THE NOTEBOOKS 1794--1804 Entries 1--1 842 1 1.1 <3Take>3 Think any number you like--double--add <1f1>1 12 to it--halve it--take away the original number--and there re- mains six. 2 1.3 Go into an Orchard--in which there are three gates--thro' all of which you must pass--Take a certain number of apples--to the first man I give half of that number & half an apple --to the 2nd half of what remain & half an apple--to the third half of what remain & half an apple--and yet I never cut one Apple. 3 1.4 Think of any Card in the Pack--I will shew <3thou>3 <1f1v>1 you the Card. 4 1.5 Smile from subrisus. B and M both labials/hence Infants first utter a, Ba, pa, a, milk--. In Greek the W (V) rendered by <2Ou>2 & by <2B,>2 not by <2ph>2. So <2Ourgilios, Birgilios.>2 As B for W so M for W. Mit = with. 5 1.6 Cities amid the ruins of the world like cottages in <1f2>1 some Castle ruined-- 6 1.8 Sermon on Faith <1f3>1 The scriptural uses of the word--& a promise to shew that however different these meanings appear, <3that>3 yet they do in reality coincide--so far as they are all operations of one faculty. 11. That the scripture no where has it in contradistinction to Reason. 111. Remark on that propensity in superficial men to confound the faculty with some one of its operations and to reason against that one operation without comparison with the other operations <1f3v>1 of the same faculty--instead of considering first--whether such a faculty does it exist in the mind--whether it does not necessarily and on many occasions operate--& whether it does not produce in all these operations more good than evil--& then to compare the one operation with the others in the circumstances of its congruity with our general nature, as distinguished from particular and dis- eased natures; in its advantageousness immediate; & in the neces- sity & avoidableness of its inconveniences. Instance it in the word-- Love to our Country.-- <1f4>1 lv. The three modes in which each mind acts--1. by its own per- ceptions--2. by its own deductions--3. by believing the perceptions & deductions of others. Instance the strength & weakness of each-- & how the third mingles with & assists the first & the second--in common life--& from the multitude & generality of these instances deduce the congruity of the third faculty with our nature, its neces- sity in Society & how it is this which hath so eminently enabled man to excel the brutes.-- <1f4v>1 v. Then examine the particular operation of this faculty on re- ligious subjects--shew its coincidence and analogies to our daily ex- perience in a brief history of the process of Faith in the world-- how it has always been given when it was wanted--so as to assist & carry on, not to contradict or confute our perceptions & deductions --in the primeval Revelation of deity & his attributes--& in the revelation of laws & morals by Moses--& in the Revelation of Im- <1f5>1 mortality by Jesus Christ--Conclude this sermon with a brief but clear & perspicuous <3recapitulation of the whoe>3 shewing of the co- incidence of the Scrip. meanings of Faith.-- Second Sermon-- That the evidences of all things ought to be proportioned to their intended uses/--That the evidence of Faith is in exact proportion to its uses--were it greater, it would destroy its uses--and therefore that the evidences of Faith are all equal to those of Mathematics & <1f5v>1 Astronomy--i.e. morally equal.--2. That the evidence is more consonant to the nature & occupations & understanding, of the Many. 3. The superiority of the knowlege which we have by faith to the knowlege which we have by Natural Philosophy (--Introduce the passage of Tertullian & vindicate it) in its dignity, in its moral effects, & lastly in the comforting of sorrow, in the giving of New Joy, & the exaltation of natural pleasures. 4. Conclude with a refer- <1f6>1 ence to the present state of Mankind, as especially demanding Faith--the quotations from Peter. Romans 3.3--Even those who abandon faith in Christ & his apostles do it notoriously, at least the greater part, from <1faith-->1in great men, Hume, Gibbon &c--Rom. 9.31-32--/--The will & in- tellectual energy which produceth action distinguished from legal & ceremonial obedience. Rom. 14.20 to 23.--The <1motive>1 contradistinguished from mere action.--Galat. 3.24.--The Revelation of direct & specified duties <1f6v>1 prior to the Revelations of <1Motives-->1( Memory itself an act of faith, in many cases.)-- 1794 Texts to be quoted <1f7>1 Rom. 15.13. 1.9 1 Book at the age of 24 and as I had never been prematured by Inter- course with literary men, I cannot help looking back on them as proofs of an original & self-thinking Mind. [If a Wordsworth can be called such] Oct. 1812.> 7 1.18 A subject for a romance--finding out a desert city <1f14v>1 & dwelling there/--Asia-- 8 1.23 Affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither <1f16v>1 doth trouble spring out of the ground. Job.v.6. The good man in league with all nature. Job v.23 For thou writest bitter things against and makest me to possess the iniquities of my Youth. Job.x111.26 <1f2>1 9 G.l The Vernal Hours. Leg. Thomson. 10 G.2 Moon at present uninhabited owing to its little or no atmosphere but may in Time--An Atheistic Romance might be formed--a Theistic one too.--Mem!-- 11 G.3 I mix in life & labor to seem free, With common persons pleas'd & common things-- While every Thought & action tends to thee And every impulse from thy Influence springs. 12 G.4 Sometimes to a gibbet, sometimes to a Throne-- always to Hell. 13 G.5 The flames of two Candles joined give a much stronger Light than both of them separate--evid. by a person hold- ing the two Candles near his Face, first separate, & then joined in one. Picture of Hymen <1f2v>1 14 G.6 The lowest part of the flame [of a] Candle is always blue--w[hen] the flame is sufficiently el[ongated] so as to be just ready to [smoke] the Tip is always red.-- 15 G.7 Little Daisy--very late Spring. March--Quid si vivat?--Do all things in Faith. Never pluck a<3n>3 flower again!-- Mem.-- 16 G.8 Send out our hopes & fears on fools' errands-- 17 G.9 From the narrow path of Virtue Pleasure leads us to more flowery fields, and then Pain meets & chides our wander- ing-- --Of how many pleasures, of what lasting Happiness is Pain the Parent & Woe the Womb!-- 18 G.lo Love--a myrtle wand by the Aaron touch of Jeal- ousy transformed into a serpent so vast as to swallow up every other stinging woe, and makes us mourn the exchange!-- <1f3>1 19 G.l 1--that inebriates Life, imbitters Death, & beggars Eternity. 20 G.12 When lulled Reason sleeps on the stormy Bosom of Transport, as a ship boy in the Shrouds-- 21 G.l 3 Love, that soothes misfortune and buoys up to Virtue--the pillow of Sorrows, the wings of Virtue. 22 G.14 Optimist--by having no will but the will of Heaven, <3an>3 we call in Omnipotence to fight our battles!-- 23 G.15 This is the true Sublime of Man! this the Me- ridian Majesty of our Nature! 24 G.16 What (Burke's book) repugnant feelings did it ex- cite? I shuddered while I praised it--a web wrought with admirable beauty from a black bag of Poison! 25 G.17 The helmet of Virtue needs not the plume of <1f3v>1 Praise!-- 26 G.18 Strikes me blind by lightning flashes of Wit!-- 27 G.19 The dark & deep perplexities of metaphysic Con- troversy!-- 28 G.20 Real Pain can alone cure of us of imaginary ills! We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel Misery : 29 G.21 Turbid Joy ending in Sorrow--dissipation. 30 G.22 Dwarfing Earth's giant Ills. 31 G.23 What we <1must>1 do, let us love to do. It is a noble Chemistry, that turns Necessity into Pleasure! 32 G.24 Jonas--a monodrama-- <1Vide>1 Hunter's Anatomy of a Whale-- 33 G.25 an involuntary Burlesque. <1f4>1 34 G.26 Pigmy Minds measuring others by their own standard <3think>3 cry what a Monster! when they view a man!-- 35 G.27 Poetry, like schoolboys, by too frequent & severe corrections, may be cowed into Dullness!-- 36 G.28 --peculiar, not far-fetched--natural, but not ob- vious; delicate, not affected; dignified, not swelling; fiery, but not mad; <3free>3 rich in Imagery, but not loaded with it--in short, a union of harmony, and good sense; of pers[p]icuity, and conciseness. Thought is the <1body>1 of such an Ode, Enthusiasm the Soul, and Imagination the Drapery! 37 G.29 Upas Tree--a poem--or autob. Mon. <1f4v>1 38 G.3o A Ruffian flesh'd in murthers 39 G.31 Dioclesian King of Syria fifty Daughters in a ship unmann'd--same as Danaides--land in England--commix with Devils. 40 G.32 Protoplast-- 41 G.33 Misfortunes prepare the heart for the enjoyment of Happiness in a better state. <3The pains>3 Life & sorrows of a <3good>3 <3man>3 religious & benevolent man <3are the>3 is as its April Day----the Sunshine blends with every shower--and look! how full and lovely it lies on yonder hills! 42 G.34 People starved into War.--over an enlisting place <1f5>1 in Bristol a quarter of Lamb and piece of Beef hung up-- 43 G.35 The soul-enlivening Airs of Martial Music played to induce forgetfulness of Toil, while the Fraternity of Mankind were employed in agricultural Tasks. 44 G.36 Non aliter quam captivus, qui forte imaginaria2 libertate fruebatur in somniis, quum postea suspicari incipit se dor- mire, timet excitari <1blandis>1 Illusionibus lente\ connivet in pro- fundum gurgitem delapsus ut nec possim in imo pedem figere nec enatare ad summum. 45 G.37 Wandering Jew/a romance <1f5v>1 46 G.38 A Robber concealed over a room and hearing the noise of Mirth & dancing--his Reflections/-- 47 G.39 Strait Waistcoat Madhouse &c--a stratagem-- 48 G.4o The Authors of them may do much good within their several spheres--though not very far extended: and they who affect to despise humble endeavors of this kind would do well to give proof of greater Abilities in the service of their Country. British Critic. May 1795 49 G.41 <2eisi gar anthrwpoi tauta akhkootes, dunatoi>2 <1f6>1 <2men mathein, dunatoi de mnhmoneusai- oi nun arti sphisi fasi,>2 <2ta men tote apistotata doxanta einai, nun pistotata kai>2 <2enargestata [phan>2 <1deleted>1] <2phainesthai- a de tote pistotata,>2 <2nun tounantion.>2 Platon. Epist. 11. 50 G.42 The Character of Moses an argument in favor of his divine Legation-- 51 G.43 Light cargoes <3waff>3 waft of modulated Sound From viewless Hybla brought, when Melodies Like Birds of Paradise on wings, that aye Disport in wild variety of hues, Murmur around the honey-dropping flowers. 52 G.44 Shivers in nakedness <1f6v>1 53 G.45 Horsley-- <2Nh ton Di, egwg, oun Onos agwn musthria-->2 <2Atar ou kathexw tauta ton pleiw cronon.>2 Arist. <2batrai.>2 54 G.47 The Whale followed by <1Waves-->1I would glide down the rivulet of quiet Life, a Trout! 55 G.48 Broad-breasted Rock. hanging cliff that glasses His rugged forehead in the calmy sea. 56 G.49 --Bad means for a good end--I cannot conceive that any road to Heaven through Hell-- f7 57 G.50 My <3guts>3 Clock here (patting his guts) chime twelve-- 58 G.51 The Sister of Haroun--beloved by the Caliph-- Giafar Her verses to Giafar--Giafar's answer--good subjects. 59 G.52 Unbiased mind--an absurdity. 60 G 53 Leaves already on the walk scattered-- 61 G.54 Burnet's <1theoria telluris>1 translated into blank Verse, the original at the bottom of the page. 62 G.55 Poetry without egotism comparatively uninterest- <1f7v>1 ing--Mem. Write an Ode to <1Meat & Drink.>1 63 G.56 You dare do any ill--but you want the true cour- age to be honest 64 G.57 Cooper Materiallsm G.58 Arguments in favor of a Soul-- 65 G.59 Dumb Waiter--Bed--Little Tommy--Cerberus --& Duppe-- 66 G.60 A Line, in which S-----------y lay ogling <1f8>1 [?Maude/Maiden]-- 67 G.61 Reason for a Tax upon Dogs--Poor man-- sheepsheads &c. 68 G.62 By an accurate computation 90 millions of Mites' Eggs make one Pigeon's Egg!!--Encyclo-- 69 G.63 The Devil drest in black everlasting--ergo--not a sans culotte. 70 G.64 The Lamentations of Jeremiah Sneak!! 71 G.65 Equality <3the>3--Pity & Envy her handmaids. 72 G.66 Disappointed Love not uncommonly produces Misogyny, even as extreme Thirst is supposed to be the cause of the Hydrophobia. 73] 1796-1797 73 G.67 Mem--not to adulterize my time by absenting myself from my wife-- <1f8v>1 74 G.68 When a man is attempting to describe another's character, he may be right or he may be wrong--but in one thing he will always succeed, in describing himself. If he express simple approbation, he praises from a consciousness of possession--If he approve with admiration, from a consciousness of deficiency. A. Ay! he is a <1sober>1 man.--B. Ah Sir! what a blessing is sobriety.-- N.B. A is a man conscious of sobriety who egotizes in tuism-- B is one, who feeling the effects of a contrary habit, with blame- less envy contemplates sobriety <3as the-->3A. Yes! he is a warm man <1f9>1 a moneyed felow--you may rely on him. B. Yes! yes! Sir! No wonder! he has the blessing of being well in the world. After the first violence of recentment when the heart is dephlo- gisticated-- To introduce this reflection in defence of plaintive egotism--and to examine all the charges against it--and from what feelings they proceed. <1f9v>1 75 G 69 (Pantis.) Themes to debauch Boys' minds on the miseries of rich men & comforts of Poverty. 76 G.70 A very frequent mistake that what has been use- ful or pernicious, is and will be so. Always to meditate on this. 77 G.71 The limited sphere of mental activity in artist--. 78 G.72 The poor & the rich in this resemble each other-- they are usually unloving of their children--n.b. explain why. 79 G.73 Marriage--sole Propriety In Paradise. The thorn in the flesh--vide St Paul--reason on this.// 80 G.74 Unitarian/travelling from Orthodoxy to Atheism --why,--&c. 81 G.75 Property intended to secure to every man the produce of his Toil--as at present instituted, operates directly con- trarywise to this. NOTA BENE. 82 G.76 Stars twinkle upon us--Suns on other worlds.-- <1f10>1 Double sense of Prophecies.-- 83 G.77 Sir I. Newton observes in P 309 of his 'Prophecies of holy Writ', Horsley's Edition, that Ruler is signified by his rid- ing on a beast--justly--for none but beasts need have rulers.-- 84 G.78 And the two mighty Bears walk round & round the Pole-- in spite of Mr Gunston--.Watts 85 G.79 Good Temper & habitual Ease are the first ingre- dients of <3conversa>3 private Society--but Wit, Knowledge, or Origi- nality must break their even surface into some Inequality of Feel- ing, or conversation is like a Journey on an endless flat-- 86 G.8o Where Cam his stealthy flowings <3doth>3 most dis- <1f10v>1 sembles And scarce the Willow's watry shadow trembles. 87 G.81 Poetry--excites us to artificial feelings--makes us callous to real ones. 88 G.82 Reason the Sun--Revelation the comet which feeds it.-- 89 G.83 On whom the cloven tongues have descended-- from Lucifer, Prince of the Air. 90 G.84 With secret hand heal the conjectur'd wound. <1f11>1 Guess at the wound and heal with secret hand! 91 G.85 Outmalic'd Calumny's imposthum'd Tongue. 92 G.86 Their prank'd deformity. 93 G.87 World-[?makers/maker].-- As if according to Sir Isaac Newton's progression of pores--they had coarct the world to a Ball and were playing with it-- 94 G.88 And write impromptus spurring their Pegasus to tortoise Gallop. 95 G.89 <1f11v>1 Due to the Staggerers that made drunk by Power : Forget <3their>3 Thirst's eager Promise, and presume, . Dark Dreamers! that the world forgets it too! 96 G.9o Perish Warmth Unfaithful to its seemings 97 G.91 Old age, "the Shape & Messenger of Death"! His wither'd Fist still knocking at Death's door. 98 G.92 God no distance knows, All of the whole possessing.-- 99 G.93 Preventing by these Bills the growth of the hu- man mind--British constitution--giving Gin to Puppy Dog that it <1f12>1 may be a safe & amusing little [ ? Gentleman/f[l]atterer] for Royalty to play with-- 100 G.94 <3--trans>3 transfer the proofs of natural to moral Sciences.-- 101 G.95 ponderosity of period & overwhelming panegyric of Parr-- 102 G.96 Our constitution to some like Cheese--rotten parts they like the best. 103 G.97 Continuance of the War likely to produce an aboli- tion of Property 104 G.98 Snatching arguments out of Snapdragon--Wake- <1f12v>1 field-- 105 G.99 <2W bdelure, kvanaiskiunte, kai tolmhre su,>2 <2Kai miare, kai pammiare, kai miarwtate!>2 Batr. Act. 11, Scen. 1. 106 G.100 elected by the popular voice, undiocest, unlorded, <3unrenued>3 unrevenued.-- 107 G. 1 01 Depravlty-gapers 108 G.102 What Milton calls "a paroxysm of citations".-- pampered metaphors & aphorisming Pedantry: <1f13>1 109 G.103 T. R. Underwood No. 43 Lamb's Conduit Street 110 G.104 Pulpitry. They teach not that to govern well is to <3breed>3 train up a nation to true wisdom & virtue &c.--This is the master- piece of a modern politician, how to qualify & mould the sufferance & subjection of the People to the length of that foot which is to tread upon <3them>3 their necks; [. . .] and how the puny Law may be brought under the wardship & controul of Lust & will. [. . .] <1f13v>1 poor John Bull under the custody of a state Argus. [. . .] Under pretence of guarding the Head of the state, these are Bills to prevent the cutting off of an enormous wen that grows upon it-- 111 G.105 <2oi gar en sophois >2 <2PHauloi par' okilw mousikoteroi legein. >2 Eurip. Hippol. v. 1003 <1f14>1 112 G.106 The drayhorse tread of Dr. Parr's style. 113 G.107 unvisarded 114 G.108 O the supererogative virtues of our minister!-- 115 G.109 A member of the Church of Laodicea. 116 G.110 Political wisdom sown by the broad-cast not dibble. 117G.111 <1fl4v>1 <2Su toi legeis nin, ouk egw: su gar poieis>2 <2tourgon: ta>2 d' erga tous logous eurisketai. Hlektra.>2 118 G.112 Zeal-utter'd sentences of ventrous edge. 1 19 G. 1 1 3 Truth is compared in scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they stagnate into a muddy pool of conformity & tradition. Milton. <1f15>1 120 G.114 It surely is not impossible that to some infinitely superior being the whole Universe may be one plain--the distance between planet and planet only the pores that exist in any grain of sand--and the distances between system & system no greater than the distance between one grain and the grain adjacent.-- 121 G.115 The Prince of darkness is a gentleman-- 122 G.116 Tis the times' plague when Madmen lead the blind-- 123 G.117 Love and the wish of Poets when their tongue <1f15v>1 Would teach to other bosoms what so charms Their own. Akenside. 124 G.118 Slaughter--stern Nurse of Vultures.-- 125 G.119 --Yes, that on every dream, Each buz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike, He may enguard his dotage with their powers, And hold our Lives at mercy. Lear. 126 G.120 N.B. Write to Est. reproving him concerning Miss P. Not of age!!!-- 127 G.121 Not to bring too horrid things like Gloucester's <1f16>1 eyes on the stage reprobate this notion--hysterical Humanite1 128 G.123 Art of printing diffused greater knowledge than Christianity--??-- 129 G.124 Motives from Religion like the light from the Sun--the earth principally heated from within itself--the Sun the cause of winter & summer by a very small quantity of heat in addi- tion to that residing in the earth.-- 130 G.125 Wherefore art thou come? <1f16v>1 doth not the Creator of all things know all things? And if thou art come to seek him, know that where thou wast, there <1he was>1. 131 G.126 Reviews, a kind of establishment. 132 G.127 Dr Darwin's Poetry, <3makes>3 a succession of Land- scapes or Paintings--it arrests the attention too often, and so pre- vents the rapidity necessary to pathos.--it <3comm>3 makes the great little. 133] 1796 --seems to have written his poem as Painters who of beautiful objects--take--Studies. <1f17>1 133 G.128 Millenium, an History of, as brought about by <3a>3 progression in natural philosophy--particularly, meteorology or science of airs & winds-- Qua|ere--might not a Commentary on the Revelations be written from late philosophical discoveries? 134 G.129 And cauldrons the scoop'd earth a boiling sea! Rush on my ear, a cataract of sound. The guilty pomp consuming while it flares-- 135 G.130 <1fl7v>1 My heart seraglios an whole host of Joys-- 136 G.131 And Poxes scab his efflorescent face-- 137 G.132 Electrical picture 138 G.133 an horrible phiz that would castrate a canthara- dized Satyr-- 139 G.134 treacherous memory that will <1not>1 forget--applied to Pitt 140 G.135 Anti-platonic [?Blader/Blade] 141 G.136 Some hundred years ago, when the Devil was a little boy & my grandmother had teeth in her head-- <1fl8>1 142 G.137 As difficult as to separate two dew-drops blended together on a bosom of a new-blown Rose. 143 G.138 A belly of most majestic periphery! 1796-1797 [153 144 G.139 her eyes sparkled: as if they had been cut out of a diamond quarry in some Golconda of Faery land--and cast such meaning glances, as would have vitrified the Flint in a Murderer's blunderbuss-- 145 G.l4o Effect of ignorance--in making small farms dis- <1fl8v>1 advantageous to the public from Idleness--the small farmer will work no more than he can raise the rent &c-- 146 G.141 Here's a large mouth indeed He speaks plain Cannon, fire, and smoke, and--bounce! He gives the bastinado with his tongue-- Our Ears are cudgell'd. 147 G.142 Human Happiness like the Aloe--a Flower of slow growth. 148 G.143 I discovered unprovoked malice in his hard heart like a huge Toad in the centre of a marble rock-- 149 G.144 and pity's Sigh shall answer thy tale of Anguish, <1f19>1 like the faint echoe of a distant valley-- 150 G.145 A State of Compulsion, even tho that Compulsion be directed by perfect Wisdom, keeps Mankind stationary--for whenever it is withdrawn, after a lapse of ages, they have yet to try evil in order to know whether or no it be not good.-- 151 G.146 Describe a Tartarean Forest all of Upas Trees-- 152 G.147 a Dungeon In darkness I remained--the neighb'ring Clock Told me that now the rising Sun shone lovely on my garden-- 153 G.148 As prolix as the tale of some Wretch at the gallows who had expected a Reprieve--tale to his Confessor. 154] 1796 <1fl9v>1 154 G.149 We consider conduct in relation both to the affec- tions which it exhibits, and to the objects which called forth these affections. That sorrow which we should approve as highly <3rig>3 proper in a Widow for her husband, we condemn and are disgusted with in &c--Lap dogs-- 155 G.150 The effort of the spectator to enter into the feel- ings of the person [? however fully/principally] & the effort of the person principally concerning, to bring down the expressions of his feelings to the probable emotion of the Spectator <1f20>1 156 G.151 Doctrine of necessity rendered not dangerous by the Imagination which contemplates immediate not remote effects --hence vice always hateful & altho equally monotonous as Virtue 157G.152 <1f20v>1 The Sun (for now his Orb Gan slowly sink) <3behind the Western Hill>3, Shot half his rays aslant the heath, whose flowers Purpled the mountain's broad & level top, Rich was his bed of Clouds: & wide beneath Expecting Ocean smiled with dimpled face. 158 G.153 Mars rising over a gibbet-- 159 G.154 Two Lover's privileged by a faery to know each other's Lives & Health in Absence by olfaction of [. . .] 160 G.155 Leanness, Disquietude, & secret Pangs Some puny perambulatory Sin Goes before like Dwarf to proclaim the coming of a Giant-- 161 G.156 <1f21 My Works>1 [a] Imitations of the Modern Latin Poets with an Essay Biog. & Crit. on the Rest. of Lit.--2 Vol. Octavo. 