, M.A., late Divinity Lecturer of St. Bees' College, and now Fellow of the Collegiate Church of Manchester. After the dissolution of the monasteries, Archbishop Grindal founded a free school at St. Bees, from which the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland have derived great benefit; and recently, under the patronage of the Earl of Lonsdale, a college has been established there for the education of ministers for the English Church. The old Conventual Church has been repaired under the superintendence of the Rev. Dr. Ainger, the Head of the College; and is well worthy of being visited by any strangers who might be led to the neighbourhood of this celebrated spot. The form of stanza in this Poem, and something in the style of versification, are adopted from the "St. Monica," a poem of much beauty upon a monastic subject, by Charlotte Smith: a lady to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered. She wrote little, and that little unambitiously, but with true feeling for rural nature, at a time when nature was not much regarded by English Poets; for in point of time her carlier writings preceded, I believe, those of Cowper and Burns.-W. 'Are not, in sooth, their Requiem's sacred ties" (page 467, 1.73). I am aware that I am here treading upon tender ground; but to the intelligent reader I feel that no apology is due. The prayers of survivors, during passionate grief for the recent loss of relatives and friends, as the object of those prayers could no longer be the suffering body of the dying, would naturally be ejaculated for the souls of the departed; the barriers between the two worlds dissolving before the power which rose out of thus formalising subline stincts, and disinterested movements of pastr and perverting them into means of gratifying ambition and rapacity of the priesthood. But we deplore and are indignant at these abu would be a great mistake if we imputed the e of the offices to prospective selfishness on the p of the monks and clergy: they were at first sin in their sympathy, and in their degree des rather of their own creed, than artful and des ing men. Charity is, upon the whole, the s guide that we can take in judging our fellow whether of past ages, or of the present time"And they are led by noble Hillary" (pay The TOWER OF REFUGE, an ornaMER Douglas Bay, was erected chiefly through humanity and zeal of sir William Hillary; he also was the founder of the lifeboat establish ment at that place; by which, under his intendence, and often by his exertions t imminent hazard of his own life, many sea and passengers have been saved.-W. BY A RETIRED MARINER ( page FA This unpretending sonnet is by a gent nearly connected with me, and I hope, as it f so casily into its place, that both the writer 150 the reader will excuse its appearance here. "Off with yon cloud, old Snafell!” (p.471, xx.18)| The summit of this mountain is well c by Cowley as the scene of the "Vision," in the spectral angel discourses with him one ing the government of Oliver Cromwell found myself," says he, "on the top of that fam hill in the Island Mona, which has the prst (1 of three great, and not long since most ba kingdoms. As soon as ever I looked upon the they called forth the sad representation the sins and all the miseries that had whelmed them these twenty years." It is be denied that the changes now in pros the passions, and the way in which they f strikingly resemble those which led to the ters the philosophic writer so feelingly be God grant that the resemblance may not be still more striking as months and years adr -W. ON REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE (page 472). This ingenious piece of workmanship, afterwards learned, had been executed for th own amusement by some labourers emp*7 about the place.-W. Sonnet XXIX: CAVE OF STAFFA (B The reader may be tempted to exclai came this and the two following sonnets to ritten, after the dissatisfaction expressed in the receding one?" In fact, at the risk of incurring he reasonable displeasure of the master of the eamboat, I returned to the cave, and explored under circumstances more favourable to those thought it right to prosecute the conductors and proprietors of three several journals. A verdict of libel was given in one case; and, in the others, the prosecutions were withdrawn, upon the individuals retracting and disavowing the charges, naginative impressions which it is so wonder-expressing regret that they had been made, and illy fitted to make upon the mind.-W. "Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!" (page 474, XXXI.). Upon the head of the columns which form the ont of the cave, rests a body of decomposed saltic matter, which was richly decorated with at large bright flower, the ox-eyed daisy. I ad noticed the same flower growing with proision among the bold rocks on the western ast of the Isle of Man, making a brilliant conast with their black and gloomy surfaces.-W. IONA. UPON LANDING (page 474). The four last lines of this sonnet are adopted on a well-known sonnet of Russel, as conveying y feeling better than any words of my own uld do.-- W. THE RIVER EDEN, CUMBERLAND (page 476). It is to be feared that there is more of the et than the sound etymologist in this deriition of the name Eden. On the western coast Cumberland is a rivulet which enters the sea Moresby, known also in the neighbourhood by e name of Eden. May not the latter syllable me from the word Dean, a valley? Langdale, ar Ambleside, is by the inhabitants called angden. The former syllable occurs in the ime Emont, a principal feeder of the Eden; id the stream which flows, when the tide is out, er Cartmel sands, is called the Ea-eau, rench-aqua, Latin.-W. "Canal, and Viaduct, and Railway, tell!" (page 477, XLL., 1. 14). At Corby, a few miles below Nunnery, the den is crossed by a magnificent viaduct; and other of these works is thrown over a deep en or ravine, at a very short distance from the ain stream.