1796 [b] Answer to the System of Nature-- I <3Vol>3. Oct [c] The Origin of Evil, an Epic Poem. [d] Essay on Bowles [e] Strictures on Godwin, Paley &c &c-- [f] Pantisocracy, or a practical Essay on the abolition of In- div[id]ual Property. [g] Carthon an Opera [h] Poems [i] Edition of Collins & Gray with a preliminary Dissertation. [j] A Liturgy On the different Sects of Religion & Infidelity-- philosophical analysis of their Effects on mind & manners--. [k] A Tragedy 162 G.157 Six Gallons of Water-- <1f21v>1 <3Eighteen>3 Twelve pounds of Sugar Half a pound of Ginger Eighteen Lemons. Ginger to be sliced--Lemons to be peeled--The Sugar & Water to be boiled together, & the Scum--viz--the Monarchical part must go to Pot--and out of the Pot--<1Then>1 put in the Ginger with the Peels of the Lemons, and let the whole be boiled together gently for half an hour--When cold, put in the Lemon juice strained &c-- then let the Sum total be put in the Barrel with Three Spoonfuls of Yeast--let it work three Days (Sundays Excepted--) and then put <1f22>1 in a Gallon of Barrel--Close up the Barrel--Nota bene: you may do it legally the habeas corpus act being suspended--let it remain a fortnight--then bottle it.--The Wine not to be used even in warm weather till three Weeks after Bottling--in Winter not till after a month.-- 163 G.158 [ ? A/C] Very fond of Vegetables, particularly Bacon & Peas.-- Bacon & Broad Beans.-- 164 G.159 Receipt for brewing Wine-- <1f22v>1 Get two strong faithful men by proper Instruments--Vide Thieves' Calendar--break into a Wine merchant's Cellar--carry off a hogshead of best Claret or other ad arbitrium--given me by Mrs Danvers--experta|e crede 165 G.160 Mem. To <3write in>3 reduce to a regular form the Swedenborgian's Reveries-- 166 G.161 Mem. To remember to examine into the Laws upon Wrecks as at present existing <1f23>1 167 G.162 Mem. I asserted that Cato a drunkard--- denied by S. --to examine it--. 168 G.163 J Hucks No 9 Inner Temple Lane 169 G.164 Mr. Wade at Mrs Wade's Pershore Worcestershire. <1f23v>1 170 G.165 Poem in <3three>3 one Books in the manner of Dante\ on the excursion of Thor-- 171 G.166 2 Satires in the manner of Donne-- 1. Horace Walpole 2. Monthly Reviewers &c <3de>3 Bowles 172 G.167 Address to Poverty at the end of the In early youth--<2Wstral!>2 Console my SAP.A.--And grieve not, my Son! that we &c. Tob-- <1f24>1 173 G.168 Take a pound of Beef, Mutton, or Pork; cut it into small pieces; a pint of Peas; four Turnips sliced; six or seven Potatoes cut very small; four or five Onions; put to them three 1795-1796 [174 Quarts of Water, and let it boil about two hours and a half--<3thick>3 --then thicken it with a pound of Rice--and boil it a quarter of an <3other>3 hour more--after which season it with salt & pepper-- N.B. better season it at first--peppering & salting the Meat &c.-- 174 G.169 1 An Essay on Tobit. <1f24v>1 2 On the art of prolonging Life--by getting up in a morning. 3 On Marriage--in opposition to French Principles. 4. Jacob Behmen. 5 Life of John Henderson. 6 Ode to a Looking Glass. 7. Burnet's de montibus in English Blank Verse. 8 Escapes from Misery, a Poem-- 9. Cavern--candle. 10. Life of David--a Sermon. 11. Wild Poem on Maniac--<2Erastou Talhros. at.>2 12. Ode on St. Withold. 13. Crotchets, by S. T. Coleridge 14. Edition of Akenside. <1f25>1 15. Of Collins & Gray. 16 Hymns to the Sun, the Moon, and the Elements--six hymns.--In one of them to introduce a dissection of Atheism-- particularly the Godwinian System of Pride Proud of what? An outcast of blind Nature ruled by a fatal Necessity--Slave of an ideot Nature! XX ++ XX Deprceliantiu2m e carcere nubium &c ++ In the last Hymn a sublime enumeration of all the <3beauties>3 <1f25v>1 charms or Tremendities of Nature--then a bold avowal of Berk- ley's System! ! ! ! ! 17 Letters to Godwin <1f25>1 18 Randolp[h] consecrating D. of York's banners-- 19 Ode to Southey 20 Egomist, a metaphysical Rhapsody-- 21 Berkley's Maxims--Vol. II, 345. <1f25v>1 [21a] Ode to a Moth--against accumulation. 22 Adventures of CHRISTlAN, the mutineer-- 23 Military anecdotes--(N.B.promised to be Sergeants.) 24 History of Phrases--Ex.gr. The King must have men. 25 Hymn to Dr. Darwin--in the manner of the Orphics 26 Address to the Clergy against the two Bills-- 27 Satire addressed to a young Man who intended to study medicine at Edinburgh-- 175 G.l70 <1f26>1 The Earth feared and was still, when GOD arose to Judgment to save the meek of the Earth. Surely, the Wrath of Man shall praise thee--: the remainder of Wrath shalt thou restrain.-- God shall cut off the spirit of Princes--he is terrible to the Kings of the Earth. Then shall the right-aiming Thunderbolts go abroad; & from the Clouds, as from a strong Bow, shall they <3flayy>3 fly to the mark. There be spirits that are created for Vengeance--in the time of Destruction they pour out their forces & appease the Wrath of him that made them. <1f26v>1 176 G.171 Men that run mad <3&>3 [?with] prosperity com- pared to Cats on beds of Marum and Valerian-- 177 G.172 There is not a new or strange opinion-- Truth returned from banishment-- a river run under ground-- fire beneath embers-- 178 G.173 Men anxious for this world--Owls that wake all night to catch mice--. 179 G.174 Smooth, shining, & deceitful as thin Ice-- 180 G.175 Wisdom, Mother of retired Thought, <2esti tis theos endon-->2 <2polun essamenoi noun-->2 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1796 [186 181 G.176 Nature Wrote Rascal on his face by chalcographic art 182 G.177 Our quaint metaphysical opinions in an hour of anguish like playthings by the bedside of a child deadly sick. 183 G.178 Let us contend like the Olive & the Vine who shall bring forth most & best fruit--& not like the Aspen & the Elm who shall make most noise in a tempest.-- <1f27>1 <2Galhnh noera-->2 <2Dikaiosunh bebammenos eis bathos ths Alhtheias.>2 184 G.179 On the present state of the Fr. 185 G.180 The Wicked arising from Death to Life in order to be annihilated compared to the apoplectic Man who was awoken by his funeral Pile, <3&>3 just <3time>3 to shriek & be utterly consumed-- 186 G.182 She had in her sickness some curious & well-becom- ing fears respecting the final state of the soul--but from thence she passed into a deliquium, or a kind of Trance, and as soon as she came forth of it, as if it had been a Vision or that she had conversed with an angel, & from his hand had received a <3Scroll>3 Labell or Scroll of the <1Book of Life>1 & there seen her name enrolled, she cried out aloud/"Glory be to God on high; now I am sure, I shall be saved." Concerning which manner of discoursing we are wholly ignorant what Judgment can be made; but certainly there are strange things in the other World; and so there are in all the im- mediate Preparations to it; & a little <1Glimpse>1 of Heaven, a minute's conversing with an angel, any ray of God, any communication from <1f27v>1 the Spirit of Comfort which God gives to his servants in strange & unknown manners, are infinitely far from Illusions; & they shall then be understood by us, when we feel them, & when our new & strange needs shall be refreshed by such unusual Visitations. 187 G.183 In the East the Shepherds used to go before their Sheep, to which our Saviour alludes--my Sheep hear my Voice & follow me--but our Shepherds drive them and affright them with dogs & noises. 188 G.184 --Dreams sometimes useful by <3making>3 giving to the well-grounded <1fears>1 & <1hopes>1 of the understanding the <1feelings>1 of vivid sense. 189 G.185 Love transforms the souls into a conformity with the object loved.-- 190 G.186 The prayers of enthusiast a pious drunkenness, a spiritual concupiscence, presumptuous self-idolatry-- 191 G.187 In the paradisiacal World Sleep was voluntary & <1f28>1 holy--a spiritual before God, in which the mind elevated by con- templation retired into pure intellect suspending all commerce with sensible objects & perceiving the present deity-- 192 G.188 Dim specks of Entity--applied to invisible In- sects-- 193 G.189 Made my heart tender thro' the power of Love-- My mind preserved watchful & <1inward.>1 19 194 G.190 In this world We dwell among the tombs & touch the pollutions of the Dead--to God-- 195 G.191 holy Leader 196 G.192 The mild despairing of a Heart resign'd 197 G.193 Such fierce vivacity as fires the eye Of Genius fancy-craz'd-- 198 G.194. And the dark Spirits' worst infirmity. 199 G.195 <1f1v>1 Like a mighty Giantess, <1f28v>1 Seized in sore travail & prodigious birth Sick Nature struggled: long & strange her pangs, Her groans were horrible; but o! most fair The Twins, she bore--EQUALlIY & PEACE! 200 G.196 <2hn pou hmwh h psukih prin en twde tw anthrwpinw>2 <2eidei genesthai.>2 Plato in Pha|edone: and Synesius, the hyper-platonic Jargonist, would have waved his claims to a Bishopric than allow <1his Soul to be younger>1 than his Body. 201 G.197 <2Aswmatos de kai h ulh.-->2Plot. p. 164. 202 G.198 Discontent mild as an Infant low-plaining in its sleep.-- 203 G. 199 In the Essay on Berkley to speak of Sir Isaac <1f29>1 Newton & other material theists--Aristotle--Metaphys. Lib. 1. Chapter IV. 267. of Tom IV. 204 G.2oo Plato De Rep. Lib. VII 2to--<2h tas twn skeuastwn skias.-->2 Serranus--about the 17 or 18th line> 515. 205 G.201 In a distempered dream things & forms in them- selves common & harmless inflict a terror of anguish.-- 206 G.202 At Genoa the word, Liberty, is engraved on the chains of the galley-slaves, & the doors of Prisons.-- 207 G.203 terrible and loud As the strong Voice that from the Thunder-cloud Speaks to the startled Midnight. 2O8] 1796-1797 208 G.204 <2Anaxagoras te gar mhkianh kirhtaitw tw pros>2 <2thn kosmopoiian. kai otan aporhsh dia tin'aitian ex anagkhs>2 <2esti, tote elkei auton. en de tois allois panta mallon aitiatai>2 <2twn ginomenwn, h noun.>2 Du Valli's Edit. <1f29v>1 209 G.2o5 Man knows God only by revelation from God-- as we see the Sun by his own Light.-- 210 G.206 The Treachery of Renneburg, a Tragedy-- Vid. Watson's <1Hist. of Phil. 2nd. Vol.>1 IInd. 350 The assassination of the Prince of Orange-- Gaspar Anastro, a Spanish Banker of ruined circumstances, a man of hard heart, cunning but a coward--prevails on John Tauregui, a young Biscayan, of a thoughtful melancholy disposition, deeply superstitious--- 21 1 G.207 Matted hair--deemed Witch-locks-- <1f30>1 212 G.2o8 An ideot whose whole amusement consisted in looking at, & talking to a clock, which he supposed to be alive--/the Clock was removed--/he supposed that it had walked off--& he went away to seek it--was absent nine days--at last, they found, almost famish'd in a field--He asked where it was buried--for he was sure it was dead--/he was brought home & the clock <3it>3 in its place--his Joy--&c He used to put part of every thing, he liked, into the clock-case. 213 G.209 <1f30v>1 The swallows interweaving there mid the paired Sea-mews, at distance wildly-wailing.-- The <3a>3 brook runs over Sea-weeds.-- Sabbath day--from the Miller's mossy wheel the waterdrops dripp'd leisurely-- 1796-1797 [217 On the broad mountain-top The neighing wild-colt races with the wind O'er fern & heath-flowers-- A long deep Lane So overshadow'd, it might seem one bower-- The damp Clay banks were furr'd with mouldy moss Broad-breasted Pollards with broad-branching head. 214 G.210 And one or two poor melancholy Joys <1f31>1 Pass by on flimsy wing in Hope's cold gleam, Moths in the Moonlight.-- 'Twas sweet to know it only possible-- Some <1wishes>1 cross'd my mind & dimly cheer'd it-- And one or two poor melancholy Pleasures In these, the <3cold>3 pale unwarming <3gleams>3 light of Hope Silvring their flimsy wing flew silent by, Moths in the Moonlight-- 215 G.211 --the prophetic soul of the wide world dreaming on things to come Shak. sonnets. Most true it is, that I have looked on truth Askance & strangely. Id. 216 G.212 Behind the thin Grey cloud that cover'd but not hid the sky The round full moon look'd small.-- 217 G.213 The subtle snow in every breeze rose curling from the Grove, like pillars of cottage smoke. 218] l797-1798 <1f31v>1 218 G.214 The alligators' terrible roar, ["] like heavy distant thunder, not only shaking the air & waters, but causing the earth to tremble--& when hundreds & thousands are roaring at the same time, you can scarcely be persuaded but that the whole globe is dangerously agitated["]-- The eggs are layed in layers between a compost of <3earth>3 mud, grass, & herbage.--The female watches them--when born, she leads, them about the shores, as a hen her chicken--["]and when she is <1f32>1 basking on the warm banks with her brood around you may hear the young ones whining & a-barking, like young Puppies. ["] 20 feet long--lizard-shaped, plated--head vulnerable--tusked-- eyes ["]small["] & "sunk["]-- 219 G.215 --Hartley fell down & hurt himself--I caught him up crying & screaming--& ran out of doors with him.--The Moon caught his eye--he ceased crying immediately--& his eyes & the tears in them, how they glittered in the Moonlight! 220 G.216 --Some wilderness-plot, green & fountainous & unviolated by Man. <1f32v>1 221 G.217 An old Champion who is perhaps absolute sov- ereign of a little Lake or Lagoon (when 50 less than himself are obliged to content themselves with roaring & swelling in little coves round about) darts forth from the reedy coverts all at once on the surface of the water, in a right line; at first, seemingly as rapid as lightning, but gradually more clowly until he arrives at the center of the lake, where he stops; he now swells himself by drawing in wind & water thro' his mouth which causes a loud sonorous rattling in the throat for near a minute; but it is immediately forced out <1f33>1 again thro' his mouth & nostrils with a loud noise, brandishing his tail in the air, & the vapor ascending from his nostrils like smoke. At other times when swollen to an extent ready to burst, his head & tail lifted up, he twirls round on the surface of the water. He re- tires--& others, who dare, continue the exhibition--all to gain the attention of the favorite Female-- The distant thunder sounds heavily--the crodiles answer it like an echo-- 1797 [224 222 G.218 Describe-- <1f33v>1 --the never-bloomless Furze-- & the transi to the Gordonia Lasianthus. Its thick foliage of a dark green colour is flowered over with large milkwhite fragrant blossoms: on long slender elastic pedun- cles at the extremities of its numerous branches--from the bosom of the leaves, & renewed every morning--and that in such incredible profusion that the Tree appears silvered over with them & the ground beneath covered with the fallen flowers. It at the same time continually pushes forth new twigs, with young buds on them; and <1f34>1 in the winter & spring the third year's leaves, now partly concealed by the new & perfect ones, are gradually changing colour from green to a golden yellow, from that to a scarlet; from scarlet to crimson; & lastly to a brownish purple, & then fall to the ground. So that the Gordonia Lasianthus may be said to change & renew its garments every morning thro'out the year. And moreover after the general flowering is past, there is a thin succession of scattering blossoms to be seen, on some parts of the tree, almost every day thro'out the remaining months until the floral season returns again. <1f34v>1 --It grows by ponds & the edges of rivers--Perhaps--the Snake- bird with slender longest neck, long strait & slender bill, glossy black, like fish-scales except on the breast which is cream-coloured-- the tail is very long of a deep black <1tipped>1 with a silvery white; & when spread, represent an unfurled fan. They delight to sit in little peaceable communities on the dry limbs of trees, hanging over the still waters, with their wings & tails expanded--I suppose to <1f35>1 cool themselves, when at the same time they behold their images below--when approached, they drop off as if dead--invisible for a minute or two--then at a vast distance their long slender head & neck only appear, much like a snake--no other part to be seen ex- cept sometimes the silvery tip of the Tail. 223 G.219 A dunghill at a distance sometimes smells like musk, & a dead dog like elder-flowers.-- 224 G.22o Plagiarists suspicious of being pilfer'd--as pick- pockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their <135v>1 breeches-pockets. 225] 1797-1799 225 G.221 Abruptness [. . . . . . . . . .] An abrupt beginning followed by an even & majestic greatness com- pared to the Launching of a Ship, which after sails on in a steady breeze.-- 226 G.222 The Infant playing with its mother's Shadow-- Rocking its little sister's cradle & singing to her with inarticulate voice.-- <1f36>1 227 G.223 The flat pink-colour'd stone painted over in jag- ged circles & strange parallelograms with the greenish black-spotted lichens.-- 228 G.224 The Life of the Siminole playful from infancy to Death compared to the Snow, which in a calm day falling scarce seems to fall & plays & dances in & out, to the very moment that it reaches the ground-- 229 G.225 The Sun-shine lies on the cottage-wall Ashining thro' the snow-- 230 G.226 <1f36v>1 A maniac in the woods-- She <1crosses>1 (heedlessly) the <1woodman's path-->1 Scourg'd by rebunding boughs--/ 231 G.227 --The merry nightingale That <3crow>3 crowds & hurries & precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful, that an April Night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music!-- <1f37>1 232 G.228 A country fellow in a village Inn, winter night-- tells a long story--all attentive &c, except one fellow who is toying 1796 [236 with the Maid--/The Country Man introduces some circumstance absolutely incompatible with a prior one--/ The <1Amoroso>1 detects it/--/&c. The Philosophy of this.--Yes! I don't tell it for a true story--you would not have found it out--if you had smooring with <1Mall-->1 233 G.229 No 18 <1f38v>1 Old Jewry London 234 G.230 Calverton <1f39v>1 7 miles from Nottingham --Mrs Bingham has the living her Husband had remitted ten pounds a year. 235 G.231 Take of hard extract of <1f41>1 Peruvian Bark, a Dram. Salt of <3Sel>3 steel, ten grains. Oil of Cinnamon, 5 drops. With balsam of Peru make into 20 pills. 236 G.232 Her maiden Morris--now Bush. <1f39>1 After being married according to the forms of the Quakers-- quarter a year after taken up on account of pregnancy, not being pregnant-- Mr Sidley's Clark said why did you bring this woman here? She is not pregnant--sent back again--afterwards proven pregnant She was taken up again and <3oblig>3 required to swear her child as a single woman--refused to swear as a single woman--kept her a whole day being nearly her time--Neither swear or affirm meaning as a single <1f39v>1 woman--her <1insolence>1 reproved. Mr Cope "would have nothing to do--Removed to Nuthall"-- (4 miles from Not. the residence of Mr Sidley, a justice of Peace-- then committed--because she would neither swear nor affirm--! an infamous falsehood.-- 237] 1796 brought to the next quarter sessions--gave an account as before --/<3offered to affirm everything>3 after an imprisonment of eleven <1f40>1 weeks during which time she layed in in the house of correction-- she was permitted to affirm &c--and to subscribe her married name-- Their Society sued Mr Sidley and Mr Charlton (the two com- mitting Justices) for this false imprisonment. The action being local, was brought on at Nottingham assizes--They did not appear, and <3wer>3 being non-suited were sued for 15 pound, law expenses-- were arrested--brought from home in the depth while the pains <1f40v>1 of travail were on her--brought to bed & miscarried--lost her senses--after 21 weeks and a few days set at liberty without paying the debt--the particulars these--The Husband and Wife had em- ployed an attorney to get a rule to take you into court to obtain their groats--when the attorney examined the Rolls in London, their names were not to be found--could Mr Hartshorn (the High Sheriff) payed the debt and gave them a <1f41v>1 guinea--After they were a little while at liberty, they were at liberty they were excommunicated--Mrs Row (the sister of Mrs Bush) <3wer>3 was <3in>3 cited to appear by their <1maiden>1 names--the fa- ther of the Husband &c. The Bailiffs rushed into the room a week and two days after de- livery--<3forced her to go>3 a month however they permitted her-- Mrs Row committed to prison immediately--in prison for contempt 1 of court--have been in prison nine years. Years 1 2 3 11 weeks-- 21 weeks-- nine years They wlll not declare their children Bastards--They will give a bond as a whole society--but a bond is required for each one-- <1f42v>1 237 G.233 cast lots for. <1f43>1 238 G.234 call themselves Quakers have not silent meetings <1f44v>1 239 G.235 O Lord Thou art my God, I will exalt thee I will praise thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things. 1796-1797 [243 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee. O may we trust in thee for ever for in thee O Lord Jehovah is everlasting Strength. In the way of thy Judgments may we wait for thee! May the desire of our soul be towards thy name, & to the remem- brance of thee. With our souls may we desire thee in the night; With our spirit within us May we seek thee early; for when thy Judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness <1f45>1 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose most holy name is Love. 240 G.236 Hymns Moon <1f45v>1 In a cave in the mountains of Cashmere an Image of Ice, which makes its appearance thus-- ["] two days before the new <1moon>1 there appears a bubble of Ice which increases in size every day till the l5th day, at which it is an ell or more in height: then as the moon decreases, the Image ["] does also till it vanishes. Read the whole 107th page of Maurice's Indostan. 241 G.237 Sun <1f47>1 Hymns--Remember to look at Quintius Curtius --lib. 3 Cap. 3 & 4. Major Rennell 242 G.238 Perrault sur les loix de la Nature. De Boffe. 243 G.239 To give the common people philosophic or meta- <1f47v>1 physical notions, whether of Religion, or the Principles of Govern- ment, is evidently to unfit them for their proper station in the com- monwealth or state. In the different ranks of understanding or in- tellectual capacity there must be that of vulgar men, as well as that of men who are fit for public Virtue and political Wisdom: the one of these must be ruled by Superstition & by Law, the other must see the Principle upon which Men are to be <3ru>3 ruled. But to give the ignorant any power, however mediate or distant, in the governing <1f48>1 244 1795-1797 of the state, is surely to depart from the broad rule of Wisdom learned in the broad Experience of mankind. Hutton's Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge--Vol. III. 548. <1f49>1 244 G.240 Water-- Thales.-- 245 G.241 Air &c--Five Mathem. spend every night in the lofty tower--one directs his eye to the zenith--2nd to tne E. 3rd to the W.4.S.5th N. They take notice of the wind & rain and stars-- Grand Observatory in Pekin.-- 246 G.242 Water <2Wkeanon te gar kai Ththun, epoihsan ths genesews pateras,>2 <2kai ton orkon twn thewn udwr, thn kaloumenhn up'autwn Stuga>2 <2twn poihtwn. timiwtaton men gar to presbutaton: orkos de>2 <2to timiwtaton estin.>2 Arist. Metaph. 1. 1 C. 3. 247 G.243 <2Wkeanon te thewn genesin kai mhtera Ththun>2 <1f52>1 248 G.245 Similarity of sensation the cause of our common error in supposing external [?properties/prototypes] 249 G.246 By obliging every one always to do that which to him shall seem in the then present time and circumstances conducive to the public good: or by enjoining the observation of some de- terminate Laws, which if universally obeyed would produce uni- versal happiness.-- 250 G.247 <1f53>1 The tongue can't stir when the mouth is cramm'd with earth A little mould fills up most eloquent mouths And a square stone with a few pious texts Cut neatly on it, keeps the mould down tight. 251 G.248 Sancho <1f53v>1 Why now I think on't at this time of the year 'Tis hid by vines. I am glad he is proud therewith It had been a damning thing to have remained An opium chewer with such excellent grapes Over his cottage. Osorio. Wouldst thou break thy word For a purse of gold? Sancho. I am compact my Lord Osorio. You must deliver to this Ferdinand A Letter. Go! Prepare yourself. Exit Sancho. Osorio. The cavern's a fit place and he [. . . . .] By my deception [. . . .] Iam <3too honest for the sapient world>3 A little mould it The tongue can't stir when the mouth is cramm'd with earth To send me hunting after his [?Brothers] <1f54>1 [?And/Mind] pass him [. . .] for an unknown [. . .] [. . . . . . .] Did not my purposes require <3his>3 their death I'll hug him for his wit--and [?to prison then] I was to kill myself, to shew my conscience-- And this tall Moor--by heaven! 'twas well enough O Albert! Friend--he hath much of his manner His bosom friend--O he would tell Sad tales of Albert's life and death and travels. That she might love--yea and she would love He that can sighing whimper with a woman And tell long stories all about her lover He takes his place for certain! Dusky rogue <1f54v>1 Were it not sport to roll upon my grave 252] JUNE 1797-JULY 1800 And shake thy sides with laughter? Blood! my blood! They want my blood! [. - - - -] <1f55>1 252 G.249 Gros Bedford By crossing despair of improving this Breed, And wearied to Bedfordshire hasten indeed. 253 G.25o Grenville's merits ought to keep him up but the sense of his own merit, as a paper balloon Kept aloft by the smoke of its own farthing Can- dle-- <1f55v>1 254 G.251 92 Are brilliancy & softness combinable-- 95 101 abominable-- 106 just 112 saying that bad passions coexist without shewing them is nothing- 116 117 unnatural 126 Why must every Man be Godwin--'tis the pedantry of Atheism--Robespierre 131 O! O! O!-- 135 And all this after 20 years absence. <1f56>1 In the Book calumny last chapter calumny against nature 149 childish 297 very beautiful 299 generalities cold etc. following particular-- 9 48 172 Charles[?will dare/well done]-- 188 of 3----Fifth Monarchy men 174 Bethlem Gabor--sublime their friendship, but the possibility of the character not made evident. 1795-1800 [258 255 G.252 The only beloved son of his mother here lies <1f60>1 Whom he hath left behind with bitter cries Saying, My Son! Why art thou already gone-- So very soon to the other Region-- Couldest thou but a little longer stay I might have gone with thee that way 256 G.253 Brutal Life--in which we pursue mere corporeal <1f6 v>1 pleasures & interests-- Human Life--in which for the sake of our own Happiness <3we>3 & Glory we pursue studies and objects adapted to our intellectual faculties. Divine Life--when we die to the creatures & to self and become deiform by following the eternal Laws of order from the pure Love of Order & God. 257 G.254 Prayer-- <1f64>1 First Stage--the pressure of immediate calamities without earthy aidance makes us cry out to the Invisible-- Second Stage--the dreariness of visible things to a mind begin- ning to be contemplative--horrible Solitude. Third Stage--Repentance & Regret--& self-inquietude. 4th stage--The celestial delectation that follows ardent prayer-- 5th stage--self-annihilation--the Soul enters the Holy of Holies.-- 258 G.255 Vide Description of a Glory, by John Haygarth, Manchester <1f73v>1 Trans. Vol. 3. p. 463. On the thirteenth of February, 1780, as I was returning to Chester, and ascending, at Rhealt, the mountain which forms the eastern boundary of the Vale of Clwyd,--in the road above me, I was struck with the peculiar appearance of a very white shining cloud, that lay remarkably close to the ground. The Sun was nearly setting but shone extremely bright. I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it; the head of my shadow was surrounded at some distance by a circle of various colours whose centre appeared to <3the eye>3 be near the situation of the eye, and whose circumference extended to the Shoulders. The circle was complete except where the shadow of my body inter- cepted it--it exhibited the most vivid colors red being outermost-- all the colors appeared in the same order & proportion that the rainbow presents to our view--The beautiful colors of the hoarfrost on snow in sun shine--red, green, & blue--in various angles. <1f75v>1 259 G.256 bowed spirit [a] Deep inward stillness & a bowed Soul-- [b] Searching of Heart-- 1 <1lying>1--investiture.-- retirement [d] feeble & sore-broken-- [e] disquietness of my heart-- [f] languishing--pour out my soul. [g] I will open my dark sayings on the Harp! [h] hasten my escape-- [i] inhabit thou his praises-- heritage-- [j] Prevent the dawning of the Morn with prayers [k] My afflicted shouted for Joy--my Weak Ones cried aloud-- [l] O Lord, thou Lover of Souls [m] The People of Perdition-- <1f76>1 260 G.257 Prayer Mrs Estlin's Story of the Maniac who walked round & round. 261 G.258 Epistle to Mrs Wolstoncraft urging her to Reli- gion. Read her Travels. 262 G.259 Sun paints rainbows on the vast waves during snowstorms in the Cape. <1f76v>1 263 G.26o Prayer Speak of my Mother as teaching me to lisp my early prayers. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1796 [272 264 G.261 A word that is clothed about with Death-- Mother of Love, & Fear, & Holy Hope, 265 G.262 stood up beautiful before God-- 266 G.263 And inly agonize mid fruitless Joy, as <2Eunuki>2 that embraceth a virgin & groaneth-- 267 G.264 and ever in his sleep, as in a day of keeping Watch, troubled in the Vision of his Heart; as if he were but even now escaped from a battle. 268 G.265 And with my whole heart sing the stately song Loving the God that made me. 269 G.266 From the snow-drop even till the rich Grape-cluster was heavy-- 270 G.267 the soul that is greatly vexed, that goeth stooping <1f77>1 & feeble-- 271 G.268 The[y] have carried away the dear beloved chil- dren of the Widow--and the husbandless have they left utterly desolate-- 272 G.269 -- [a] Tame the Rebellion of tumultuous thought-- [b] ministration-- [c] sordid adherencies that cohabit with us in this Life-- [d] rolls round his dreary eye-- [e] outweighs the present pressure-- [f] Weigh'd in the balance of the Sanctuary-- [g] God's Image, Sister of the Cherubim-- [h] And re-implace God's Image in the Soul-- [i] well-weaved fallacy-- [j] The greatness of that Perishing-- [k] From Possible to Probable, From Probable to Certain 1796 [l] and arrows steeled with wrath [m] Pleasure dies, like the moment in which it danced <3And Yesterday is>3 it dwells with Yesterday.-- <1f77v>1 [n] abbreviation--:: saddest pressures-- [o] twilight of day, & Harbinger of Joy [p] The eldest daughter of Death (Sin) drest in grave clothes-- [q] Deep sighings-- [r] unbind the poppy garland-- [s] worms & pollution, the sons & daughters of our bones-- [t] Lov'd the same love, & hated the same hate, Breathed in his soul--&c. [u] throned angels--upboyling anguish [v] Leader of a Kingdom of Angels. [w] Love-fires--a gentle bitterness-- [x] Well-spring--<1total God>1 273 G.270 Sick, Lame, & Wounded--Blind, and Deaf and Dumb-- Why sleep ye, O ye Watchman-- Wake from the sleep of whoredom. trim your Lamp-- Sound, sound the Trumpets--for the Bridegroom comes-- O man, thou half-dead Angel-- a dusky light--a purple <1flash>1 crystalline splendor--light blue-- <1Green>1 lightnings.-- <1f78>1 in that eternal and & delirious misery-- wrathfires-- inward desolations-- an horror of great darkness great things that on the ocean counterfeit infinity-- 274 G.271 The quick raw flesh that burneth in the wound-- <1f78v>1 275 G.272 Mr Belsher the bottom of High Street 1796 [280 276 G.273 A Reader of Milton must be always on his Duty: <1f79>1 he is surrounded with sense; it rises in every line; every word is to the purpose. There are no lazy intervals: all has been considered and demands & merits observation. If this be called obscurity, let it be remembered tis such a one as is complaisant to the Reader: not that vicious obscurity, which pro- ceeds from a muddled head &c. 277 G-274 <2Autwn de kai ton oikon plhthei kirhmatwn ex>2 <1f79v>1 <2arpaghs kai bias pros hdonhn te kai lhsteian tous entugki->2 <2anontas parakalwn didaskalos, autois ponhrwn uphrkien>2 <2epithdeumatwn. kai thn apragmosunhn men, h proteron sunezwn>2 <2oi anthrwpoi, metrwn epinoia kai stathmwn metesthsato: akeraion>2 <2autois onta ton bion ek ths toutwn amathias kai to megalopsukion>2 <2eis panourgian periagagwn. Orous ths ghs prwtos etheto kai>2 <2polin edeimato kai teikiesin wkiurwsen,eis tauto sunelthein tous>2 <2oikeious katanagkasas.>2 Josep. Antiq. lib. 1. Cap. 2. 278 G.275 But Mr Porson, the republisher of Heyne's Virgil, <1f80>1 is a giant in literature, a prodigy in intellect, a critic whose mighty atchievements leave imitation panting at a distance behind them, and whose stupendous Powers strike down all the restless and aspir- ing suggestions of rivalry into silent admiration & passive awe. Remarks on the statement of Dr Charles Combe. Page 13. 279 G.276 <2thobelos [Ioubhlos] de twn ek ths eteras>2 <1f80v>1 <2(Sellas) gegonotwn iskiui pantas uperbalwn ta polemika>2 <2diaprepws methlthen. ek toutwn kai ta pros hdonhn tou>2 <2swmatos ekporizwn kialkeian prwtos epenohse.>2 Jos. lib. i. Cap. 2 280 G.277 <1Ham>1--lustful rogue--Vide Bayle under the Ar- Nimrod, the first king, taught Idolatry,& persecuted for Reli- gion's sake. He was the first who wore a crown--(according to the 1795-1796 Persian writers) having seen one in the Heavens--made war for conquest-- <1f83v>1 281 G.278 Gifford's Letter to the Earl of Lauderdale. <1f84>1 282 G.279 Hermsprong--Man as he is not 283 G.280 Six o clock. Light the fires. Clean out the kitchen. Put on the Tea kettle. Clean the Insides of the Boiling Pot. Shoes &c. C. and B Eight o'clock. Tea things &c. put out & after cleaned up. Sara. One o'clock--spit the meat. B & C Two o'clock Vegetables &c. Sara Three o'clock--Dinner. Half past three--10 minutes for clearing Dishes-- <1f84v>1 284 G.281 Desiderata One pair of Candlesticks 7/6 One set of better China --6 Two tubs & a Pail-- %%--1 A Pipe 10 Six Blankets %%3-- 5 pair Sheets of the finer Order <3One>3 Two pair for <3Servant>3 A <3pair>3 set of Curtains A Counterpane 1--10 Half a dozen Dishes Half a dozen Soup plates Half a dozen Basons Mem--A Cheese Toaster Potatoe Roaster Four Urine pots. <1f85>1 Two beds Four Blankets One Quilt Two Chest of Drawers Portable [. . .] Necessary alias Cl. Stool Three Kettles 1795-1796 [286 Two Boilers Three Spits A Jack Two Sets of China--&c Pewter & Earthen Ware Two Tables/ Fender, Pokers &c One Looking Glass--one smaller Two or three dozen of Bottles-- Tea Boards 285 G.282 0 ..6.. 0 <1f85v>1 0..10..0 13..6 0..10..0 2..10..0 W 5..15..0 W 3.. 0..0 W 1..10..0 0..10..0 1.. 0..0 0.. 2..0 0.. 2..0 1.. 1..0 17..09..6 17..14..6 10.. 5..0 16..6 286 G.283 Founded by Joseph of Arimathia--first Church in Britain--built with Wattles--Joseph of Arimathia buried there-- King Arthur's tomb discovered in the time of Henry the Sec. 287] 1795-1796 <1f86>1 287 G.284 Secret Journal of a Self Observer or Confessions and Letters from the German by J. C. Lavater. 2 vols.--Octavo. Cadell & Davies. 288 G.285 Avalonian Isle <1f86v>1 289 G.286 thy [?specious/specimen] [. . .] 290 G.287 Thy stern and sullen eye, & thy dark brow Chill me, like dew-damps of th'unwholesome Night My love, a timorous and tender Flower, Closes beneath thy Touch, unkindly man! Breath'd on by gentle gales of Courtesy And cheer'd by sunshine of impassion'd Look <3It>3 then opes its petals of no vulgar hues. 291 G.288 Furniture %%--92 Carriage for ourselves & other luggage 18 %%110 292 G.289 Remark that young Man's Eyebrows too very beautiful-- 293 G.290 <1f87>1 Grant me a Patron, gracious Heaven! whene'er My unwash'd Follies call for Penance, drear! But <3if>3 when more hideous Guilt <3still>3 this heart infests Instead of <3redhot>3 fiery Coals upon my Pate O let a <1titled>1 Patron be my Fate. That fierce Compendium of A|Egyptian Pests--! Right Reverend Dean, Right Honorable Squire, Lord, Marquis, Earl, Duke, Prince, or if aught higher, However proudly nicknam'd, he shall be Anathema Maranatha to me.-- 1796-1798 [305 294 G.291 Delicia|e poetarum Scotticorum--two poems of the <1f87v>1 admirable Creichton in them. 295 G.292 With skill that never Alchemist yet told Ma<3kes>3de drossy Lead as ductile as pure Gold 296 G.293 Foul stream--House of Commons' Consciences 297 G.294 Mem--to speak to Cottle concerning Selections &c <1f88v>1 --and setting up in printing-- 298 G.295 Mem Brown--B 299 G.296 and not enduring to travel the turnpike to Heaven make a short cut thro' Hell-- 300 G.297 13 Guine[a]s with & 12 without Furniture-- <1f89>1 301 G.298 Butterworth's Origin of Evil.-- 302 G.299 Institutes of Hindoo Law--or the Ordinances of Menu--Debrett. 303 G.3oo ingenium ei esse oppido magnum sed contumacius quam ut arte regi posset; dictionem ingenio parem, animosam, et inamoenam tragice que feralem. 304 G.301 Abergenny--20 miles over the passage <1f89v>1 305 G.3O2 Erskine Burke Priestley Fayette 1 2 3 4 Kosciusko Bowles Stanhope 5 6 Wakefield Schiller Th. C. J.H. 9 10 Robespierre Genev. Brook Kiss 8 7 Prostitute Pitt Siddons 11 12 13 <1f2>1 306 21.1 From Joseph Cottle to his valued Friend S. T. Coleridge-- Bristol Decr the 6. 1797-- <1f3>1 307 21.9 Prudens Interrogatio dimidium scientia|e. Lord Bacon. 308 21.1o We should judge of absent things by the absent. Objects which are present are apt to produce perceptions too strong to be impartially compared with those recalled only by memory. Sir J. Steuart./ 309 21.11 A man of delicate perceptions may acquire a great deal of prescience relative to government by paying great attention to the opinions & turn of mind of men between 20 & 30 years of age. 310 21.12 Qua|ere. How far the residence of Bishops in cities was instrumental to the cause of Science & liberty--during the feudal times. 311 21.13 Et nos tela, Pater, ferrumque haud debile dextra Spargimus, et nostro sequitur de <3sanguis>3 vulnere sanguis. 312 21.14 Xstianity an imposture, the scriptures a forgery, the worship of God superstition, Hell a fable, Heaven a dream, our Life without providence & our death without Hope--&c. DECEMBER 1797 [321 313 21.15 Fabulas et errores ab imperitis parentibus dis- <1f3v>1 cimus; & quod est gravius, ipsis studiis et disciplinis elaboramus. Min. Fel. 314 21.16 The picture of a horse sprawling--you have got the wrong Way--tis a horse galloping. 315 21.17 Twas not a mist, nor was it quite a cloud, But it pass'd smoothly on towards the Sea Smoothly & lightly betwixt Earth & Heaven. 316 21.18 So thin a cloud-- It scarce bedimm'd the Star that shone behind it. 317 21.19 And Hesper now Paus'd on the welkin's blue & cloudless brink, A golden circlet! while the Star of Jove, That other lovely Star, high o'er my head Shone whitely in the center of his Haze. 318 21.2o --one black-blue Cloud Stretched, like the heavens o'er all the cope of Heaven 319 21.21 Doing nothing ends in being nothing--- <1f4>1 320 21.22 The Vulgar the closer they shut their eyes the <1f3v>1 wider they open their hands.-- 321 21.23 Promises <1f4>1 The independents in Cromwell's time held--That whatsoever they said or did for the present, under such a measure of light, should oblige them no longer when a greater measure of light should give them other discoveries.-- 322] DECEMBER 1797 322 21.2 <1flv>1 Mr Hill W. F. Collard 26 Cheapside <1f4>1 323 21.24 Gratitude worse than Witchcraft--conjures up the pale mea- gre ghosts of dead, forgotten kindnesses, to haunt & trouble him-- 324 21.25 The sot rolling on his Sopha stretching & yawning exclaimed--Utinam hoc esset laborare.-- 325 21.26 The House of Commons like Noah's Ark--a few men and many beasts.-- 326 21.27 old, palsied, & toothless generallties-- 327 21.28 South's Sermons--Vol. v. S. 4. p.165---Christ, the great Sun of Righteousness & Saviour of the World, having by a glorious rising after a red & bloody setting, proclaimed his Deity to men & angels--& by a complete triumph over the two grand <1f4v>1 enemies of mankind sin & death set up the everlasting Gospel in the room of all false religions has now (as it were) changed the Persian superstition into the Christian Devotion; & without the least ap- proach to the Idolatry of the former made it henceforth the Duty of all nations, Jews & Gentiles, to worship the rising Sun.-- --Dupuis-- In the same Sermon Hume's argument against miracles is clearly stated & put in Thomas's mouth--But I am told & required &c-- p.171. "Now surely things suitable to the stated course of nature should be believed before such as are quite beside it and for a dead to return to Life, is preternatural; but that those who report this may be mistaken, is very natural & usual.-- 328 21.29 Snails of intellect, who see only with their Feel- ers.-- 329 21.30 The reed-roof'd Village, still bepatch'd with snow Smok'd in the sun-thaw. 330 21.32 Infancy & Infants-- <1f5>1 1. The first smile--what kind of <1reason>1 it displays--the first smile after sickness.-- 2. Asleep with the polyanthus held fast in its hand, its bells drooping over the rosy face. 3. Stretching after the stars.-- 4. Seen asleep by the light of glowworms. 5. Sports of infants--their incessant activity, the <1means>1 being the end.--Nature how lovely a school-mistress--A blank-verse, moral poem-- 6. Infant beholding its new-born Sister. 7. Kissing itself in the looking-glass 8. The Lapland Infant, seeing the Sun. 9. An infant's prayer on its mother's Lap. 1 Baby's hand. Hartley's love to Papa--scrawls pothooks, & reads what he <1meant>1 by them.--> 10. The infants of Kings & Nobles,--& The infants of the very poor, especially in cities. <15. Poor Williams seeking his Mother, in love with her Picture --& having that vision of Beauty & filial affection, that the Virgin Mary may be supposed to give.> 11. The Souls of Infants, a vision--(vide Swedenborg--) 12. Some tales of an Infant. <16. Exhort a young man to despise wealth, & marry a beautiful woman--at all events marry for Love.--> 13. <2Storgh-->2 the absurdity of the Darwinian System--Birds-- Allegators. 14. The wisdom & graciousness of God in the infancy of the human species--its beauty, long continuance &c &c. <1f48v>1 331 21.256 (a fine epitheton of Man would be, Lord of Fire and Light.--All other Creatures, whose existence we perceive, are mere Alms-receivers of both.) 332 21.257 A company of children driving an hungry hard- skinned Ass out of a corn-field, the ass cannot by such weaklings be driven so hard but he will feed as he goes. 333 21.258 Such light as Lovers love--when the Moon steals in behind a black black Cloud, Emerging soon enough to make the Blush visible, which the long Kiss had kindled.-- 334 21.259 All our notions husked in the phantasms of Place & Time, that still escape the finest sieve & most searching Winnow of our Reason & Abstraction.-- 335 3.1 <1f1>1 Tuesday Night [Sept.] 18th, 1798 Over what place does the Moon hang to your eye, my dearest Sara? To me it hangs over the left bank of the Elbe and a long trembling road of moonlight comes transversely from the left bank, reaches the stern of our Vessel, & there it ends.--We have dropped anchor in the middle of this grand Stream, 37 miles from Cux- haven. We arrived at Cuxhaven this morning at eleven o'clock, after an unusually fine passage of only 48 hours--/Chester was ill the Whole time--Wordsworth shockingly ill! --Miss Wordsworth worst of all--vomiting & groaning & crying the whole time!--And I the whole time as well as I ever was--neither sick or giddy. The sea rolled rather high, but I found the motion pleasant to me. At <1f1v>1 Cuxhaven the Captain agreed that he would take us up to Ham- burgh for a guinea a piece--to which we assented--& shall be there, if no fogs intervene, tomorrow morning.--The Ocean is a noble thing by night--/the foam that dashes against the vessel, beautiful. White clouds of Foam roaring & rushing <3the Sea>3 by the side SEPTEMBER 1798 [335 of the Vessel with multitudes of stars of flame that danced and sparkled & went out amidst it--light skirmishes--/First sight of land a [ba]rren Island--the main land--low, flat, dreary--with light-houses & land-marks, scarce able to hold its head above water./ --From this the mouth of the Elbe--could not see but one shore/ Cuxhaven--/can see both in clear weather--banks neat, & flat, & quite artificial--Steeple & windmill, & cottage, & wind mill & house & steeple & wind mill & wind mill, & neat house, & steeple. beautiful Island 40 miles from Cuxhaven. 40 miles from Cuxhaven--Shore increases in beauty--green, & <1f2>1 the trees close to the water, with neat houses & sharp steeples, some white, some black, and some red, peering over them.--On the right bank the greatest profusion of Churches--/--/--The trees & Houses are low--sometimes the low trees overtopping the lower houses, sometimes the houses overtopping the low trees--/& both right & left bank green to the brink & level with the water, like a park Canal--16 miles from Hamburgh--i.e. 46 from Cuxhaven-- on the left bank, belonging (all the way to Denmark) the Village of Veder with a black steeple--& close by it without a church the pastorally wild Village of Schulau/& then the Left bank rises 30 feet at least above the water, a sandy facing with thin patches of green like the banks about Shurton Bars--& looking upward, along <1f2v>1 the sand banks you see <3black>3 highlands brown, and barren, & with patches of naked sand--/--reach these highlands, & came to Blankanese, a very wild village scattered amidst scattered trees in three divisions over three hills--<3yet>3 in divisions yet seemingly con- tinuous--each hill towards the river has a facing of bare sand, & <3bare>3 in boats with bare poles standing in files along the banks in fantastic harmony in between each facing, a dell <3of>3 green & woody --/--and here first we saw the spires of Hamburgh.-- From Blankanese up to Altona the left Bank of the Elbe very pretty--high & green & <3tufted>3 prettily planted with Trees--houses near the water in the midst of Trees, & Summer houses, &c <3upon the>3 all up the Banks./--all neat & comfortable--like a rural place <1f3>1 townified for the Citizens who come here from Altona & Hamburgh to drink & smoke their pipes on Sundays.-- --At Altona got ourselves & Baggage into a boat--and passed 336] SEPTEMBER 1798 with some trouble thro' the huge Masses of Shipping that choke the wide Elbe from Altona up to Hamburgh, for more than half a mile--/--Saw a boat going down for Hamburg--crammed with all people of all nations with pipes of all shapes, & fancies, strait & wreathed, long & short, cane, clay, tin & silver <& ivory>--/--Dutch Women with huge umbrella hats shooting out half a yard from their eyes--& with a prodigality of petticoats--the Hamburghers with caps plated on the <3Top>3 cawl with a sort of silver & a stiff canopy-kind of Veil over their eyes with hanging <3lace>3 lace fringe-- the Hanoverian Women with the forepart of the Head bare/then <1f3v>1 a stiff lace standing quite upright like a wall, & the Cap behind finale1d with a monstrous of Ribbon which lies on the back.--Their Visnomies are like a goodly Banner spread in defi- ance? Young men dashing English Bucks--their fine Ladies Eng- lish in the newest fashions & all rouge.--Their Streets narrow & fetid--& the Gable Ends of the Houses towards the street, some in the ordinary Triangle <3Shape>3 Form, but most of them [D] shapified with more than Chinese Grotesqueness--But the Sky & the Clouds, & the Moonlight thro' them is as if I were at Stowey.-- Sept. 18th--The fine contrast between the uproar of solitary Deso- lation in the Ocean, & the silence of the populous-banked Elbe-- at night.-- <1f4>1 336 3.2 Sep. 19--Sea gulls flying about the Fishermen's Boats. Women rowing the boats with hats of various materials in the shape of punch-bowls.--Sep. 19th--Afternoon 4o' clock.--Arrive at the Custom House. While Wordsworth went <3with the agreeable>3 <3Frenchmen>3 to seek an Hotel, I dashed into the town to deliver my letters of recommendation--Von Axen embarrassed me by his high & solemn politeness as well as by the difficulty he found in under- standing me. I left him abruptly/called on Remnant--not at home! --Called on Mr. Chatterley/an odd beast! He asked me drily if I would take a cup of Tea.--Yes!