-W. "A weight of awe, not easy to be borne" (page 477, XLIII., I. 1). The daughters of Long Meg, placed in a peret circle eighty yards in diameter, are seventyvo in number above ground; a little way out the circle stands Long Meg herself, a single one, eighteen feet high. When I first saw this onument, as I came upon it by surprise, I light over-rate its importance as an object; but, hough it will not bear a comparison with Stoneenge, I must say I have not seen any other lique of those dark ages which can pretend to val it in singularity and dignity of appearance. W. O THE EARL OF LONSDALE (page 477). This sonnet was written immediately after ertain trials, which took place at the Cumberland ssizes, when the Earl of Lonsdale, in conseuence of repeated and long-continued attacks pon his character, through the local press, had promising to abstain from the like in future.-W. Descending to the worm in charity;" I am indebted, here, to a passage in one of Mr. Digby's valuable works.-W. Sonnet IV (page 514, 1. 14). "All change is perilous and all chance unsound." SPENSER.-W. Sonnet VIII. (page 515). These lines were written several years ago, when reports prevailed of cruelties committed in many parts of America, by men making a law of their own passions. A far more formidable, as being a more deliberate mischief, has appeared among those States, which have lately broken faith with the public creditor in a manner so infamous. I cannot, however, but look at both evils under a similar relation to inherent good, and hope that the time is not distant when our brethren of the West will wipe off this stain from their name and nation.-W. This story is a Cumberland tradition. I have heard it also related of the Hall of Hutton John, an ancient residence of the Hudlestons, in a sequestered valley upon the river Dacor.-W. THE RUSSIAN FUGITIVE (page 541). Peter Henry Bruce, having given in his entertaining Memoirs the substance of this Tale, affirms that, besides the concurring reports of others, he had the story from the lady's own mouth. The Lady Catherine, mentioned towards the close, is the famous Catherine, then bearing that name as the acknowledged Wife of Peter the Great.-W. THE FARMER OF TILSBURY VALE (page 569). With this picture, which was taken from real life, compare the imaginative one of "The Reverie of Poor Susan," page 187; and see (to make up the deficiencies of this class) “The Excursión," passim.-W. Moss Campion (Silene acaulis) (page 581 n.). This most beautiful plant is scarce in England, though it is found in great abundance upon the mountains of Scotland. The first specimen I ever saw of it, in its native bed, was singularly fine, the tuft or cushion being at least eight inches in diameter, and the root proportionably thick. I have only met with it in two places among our mountains, in both of which I have since sought for it in vain. Botanists will not, I hope, take it ill, if I caution them against carrying off, inconsiderately, rare and beautiful plants. This has often been done, particularly from Ingleborough and other mountains in Yorkshire, till the species have totally disappeared, to the great regret of lovers of nature living near the places where they grew.-W. "From the most gentle creature nursed in fields" (page 584, xv., 1. 23). This way of indicating the name of my lamented friend has been found fault with; perhaps rightly so; but I may say in justification of the double sense of the word, that similar allusions are not uncommon in epitaphs. One of the best in our language in verse, I ever read, was upon a person who bore the name of Palmer; and the course of the thought, throughout, turned upon the Life of the Departed, considered as a pilgrimage. Nor can I think that the objection in the present case will have much force with any one who remembers Charles Lamb's beautiful sonnet addressed to his own name, and ending, "No deed of mine shall shame thee, gentle name!" -W. EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG (page 586). died 21st Sept., 1832. Walter Scott. Felicia Hemans. 25th July, 1834. 27th Dec., 1831. 3rd Feb., 1832. 16th May, 1835. -W. THE EXCURSION. PREFACE (p. 755, 11. 83, 84). "Descend, prophetic Spirit! that inspir'st "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic Sout much did he see of men" (page 761). At the risk of giving a shock to the prejudices of artificial society, I have ever been ready to pay homage to the aristocracy of nature; under a conviction that vigorous human-heartedness is the constituent principle o true taste. It may still, however, be satisfactory to have prose testimony how far a Character, employed for purposes of imagination, is founded upon general fact. I, therefore, subjoin an extract from an author who had opportunities of being well acquainted with a class of men, from whom my own personal knowledge emboldened me to draw this portrait. "We learn from Cæsar and other Roman Writers, that the travelling merchants who frequented Gaul and other barbarous countries, either newly conquered by the Roman arms, or bordering on the Roman conquests, were ever the first to make the inhabitants of those countries familiarly acquainted with the Roman modes of life, and to inspire them with an inclination to follow the Roman fashions, and to enjoy R "It is farther to be observed, for the add "Lost in unsearchable eternity!" (page 75 Since this paragraph was composed, I lat read with so much pleasure, in Burnets T of the Earth," a passage expressing corres ing sentiments, excited by objects of a s nature, that I cannot forbear to transcribe "Siquod verò Natura nobis dedit spectac in hâc tellure, verè gratum, et philosopho di id semel mihi contigisse arbitror; cum et simâ rupe speculabundus ad oram maris Me prospexi; nihil quidem magis dispar aut>> ranei, hinc æquor cæruleum, illine tractus Al simile, nec in suo genere, magis egregion singulare. Hoc theatrum ego facilè pract Romanis cunctis, Græcisve; atque id quod hic spectandum exhibet, scenicis ludis ou aut amphitheatri certaminibus. Nihil hic aut venustum, sed ingens et magnificum, et qu placet magnitudine suâ et quidam speci superficiem, usque et usque diffusam, q inensitatis. Hinc intuebar maris quae maximum oculorum acies ferri potuit; ruptissimam terræ faciem, et vastas moles ar reclinatas, coacervatas, omni situ inaqu elevatas aut depressas, erectas, proper dent turbido. Placuit, ex hac parte, Nature un simplicitas, et inexhausta quedam planities: altera, multiformis confusio magnorum corpor urbis alicujus aut oppidi, sed confracti et insanæ rerum strages: quas cum intueba rudera, ante oculos habere mihi visus sum. |