--An old woman poured into her hand out of the Tea Cannister what <1I>1 thought a very small portion <1f4v>1 --Oh! Oh! Oh! (exclaimed Chatterley) and she returned part of it into the Tea Cannister.--The Emigrant's Servant came & guided SEPTEMBER 1798 [337 me to Der Wilder Man <1[Der Wilde Mann]>1--where after much difficulty lodgings had been procured--My bedroom looked into & commanded the market-place./-- 337 3.3 Sept. 20th.--Awaked by the distressful cries of poultry crowing & clucking in the market-place.--Reviewed my ex- pences from Yarmouth to Hamburgh-- %% s d 0 3 6 Fee to the Searcher. 0 12 6 Passport. 0 6 0 Bill at the Inn 0 1 0 Porterage to the Pier 0 3 6 Boat. N.B. Each passenger pays 2/6 for himself, <1f5>1 & a shilling for each box or parcel, he may have.-- 3 3 0 Passage money. 1 1 0 Provisioning.-- 0 10 6 Fees to the Mate, Steward, and Sailors. N.B. The least sum possible.-- 0 10 6 Passage from Cuxhaven to Altona./Had I gone in the ordinary way, it <1must>1 have been double this sum. 0 1 0 Boat for self & portmanteau from Altona to Ham- burgh.-- 0 2 0 Porterage &c from the Quay to the Inn. 6 14 6 p.s. For Babies they charge nothing on board the pacquet--for children above 5 years old, half-price Sept. 20th--<3Friday>3 Thursday Morning-- 10o'clock. Called on <1f5v>1 Chatterley who introduced me to his Partner, Mr. Klopstock, who could not speak a word of English, but was kind & courteous. Went & fetched Wordsworth--& he & Klopstock talked in French.--Kl. took us to Professor Ebeling--a lively intelligent man with an ear- trumpet--/Passa Oglou not a Rebel, <3nor>3 but a Turkish Constitu- tionalist, at the head of the Party who <3are>3 oppose all the Innova- tions & Gallicisms &c of the Seraglio--A sturdy Mahometan--if the 338] SEPTEMBER 1798 Grand Seignior will consent to adopt the old principles of the Turk- ish Constitution, ready to submit & become the Meanest of his Slaves. Hawkins, who informed the Professor of this, has been <1f7>1 travelling in Greece & Italy--The Grecians an interesting & estima- ble people--many mindful of the Fuimus Graii--impatient of the Turkish Yoke, but do not love the French.--/--Anecdote of Hoche at Dusseldorf--the Map-maker &c--/--The Emathian Conqueror & house of Pindarus.--Vide.--Milton's Sonnet.-- Saw at Klopstock's a bust of his Brother/there appeared a solemn & heavy greatness in the countenance.--Saw a fine picture there of Lessing--No comprehensiveness in the Forehead; but large eyes & fine mouth/A man of light fancy, acute not in observation of actual life; but in the management of the ideal world.--His eyes apparently not unlike mine-- <1f7v>1<3Fri>3Thursday, 3o'clock. Dined at the Saxe Hotel; detestably cheated.--6o'clock. Went to the French Comedy--Execrable. Count Vatron, on Subordination. First act/a court Martial is to be held on the Count Who has drawn his sword on the Colonel--<3sentences of>3 Officers plead with the Colonel--The Colonel's Sister is the Count's Wife--She pleads in most tempestuous agonies--& faints away/; Second Act--Sentence of Death passed. Third Act--/--The Sol- diers just going to fire, when "Reprieve Reprieve" is heard.--This is all. The pathos made up of the Wife's frantic & hysterical Rant- ing.--The After-piece very flat, but with some pretty music-- Supplement to Thursday, 20th Women in the market--/Bacon, small dough dumpling, & boiled Pears for Vegetables--/others Beef & Cabbage-- 338 3.4 <1f6>1 Beef-- 4 or fourpence halfpenny per lb. 2 2/8GG Mutton-- ditto--20 pf. Veal-- 6d or 7d--1 4/8" Pork 5d--2 4/8 Goose--a fat goose 4d--1Th Turkey 8 or 9d--1Th 8GG Fowls-- 14d a couple--12GG SEPTEMBER 1798 [338 Bread--the same as in England/10 pf. the lb. Butter 9d per pound or 10d 8 GG Cheese/good for nothing English & 4d a pound or more/3 GG Eggs half penny a piece 12 GG Vegetables enormously dear/--Peas/5d a pound potatoes 12 GG d. Schefel <1[Scheffel]>1 Soap 6d a pound 4 GG-- Coffee--22 pence 17 GG Sugar --24 pence--16 GG Tea, pretty good for 6 marks a pound. 2Th Fuel/Coals by the <3Ton Weight>3 & more than double in the winter. what 4 ponies bear is called a Fudder <1[Fuder]>1 Clafter <1[Klafter]>1 5Th Buchen 9Th Candles 8d a pound-- 5 GG Milk/rather cheaper than in England/Mass 1 GG Wine & Spirits Beer--two pence a bottle & two pence half-penny/--a can of beer 1 GG Port 16d up to 2 shillings. <1f6v>1 Ordinary Wine 8d a bottle. Good Claret--a mark Best Claret--half a dollar--i.e. 2s Old Hock--from a mark up to 7 mark Brandy Fr.--20d a bottle-- 16 GG somewhat more than a bottle called a Mass Rum-- 16d--20 GG Gin--i.e. Corn Brandy--/6d or 7 Arrack. 1-Th 4G Cloth much dearer--making much cheaper Linen from 6" to a Gulden d. Ell Shoes 1Th--16 GG Fish Cheap in Spring. Mackarel Forellen 18 GG plb. Eels Smerling <1[Schmerle]->1-60 for 16 GG Pike Hecht 4 GG p1b-- Carp <3Salted>3 Smoked Salmon Cod 339] SEPTEMBER 1798 Game, sold in the markets--/Hare 8 GG properly but often 1/2 a Th Raisins-- 3 GG 4 Pf. a lb. Currants Spices Salt/very cheap--/-- <1f8>1 339 3.5 Friday, Sept. <320>3 21th/Went to John Frederic Hauze to enquire about John Taylor's Carriage--May have it for 7 guineas.--Went with Mr Klopstock to the Voiturier to look at Carriages--nothing under 30 guineas--& these very bad.--Dined at Der Wilder Man at the Ordinary.--Soup--then a long interval-- Patience at at a German Ordinary Smiling at <3gri>3 Time-- Some hung beef--& unsalted boiled beef, cut out in slices & handed round in plates--each man takes a slice with his fork.-- Vegetables--Carrots stewed in butter--and french Beans with their seeds stewed in some condiment--I know not what--/another In- <1f8v>1 terval. Then came round the Slices of roast Beef, roasted Juiceless --a good Sallad--Then slices of roast Pork/Then some Orleans Plumbs, by way of Desert./ --4 o'clock. Went with Klopstock to his Brother's who lives ten minutes walk from the Gates--/Much disappointed in his counte- nance--/Saw no likeness to the Bust & no comprehensiveness in the Forehead--no massiveness in the countenance in general/no expres- sion or peculiarity in the eyes--Toothless in the upper jaw--under jaw all black Teeth/--A very lively, kind, courteous Man, who <3talked>3 talked with Wordsworth for an hour; but shewed no great depth in any thing. He thought Glover's blank verse superior to <1f9>1 Milton's--& knew nothing of the older German Poets, & talked a great deal of nonsense about the superior power of concentering meaning in the German Language.--Shewed us a superb Edition of his works new printing--two Volumes, containing his Odes, printed--price 40 Shillings the Volume--/dearer than the same sort of books in England--told us <3he>3 that his first Ode was 50 years older than his last. I looked at him/considered him as the venerable Father of German Poetry/as a good man & a Christian/74 years old, & with legs monstrously swelled--yet active, & lively, & chear- SEPTEMBER 1798 [341 ful, & communicative/& the Tears came into <3his>3 my eyes/& could I have made myself invisible & inaudible, I should have wept out- <1f9v>1 right.--In the picture of Lessing, he has a Toupee, Perriwig which enormously injured the effect of his Physiognomy.--Klopstock wore the same powdered &c--/it had an ugly look.--Honor to Poets & great men. You think of them as parts of nature/& any thing of Trick & Fashion wounds you as if you were to see epau- lettes dangling from an Orange Tree.-- 340 3.6 Saturday <321>3 22st --In a state of Oscillation be- tween Weimar & some village near Hamburg--Frightened at the expences of Travelling to Weimar according to the accounts of the English Travellers--those accounts positively contradicted by Ger- <1f10>1 mans.--Baldwin told us that it might cost us 60 & must cost us 40 guineas. Remnant & the Germans all affirm that it is impossible that it should cost us, provisions, & all--and including all calculable im- positions, more than 15%%--What a difference--can believe no body. --astonishing laxity & inaccuracy of men's minds--good sense how rare-- In the evening bought Burger 2 Vol. Klopstock's Odes, 2 Vol.-- Matthieson, Mu%ller, S<3ch>3tolberg, and Lessing's fables--cost %%1,3s 6d--The Shop near the Jungfern Stieg--delightful young men in it--/fine heads of Jacobi, Wieland, Schiller, & Goethe-- 341 3.7 Sunday, September 23rd-- <1f10v>1 Shops, half of them open as on other days/A Woman ironing. Inclined to strict Sabbatism myself--church of St. Nicholas--largest organ I ever saw/profuse of all ornaments except Worshippers/ Their attendance, inconceivably thin. Hamburghers not irreligion- ists, only they have no Religion. --French Comedy at night--this is the third time only/the in- habitants had been long struggling for the permission which had been refused by the aldermen as irreligious & indecent--/one gate to be open<3ed>3able at night after October-- Sunday, 23rd--Set off in stage--a sort of rude resemblance to an <1f11>1 English stage Coach, but larger--elephant's ear to the human/-- 342] SEPTEMBER 1798 On the top naked boards of different colours, that had been <2ws dokei,>2 parts of different wainscots/--leathern curtains with one eye of glass, for windows--/the same back seats so windowed, i.e. curtained--the curtains would not come close--terribly cold--/the coach lined with cut-velvet--/The four horses harnessed simply with ropes, which when they stopped lay upon the ground--/Met a Capitaine Cruse, who talked latin all the way with me, & pre- vented all impositions/as we came out of Hamburgh, much struck with the neat & festal lightness of the country houses--some houses of entertainment, some private--/all neat, & crowded with neat holiday-dressed people--/boys playing/One on a high trunk of a Tree swinging round & round a black skin & the others shouting & running round & round/but the particulars I could not learn-- <1f11v>1 Went into some cottages & ale-houses all alike, except in size-- One great room, like a barn with a hay & corn-loft over it--the straw etc of the upper story peeping & dangling in straws & tufted thro' the boards--/from this huge room, which is paved, sometimes one, sometimes two rooms are inclosed/--In the large room the Cattle & the Men, & the Children, pigs & poultry, &c, lived--but yet it seemed comfortable & seldom dirty//and the buildings were sub- stantial & neat/The wood-work of the building unplastered<3&>3as in old houses among us, & being painted, some red, some green, cut & tesselate the houses very prettily.--From within three miles of Hamburg almost to Molln (30 miles from Hamburg) a flat & dreary country, varied occasionally by woods in the distance/Near Molln it becomes beautiful--a lake with groves round, & all exactly like a nobleman's grounds--a palace in view, King of England/ forest-inspector's <1f12>1 342 3.8 Monday, Sep. 24--Ratzburgh--the houses neat, the streets clean, the town altogether very pretty & wholesome-- islanded by the lake, or rather by four pieces of water that com- municate with each other by cuts & streamlets--You enter the town SEPTEMBER 1798 [344 <3thro>3' on a road (white & sandy) between two pieces of water that appear perfectly distinct--Pass over a bridge which with the sol- diers on it has a fine military appearance--the shores of the lake just often enough green & bare to give the proper effect to the magnificent Groves which mostly fringe it--/each piece of water large enough for <3enough>3 a whole--yet there are points where omnes omneunt in unum--beauty & magnitude which gives a differ- ent impression than that of mere beauty without encroaching on <1fl2v>1 softness/feminine grandeur! --Exquisite Walks/for Autumn & for Winter/the tints on the trees & lakes--the icicles & the snow./-- Necessary Houses/ Delivered my letter to the Baliff Bruner. very kindly received, & dined with him/I found from him that I had been much misin- formed respecting the cheapness of lodging & boarding/it could not be had under three marks a day--i.e. 21 per week/--Heard a good pun about Buonaparte--Dinner/was pot-luck, which I was glad off --/It consisted of some indifferent soup/of vegetables variously dressed, of boild pears, of pancakes, & a very small piece of meat, roasted to nothing--The women & children eat no meat/-- 343 3.9 Tuesday,Sept.25th--Dined ar the Table-d'hote/ Wine Soup with currants in it--then French Beans with the beans in them, dressed, pleasantly enough, with sauces--sausages, some fish from the lake--perch, I believe--& mutton roasted--scanty din- <1f13>1 ner, not equal in any respect to the Table-d'hote at der Wilder man, & the same expence./All very polite & respectful.--Went this eve- ning to the concert--when I came in, an officer, who spoke English, desired in German <3that>3 Rule Brittania, which immediately struck up--& several of the company bowed to us--/--All absolutely Eng- lish, Women, men, & manners.--That night sate up till 4 in the morning, & versified 200 lines/went to bed, could not sleep--saw a curious instance of single & double vision--/-- 344 3.10 Wednesday, Sept. 26th--Walked, enamoured more and more of the walks/--Agreed with a Pastor [?Unrike/ Unruhe] for boarding & lodging for myself & Chester--36 Marks a week for both, & we find our own wine & Tea & Washing.--A 345] SEPTEMBER 1798 Feast at the Table d'hote--in honor of Nelson's Victory.--The <1f13v>1 Colonel, the military governor, all live--full of attention--a fat, fatherly officer--an excellent dinner, but horribly long--A sort of sausage inclosed in cabbage, looks on the plate, like a large Cabbage --The Colonel very attentive to me indeed--so were all. I was half-tipsy.-- 345 3.11 Thursday, Sep. 27th--Return by extra-post as far as Empfelde by a different road--dam'd bad roads thro' damn'd delightful woods/all the gable ends with [D] --postillion & horses eat breakfast together of the same bread &c--a most beautiful woman about 5 miles from Ratzeburgh--at a farm Inn--/At Emfelde the Postillion patted a 24 Shilling piece, meaning that I <1f14>1 was to give him that--curst him in German & gave him nothing for a punishment.--Walked to Hamburgh--deep sandy roads & a dreary country.--The soil of the arable fields exceedingly pulver- ized/--/The approach to Hamburgh very sweet/trees in piazzas & rails before the houses with green seats in them/better than if a better taste.--The vast ramparts, so green & cushion-like, & trees eloquent of the long peace/-- 346 3.12 Friday, September 28th--Wordsworth & Sister de- termined to go on, & seek, lower down, obscurer & cheaper Lodg- ings without boarding--/--Bought a Luther's Bible, 3 marks & 4 pence--and Herder's Popular Songs, 7 marks--called on Remnant who assured me that <3we>3 our terms at Ratzeburgh were reasonable <1f14v>1 --Every thing more than doubled since the French Revolution/ Hamburghers have all three kinds of weight, &c--After dinner walked with Wordsworth to Altona--found the Prostitutes all in one street/had seen none before.--Child on Ramparts riding on a saddled goat.--Divine sunset/rich light deeper than sand over the Woods that blackened in the blaze--a brassy mist seemed to float on that part of the wood immediately under the intenser blaze--/The Trees & moving People on the Rampart cut by the brassy splendor --all else obscure--/--Stayed over Saturday because the great feast of St Michael--splendid processions &c-- SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1798 [352 347 3.13 Sat. 29th. Feast of St Mich. the patron of Ham- <1f173>1 burgh--Unimpressed no procession, only two or three sermons, preached to nobody in two or three churches, St Michael & his pa- tronage cursed by the higher classes, as the French Comedy is for- bidden on that day--All silent & solemn, a Bristol Sunday. Pleased with the black aprons of the Bourgeois--/Wordsworth & the Baker. 348 21.33 The silence of a City--How awful at midnight-- <1f5v>1 <3As silent as a sleeping Hermit's cell>3, <3Mute as the cell of a sleeping anchoret>3, <3As silent>3 Mute as the battlements & crags & towers That fancy makes in the clouds--yea as mute As the moonlight that sleeps on the steady Vanes,-- The cell of a departed Anchoret, <1f6>1 His skeleton & flitting ghost are there, Sole tenants-- And <3the huge>3 all the City, silent as the moon That steeps in quiet light <3her>3 the steady Vanes Of her huge temples-- 349 21.34 <1Australis-->1David's Son--Joshua's <3Son>3un--Heze- kiah's <3Son>3 Sun.-- Ostrich--cannot fly; but he has such other Qualities that he needs it not--Well in the stalk; but does not kern. 350 3.46 Sterben--to die, decease, depart, depart this life <1f45v>1 starve, breathe your last, expire, give up the ghost, kick up your heels, tip off, tip over the Perch. Sie gellten &c-- 351 3.47 --Washing-bridges over the brooks.-- 352 3.50 Holberg <1fiii>1 Ewald Rabeck Thaarup The Book-Club & Superintendent 353] OCTOBER 1798 Dr Tode Heiberg <1f140v>1 353 31/2.121 Kanopee, the Sopha. That part on which you sit, when it is moveable, like a bed is called Unterkissen/N./oder, Matratze. F. A desk with Drawers, Bureau or Chatto\ll--/A chest of Drawers, Commode--/a little Book Case--Niole.--Anzug--one of the Drawers--Ring & Beschlag--that ring with the brass orna- ment-circle under it, by which you pull out the Drawers. The whole Space of a window is--Fenster-luchten--as in an un- finished or ruined House.--When boarded, &c, the whole visible space is Fenster-bekleidung. The whole Frame is, Fenster-Rahm. M. but the thinner Frames of the Panes. Sprossen. The Panes, Scheiben. F. The things by which a window is kept open, Fenster- haken. Window-shutters--Fenster<3liden>3Laden. That <1wooden>1 part <1f141>1 on which you may lean when you look out at the Window, Fenster- bank. --Fenster-Poster. The Window-posts. The main Crossboards [D] Kreuz-holzer. Fach fenster, the whole of a Window having four partitions.-- Spiegel. Spiegel-Rahm. Frame of the Looking glass.--Laub- werk. The gilded Trompery at the Bottom--/Krone. The Orna- ment on the Top. Stuhl.--Stuhl-gesess--The Seat of the Chair. Ruck-lehne--the Back.--Seiten-Lehne oder Arm-lehne--The Arms. Schrank A chest/<3that stands up right, with great Wirg doors->3 Dru%cker, <3the>3 die Handhabe--an <3die>3 den Schlo%ssern, womit die Schnalle der Klinke aufgedru%cket wird. The Handle of the Latch. --Die Feder in einem Schloss, or die Spring-feder. The Spring of <1f141v>1 the Lock. Vorlag-Schloss N. A Padlock. Der Barich wo die Feder liegt, das Schlu%ssel-loch, <3the Staple der>3 der Riegel, die Zahne eines Schlosses--the Staple, the Key-hole, the Bolt, the Wards. Ein Bund Schlussel--a Bunch of Keys./Ha%nge, Hinges of a Door &c. Uhr.--Uhr-gehause oder Uhrkasten--the Clock Case. Zeiger, minuten or stunde--the Minute & hour-hand. The Weights--die Gewichte. Ofen--Stove. Die OfenKrone, der Ofenfuss--<3The>3 Des Ofens OCTOBERl798 [353 Mundloch. The Mouth Hole of the Oven--Rohr is properly the Flue; but that little arch or piazza-shaped kind of Landing Place in <1f142>1 a German Stove is likewise called Rohr--where you may keep Victuals warm, air a sheet, or dry a wet pair of Shoes--sometimes arched, as the Aisle of a Cathedral--& sometimes a Square-- Gardine. Bett-gardine. A Bed Curtain--The whole Furniture of a Bed--Umhang. Himmel-bett--the Tester. Bett-decke Quilt & Blankets. Bett-laken Sheets. Bett-sack. The Sacking.--Pfu%hl, the bed itself. Bett-sponde, Bett-stelle, Bett-sta%tte. Bed-stead. Bett- stangen. Bed-rods.--Bett-stolle. Bed-post. Fallala, the hanging things that make atheistic faces in Candle-shadow.-- Stock mit goldenem Knopffe--golden headed Cane. Die Trippe = <3The>3 A pair of Stairs. Die Stufen. the Stairs. Gelender--The Railing on each side.-- Braten Uhr, or, Braten Wender--a Jack. <1f142>1 Kesserhaken--A chimney Crook Feuerzange--Fire Tongs. Besem--A besom--Uhle, a Brush--Bu%rste, a brush, such as Cloaths--Shoe--or--Tooth-brush.--Rost--a Toasting-fork. Feu- erzeug--A Tinder box with all its apparatus.--Wasser-kelle, a Water-ladle. Mursen und Kaule, Pestle & Mortar.--Bort--that piece of wood in which the Pegs are fastened on which you hang hats &c, in a room or Entry.-- ## Balgen A Pail. F.--Zuber, a Tub.--Der Balg, or Blasebalg-- Bellows. Grapen--Crocks. Schaum-kelle, Skimmer Brat-kelle, a Basting-Ladle. Durchschlag, a Cullender. Fleisch Gabel--A Flesh fork. Chastolle--a Stewing Dish. Heede (or Werg) Toe. Werg--- <1f143>1 Fliegenschrank--Hang the name, I cannot remember it.--the pensile Safe Preservatory for Meat in Summer!--Ha! Ha! Feuer-becken--Fire-dish. Sieb--haarsieb,-- Trichter--a Funnel.--Eimer, a Bucket, M. Hackbrett, Chop- ping-board. <1354f2]>1 OCTOBER 1798 Molde, a Tray. Beer-tonne--a Barrel. Butte, a narrow little Milk-tub.-- Klappe, Flap. Hosen-Flappe, But the Flap of the coat, is Schooss am Rock. Uberschlag, the double Breast of a coat. Geriefelte Strumpfe--ribbed Stockings.-- Teadose. Tea Cannister. Teakasten, Tea cadee. Razierriemen Razor Strap Futteral--Razor Sheath. <1f143v>1 Tiegel. M. a butter skillet-- <1f2>1 354 31/2.5 Part the First Names Of Spirits Men, Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Reptiles, and of the constituent Parts of the Same. <1f3>1 Alpe M. The Night-Mairs. <1f5v>1 Feen--the Fairies <1f6>1 Glutwurm/Feuerwu%rmchen.--Johanniswurm & Gleimchen <1f6v>1 Horn. N. Fu%llhorn--Horn of Fullness. <1f7v>1 Kaldaunen, Kutteln & Kuttelfleck--Eine Tracht Kald. A barrow of Garbage. Kobolt--An Hobgoblin. M.--Die Kobolte Keule, a Haunch. Kniebeuge--The Bend of the Knee. Wann die Krah am Aase kraht/--Crow--Carrion--dem be- schmeissten Aase--the fly-blown Carcase. <1f9>1 Die Nieren--The Reins Nacht-geist--Pl. Nacht-geister--Night Ghosts M. Nachtigall-- <1f10>1 Pfau. M. Peacock. Pfauen--Pfauen Schwanz <1f11v>1 Stirn--Forehead.-- Ein paar Schwalbenflu%gel <1f13>1 Ungezieffer--Vermin. Unke--A water-toad. OCTOBER 1798 <1[354f36>1 Part the Second <1f14>1 Sensation, Passion, Touch, Taste, and Smell. Bestu%rzung--Amazedness. <1f15v>1 Gichtbru%chig--Gouty or paralytic. <1fl7v>1 Gesellig--social. Hegen, to foster- P & M- <1fl8>1 "Heiss in Kalt" Mild--mild. <1fl9v>1 Schauder & Entsetzen/Shuddering & Amazedness.-- <1f22v>1 Verschlucken--verschlucken, to swallow or gulp. <1f23v>1 Verwirrung/Perplexity Vermessen sich--to mistake yourself; presumptuously Unba%ndig--fierce & unmanageable <1f24>1 <3Zeisig--A yellow hammer.M.>3 <1f25>1 III Part <1f28v>1 Sight and Motion Gewahr werden--to perceive. <1f28v>1 Hervorstu%rzen--to rush out--aus <1f29>1 Hauen--hieb. Hewed. kra%nzte--crowned. v. <1f30>1 kriechen--to creep into--kriechen in-- Kehren--den Kopf gegen die Erde/to turn. Leert--empties <1f30v>1 Ihr Mondscheinschwa%rmer: Ye moonshine Revellers <1f31>1 Nicken/nicken ein Gru%sschen--nod a little greeting <1f3lv>1 Scharren/to rake or scrape <1f34>1 Schu%tten/to shoot, as rubbish.--& als giessen, to pour.-- Swarzen, grauen, gru%nen, weissen Feen.-- Schatten finstrer Nacht--Shadows &c Ein Traum: eine Erscheinung. <1f34v>1 Verjagen to chase away <1f35>1 Unbewo%lkt--unclouded Umzingeln--to surround. Wandern--wander or travel. <1f36>1 THE NOTEBOOKS 1794--1804 Entries 1--1 842 1 1.1 <3Take>3 Think any number you like--double--add <1fl>1 12 to it--halve it--take away the original number--and there re- malns slx. 2 1.3 Go into an Orchard--in which there are three gates--thro' all of which you must pass--Take a certain number of apples--to the first man I give half of that number & half an apple --to the 2nd half of what remain & half an apple--to the third half of what remain & half an apple--and yet I never cut one Apple. 3 1.4 Think of any Card in the Pack--I will shew <3thou>3 <1flv>1 you the Card. 4 1.5 Smile from subrisus. B and M both labials/hence Infants first utter a, Ba, pa, a, milk--. In Greek the W (V) rendered by <2Ou>2 & by <2b,>2 not by <2ph>2. So <2Ourgilios, Birgilios.>2 As B for W so M for W. Mit = with. 5 1.6 Cities amid the ruins of the world like cottages in <1f2>1 some Castle ruined-- 6 1.8 Sermon on Faith <1f3>1 The scriptural uses of the word--& a promise to ; shew that however different these meanings appear, <3that>3 yet they do in reality coincide--so far as they are all operations of one faculty. 11. That the scripture no where has it in contradistinction to Reason. 111. Remark on that propensity in superficial men to confound the faculty with some one of its operations and to reason against that one operation without comparison with the other operations <1f3v>1 of the same faculty--instead of considering first--whether such a faculty does it exist in the mind--whether it does not necessarily and on many occasions operate--& whether it does not produce in all these operations more good than evil--& then to compare the one operation with the others in the circumstances of its congruity with our general nature, as distinguished from particular and dis- eased natures; in its advantageousness immediate; & in the neces- sity & avoidableness of its inconveniences. Instance it in the word-- Love to our Country.-- <1f4>1 lv. The three modes in which each mind acts--1. by its own per- ceptions--2. by its own deductions--3. by believing the perceptions & deductions of others. Instance the strength & weakness of each-- & how the third mingles with & assists the first & the second--in common life--& from the multitude & generality of these instances deduce the congruity of the third faculty with our nature, its neces- sity in Society & how it is this which hath so eminently enabled man to excel the brutes.-- <1f4v>1 v. Then examine the particular operation of this faculty on re- ligious subjects--shew its coincidence and analogies to our daily ex- perience in a brief history of the process of Faith in the world-- how it has always been given when it was wanted--so as to assist & carry on, not to contradict or confute our perceptions & deductions --in the primeval Revelation of deity & his attributes--& in the revelation of laws & morals by Moses--& in the Revelation of Im- <1f5>1 mortality by Jesus Christ--Conclude this sermon with a brief but clear & perspicuous <3recapitulation of the whoe>3 shewing of the co- incidence of the Scrip. meanings of Faith.-- Second Sermon-- That the evidences of all things ought to be proportioned to their intended uses/--That the evidence of Faith is in exact proportion to its uses--were it greater, it would destroy its uses--and therefore that the evidences of Faith are all equal to those of Mathematics & <1f5v>1 Astronomy--i.e. morally equal.--2. That the evidence is more consonant to the nature & occupations & understanding, of the Many. 3. The superiority of the knowlege which we have by faith to the knowlege which we have by Natural Philosophy (--Introduce the passage of Tertullian & vindicate it) in its dignity, in its moral effects, & lastly in the comforting of sorrow, in the giving of New Joy, & the exaltation of natural pleasures. 4. Conclude with a refer- <1f6>1 ence to the present state of Mankind, as especially demanding Faith--the quotations from Peter. Romans 3.3--Even those who abandon faith in Christ & his apostles do it notoriously, at least the greater part, from <1faith->1-in great men, Hume, Gibbon &c--Rom. 9.31-32--/--The will & in- tellectual energy which produceth action distinguished from legal & ceremonial obedience. Rom. 14.20 to 23.--The <1motive>1 contradistinguished from mere action.--Galat. 3.24.--The Revelation of direct & specified duties <1f6v>1 prior to the Revelations of <1Motives->1-( Memory itself an act of faith, in many cases.)-- 1794 Texts to be quoted f7 Rom. 15.13. 1.9 1 Book at the age of 24 and as I had never been prematured by Inter- course with literary men, I cannot help looking back on them as proofs of an original & self-thinking Mind. [If a Wordsworth can be called such] Oct. 1812.> 7 1.18 A subject for a romance--finding out a desert city <1f v>1 & dwelling there/--Asia-- 8 1.23 Affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither <1fl6v>1 doth trouble spring out of the ground. Job.v.6. The good man in league with all nature. Job v.23 For thou writest bitter things against and makest me to possess the iniquities of my Youth. Job.xlll.26 <1f2>1 9 G.l The Vernal Hours. Leg. Thomson. 10 G.2 Moon at present uninhabited owing to its little or no atmosphere but may in Time--An Atheistic Romance might be formed--a Theistic one too.--Mem!-- 11 G.3 I mix in life & labor to seem free, With common persons pleas'd & common things-- While every Thought & action tends to thee And every impulse from thy Influence springs. 12 G.4 Sometimes to a gibbet, sometimes to a Throne-- always to Hell. 13 G.5 The flames of two Candles joined give a much stronger Light than both of them separate--evid. by a person hold- ing the two Candles near his Face, first separate, & then joined in one. Picture of Hymen <1f2v>1 14 G.6 The lowest part of the flame [of a] Candle is always blue--w[hen] the flame is sufficiently el[ongated] so as to be just ready to [smoke] the Tip is always red.-- 15 G.7 Little Daisy--very late Spring. March--Quid si vivat?--Do all things in Faith. Never pluck a<3n>3 flower again!-- Mem.-- 16 G.8 Send out our hopes & fears on fools' errands-- 17 G.9 From the narrow path of Virtue Pleasure leads us to more flowery fields, and then Pain meets & chides our wander- ing-- --Of how many pleasures, of what lasting Happiness is Pain the Parent & Woe the Womb!-- 18 G.lo Love--a myrtle wand by the Aaron touch of Jeal- ousy transformed into a serpent so vast as to swallow up every other stinging woe, and makes us mourn the exchange!-- <1f3>1 19 G.l 1--that inebriates Life, imbitters Death, & beggars Eternity. 20 G.12 When lulled Reason sleeps on the stormy Bosom of Transport, as a ship boy in the Shrouds-- 21 G.l 3 Love, that soothes misfortune and buoys up to Virtue--the pillow of Sorrows, the wings of Virtue. 22 G.14 Optimist--by having no will but the will of Heaven, <3an>3 we call in Omnipotence to fight our battles!-- 23 G.15 This is the true Sublime of Man! this the Me- ridian Majesty of our Nature! 24 G.16 What (Burke's book) repugnant feelings did it ex- cite? I shuddered while I praised it--a web wrought with admirable beauty from a black bag of Poison! 25 G.17 The helmet of Virtue needs not the plume of <1f3v>1 Praise ! -- 26 G.18 Strikes me blind by lightning flashes of Wit!-- 27 G.19 The dark & deep perplexities of metaphysic Con- troversy! -- 28 G.20 Real Pain can alone cure of us of imaginary ills! We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel Misery : 29 G.21 Turbid Joy ending in Sorrow--dissipation. 30 G.22 Dwarfing Earth's giant Ills. 31 G.23 What we <1must>1 do, let us love to do. It is a noble Chemistry, that turns Necessity into Pleasure! 32 G.24 Jonas--a monodrama-- <1Vide>1 Hunter's Anatomy of a Whale-- 33 G.25 an involuntary Burlesque. <1f4>1 34 G.26 Pigmy Minds measuring others by their own standard <3think>3 cry what a Monster! when they view a man!-- 35 G.27 Poetry, like schoolboys, by too frequent & severe corrections, may be cowed into Dullness! -- 36 G.28 --peculiar, not far-fetched--natural, but not ob- vious; delicate, not affected; dignified, not swelling; fiery, but not mad; <3free>3 rich in Imagery, but not loaded with it--in short, a union of harmony, and good sense; of pers [p] icuity, and conciseness. Thought is the <1body>1 of such an Ode, Enthusiasm the Soul, and Imagination the Drapery! 37 G.29 Upas Tree--a poem--or autob. Mon. <1f4v>1 38 G.3o A Ruffian flesh'd in murthers 39 G.31 Dioclesian King of Syria fifty Daughters in a ship unmann'd--same as Danaides--land in England--commix with Devils. 40 G.32 Protoplast-- 41 G.33 Misfortunes prepare the heart for the enjoyment of Happiness in a better state. <3The pains>3 Life & sorrows of a <3good>3 <3man>3 religious & benevolent man <3are the>3 is as its April Day----the Sunshine blends with every shower--and look! how full and lovely it lies on yonder hills! 42 G.34 People starved into War.--over an enlisting place <1f5>1 in Bristol a quarter of Lamb and piece of Beef hung up-- 43 G.35 The soul-enlivening Airs of Martial Music played to induce forgetfulness of Toil, while the Fraternity of Mankind were employed in agricultural Tasks. 44 G.36 Non aliter quam captivus, qui forte imaginaria2 libertate fruebatur in somniis, quum postea suspicari incipit se dor- mire, timet excitari <1blandis>1 Illusionibus lente\ connivet in pro- fundum gurgitem delapsus ut nec possim in imo pedem figere nec enatare ad summum. 45 G.37 Wandering Jew/a romance <1f5v>1 46 G.38 A Robber concealed over a room and hearing the noise of Mirth & dancing--his Reflections/-- 47 G.39 Strait Waistcoat Madhouse &c--a stratagem-- 48 G.4o The Authors of them may do much good within their several spheres--though not very far extended: and they who affect to despise humble endeavors of this kind would do well to give proof of greater Abilities in the service of their Country. British Critic. May 1795 49 G.41 <2eisi gar anthrwpoi tauta akhkootes, dunatoi>2 <1f6>1 <2men mathein, dunatoi de mnhmoneusai- oi nun arti sphisi fasi,>2 <2ta men tote apistotata doxanta einai, nun pistotata kai>2 <2enargestata [phan>2 <1deleted>1] <2phainesthai- a de tote pistotata,>2 <2nun tounantion.>2 Platon. Epist. 11. 50 G.42 The Character of Moses an argument in favor of his divine Legation-- 51 G.43 Light cargoes <3waff>3 waft of modulated Sound From viewless Hybla brought, when Melodies Like Birds of Paradise on wings, that aye Disport in wild variety of hues, Murmur around the honey-dropping flowers. 52 G.44 Shivers in nakedness <156v>1 53 G.45 Horsley-- <2Nh ton Di, egwg, oun Onos agwn musthria->2 <2Atar ou kathexw tauta ton pleiw cronon.>2 Arist. <2batrai.>2 54 G.47 The Whale followed by <1Waves-->1I would glide down the rivulet of quiet Life, a Trout! 55 G.48 Broad-breasted Rock. hanging cliff that glasses His rugged forehead in the calmy sea. 56 G.49 --Bad means for a good end--I cannot conceive that any road to Heaven through Hell-- f7 57 G.50 My <3guts>3 Clock here (patting his guts) chime twelve-- 58 G.51 The Sister of Haroun--beloved by the Caliph-- Giafar Her verses to Giafar--Giafar's answer--good subj ects. 59 G.52 Unbiased mind--an absurdity. 60 G 53 Leaves already on the walk scattered-- 61 G.54 Burnet's <1theoria telluris>1 translated into blank Verse, the original at the bottom of the page. 62 G.55 Poetry without egotism comparatively uninterest- <1f7v>1 ing--Mem. Write an Ode to <1Meat & Drink.>1 63 G.56 You dare do any ill--but you want the true cour- age to be honest 64 G.57 Cooper Materiallsm G.58 Arguments in favGr of a Soul-- 65 G.59 Dumb Waiter--Bed--Little Tommy--Cerberus --& Duppe-- 66 G.60 A Line, in which S-----------y lay ogling <1f8>1 [? Maude/Maiden]-- 67 G.61 Reason for a Tax upon Dogs--Poor man-- sheepsheads &c. 68 G.62 By an accurate computation 90 millions of Mites' Eggs make one Pigeon's Egg! !--Encyclo-- 69 G.63 The Devil drest in black everlasting--ergo--not a sans culotte. 70 G.64 The Lamentations of Jeremiah Sneak!! 71 G.65 Equality the--Pity & Envy her handmaids. 72 G.66 Disappointed Love not uncommonly produces Misogyny, even as extreme Thirst is supposed to be the cause of the Hydrophobia. 73] 1796-1797 73 G.67 Mem--not to adulterize my time by absenting myself from my wife-- <1f8v>1 74 G.68 When a man is attempting to describe another's character, he may be right or he may be wrong--but in one thing he will always succeed, in describing himself. If he express simple approbation, he praises from a consciousness of possession--If he approve with admiration, from a consciousness of deficiency. A. Ay! he is a <1sober>1 man.--B. Ah Sir! what a blessing is sobriety.-- N.B. A is a man conscious of sobriety who egotizes in tuism-- B is one, who feeling the effects of a contrary habit, with blame- less envy contemplates sobriety <3as the-->3A. Yes! he is a warm man <1f9>1 a moneyed felow--you may rely on him. B. Yes! yes! Sir! No wonder! he has the blessing of being well in the world. After the first violence of recentment when the heart is dephlo- gisticated-- To introduce this reflection in defence of plaintive egotism--and to examine all the charges against it--and from what feelings they proceed. <1f9v>1 75 G 69 (Pantis.) Themes to debauch Boys' minds on the miseries of rich men & comforts of Poverty. 76 G.70 A very frequent mistake that what has been use- ful or pernicious, is and will be so. Always to meditate on this. 77 G.71 The limited sphere of mental activity in artist--. 78 G.72 The poor & the rich in this resemble each other-- they are usually unloving of their children--n.b. explain why. 79 G.73 Marriage--sole Propriety In Paradise. The thorn in the flesh--vide St Paul--reason on this.// 80 G.74 Unitarian/travelling from Orthodoxy to Atheism --why,--&c. 81 G.75 Property intended to secure to every man the produce of his Toil--as at present instituted, operates directly con- trarywise to this. NOTA BENE. 82 G.76 Stars twinkle upon us--Suns on other worlds.-- <1f10>1 Double sense of Prophecies.-- 83 G.77 Sir I. Newton observes in P 309 of his 'Prophecies of holy Writ', Horsley's Edition, that Ruler is signified by his rid- ing on a beast--justly--for none but beasts need have rulers.-- 84 G.78 And the two mighty Bears walk round & round the Pole-- in spite of Mr Gunston--.Watts 85 G.79 Good Temper & habitual Ease are the first ingre- dients of <3conversa>3 private Society--but Wit, Knowledge, or Origi- nality must break their even surface into some Inequality of Feel- ing, or conversation is like a Journey on an endless flat-- 86 G.8o Where Cam his stealthy flowings <3doth>3 most dis- <1f10v>1 sembles And scarce the Willow's watry shadow trembles. 87 G.81 Poetry--excites us to artificial feelings--makes us callous to real ones. 88 G.82 Reason the Sun--Revelation the comet which feeds it.-- 89 G.83 On whom the cloven tongues have descended-- from Lucifer, Prince of the Air. 90 G.84 With secret hand heal the conjectur'd wound. <1fll>1 Guess at the wound and heal with secret hand! 91 G.85 Outmalic'd Calumny's imposthum'd Tongue- 92 G.86 Their prank'd deformity. 93 G.87 World-[? makers/maker].-- As if according to Sir Isaac Newton's progression of pores--they had coarct the world to a Ball and were playing with it-- 94 G.88 And write impromptus spurring their Pegasus to tortoise Gallop. 95 G.89 <1f11v>1 Due to the Staggerers that made drunk by Power : Forget <3their>3 Thirst's eager Promise, and presume, . Dark Dreamers! that the world forgets it too! 96 G.9o Perish Warmth Unfaithful to its seemings 97 G.91 Old age, "the Shape & Messenger of Death"! His wither'd Fist still knocking at Death's door. 98 G.92 God no distance knows, All of the whole possessing.-- 99 G.93 Preventing by these Bills the growth of the hu- man mind--British constitution--giving Gin to Puppy Dog that it <1f12>1 may be a safe & amusing little [ ? Gentleman/f[l]atterer] for Royalty to play with-- 100 G.94 <3--trans>3 transfer the proofs of natural to moral Sciences.-- 101 G.95 ponderosity of period & overwhelming panegyric of Parr-- 102 G.96 Our constitution to some like Cheese--rotten parts they like the best. 103 G.97 Continuance of the War likely to produce an aboli- tion of Property 104 G.98 Snatching arguments out of Snapdragon--Wake- <1fl2v>1 field-- 105 G.99 <2W bdelure, kvanaiskiunte, kai tolmhre su,>2 <2Kai miare, kai pammiare, kai miarwtate!>2 Batr. Act. 11, Scen. 1. 106 G.loo elected by the popular voice, undiocest, unlorded, unrenued unrevenued.-- 1 07 G. 1 01 Depravlty-gapers 108 G.lo2 What Milton calls "a paroxysm of citations".-- pampered metaphors & aphorisming Pedantry: <1f13>1 109 G.103 T. R. Underwood No. 43 Lamb's Conduit Street 110 G.lo4 Pulpitry. They teach not that to govern well is to <3breed>3 train up a nation to true wisdom & virtue &c.--This is the master- piece of a modern politician, how to qualify & mould the sufferance & subjection of the People to the length of that foot which is to tread upon <3them>3 their necks; [. . .] and how the puny Law may be brought under the wardship & controul of Lust & will. [. . .] <1fl3v>1 poor John Bull under the custody of a state Argus. [. . .] Under pretence of guarding the Head of the state, these are Bills to prevent the cutting off of an enormous wen that grows upon it-- 111 G.lO5 <2oi gar en sophois >2 <2PHauloi par' okilw mousikoteroi legein. >2 Eurip. Hippol. v. 1003 <1f14>1 1 12 G.lo6 The drayhorse tread of Dr. Parr's style. 113 G.lo7 unvisarded 115 G.lo9 A member of the Church of Laodicea. 1 1 6 G. 1 1 0 Political wisdom sown by the broad-cast not dibble. 117G.111 <1fl4v>1 <2Su toi legeis nin, ouk egw: su gar poieis>2 <2tourgon: ta>2 d' erga tous logous eurisketai. Hlektra.>2 1 18 G.112 Zeal-utter'd sentences of ventrous edge. 1 19 G. 1 1 3 Truth is compared in scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they stagnate into a muddy pool of conformity & tradition. Milton. <1f15>1 120 G.114 It surely is not impossible that to some infinitely superior being the whole Universe may be one plain--the distance between planet and planet only the pores that exist in any grain of sand--and the distances between system & system no greater than the distance between one grain and the grain adjacent.-- 121 G.115 The Prince of darkness is a gentleman-- 122 G.l 16 Tis the times' plague when Madmen lead the blind-- 123 G.117 Love and the wish of Poets when their tongue <1fl5v>1 Would teach to other bosoms what so charms Their own. Akenside. 124 G.118 Slaughter--stern Nurse of Vultures.-- 125 G.119 --Yes, that on every dream, Each buz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike, He may enguard his dotage with their powers, And hold our Lives at mercy. Lear. 126 G.l 2o N.B. Write to Est. reproving him concerning Miss P. Not of age! ! !-- 127 G.121 Not to bring too horrid things like Gloucester's <1f16>1 eyes on the stage reprobate this notion--hysterical Humanite1 128 G.123 Art of pri-nting diffused greater knowledge than Christianity--? ? -- 129 G.124 Motives from Religion like the light from the Sun--the earth principally heated from within itself--the Sun the cause of winter & summer by a very small quantity of heat in addi- tion to that residing in the earth.-- 130 G.125 Wherefore art thou come? <1fl6v>1 doth not the Creator of all things know all things? And if thou art come to seek him, know that where thou wast, there <1he was>1. 131 G.126 Reviews, a kind of establishment. 132 G.127 Dr Darwin's Poetry, <3makes>3 a succession of Land- scapes or Paintings--it arrests the attention too often, and so pre- vents the rapidity necessary to pathos.--it <3comm>3 makes the great little. 133] 1796 --seems to have written his poem as Painters who of beautiful obj ects--take--Studies. f17 133 G-128 Millenium, an History of, as brought about by <3a>3 progression in natural philosophy--particularly, meteorology or science of airs & winds-- Qua|ere--might not a Commentary on the Revelations be written from late philosophical discoveries? And cauldrons the scoop'd earth a boiling sea! Rush on my ear, a cataract of sound. The guilty pomp consuming while it flares-- 135 G.130 <1fl7v>1 My heart seraglios an whole host of Joys-- 136 G.131 And Poxes scab his efflorescent face-- 137 G.132 Electrical picture 138 G.133 an horrible phiz that would castrate a canthara- dized Satyr-- 139 G.134 treacherous memory that will <1not>1 forget--applied to Pitt 140 G.135 Anti-platonic [?Blader/Blade] 141 G.136 Some hundred years ago, when the Devil was a little boy & my grandmother had teeth in her head-- <1fl8>1 142 G.137 As difficult as to separate two dew-drops blended together on a bosom of a new-blown Rose. 143 G.138 A belly of most majestic periphery! 1796-1797 [153 144 G.139 her eyes sparkled: as if they had been cut out of a diamond quarry in some Golconda of Faery land--and cast such meaning glances, as would have vitrified the Flint in a Murderer's blunderbuss-- 145 G.l4o Effect of ignorance--in making small farms dis- <1fl8v>1 advantageous tG the public from Idleness--the small farmer will work no more than he can raise the rent &c-- 146 G.141 Here's a large mouth indeed He speaks plain Cannon, fire, and smoke, and--bounce! He gives the bastinado with his tongue-- Our Ears are cudgell'd. 147 G.142 Human Happiness like the Aloe--a Flower of slow growth. 148 G.143 I discovered unprovoked malice in his hard heart like a huge Toad in the centre of a marble rock-- 149 G.144 and pity's Sigh shall answer thy tale of Anguish, <1f19>1 like the faint echoe of a distant valley-- 150 G.145 A State of Compulsion, even tho that Compulsion be directed by perfect Wisdom, keeps Mankind stationary--for whenever it is withdrawn, after a lapse of ages, they have yet to try evil in order to know whether or no it be not good.-- 151 G.146 Describe a Tartarean Forest all of Upas Trees-- 152 G.147 a Dungeon In darkness I remained--the neighb'ring Clock Told me that now the rising Sun shone lovely on my garden-- 153 G.148 As prolix as the tale of some Wretch at the gallows who had expected a Reprieve--tale to his Confessor. 154] 1796 <1fl9v>1 154 G.149 We consider conduct in relation both to the affec- tions which it exhibits, and to the objects which called forth these affections. That sorrow which we should approve as highly <3rig>3 proper in a Widow for her husband, we condemn and are disgusted with in &c--Lap dogs-- 155 G-150 The effort of the spectator to enter into the feel- ings of the person [? however fully/principally] & the effort of the person principally concerning, to bring down the expressions of his feelings to the probable emotion of the Spectator <1f20>1 156 G.151 Doctrine of necessity rendered not dangerous by the Imagination which contemplates immediate not remote effects --hence vice always hateful & altho equally monotonous as Virtue 157G.152 <1f20v>1 The Sun (for now his Orb Gan slowly sink) <3behind the Western Hill>3, Shot half his rays aslant the heath, whose flowers Purpled the mountain's broad & level top, Rich was his bed of Clouds: & wide beneath Expecting Ocean smiled with dimpled face. 158 G.153 Mars rising over a gibbet-- 159 G.154 Two Lover's privileged by a faery to know each other's Lives & Health in Absence by olfaction of [. . .] 160 G.155 Leanness, Disquietude, & secret Pangs Some puny perambulatory Sin Goes before like Dwarf to proclaim the coming of a Giant-- 161 G.156 <1f21 My Works>1 [a] Imitations of the Modern Latin Poets with an Essay Biog. & Crit. on the Rest. of Lit.--2 Vol. Octavo. 1796 [b] Answer to the System of Nature-- I <3Vol>3. Oct [c] The Origin of Evil, an Epic Poem. [d] Essay on Bowles [e] Strictures on Godwin, Paley &c &c-- [f] Pantisocracy, or a practical Essay on the abolition of In- div[id]ual Property. [g] Carthon an Opera [h] Poems [i] Edition of Collins & Gray with a preliminary Dissertation. [j] A Liturgy On the different Sects of Religion & Infidelity-- philosophical analysis of their Effects on mind & manners--. [k] A Tragedy 162 G.157 Six Gallons of Water-- <1f2lv>1 <3Eighteen>3 Twelve pounds of Sugar - Half a pound of Ginger Eighteen Lemons. Ginger to be sliced--Lemons to be peeled--The Sugar & Water to be boiled together, & the Scum--viz--the Monarchical part must go to Pot--and out of the Pot--<1Then>1 put in the Ginger with the Peels of the Lemons, and let the whole be boiled together gently for half an hour--When cold, put in the Lemon juice strained &c-- then let the Sum total be put in the Barrel with Three Spoonfuls of Yeast--let it work three Days (Sundays Excepted--) and then put <1f22>1 in a Gallon of Barrel--Close up the Barrel--Nota bene: you may do it legally the habeas corpus act being suspended--let it remain a fortnight--then bottle it.--The Wine not to be used even in warm weather till three Weeks after Bottling--in Winter not till after a month.-- 163 G.l 58 [ ? A/C] Very fond of Vegetables, particularly Bacon & Peas.-- Bacon & Broad Beans.-- 164 G.159 Receipt for brewing Wine-- <1f22v>1 Get two strong faithful men by proper Instruments--Vide Thieves' Calendar--break into a Wine merchant's Cellar--carry off a hogshead of best Claret or other ad arbitrium--given me by Mrs Danvers--experta|e crede 165 G.l6o Mem. To <3write in>3 reduce to a regular form the Swedenborgian's Reveries-- 166 G.161 Mem. To remember to examine into the Laws upon Wrecks as at present existing <1f23>1 G.162 Mem. I asserted that Cato a drunkard--- denied by S. --to examine it--. 168 G.163 J Hucks No 9 Inner Temple Lane 169 G.164 Mr. Wade at Mrs Wade's Pershore Worcestershire. <1f23v>1 170 G.165 Poem in <3three>3 one Books in the manner of Dante\ on the excursion of Thor-- 171 G.166 2 Satires in the manner of Donne-- 1. Horace Walpole 2. Monthly Reviewers &c <3de>3 Bowles 172 G.167 Address to Poverty at the end of the In early youth--<2Wstral!>2 Console my SAP.A.--And grieve not, my Son! that we &c. Tob-- <1f24>1 173 G.168 Take a pound of Beef, Mutton, or Pork; cut it into small pieces; a pint of Peas; four Turnips sliced; six or seven Potatoes cut very small; four or five Onions; put to them three 1795-1796 [174 Quarts of Water, and let it boil about two hours and a half--<3thick>3 --then thicken it with a pound of Rice--and boil it a quarter of <3another>3 hour more--after which season it with salt & pepper-- N.B. better season it at first--peppering & salting the Meat &c.-- 174 G.169 1 An Essay on Tobit. <1f24v>1 2 On the art of prolonging Life--by getting up in a morning. 3 On Marriage--in opposition to French Principles. 4. Jacob Behmen. 5 Life of John Henderson. 6 Ode to a Looking Glass. 7. Burnet's de montibus in English Blank Verse. 8 Escapes from Misery, a Poem-- - 9. Cavern--candle. 10. Life of David--a Sermon. 11. Wild Poem on Maniac--<2Erastou Talhros. at.>2 12. Ode on St. Withold. 13. Crotchets, by S. T. Coleridge 14. Edition of Akenside. <1f25>1 15. Of Collins & Gray. 16 Hymns to the Sun, the Moon, and the Elements--six hymns.--In one of them to introduce a dissection of Atheism-- particularly the Godwinian System of Pride Proud of what? An outcast of blind Nature ruled by a fatal Necessity--Slave of an ideot Nature! XX ++ XX Deprceliantiu2m e carcere nubium &c ++ In the last Hymn a sublime enumeration of all the <3beauties>3 <1f25v>1 charms or Tremendities of Nature--then a bold avowal of Berk- ley's System! ! ! ! ! 17 Letters to Godwin <1f25>1 18 Randolp [h] consecrating D. of York's banners-- 19 Ode to Southey 20 Egomist, a metaphysical Rhapsody-- 21 Berkley's Maxims--Vol. 11, 345. <1f2 v>1 [21a] Ode to a Moth--against accumulation. 22 Adventures of CHRISTlAN, the mutineer-- 23 Military anecdotes--(N.B.promised to be Sergeants.) 24 History of Phrases--Ex.gr. The King must have men. 25 Hymn to Dr. Darwin--in the manner of the Orphics 26 Address to the Clergy against the two Bills-- 27 Satire addressed--to a young Man who intended to study medicine at Edinburgh-- 175 G.l70 <1f26>1 The Earth feared and was still, when GOD arose to Judgment to save the meek of the Earth. Surely, the Wrath of Man shall praise thee--: the remainder of Wrath shalt thou restrain.-- God shall cut off the spirit of Princes--he is terrible to the Kings of the Earth. Then shall the right-aiming Thunderbolts go abroad; & from the Clouds, as from a strong Bow, shall they <3flayy>3 fly to the mark. There be spirits that are created for Vengeance--in the time of Destruction they pour out their forces & appease the Wrath of him that made them. <1f26v>1 176 G.171 Men that run mad <3&>3 [?with] prosperity com- pared to Cats on beds of Marum and Valerian-- 177 G.172 There is not a new or strange opinion-- Truth returned from banishment-- a river run under ground-- fire beneath embers-- 178 G.173 Men anxious for this world--Owls that wake all night to catch mice--. 179 G.174 Smooth, shining, & deceitful as thin Ice-- 180 G.175 Wisdom, Mother of retired Thought, <2esti tis theos endon-->2 <2polun essamenoi noun-->2 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1796 [186 181 G.176 Nature Wrote Rascal on his face by chalcographic art 182 G.177 Our quaint metaphysical opinions in an hour of anguish like playthings by the bedside of a child deadly sick. 183 G.178 Let us contend like the Olive & the Vine who shall bring forth most & best fruit--& not like the Aspen & the Elm who shall make most noise in a tempest.-- <1f27>1 <2Galhnh noera-->2 <2Dikaiosunh bebammenos eis bathos ths Alhtheias.>2 184 G.179 On the present state of the Fr. 185 G.l8o The Wicked arising from Death to Life in order to be annihilated compared to the apoplectic Man who was awoken by his funeral Pile, <3&>3 just <3time>3 to shriek & be utterly consumed-- 186 G.182 She had in her sickness some curious & well-becom- ing fears respecting the final state of the soul--but from thence she passed into a deliquium, or a kind of Trance, and as soon as she came forth of it, as if it had been a Vision or that she had conversed with an angel, & from his hand had received a <3Scroll>3 Labell or Scroll of the <1Book of Life>1 & there seen her name enrolled, she cried out aloud/"Glory be to God on high; now I am sure, I shall be saved." Concerning which manner of discoursing we are wholly ignorant what Judgment can be made; but certainly there are strange things in the other World; and so there are in all the im- mediate Preparations to it; & a little <1Glimpse>1 of Heaven, a minute's conversing with an angel, any ray of God, any communication from <1f27v>1 the Spirit of Comfort which God gives to his servants in strange & unknown manners, are infinitely far from Illusions; & they shall then be understood by us, when we feel them, & when our new & strange needs shall be refreshed by such unusual Visitations. 187 G.183 In the East the Shepherds used to go before their Sheep, to which our Saviour alludes--my Sheep hear my Voice & follow me--but our Shepherds drive them and affright them with dogs & noises. 188 G.184 --Dreams sometimes useful by <3making>3 giving to the well-grounded <1fears>1 & <1hopes>1 of the understanding the <1feelings>1 of vivid sense. 189 G.185 Love transforms the souls into a conformity with the object loved.-- 190 G.186 The prayers of enthusiast a pious drunkenness, a spiritual concupiscence, presumptuous self-idolatry-- 191 G.187 In the paradisiacal World Sleep was voluntary & <1f28>1 holy--a spiritual before God, in which the mind elevated by con- templation retired into pure intellect suspending all commerce with sensible objects & perceiving the present deity-- 192 G.188 Dim specks of Entity--applied to invisible In- sects-- 193 G.189 Made my heart tender thro' the power of Love-- My mind preserved watchful & <1inward.>1 19 194 G-190 In this world We dwell among the tombs & touch the pollutions of the Dead--to God-- 195 G.191 holy Leader 196 G.192 The mild despairing of a Heart resign'd 197 G.193 Such fierce vivacity as fires the eye Of Genius fancy-craz'd-- 198 G.194. And the dark Spirits' worst infirmity- 199 G-195 <1f1v>1 Like a mighty Giantess, <1f2>1 Seized in sore travail & prodigious birth Sick Nature struggled: long & strange her pangs, Her groans were horrible; but o! most fair The Twins, she bore--EQUALlIY & PEACE! 200 G.196 <2hn pou hmwh h psukih prin en twde tw anthrwpinw>2 <2eidei genesthai.>2 Plato in Pha|edone: and Synesius, the hyper-platonic Jargonist, would have waved his claims to a Bishopric than allow <1his Soul to be younger>1 than his Body. 201 G.197 <2Aswmatos de kai h ulh.->2-Plot. p. 164. 202 G.198 Discontent mild as an Infant low-plaining in its sleep.-- 203 G. 199 In the Essay on Berkley to speak of Sir Isaac <1f29>1 = Newton & other material theists--Aristotle--Metaphys. Lib. 1. Chapter lv. 267. of Tom lv. 204 G.2oo Plato De Rep. Lib. vll 2-to--<2h tas twn skeuastwn skias.-->2 Serranus--about the 17 or l8th line> 515. 205 G.2ol In a distempered dream things & forms in them- selves common & harmless inflict a terror of anguish.-- 206 G.2o2 At Genoa the word, Liberty, is engraved on the chains of the galley-slaves, & the doors of Prisons.-- 207 G.203 terrible and loud As the strong Voice that from the Thunder-cloud Speaks to the startled Midnight. ; 2O8] 1796-1797 208 G-2o4 <2Anaxagoras te gar mhkianh kirhtaitw nw pros>2 <2thn kosmopoiian. kai otan aporhsh dia tin'aitian ex anagkhs>2 <2esti, tote elkei auton. en de tois allois panta mallon aitiatai>2 <2twn ginomenwn, h noun.>2 Du Valli's Edit. <1f29v>1 209 G.2o5 Man knows God only by revelation from God-- as we see the Sun by his own Light.-- 210 G.2o6 The Treachery of Renneburg, a Tragedy-- The assassination of the Prince of Orange--- Gaspar Anastro, a Spanish Ban ker of ruined circumstances, a man of hard heart, cunning but a coward--prevails on John Tauregui, a young Biscayan, of a thoughtful melancholy disposltlon, deeply superstitious--- 21 1 G.2o7 Matted hair--deemed Witch-locks- <1f30>1 212 G.2o8 An ideot whose whole amusement consisted in he went away to seek it--was absent nine days--at last, they found, almost famish'd in a field--He asked where it was buried--for he was sure it was dead--/he was brought home & the clock <3it>3 in its place--his Joy--&c He used to put part of every thing, he liked, into the clock-case. 213 G.2o9 <1f3v>1 The swallows interweaving there mid the paired Sea-mews, at distance wildly-wailing.-- The <3a>3 brook runs over Sea-weeds.-- Sabbath day--from the Miller's mossy wheel the waterdrops dripp'd leisurely-- 1796-1797 [217 On the broad mountain-top The neighing wild-colt races with the wind O'er fern & heath-flowers-- A long deep Lane So overshadow'd, it might seem one bower-- The damp Clay banks were furr'd with mouldy moss Broad-breasted Pollards with broad-branching head. 214 G.210 And one or two poor melancholy Joys <1f31>1 Pass by on flimsy wing in Hope's cold gleam, Moths in the Moonlight.-- 'Twas sweet to know it only possible-- Some <1wishes>1 cross'd my mind & dimly cheer'd it-- And one or two poor melancholy Pleasures In these, the <3cold>3 pale unwarming <3glams>3 light of Hope Silvring their flimsy wing flew silent by, Moths in the Moonlight-- 215 G.211 --the prophetic soul of the wide world dreaming on things to come Shak. sonnets. Most true it is, that I have looked on truth Askance & strangely. Id. 216 G.212 Behind the thin Grey cloud that cover'd but not hid the sky The round full moon look'd small.-- 217 G.213 The subtle snow in every breeze rose curling from the Grove, like pillars of cottage smoke. 218] l797-1798 <1f3lv>1 218 G.214 The alligators' terrible roar, ["] like heavy distant thunder, not only shaking the air & waters, but causing the earth to tremble--& when hundreds & thousands are roaring at the same time, you can scarcely be persuaded but that the whole globe is dangerously agitated["]-- The eggs are layed in layers between a compost of <3earth>3 mud, grass, & herbage.---The female watches them----when born, she leads, them about the shores, as a hen her chicken--["]and when she is <1f32>1 basking on the warm banks with her brood around you may hear the young ones whining & a-barking, like young Puppies. ["] 20 feet long--lizard-shaped, plated--head vulnerable--tusked-- eyes ["]small["] & "sunk["]-- 219 G.215 --Hartley fell down & hurt himself--I caught him up crying & screaming--& ran out of doors with him.--The Moon caught his eye--he ceased crying immediately--& his eyes & the tears in them, how they glittered in the Moonlight! 220 G.216 --Some wilderness-plot, green & fountainous & unviolated by Man. <1f32v>1 221 G.217 An old Champion who is perhaps absolute sov- ereign of a little Lake or Lagoon (when 50 less than himself are obliged to content themselves with roaring & swelling in little coves round about) darts forth from the reedy coverts all at once on the surface of the water, in a right line; at first, aeemingly as rapid as lightning, but gradually more clowly until he arrives at the center of the lake, where he stops; he now swells himself by drawing in wind & water thro' his mouth which causes a loud sonorous rattling in the throat for near a minute; but it is immediately forced out <1f33>1 again thro' his mouth & nostrils with a loud noise, brandishing his tail in the air, & the vapor ascending from his nostrils like smoke. At other times when swollen to an extent ready to burst, his head & tail lifted up, he twirls round on the surface of the water. He re- tires--& others, who dare, continue the exhibition--all to gain the attention of the favorite Female-- The distant thunder sounds heavily--the crodiles answer it like an echo-- 1797 [224 222 G.218 Describe-- <1f33v>1 --the never-bloomless Furze-- & the transi to the Gordonia Lasianthus. Its thick foliage of a dark green colour is flowered over with large milkwhite fragrant blossoms: on long slender elastic pedun- cles at the extremities of its numerous branches--from the bosom of the leaves, & renewed every morning--and that in such incredible profusion that the Tree appears silvered over with them & the ground beneath covered with the fallen flowers. It at the same time continually pushes forth new twigs, with young buds on them; and <1f34>1 in the winter & spring the third year's leaves, now partly concealed by the new & perfect ones, are gradually changing colour from green to a golden yellow, from that to a scarlet; from scarlet to crimson; & lastly to a brownish purple, & then fall to the ground. So that the Gordonia Lasianthus may be said to change & renew its garments every morning thro'out the year. And moreover after the general flowering is past, there is a thin succession of scattering blossoms to be seen, on some parts of the tree, almost every day thro'out the remaining months until the floral season returns again. <1f34v>1 --It grows by ponds & the edges of rivers--Perhaps--the Snake- bird with slender longest neck, long strait & slender bill, glossy black, like fish-scales except on the breast which is cream-coloured-- the tail is very long of a deep black <1tipped>1 with a silvery white; & when spread, represent an unfurled fan. They delight to sit in little peaceable communities on the dry limbs of trees, hanging over the still waters, with their wings & tails expanded--I suppose to <1f35>1 cool themselves, when at the same time they behold their images below--when approached, they drop off as if dead--invisible for a minute or two--then at a vast distance their long slender head & neck only appear, much like a snake--no other part to be seen ex- cept sometimes the silvery tip of the Tail. 223 G.219 A dunghill at a distance sometimes smells like musk, & a dead dog like elder-flowers.-- 224 G.22o Plagiarists suspicious of being pilfer'd--as pick- pockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their <135v>1 breeches-pockets. 225] 1797-1799 225 G.221 Abruptness [. . . . . . . . . .] An abrupt beginning followed by an even & majestic greatness com- pared to the Launching of a Ship, which after sails on in a steady breeze.-- 226 G.222 The Infant playing with its mother's Shadow-- Rocking its little sister's cradle & singing to her with inarticulate voice.-- <1f36>1 227 G.223 The flat pink-colour'd stone painted over in jag- ged circles & strange parallelograms with the greenish black-spotted lichens.-- 228 G.224 The Life of the Siminole playful from infancy to Death compared to the Snow, which in a calm day falling scarce seems to fall & plays & dances in & out, to the very moment that it reaches the ground-- 229 G.225 The Sun-shine lies on the cottage-wall Ashining thro' the snow-- 230 G.226 <1f36v>1 A maniac in the woods-- She <1crosses>1 (heedlessly) the <1woodman's path-->1 Scourg'd by rebunding boughs--/ --The merry nightingale That <3crow>3 crowds & hurries & precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful, that an April Night Would be too short for him to utter forth Of all its music!-- <1f37>1 232 G.228 A country fellow in a village Inn, winter night-- tells a long story--all attentive &c, except one fellow who is toying 1796 [236 with the Maid--/The Country Man introduces some circumstance absolutely incompatible with a prior one--/ The <1Amoroso>1 detects it/--/&c. The Philosophy of this.--Yes! I don't tell it for a true story--you would not have found it out--if you had smooring with <1Mall-->1 233 G.229 No 18 <1f38v>1 Old Jewry London 234 G.23o Calverton <1f39v>1 7 miles from Nottingham --Mrs Bingham has the living her Husband had remitted ten pounds a year. 235 G.231 Take of hard extract of <1f41>1 Peruvian Bark, a Dram. Salt of <3Sel>3 steel, ten grains. Oil of Cinnamon, 5 drops. With balsam of Peru make into 20 pills. 236 G.232 Her maiden Morris--now Bush- <1f39>1 After being married according to the forms of the Quakers-- quarter a year after taken up on account of pregnancy, not being pregnant-- Mr Sidley's Clark said why did you bring this woman here? She is not pregnant--sent back again--afterwards proven pregnant She was taken up again and <3oblig>3 required to swear her child as a single woman--refused to swear as a single woman--kept her a whole day being nearly her time--Neither swear or affirm meaning as a single <1f39v>1 woman--her <1insolence>1 reproved. Mr Cope "would have nothing to do--Removed to Nuthall"-- (4 miles from Not. the residence of Mr Sidley, a justice of Peace-- then committed--because she would neither swear nor affirm--! an infamous falsehood.-- 237] 1796 brought to the next quarter sessions--gave an account as before --/<3offered to affirm everything>3 after an imprisonment of eleven <1f40>1 weeks during which time she layed in in the house of correction-- she was permitted to affirm &c--and to subscribe her married name-- Their Society sued Mr Sidley and Mr Charlton (the two com- mitting Justices) for this false imprisonment. The action being local, was brought on at Nottingham assizes--They did not appear, and <3wer>3 being non-suited were sued for 15 pound, law expenses-- were arrested--brought from home in the depth while the pains <1f40v>1 of travail were on her--brought to bed & miscarried--lost her senses--after 21 weeks set at liberty without paying the debt--the particulars these--The Husband and Wife had em- ployed an attorney to get a rule to take you into court to obtain their groats--when the attorney examined the Rolls in London, their names were not to be fou d--could Mr Hartshorn (the High Sheriff) payed the debt and gave them a <1f4lv>1 guinea--After they were a little while at liberty, they were at liberty they were excommunicated--Mrs Row (the sister of Mrs Bush) <3wer>3 was <3in>3 cited to appear by their <1maiden>1 names--the fa- ther of the Husband &c. The Bailiffs rushed into the room a week and two days after de- livery--<3forced her to go>3 a month however they permitted her-- Mrs Row committed to prison immediately--in prison for contempt of court--have been in prison nine years. Years 1 2 3 11 weeks-- 21 weeks-- nine years They wlll not declare their children Bastards--They will give a bond as a whole society--but a bond is required for each one-- <1f42v>1 237 G.233 cast lots for. <1f43>1 238 G.234 call themselves Quakers have not silent meetings <1f44v>1 239 G.235 O Lord Thou art my God, I will exalt thee I will praise thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things. 1796-1797 [243 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee. O may we trust in thee for ever for in thee O Lord Jehovah is everlasting Strength. In the way of thy Judgments may we wait for thee! May the desire of our soul be towards thy name, & to the remem- brance of thee. With our souls may we desire thee in the night; With our spirit within us May we seek thee early; for when thy Judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness <1f45>1 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose most holy name is Love. 240 G.236 Hymns Moon <1f45v>1 In a cave in the mountains of Cashmere an Image of Ice, which makes its appearance thus-- ["] two days before the new <1moon>1 there appears a bubble of Ice which increases in size every day till the l5th day, at which it is an ell or more in height: then as the moon decreases, the Image ["] does also till it vanishes. Read the whole 107th page of Maurice's Indostan. 241 G.237 Sun <1f47>1 Hymns--Remember to look at Quintius Curtius --lib. 3 Cap. 3 & 4. Major Rennell 242 G.238 Perrault sur les loix de la Nature. De Boffe. 243 G.239 To give the common people philosophic or meta- <1f47v>1 physical notions, whether of Religion, or the Principles of Govern- ment, is evidently to unfit them for their proper station in the com- monwealth or state. In the different ranks of understanding or in- tellectual capacity there must be that of vulgar men, as well as that of men who are fit for public Virtue and political Wisdom: the one of these must be ruled by Superstition & by Law, the other must see the Principle upon which Men are to be <3ru>3 ruled. But to give the ignorant any power, however mediate or distant, in the governing <1f48>1 244 1795-1797 of the state, is surely to depart from the broad rule of Wisdom learned in the broad Experience of mankind. Hutton's Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge--Vol. 111. 548. <1f49>1 244 G.240 Water-- Thales.-- 245 G.241 Air &c--Five Mathem. spend every night in the lofty tower--one directs his eye to the zenith--2nd to tne E. 3rd to the W.4.S.5th N. They take notice of the wind & rain and stars-- Grand Observatory in Pekin.-- 246 G-242 Water <2Wkeanon te gar kai Ththun, epoihsan ths genesews pateras>2 <2kai ton orkon twn thewn udwr, thn kaloumenhn up'autwn Stuga>2 <2twn poihtwn. timiwtaton men gar to presbutaton: orkos de>2 <2to timiwtaton estin.>2 Arist. Metaph. 1. 1 C. 3. 247 G.243 <2Wkeanon te thewn genesin kai mhtera Ththun>2 <1f52>1 248 G.245 Similarity of sensation the cause of our common error in supposing external [?properties/prototypes] 249 G.246 By obliging every one always to do that which to him shall seem in the then present time and circumstances conducive to the public good: or by enjoining the observation of some de- terminate Laws, which if universally obeyed would produce uni- versal happiness.-- 250 G.247 <1f53>1 The tongue can't stir when the mouth is cramm'd with earth A little mould fills up most eloquent mouths And a square stone with a few pious texts Cut neatly on it, keeps the mould down tight. 251 G.248 Sancho <1f53v>1 Why now I think on't at this time of the year 'Tis hid by vines. I am glad he is proud therewith It had been a damning thing to have remained An opium chewer with such excellent grapes Over his cottage. Osorio. Wouldst thou break thy word For a purse of gold? Sancho. I am compact my Lord Osorio. You must deliver to this Ferdinand A Letter. Go! Prepare yourself. Exit Sancho. Osorio. The cavern's a fit place and he [. . . . .] By my deception [. . . .] Iam <3too honest for the sapient world>3 A little mould it The tongue can't stir when the mouth is cramm'd with earth To send me hunting after his [?Brothers] <1f54>1 [?And/Mind] pass him [. . .] for an unknown [. . .] [- - - - - - -] Did not my purposes require <3his>3 their death I'll hug him for his wit--and [?to prison then] I was to kill myself, to shew my conscience-- And this tall Moor--by heaven! 'twas well enough O Albert! Friend--he hath much of his manner His bosom friend--O he would tell Sad tales of Albert's life and death and travels. That she might love--yea and she would love He that can sighing whimper with a woman And tell long stories all about her lover He takes his place for certain! Dusky rogue <1f54v>1 Were it not sport to roll upon my grave 252] JUNE 1797-JULY 1800 And shake thy sides with laughter? Blood! my blood! They want my blood! [. - - - -] <1f55>1 252 G.249 Gros Bedford By crossing despair of improving this Breed, And wearied to Bedfordshire hasten indeed. 253 G.25o Grenville's merits ought to keep him up but the sense of his own merit, as a paper balloon Kept aloft by the smoke of its own farthing Can- dle-- <1f55v>1 254 G.251 92 Are brilliancy & softness combinable-- 95 in that--bad passions coexist without shewing them is nothing- 116 1 17 unnatural 126 Why must every Man be Godwin--'tis the dantry of Atheism--Robespierre 131 O! O! O!-- 135 And all this after 20 years absence. <1f 6>1 In the Book calumny last chapter calumny against nature 149 childish 297 very beautiful 299 generalities cold etc. following particular-- 9 48 172 Charles[?will dare/well done]-- 188 of 3----Fifth Monarchy men 174 Bethlem Gabor--sublime their friendship, but the possibility of the character not made evident. 1795-1800 [258 255 G.252 The only beloved son of his mother here lies <1f60>1 Whom he hath left behind with bitter cries Saying, My Son! Why art thou already gone-- So very soon to the other Region-- Couldest thou but a little longer stay I might have gone with thee that way 256 G.253 Brutal Life--in which we pursue mere corporeal <1f6 v>1 pleasures & interests-- Human Life--in which for the sake of our own Happiness <3we>3 & Glory we pursue studies and objects adapted to our intellectual faculties. Divine Life--when we die to the creatures & to self and become deiform by following the eternal Laws of order from the pure Love of Order & God. 257 G.254 Prayer-- <1f64>1 First Stage--the pressure of immediate calamities without earthy aidance makes us cry out to the Invisible-- Second Stage--the dreariness of visible things to a mind begin- ning to be contemplative--horrible Solitude. Third Stage--Repentance & Regret--& self-inquietude. 4th stage--The celestial delectation that follows ardent prayer-- 5th stage--self-annihilation--the Soul enters the Holy of Holies.-- 258 G.255 Vide Description of a Glory, by John Haygarth, Manchester <1f73v>1 Trans. Vol. 3. p. 463. On the thirteenth of February, 1780, as I was returning to Chester, and ascending, at Rhealt, the mountain which forms the eastern boundary of the Vale of Clwyd,--in the road above me, I was struck with the peculiar appearance of a very white shining cloud, that lay remarkably close to the ground. The Sun was nearly setting but shone extremely bright. I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it; the head of my shadow was surrounded at some distance by a circle of various all the colors appeared in the same order & proportion that the rainbow presents to our view--The beautiful colors of the hoarfrost on snow in sun shine--red, green, & blue--in various angles. <1f75v>1 259 G.256 bowed spirit [a] Deep inward stillness & a bowed Soul-- [b] Searching of Heart-- 1 <1lying>1--investiture.-- retirement [d] feeble & sore-broken-- [e] disquietness of my heart-- [f] languishing--pour out my soul. [g] I will open my dark sayings on the Harp! [h]? hasten my escape-- [i] inhabit thou his praises-- heritage-- [j] Prevent the dawning of the Morn with prayers [k] My afflicted shouted for Joy--my Weak Ones cried aloud-- [l] O Lord, thou Lover of Souls [m] The People of Perdition-- <1f76>1 260 G.257 Prayer Mrs Estlin's Story of the Maniac who walked round & round. 261 G.258 Epistle to Mrs Wolstoncraft urging her to Reli- gion. Read her Travels. 262 G.259 Sun paints rainbows on the vast waves during snowstorms in the Cape. <1f76v>1 263 G.26o Prayer Speak of my Mother as teaching me to lisp my early prayers. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1796 [272 264 G.261 A word that is clothed about with Death-- Mother of Love, & Fear, & Holy Hope, 265 G.262 stood up beautiful before God-- 266 G.263 And inly agonize mid fruitless Joy, as <2Eunuki>2 that embraceth a virgin & groaneth-- 267 G.264 and ever in his sleep, as in a day of keeping Watch, troubled in the Vision of his Heart; as if he were but even now escaped from a battle. 268 G.265 And with my whole heart sing the stately song Loving the God that made me. 269 G.266 From the snow-drop even till the rich Grape-cluster was heavy-- 270 G.267 the soul that is greatly vexed, that goeth stooping <1f77>1 & feeble-- 271 G.268 The[y] have carried away the dear beloved chil- dren of the Widow--and the husbandless have they left utterly desolate-- 272 G.269 -- [a] Tame the Rebellion of tumultuous thought-- [b] ministration-- [c] sordid adherencies that cohabit with us in this Life-- [d] rolls round his dreary eye-- [e] outweighs the present pressure-- [f] Weigh'd in the balance of the Sanctuary-- [g] God's Image, Sister of the Cherubim-- [h] And re-implace God's Image in the Soul-- [i] well-weaved fallacy-- [j] The greatness of that Perishing-- [k] From Possible to Probable, From Probable to Certain 1796 [l] and arrows steeled with wrath [m] Pleasure dies, like the moment in which it danced <3And Yesterday is>3 it dwells with Yesterday.-- <1f77v>1 [n] abbreviation--:: saddest pressures-- [o] twilight of day, & Harbinger of Joy [p] The eldest daughter of Death (Sin) drest in grave clothes-- [q] Deep sighings-- [r] unbind the poppy garland-- [s] worms & pollution, the sons & daughters of our bones-- [t] Lov'd the same love, & hated the same hate, Breathed in his soul--&c. [u] throned angels--upboyling anguish [v] Leader of a Kingdom of Angels. [w] Love-fires--a gentle bitterness-- [x] Well-spring--<1total God>1 273 G.270 Sick, Lame, & Wounded--Blind, and Deaf and Dumb-- Why sleep ye, O ye Watchman-- Wake from the sleep of whoredom. trim your Lamp-- Sound, sound the Trumpets--for the Bridegroom comes-- O man, thou half-dead Angel-- a dusky light--a purple <1flash>1 crystalline splendor--light blue-- <1Green>1 lightnings.-- <1f78>1 in that eternal and & delirious misery-- wrathfires-- inward desolations-- an horror of great darkness great things that on the ocean counterf eit infinity-- 274 G.271 The quick raw flesh that burneth in the wound-- <1f78v>1 275 G.272 Mr Belsher the bottom of High Street 1796 [280 276 G.273 A Reader of Milton must be always on his Duty: <1f79>1 he is surrounded with sense; it rises in every line; every word is to the purpose. There are no lazy intervals: all has been considered and demands & merits observation. If this be called obscurity, let it be remembered tis such a one as is complaisant to the Reader: not that vicious obscurity, which pro- ceeds from a muddled head &c. 277 G-274 <2Autwn de kai ton oikon plhthei kirhmatwn ex>2 <1f79v>1 <2arpaghs kai bias pros hdonhn te kai lhsteian tous entugki->2 <2anontas parakalwn didaskalos, autois ponhrwn uphrkien>2 <2epithdeumatwn. kai thn apragmosunhn men, h proteron sunezwn>2 <2oi anthrwpoi, metrwn epinoia kai stathmwn metesthsato: akeraion>2 <2autois onta ton bion ek ths toutwn amathias kai to megalopsukion>2 <2eis panourgian periagagwn. Orous ths ghs prwtos etheto kai>2 <2polin edeimato kai teikiesin wkiurwsen,eis tauto sunelthein tous>2 <2oikeious katanagkasas.>2 Josep. Antiq. lib. 1. Cap. 2. 278 G.275 But Mr Porson, the republisher of Heyne's Virgil, <1f80>1 is a giant in literature, a prodigy in intellect, a critic whose mighty atchievements leave imitation panting at a distance behind them, and whose stupendous Powers strike down all the restless and aspir- ing suggestions of rivalry into silent admiration & passive awe. Remarks on the statement of Dr Charles Combe. Page 13. 279 G.276 <2thobelos [Ioubhlos] de twn ek ths eteras>2 <1f80v>1 <2(Sellas) gegonotwn iskiui pantas uperbalwn ta polemika>2 <2diaprepws methlthen- ek toutwn kai ta pros hdonhn tou>2 <2swmatos ekporizwn kialkeian prwtos epenohse.>2 Jos. lib. i. Cap. 2 280 G.277 <1Ham>1--lustful rogue--Vide Bayle under the Ar- Nimrod, the first king, taught Idolatry,& persecuted for Reli- gion's sake. He was the first who wore a crown--(according to the 1795-1796 Persian writers) having seen one in the Heavens--made war for conquest-- <1f83v>1 281 G.278 Gifford's Letter to the Earl of Lauderdale. <1f84>1 282 G.279 Hermsprong--Man as he is not 283 G.28o Six o clock. Light the fires. Clean out the kitchen. Put on the Tea kettle. Clean the Insides of the Boiling Pot. Shoes &c. C. and B Eight o'clock. Tea things &c. put out & after cleaned up. Sara. One o'clock--spit the meat. B & C Two o'clock Vegetables &c. Sara Three o'clock--Dinner. Half past three--10 minutes for clearing Dishes-- <1f84v>1 284 G.281 Desiderata One pair of Candlesticks 7/6 One set of better China --6 Two tubs & a Pail-- %%--1 A Pipe 10 Six Blankets %%3- 5 pair Sheets of the finer Order <3One>3 Two pair for <3Servant>3 A <3pair>3 set of Curtains A Counterpane 1-10 Half a dozen Dishes Half a dozen Soup plates Half a dozen Basons Mem--A Cheese Toaster Potatoe Roaster Four Urine pots. <1f85>1 Two beds Four Blankets One Quilt Two Chest of Drawers Portable [. . .] Necessary alias Cl. Stool Three Kettles 1795-1796 [286 Two Boilers Three Spits A Jack Two Sets of China--&c Pewter & Earthen Ware Two Tables/ Fender, Pokers &c One Looking Glass--one smaller Two or three dozen of Bottles-- Tea Boards 285 G.282 0 ..6.. 0 <1f85v>1 0..10..0 13..6 0..10..0 2..10..0 W 5..15..0 W 3.. 0..0 W 1..10..0 0..10..0 1.. 0..0 0.. 2..0 0.. 2..0 1.. 1..0 17..09..6 17..14..6 10.. 5..0 16..6 286 G.283 Founded by Joseph of Arimathia--first Church in Britain--built with Wattles--Joseph of Arimathia buried there-- King Arthur's tomb discovered in the time of Henry the Sec. 287] 1795-1796 <1f86>1 287 G.284 Secret Journal of a Self Observer or Confessions and Letters from the German by J. C. Lavater. 2 vols.--Octavo. Cadell & Davies. 288 G.285 Avalonian Isle <1f86v>1 289 G.286 thy [?specious/specimen] [. . .] 290 G.287 Thy stern and sullen eye, & thy dark brow Chill me, like dew-damps of th'unwholesome Night My love, a timorous and tender Flower, Closes beneath thy Touch, unkindly man! Breath'd on by gentle gales of Courtesy And cheer'd by sunshine of impassion'd Look <3It>3 then opes its petals of no vulgar hues. 291 G.288 Furniture %%--92 Carriage for ourselves & other luggage 18 %%110 292 G.289 Remark that young Man's Eyebrows too very beautiful-- 293 G.290 <1f87>1 Grant me a Patron, gracious Heaven! whene'er My unwash'd Follies call for Penance, drear! But <3if>3 when more hideous Guilt <3still>3 this heart infests Instead of <3redhot>3 fiery Coals upon my Pate O let a <1titled>1 Patron be my Fate. That fierce Compendium of A|Egyptian Pests--! Right Reverend Dean, Right Honorable Squire, Lord, Marquis, Earl, Duke, Prince, or if aught higher, However proudly nicknam'd, he shall be Anathema Maranatha to me.-- 1796-1798 [305 294 G.291 Delicia|e poetarum Scotticorum--two poems of the <1f8 v>1 admirable Creichton in them. 295 G.292 With skill that never Alchemist yet told Ma<3kes>3de drossy Lead as ductile as pure Gold 296 G.293 Foul stream--House of Commons' Consciences 297 G.294 Mem--to speak to Cottle concerning Selections &c <1f88v>1 --and setting up in printing-- 298 G.295 Mem Brown--B 299 G.296 and not enduring to travel the turnpike to Heaven make a short cut thro' Hell-- 300 G.297 13 Guine[a]s with & 12 without Furniture-- <1f89>1 301 G.298 Butterworth's Origin of Evil.-- 302 G.299 Institutes of Hindoo Law--or the Ordinances of Menu--Debrett. 303 G.3oo ingenium ei esse oppido magnum sed contumacius quam ut arte regi posset; dictionem ingenio parem, animosam, et inamoenam tragice que feralem. 304 G.301 Abergenny--20 miles over the passage <1f8 v>1 305 G.3O2 Erskine Burke Priestley Fayette 1 2 3 4 Kosciusko Bowles Stanhope 5 6 Wakefield Schiller Th. C. J.H. 9 10 Robespierre Genev. Brook Kiss 8 7 Prostitute Pitt Siddons 11 12 13 <1f2>1 306 21.1 From Joseph Cottle to his valued Friend S. T. Coleridge-- Bristol Decr the 6. 1797-- <1f3>1 307 21.9 Prudens Interrogatio dimidium scientia|e. Lord Bacon. 308 21.1o We should judge of absent things by the absent. Objects which are present are apt to produce perceptions too strong to be impartially compared with those recalled only by memory. Sir J. Steuart./ 309 21.11 A man of delicate perceptions may acquire a great deal of prescience relative to government by paying great attention to the opinions & turn of mind of men between 20 & 30 years of age. 310 21.12 Qua|ere. How far the residence of Bishops ln cities was instrumental to the cause of Science & liberty--during the feudal times. 311 21.13 Et nos tela, Pater, ferrumque haud debile dextra Spargimus, et nostro sequitur de <3sanguis>3 vulnere sanguls. 312 21.14 Xstianity an imposture, the scriptures a forgery, the worship of God superstition, Hell a fable, Heaven a dream, our Life without providence & our death without Hope--&c. DECEMBER 1797 [321 313 21.15 Fabulas et errores ab imperitis parentibus dis- <1f3v>1 cimus; & quod est gravius, ipsis studiis et disciplinis elaboramus. Min. Fel. 314 21.16 The picture of a horse sprawling--you have got the wrong Way--tis a horse galloping. 315 21.17 Twas not a mist, nor was it quite a cloud, But it pass'd smoothly on towards the Sea Smoothly & lightly betwixt Earth & Heaven. 316 21.18 So thin a cloud-- It scarce bedimm'd the Star that shone behind it. 317 21.19 And Hesper now Paus'd on the welkin's blue & cloudless brink, A golden circlet! while the Star of Jove, That other lovely Star, high o'er my head Shone whitely in the center of his Haze. 318 21.2o --one black-blue Cloud Stretched, like the heavens o'er all the cope of Heaven 319 21.21 Doing nothing ends in being nothing--- <1f4>1 320 21.22 The Vulgar the closer they shut their eyes the <1f3v>1 wider they open their hands.-- 321 21.23 Promises <1f4>1 The independents in Cromwell's time held--That whatsoever they said or did for the present, under such a measure of light, should oblige them no longer when a greater measure of light should give them other discoveries.-- 322] DECEMBER 1797 322 21.2 <1flv>1 Mr Hill W. F. Collard 26 Cheapside <1f4>1 323 21.24 Gratitude worse than Witchcraft--conjures up the pale mea- gre ghosts of dead, forgotten kindnesses, to haunt & trouble him-- 324 21.25 The sot rolling on his Sopha stretching & yawning exclaimed--Utinam hoc esset laborare.-- 325 21.26 The House of Commons like Noah's Ark--a few men and many beasts.-- 326 21.27 old, palsied, & toothless generallties-- 327 21.28 South's Sermons--Vol. v. S. 4. p.165---Christ, the great Sun of Righteousness & Saviour of the World, having by a glorious rising after a red & bloody setting, proclaimed his Deity to men & angels--& by a complete triumph over the two grand <1f4v>1 enemies of mankind sin & death set up the everlasting Gospel in the room of all false religions has now (as it were) changed the Persian superstition into the Christian Devotion; & without the least ap- proach to the Idolatry of the former made it henceforth the Duty of all nations, Jews & Gentiles, to worship the rising Sun.-- --Dupuis-- In the same Sermon Hume's argument against miracles is clearly stated & put in Thomas's mouth--But I am told & required &c-- p.171. "Now surely things suitable to the stated course of nature should be believed before such as are quite beside it and for a dead to return to Life, is preternatural; but that those who report this may be mistaken, is very natural & usual.-- 328 21.29 Snails of intellect, who see only with their Feel- ers.-- 329 21.30 The reed-roof'd Village, still bepatch'd with snow Smok'd in the sun-thaw. 330 21.32 Infancy & Infants-- <1f5>1 1. The first smile--what kind of <1reason>1 it displays--the first smile after sickness.-- 2. Asleep with the polyanthus held fast in its hand, its bells drooping over the rosy face. 3. Stretching after the stars.-- 4. Seen asleep by the light of glowworms. 5. Sports of infants--their incessant activity, the <1means>1 being the end.--Nature how lovely a school-mistress--A blank-verse, moral poem-- 6. Infant beholding its new-born Sister. 7. Kissing itself in the looking-glass 8. The Lapland Infant, seeing the Sun. 9. An infant's prayer on its mother's Lap. 1 Baby's hand. Hartley's love to Papa--scrawls pothooks, & reads what he <1meant>1 by them.--> 10. The infants of Kings & Nobles,--& The infants of the very poor, especially in cities. <15. Poor Williams seeking his Mother, in love with her Picture --& having that vision of Beauty & filial affection, that the Virgin Mary may be supposed to give.> 11. The Souls of Infants, a vision--(vide Swedenborg--) 12. Some tales of an Infant. <16. Exhort a young man to despise wealth, & marry a beautiful woman--at all events marry for Love.--> 13. <2Storgh-->2 the absurdity of the Darwinian System--Birds-- Allegators. 14. The wisdom & graciousness of God in the infancy of the human species--its beauty, long continuance &c &c. <1f48v>1 331 21.256 (a fine epitheton of Man would be, Lord of Fire and Light.--All other Creatures, whose existence we perceive, are mere Alms-receivers of both.) 332 21.257 A company of children driving an hungry hard- skinned Ass out of a corn-field, the ass cannot by such weaklings be driven so hard but he will feed as he goes. 333 21.258 Such light as Lovers love--when the Moon steals in behind a black black Cloud, Emerging soon enough to make the Blush visible, which the long Kiss had kindled.-- 334 21.259 All our notions husked in the phantasms of Place & Time, that still escape the finest sieve & most searching Winnow of our Reason & Abstraction.-- 335 3.1 <1fl>1 Tuesday Night [Sept.] 18", 1798 Over what place does the Moon hang to your eye, my dearest Sara? To me it hangs over the left bank of the Elbe and a long trembling road of moonlight comes transversely from the left bank, reaches the stern of our Vessel, & there it ends.--We have dropped anchor in the middle of this grand Stream, 37 miles from Cux- haven. We arrived at Cuxhaven this morning at eleven o'clock, after an unusually fine passage of only 48 hours--/Chester was ill the Whole time--Wordsworth shockingly ill! --Miss Wordsworth worst of all--vomiting & groaning & crying the whole time!--And I the whole time as well as I ever was--neither sick or giddy. The sea rolled rather high, but I found the motion pleasant to me. At <1flv>1 Cuxhaven the Captain agreed that he would take us up to Ham- burgh for a guinea a piece--to which we assented--& shall be there, if no fogs intervene, tomorrow morning.--The Ocean is a noble thing by night--/the foam that dashes against the vessel, beautiful. White clouds of Foam roaring & rushing <3the Sea>3 by the side SEPTEMBER 1798 [335 of the Vessel with multitudes of stars of flame that danced and sparkled & went out amidst it--light skirmishes--/First sight of land a [ba]rren Island--the main land--low, flat, dreary--with light-houses & land-marks, scarce able to hold its head above water./ --From this the mouth of the Elbe--could not see but one shore/ Cuxhaven--/can see both in clear weather--banks neat, & flat, & quite artificial--Steeple & windmill, & cottage, & wind mill & house & steeple & wind mill & wind mill, & neat house, & steeple. beautiful Island 40 miles from Cuxhaven. 40 miles from Cuxhaven--Shore increases in beauty--green, & <1f2>1 the trees close to the water, with neat houses & sharp steeples, some white, some black, and some red, peering over them.--On the right bank the greatest profusion of Churches--/--/--The trees & Houses are low--sometimes the low trees overtopping the lower houses, sometimes the houses overtopping the low trees--/& both right & left bank green to the brink & level with the water, like a park Canal--16 miles from Hamburgh--i.e. 46 from Cuxhaven-- on the left bank, belonging (all the way to Denmark) the Village of Veder with a black steeple--& close by it without a church the pastorally wild Village of Schulau/& then the Left bank rises 30 feet at least above the water, a sandy facing with thin patches of green like the banks about Shurton Bars--& looking upward, along <1f2v>1 the sand banks you see <3black>3 highlands brown, and barren, & with patches of naked sand--/--reach these highlands, & came to Blankanese, a very wild village scattered amidst scattered trees in three divisions over three hills--<3yet>3 in divisions yet seemingly con- tinuous--each hill towards the river has a facing of bare sand, & <3bare>3 in boats with bare poles standing in files along the banks in fantastic harmony in between each facing, a dell <3of>3 green & woody --/--and here first we saw the spires of Hamburgh.-- From Blankanese up to Altona the left Bank of the Elbe very pretty--high & green & <3tufted>3 prettily planted with Trees--houses near the water in the midst of Trees, & Summer houses, &c <3upon the>3 all up the Banks./--all neat & comfortable--like a rural place <1f3>1 townified for the Citizens who come here from Altona & Hamburgh to drink & smoke their pipes on Sundays.-- --At Altona got ourselves & Baggage into a boat--and passed 336] SEPTEMBER 1798 with some trouble thro' the huge Masses of Shipping that choke the wide Elbe from Altona up to Hamburgh, for more than half a mile--/--Saw a boat going down for Hamburg--crammed with all people of all nations with pipes of all shapes, & fancies, strait & wreathed, long & short, cane, clay, tin & silver <& ivory>--/--Dutch Women with huge umbrella hats shooting out half a yard from their eyes--& with a prodigality of petticoats--the Hamburghers with caps plated on the <3Top>3 cawl with a sort of silver & a stiff canopy-kind of Veil over their eyes with hanging <3lace>3 lace fringe-- the Hanoverian Women with the forepart of the Head bare/then <1f3v>1 a stiff lace standing quite upright like a wall, & the Cap behind finale1d with a monstrous of Ribbon which lies on the back.--Their Visnomies are like a goodly Banner spread in defi- ance? Young men dashing English Bucks--their fine Ladies Eng- lish in the newest fashions & all rouge.--Their Streets narrow & fetid--& the Gable Ends of the Houses towards the street, some in shapified with more than Chinese Grotesqueness--But the Sky & the Clouds, & the Moonlight thro' them is as if I were at Stowey.-- Sept. 18th--The fine contrast between the uproar of solitary Deso- lation in the Ocean, & the silence of the populous-banked Elbe-- at night.-- <1f4>1 336 3.2 Sep. 19--Sea gulls flying about the Fishermen's Boats. Women rowing the boats with hats of various materials in the shape of punch-bowls.--Sep. 1 <19th>1--Afternoon 4v' clock.--Arrive at the Custom House. While Wordsworth went <3with the agreeable>3 <3Frenchmen>3 to seek an Hotel, I dashed into the town to deliver my letters of recommendation--Von Axen embarrassed me by his high & solemn politeness as well as by the difficulty he found in under- standing me. I left him abruptly/called on Remnant--not at home! --Called on Mr. Chatterley/an odd beast! He asked me drily if I would take a cup of Tea.--Yes!--An old woman poured into her hand out of the Tea Cannister what <1I>1 thought a very small portion <1f4v>1 --Oh! Oh! Oh! (exclaimed Chatterley) and she returned part of it into the Tea Cannister.--The Emigrant's Servant came & guided SEPTEMBER 1798 [337 me to Der Wilder Man <1[Der Wilde Mann]>1--where after much difficulty lodgings had been procured--My bedroom looked into & commanded the market-place./-- 337 3.3 Sept. 20th.--Awaked by the distressful cries of poultry crowing & clucking in the market-place.--Reviewed my ex- pences from Yarmouth to Hamburgh-- %% s d 0 3 6 Fee to the Searcher. 0 12 6 Passport. 0 6 0 Bill at the Inn 0 1 0 Porterage to the Pier 0 3 6 Boat. N.B. Each passenger pays 2/6 for himself, <1f5>1 & a shilling for each box or parcel, he may have.-- 3 3 0 Passage money. 1 1 0 Provisioning.-- 0 10 6 Fees to the Mate, Steward, and Sailors. N.B. The least sum possible.-- 0 10 6 Passage from Cuxhaven to Altona./Had I gone in the ordinary way, it <1must>1 have been double this sum. 0 1 0 Boat for self & portmanteau from Altona to Ham- burgh.-- 0 2 0 Porterage &c from the Quay to the Inn. 6 14 6 p.s. For Babies they charge nothing on board the pacquet--for children above 5 years old, half-price Sept. 20th--<3Friday>3 Thursday Morning-- l0o'clock. Called on <1f5v>1 Chatterley who introduced me to his Partner, Mr. Klopstock, who could not speak a word of English, but was kind & courteous. Went & fetched Wordsworth--& he & Klopstock talked in French.--Kl. took us to Professor Ebeling--a lively intelligent man with an ear- trumpet--/Passa Oglou not a Rebel, <3nor>3 but a Turkish Constitu- tionalist, at the head of the Party who <3are>3 oppose all the Innova- tions & Gallicisms &c of the Seraglio--A sturdy Mahometan--if the 338] SEPTEMBER 1798 Grand Seignior will consent to adopt the old principles of the Turk- ish Constitution, ready to submit & become the Meanest of his Slaves. Hawkins, who informed the Professor of this, has been <1f7>1 travelling in Greece & ltaly--The Grecians an interesting & estima- ble people--many mindful of the Fuimus Graii--impatient of the Turkish Yoke, but do not love the French.--/--Anecdote of Hoche at Dusseldorf--the Map-maker &c--/--The Emathian Conqueror & house of Pindarus.--Vide.--Milton's Sonnet.-- Saw at Klopstock's a bust of his Brother/there appeared a solemn & heavy greatness in the countenance.--Saw a fine picture there of Lessing--No comprehensiveness in the Forehead; but large eyes & fine mouth/A man of light fancy, acute not in observation of actual life; but in the management of the ideal world.--His eyes apparently not unlike mine-- <1f7v>1<3Fri>3Thursday, 3v'clock. Dined at the Saxe Hotel; detestably cheated.--6v'clock. Went to the French Comedy--Execrable. Count Vatron, on Subordination. First act/a court Martial is to be held on the Count Who has drawn his sword on the Colonel--<3sentences of>3 Officers plead with the Colonel--The Colonel's Sister is the Count's Wife--She pleads in most tempestuous agonies--& faints away/; Second Act--Sentence of Death passed. Third Act--/--The Sol- diers just going to fire, when "Reprieve Reprieve" is heard.--This is all. The pathos made up of the Wife's frantic & hysterical Rant- ing.--The After-piece very flat, but with some pretty music-- Women in the market--/Bacon, small dough dumpling, & boiled Pears for Vegetables--/others Beef & Cabbage-- 338 3.4 <1f6>1 Beef-- 4 or fourpence halfpenny per lb. 2/8" Mutton-- ditto--20 pf. Veal-- 6d or 7d--14/8" Pork 5d--24/8 Goose--a fat goose 4d--1Th Turkey 8 or 9d--1Th 8" Fowls-- 14d a couple--12" SEPTEMBER 1798 [338 Bread--the same as in England/l0 pf. the lb. Butter 9d per pound or 10d 8" Cheese/good for nothing English & 4d a pound or more/3 " Eggs half penny a piece 12" Vegetables enormously dear/--Peas/5d a pound potatoes 12 " d. Schefel <1[Scheffel]>1 Soap 6d a pound 4"-- Coffee--22 pence 17 " Sugar --24 pence--16" Tea, pretty good for 6 marks a pound. 2" Fuel/Coals by the <3Ton Weight>3 & more than double in the winter. what 4 ponies bear is called a Fudder <1[Fuder]>1 Clafter <1[Klafter]>1 5" Buchen 9" Candles 8d a pound-- 5" Milk/rather cheaper than in England/Mass 1 " Wine & Spirits Beer--two pence a bottle & two pence half-penny/--a can of beer 1 " Port 16d up to 2 shillings. <1f6v>1 Ordinary Wine 8d a bottle. Good Claret--a mark Best Claret--half a dollar--i.e. 2v Old Hock--from a mark up to 7 mark Brandy Fr.--20d a bottle-- 16" somewhat more than a bottle called a Mass Rum-- 16d--20 " Gin--i.e. Corn Brandy--/6d or 7 Arrack. 1-Th4G Cloth much dearer--making much cheaper Linen from 6" to a Gulden d. Ell Shoes 1Th--16" Fish Cheap in Spring. Mackarel Forellen 18 " plb. Eels Smerling <1[Schmerle]->1-60 for 16" Pike Hecht GG Carp -- <3Salted>3 Smoked Salmon Cod 339] SEPTEMBER 1798 Game, sold in the markets--/Hare 8 " properly but often 1/2 aTh Raisins-- 3 " 4 Pf. a lb. Currants Spices Salt/very cheap--/-- <1f8>1 339 3.5 Friday, Sept. <320>3 2l"/Went to John Frederic Hauze to enquire about John Taylor's Carriage--May have it for 7 guineas.--Went with Mr Klopstock to the Voiturier to look at Carriages--nothing under 30 guineas--& these very bad.--Dined at Der Wilder Man at the Ordinary.--Soup--then a long interval-- Patience at at a German Ordinary Smiling at <3gri>3 Time-- Some hung beef--& unsalted boiled beef, cut out in slices & handed round in plates--each man takes a slice with his fork.-- Vegetables--Carrots stewed in butter--and french Beans with their seeds stewed in some condiment--I know not what--/another In- <1f8v>1 terval. Then came round the Slices of roast Beef, roasted Juiceless --a good Sallad--Then slices of roast Pork/Then some Orleans Plumbs, by way of Desert./ --4 o'clock. Went with Klopstock to his Brother's who lives ten minutes walk from the Gates--/Much disappointed in his counte- nance--/Saw no likeness to the Bust & no comprehensiveness in the Forehead--no massiveness in the countenance in general/no expres- sion or peculiarity in the eyes--Toothless in the upper jaw--under jaw all black Teeth/--A very lively, kind, courteous Man, who <3talked>3 talked with Wordsworth for an hour; but shewed no great depth in any thing. He thought Glover's blank verse superior to <1f9>1 Milton's--& knew nothing of the older German Poets, & talked a great deal of nonsense about the superior power of concentering meaning in the German Language.--Shewed us a superb Edition of his works new printing--two Volumes, containing his Odes, printed--price 40 Shillings the Volume--/dearer than the same sort of books in England--told us <3he>3 that his first Ode was 50 years older than his last. I looked at him/considered him as the venerable Father of German Poetry/as a good man & a Christian/74 years old, & with legs monstrously swelled--yet active, & lively, & chear- SEPTEMBER 1798 [341 ful, & communicative/& the Tears came into <3his>3 my eyes/& could I have made myself invisible & inaudible, I should have wept out- <1f9v>1 right.--In the picture of Lessing, he has a Toupee, Perriwig which enormously injured the effect of his Physiognomy.--Klopstock wore the same powdered &c--/it had an ugly look.--Honor to Poets & great men. You think of them as parts of nature/& any thing of Trick & Fashion wounds you as if you were to see epau- lettes dangling from an Orange Tree.-- 340 3-6 Saturday <321>3 22 --In a state of Oscillation be- tween Weimar & some village near Hamburg--Frightened at the expences of Travelling to Weimar according to the accounts of the English Travellers--those accounts positively contradicted by Ger- <1f10>1 mans.--Baldwin told us that it might cost us 60 & must cost us 40 guineas. Remnant & the Germans all affirm that it is impossible that it should cost us, provisions, & all--and including all calculable im- positions, more than 1 5%%--What a difference--can believe no body. --astonishing laxity & inaccuracy of men's minds--good sense how rare-- In the evening bought Burger 2 Vol. Klopstock's Odes, 2 Vol.-- Matthieson, Mu%ller, S<3ch>3tolberg, and Lessing's fables--cost %%1,3s 6d--The Shop near the Jungfern Stieg--delightful young men in it--/fine heads of Jacobi, Wieland, Schiller, & Goethe-- 341 3.7 Sunday, September 23vd-- <1f10v>1 Shops, half of them open as on other days/A Woman ironing. Inclined to strict Sabbatism myself--church of St. Nicholas--largest organ I ever saw/profuse of all ornaments except Worshippers/ Their attendance, inconceivably thin. Hamburghers not irreligion- ists, only they have no Religion. --French Comedy at night--this is the third time only/the in- habitants had been long struggling for the permission which had been refused by the aldermen as irreligious & indecent--/one gate to be open<3ed>3able at night after October-- Sunday, 23vd--Set off in stage--a sort of rude resemblance to an <1fll>1 English stage Coach, but larger--elephant's ear to the human/-- 342] SEPTEMBER 1798 On the top naked boards of different colours, that had been <2ws dokei,>2 parts of different wainscots/--leathern curtains with one eye of glass, for windows--/the same back seats so windowed, i.e. curtained--the curtains would not come close--terribly cold--/the coach lined with cut-velvet--/The four horses harnessed simply with ropes, which when they stopped lay upon the ground--/Met a Capitaine Cruse, who talked latin all the way with me, & pre- vented all impositions/as we came out of Hamburgh, much struck with the neat & festal lightness of the country houses--some houses of entertainment, some private--/all neat, & crowded with neat holiday-dressed people--/boys playing/One on a high trunk of a Tree swinging round & round a black skin & the others shouting & running round & round/but the particulars I could not learn-- <1fllv>1 Went into some cottages & ale-houses all alike, except in size-- One great room, like a barn with a hay & corn-loft over it--the straw etc of the upper story peeping & dangling in straws & tufted thro' the boards--/from this huge room, which is paved, sometimes one, sometimes two rooms are inclosed/--In the large room the Cattle & the Men, & the Children, pigs & poultry, &c, lived--but yet it seemed comfortable & seldom dirty//and the buildings were sub- stantial & neat/The wood-work of the building unplastered<3&>3as in old houses among us, & being painted, some red, some green, cut & tesselate the houses very prettily.--From within three miles of Hamburg almost to Molln (30 miles from Hamburg) a flat & dreary country, varied occasionally by woods in the distance/Near Molln it becomes beautiful--a lake with groves round, & all exactly like a nobleman's grounds--a palace in view, King of England/ forest-inspector's <1f12>1 342 3.8 Monday, Sep. 24--Ratzburgh--the houses neat, the streets clean, the town altogether very pretty & wholesome-- islanded by the lake, or rather by four pieces of water that com- municate with each other by cuts & streamlets--You enter the town SEPTEMBER 1798 [344 <3thro>3' on a road (white & sandy) between two pieces of water that appear perfectly distinct--Pass over a bridge which with the sol- diers on it has a fine military appearance--the shores of the lake just often enough green & bare to give the proper effect to the magnificent Groves which mostly fringe it--/each piece of water large enough for <3enough>3 a whole--yet there are points where omnes omneunt in unum--beauty & magnitude which gives a differ- ent impression than that of mere beauty without encroaching on <1fl2v>1 softness/feminine grandeur! --Exquisite Walks/for Autumn & for Winter/the tints on the trees & lakes--the icicles & the snow./-- Necessary Houses/ Delivered my letter to the Baliff Bruner. very kindly received, & dined with him/I found from him that I had been much misin- formed respecting the cheapness of lodging & boarding/it could not be had under three marks a day--i.e. 21 per week/--Heard a good pun about Buonaparte--Dinner/was pot-luck, which I was glad off --/It consisted of some indifferent soup/of vegetables variously dressed, of boild pears, of pancakes, & a very small piece of meat, roasted to nothing--The women & children eat no meat/-- 343 3.9 Tuesday,Sept.25th--Dined ar the Table-d'hote/ Wine Soup with currants in it--then French Beans with the beans in them, dressed, pleasantly enough, with sauces--sausages, some fish from the lake--perch, I believe--& mutton roasted--scanty din- <1f13>1 ner, not equal in any respect to the Table-d'hote at der Wilder man, & the same expence./All very polite & respectful.--Went this eve- ning to the concert--when I came in, an officer, who spoke English, desired in German <3that>3 Rule Brittania, which immediately struck up--& several of the company bowed to us--/--All absolutely Eng- lish, Women, men, & manners.--That night sate up till 4 in the morning, & versified 200 lines/went to bed, could not sleep--saw a curious instance of single & double vision--/-- 344 3. 1 o Wednesday, Sept. 26th--Walked, enamoured more and more of the walks/--Agreed with a Pastor [?Unrike/ Unruhe] for boarding & lodging for myself & Chester--36 Marks a week for both, & we find our own wine & Tea & Washing.--A 345] SEPTEMBER 1798 Feast at the Table d'hote--in honor of Nelson's Victory.--The <1fl3v>1 Colonel, the military governor, all live--full of attention--a fat, fatherly officer--an excellent dinner, but horribly long--A sort of sausage inclosed in cabbage, looks on the plate, like a large Cabbage --The Colonel very attentive to me indeed--so were all. I was half-tipsy.-- 345 Th d S <1th>1 f as Empfelde by a different road--dam'd bad roads thro' damn'd delightful woods/all the gable ends with --postillion & horses eat breakfast together of the same bread &c--a most beautiful woman about 5 miles from Ratzeburgh--at a farm Inn--/At Emfelde the Postillion patted a 24 Shilling piece, meaning that I <1f14>1 was to give him that--curst him in German & gave him nothing for a punishment.--Walked to Hamburgh--deep sandy roads & a dreary country.--The soil of the arable fields exceedingly pulver- ized/--/The approach to Hamburgh very sweet/trees in piazzas & rails before the houses with green seats in them/better than if a better taste.--The vast ramparts, so green & cushion-like, & trees eloquent of the long peace/-- 346 3.12 Friday, September 28th--Wordsworth & Sister de- termined to go on, & seek, lower down, obscurer & cheaper Lodg- ings without boarding--/--Bought a Luther's Bible, 3 marks & 4 pence--and Herder's Popular Songs, 7 marks--called on Remnant who assured me that <3we>3 our terms at Ratzeburgh were reasonable <1fl4v>1 --Every thing more than doubled since the French Revolution/ Hamburghers have all three kinds of weight, &c--After dinner walked with Wordsworth to Altona--found the Prostitutes all in one street/had seen none before.--Child on Ramparts riding on a saddled goat.--Divine sunset/rich light deeper than sand over the Woods that blackened in the blaze--a brassy mist seemed to float on that part of the wood immediately under the intenser blaze--/The Trees & moving People on the Rampart cut by the brassy splendor --all else obscure--/--Stayed over Saturday because the great feast of St Michael--splendid processions &c-- SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1798 [352 347 3-13 Sat. 29th. Feast of St Mich. the patron of Ham- <1f173>1 burgh--Unimpressed no procession, only two or three sermons, preached to nobody in two or three churches, St Michael & his pa- tronage cursed by the higher classes, as the French Comedy is for- bidden on that day--All silent & solemn, a Bristol Sunday. Pleased with the black aprons of the Bourgeois--/Wordsworth & the Baker. 348 21.33 The silence of a City--How awful at midnight-- <1f5v>1 <3As silent as a sleeping Hermit's cell>3, <3Mute as the cell of a sleeping anchoret>3, <3As silent>3 Mute as the battlements & crags & towers That fancy makes in the clouds--yea as mute As the moonlight that sleeps on the steady Vanes,-- The cell of a departed Anchoret, <1f6>1 His skeleton & flitting ghost are there, Sole tenants-- And the <3huge>3 all the City, silent as the moon That steeps in quiet light <3her>3 the steady Vanes Of her huge temples-- 349 21.34 <1Australis-->1David's Son--Joshua's <3Son>3un--Heze- kiah's <3Son>3 Sun.-- Ostrich--cannot fly; but he has such other Qualities that he needs it not--Well in the stalk; but does not kern. 350 3.46 Sterben--to die, decease, depart, depart this life <1f45v>1 starve, breathe your last, expire, give up the ghost, kick up your heels, tip off, tip over the Perch. Sie gellten &c-- 351 3.47 --Washing-bridges over the brooks.-- 352 3.50 Holberg <1fiii>1 Ewald Rabeck Thaarup The Book-Club & Superintendent 353] OCTOBER 1798 Dr Tode Heiberg <1fl40v>1 353 31/2.121 Kanopee, the Sopha. That part on which you sit, when it is moveable, like a bed is called Unterkissen/N./oder, Matratze. F. A desk with Drawers, Bureau or Chattoll--/A chest of Drawers, Commode--/a little Book Case--Niole.--Anzug--one of the Drawers--Ring & Beschlag--that ring with the brass orna- ment-circle under it, by which you pull out the Drawers. The whole Space of a window is--Fenster-luchten--as in an un- finished or ruined House.--When boarded, &c, the whole visible space is Fenster-bekleidung. The whole Frame is, Fenster-Rahm. M. but the thinner Frames of the Panes. Sprossen. The Panes, Scheiben. F. The things by which a window is kept open, Fenster- haken. Window-shutters--Fenster<3liden>3Laden. That <1wooden>1 part <1f141>1 on which you may lean when you look out at the Window, Fenster- bank. --Fenster-Poster. The Window-posts. The main Crossboards Kreuz-holzer. Fach fenster, the whole of a Window having four partitions.-- Spiegel. Spiegel-Rahm. Frame of the Looking glass.--Laub- werk. The gilded Trompery at the Bottom--/Krone. The Orna- ment on the Top. Stuhl.--Stuhl-gesess--The Seat of the Chair. Ruck-lehne--the Back.--Seiten-Lehne oder Arm-lehne--The Arms. Schrank A chest/<3that stands up right, with great Wirg doors->3 Dru%cker, <3the>3 die Handhabe--an <3die>3 den Schlo%ssern, womit die Schnalle der Klinke aufgedru%cket wird. The Handle of the Latch. --Die Feder in einem Schloss, or die Spring-feder. The Spring of <1fl4lv>1 the Lock. Vorlag-Schloss N. A Padlock. Der Barich wo die Feder liegt, das Schlu%ssel-loch, <3the Staple der>3 der Riegel, die Zahne eines Schlosses--the Staple, the Key-hole, the Bolt, the Wards. Ein Bund Schlussel--a Bunch of Keys./Ha%nge, Hinges of a Door &c. Uhr.--Uhr-gehause oder Uhrkasten--the Clock Case. Zeiger, minuten or stunde--the Minute & hour-hand. The Weights--die Gewichte. Ofen--Stove. Die OfenKrone, der Ofenfuss-<3The>3 Des Ofens OCTOBERl798 [353 Mundloch. The Mouth Hole of the Oven--Rohr is properly the Flue; but that little arch or piazza-shaped kind of Landing Place in <1f142>1 a German Stove is likewise called Rohr--where you may keep Victuals warm, air a sheet, or dry a wet pair of Shoes--sometimes arched, as the Aisle of a Cathedral--& sometimes a Square-- Gardine. Bett-gardine. A Bed Curtain--The whole Furniture of a Bed--Umhang. Himmel-bett--the Tester. Bett-decke Quilt & Blankets. Bett-laken Sheets. Bett-sack. The Sacking.--Pfu%hl, the bed itself. Bett-sponde, Bett-stelle, Bett-sta%2tte. Bed-stead. Bett- stangen. Bed-rods.--Bett-stolle. Bed-post. Fallala, the hanging things that make atheistic faces in Candle-shadow.-- Stock mit goldenem Knopffe--golden headed Cane. Die Trippe = <3The>3 A pair of Stairs. Die Stufen. the Stairs. Gelender--The Railing on each side.-- Braten Uhr, or, Braten Wender--a Jack. <1f142>1 Kesserhaken--A chimney Crook Feuerzange--Fire Tongs. Besem--A besom--Uhle, a Brush--Bu%rste, a brush, such as Cloaths--Shoe--or--Tooth-brush.--Rost--a Toasting-fork. Feu- erzeug--A Tinder box with all its apparatus.--Wasser-kelle, a Water-ladle. Mursen und Kaule, Pestelle & Mortar.--Bort--that piece of wood in which the Pegs are fastened on which you hang hats &c, in a room or Entry.-- ## Balgen A Pail. F.--Zuber, a Tub.--Der Balg, or Blasebalg-- Bellows. Grapen--Crocks. Schaum-kelle, Skimmer Brat-kelle, a Basting-Ladle. Durchschlag, a Cullender. Fleisch Gabel--A Flesh fork. Chastolle--a Stewing Dish. Heede (or Werg) Toe. Werg--- <1f143>1 Fliegenschrank--Hang the name, I cannot remember it.--the pensile Safe Preservatory for Meat in Summer!--Ha! Ha! Feuer-becken--Fire-dish. Sieb--haarsieb,-- Trichter--a Funnel.--Eimer, a Bucket, M. Hackbrett, Chop- ping-board. <1354f2]>1 OCTOBER 1798 Molde, a Tray. Beer-tonne--a Barrel. Butte, a narrow little Milk-tub.-- Klappe, Flap. Hosen-Flappe, But the Flap of the coat, is Schooss am Rock. Uberschlag, the double Breast of a coat. Geriefelte Strumpfe--ribbed Stockings.-- Teadose. Tea Cannister. Teakasten, Tea cadee. Razierriemen Razor Strap Futteral--Razor Sheath. <1f143v>1 Tiegel. M. a butter skillet-- <1f2>1 354 31/2-5 Partthe First Names Of Spirits Men, Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Reptiles, and of the constituent Parts of the Same. <1f3>1 Alpe M. The Night-Mairs. <1f5v>1 Feen--the Fairies <1f6>1 Glutwurm/Feuerwu%rmchen.--Johanniswurm & Gleimchen <1f6v>1 Horn. N. Fu%llhorn--Horn of Fullness. <1f7v>1 Kaldaunen, Kutteln & Kuttelfleck--Eine Tracht Kald. A barrow of Garbage. Kobolt--An Hobgoblin. M.--Die Kobolte Keule, a Haunch. Kniebeuge--The Bend of the Knee. Wann die Krah am Aase kraht/--Crow--Carrion--dem be- schmeissten Aase--the fly-blown Carcase. <1f9>1 Die Nieren--The Reins Nacht-geist--Pl. Nacht-geister--Night Ghosts M. Nachtigall-- <1fl0>1 Pfau. M. Peacock. Pfauen--Pfauen Schwanz <1fllv>1 Stirn--Forehead.-- Ein paar Schwalbenflu%gel <1f13>1 Ungezieffer--Vermin. Unke--A water-toad. OCTOBER 1798 <1[354f36>1 Part the Second <1f14>1 Sensation, Passion, Touch, Taste, and Smell. Bestu%rzung--Amazedness. <1f15v>1 Gichtbru%chig--Gouty or paralytic. <1fl7v>1 Gesellig--social. Hegen, to foster- P & M- <1fl8>1 "Heiss in Kalt" Mild--mild. <1fl9v>1 Schauder & Entsetzen/Shuddering & Amazedness.-- <1f22v>1 Verschlucken--verschlucken, to swallow or gulp. <1f23v>1 Verwirrung/Perplexity Vermessen sich--to mistake yourself; presumptuously Unba%ndig--fierce & unmanageable <1f24>1 <3Zeisig--A yellow hammer.M.>3 <1f25>1 III Part <1f28v>1 Sight and Motion Gewahr werden--to perceive. <1f28v>1 Hervorstu%rzen--to rush out--aus <1f29>1 Hauen--hieb. Hewed. kra%nzte--crowned. v. <1f30>1 kriechen--to creep into--kriechen in-- Kehren--den Kopf gegen die Erde/to turn. Leert--empties <1f30v>1 Ihr Mondscheinschwa%rmer: Ye moonshine Revellers <1f31>1 Nicken/nicken ein Gru%sschen--nod a little greeting <1f3lv>1 Scharren/to rake or scrape <1f34>1 Schu%tten/to shoot, as rubbish.--& als giessen, to pour.-- Swarzen, grauen, gru%nen, weissen Feen.-- Schatten finstrer Nacht--Shadows &c Ein Traum: eine Erscheinung. <1f34v>1 Verjagen to chase away <1f35>1 Unbewo%lkt--unclouded Umzingeln--to surround. Wandern--wander or travel. <1f36>1 354f37] OCTOBER 1798 Wandeln to walk./& (mor.) to live. Wancken expresses any to & fro motion. Waltzen/to roll/-- <1f37>1 Part IV Sound and Motion <1f37v>1 Wann sichs ausgetummelt hat--Cum desa|eviit Temp. <1f40>1 Gekirre a Shrieking. N. Gejauchze. N. Shouting.--Geklatsche-- the noise of a Whip--& morally = Gewa%sche--Tittle-tattle.--N. n. --Geklapper--a rattling. N. Geklemper. N. A click-clack. Geknirre --a Shrieking N.--Geklopfe--N. A Clapping. Gekrache. N. a Cracking./Geige--A violin. Gelache--Gela%chter--n. Laughter.-- Gela%cher--Smiling. Gebrodel oder Gebrudel--The Bubbling up of boiling Water. <1f40v>1 Hymnen. Jubelhymnen. Hymns of Jubilee. <1f45v>1 Schallen--to sound <1f48>1 Zaudern--to loiter. <1f49>1 Vth Part Inanimate Things on the Land, the Productions of Nature. <1f51>1 Efeu & Eppich--Ivy--Eppich is used by Voss for Parsley-- <1f52v>1 Heidelbeeren--Whortelberries Auf der Haid', am faulen Moor <1f57v>1 In einen Sumpf voller Koth--Slough of Mire <1f59>1 Ufer<3n>3 --an deinen Ufern. By thy Banks. <1f60v>1 <36th Part>3 <3Inaninate Things in Air, Haven, Fire & Water, the>3 <3Productions of Nature, including all subterraneous>3 <3things>3 <1f61>1 Blitz--Lightning <1f62>1 Donner--Thunder Das Gold--gold.--goldnes, golden. <1f6 v>1 Lufterscheinung--A meteor <1f65v>1 Marmor Marble. <1f66>1 Saphirn gleich und Perlen <1f69>1 Slackerwind--A sleety Blast/Slicker slacker/ <1f72>1 Fackel--a Torch <1f74v>1 Heerd--Hearth--vom Winzerheerd--from the Wine-dresser's <1f75v>1 hearth--ungekehrte--unswept. Haube A kerchief Kalkofen a Limekiln. <1f76v>1 Klapper-Klappern. Rattles. Nessel-tuch--Muslin f78 Palast--a Palace. M. Burgpalast--Castle-Palace. <1f79>1 Pfeil M. an arrow. cf Luneburg Heath Schuldthurm--a Debtor's Prison. <1f80v>1 Spiess a Lance M. Stalle/Stall. Cote. Stye. Pen, &c-- Sa%gegrube--A saw-pit. In reicher Stickerey--in rich embroidery Tragestock. Mas. Cowl-staff <1f8l>1 Teig M. Dough. Tenne. F. A Barn or Thresh-Floor. <1f8 v>1 Ertappen/to catch in the fact. <1f85v>1 <1f95>1 Ausserdem--Besides, <1f95v>1 Beynahe--almost <1f 6v>1 Beysammen--together <1f97v>1 Zwielicht--/Da%mmrung./"Daumenbreit vor Eulenflug." Durchga%ngig--Universally Dann und wann--Now & then <1f98v>1 Treffen wir uns fru%h genug--We come early enough.-- Flugs--instantly.--"Fort! Ja-flugs." Nicht so hurtig! Geschwind! Kurz! schnell. <1f99v>1 Hernach/Hereafter & Afterwards. <1f101v>1 Mit--with <1f102>1 Nach und nach/by little & little <1f104v>1 Stets--Constantly. Steif und fest. Firm & fast. <1f105v>1 Unterdess--in the meanwhile. Unbegra%nzte/ Inconfinable. Von--from <1f106v>1 Wo--where weit--So weit--so far winzig, Ein winzig Wort. A little word. <1f107>1 Zu--to <1f107v>1 l0 Part Composite Terms, in which Art is illustrated by Na- ture, or Nature by Art. <1f120>1 Dergestallt--in such a manner, that. Dergleichen such like <1f121>1 Die Freiheit--Freedom Die Freude Joy <1f121v>1 Geschicklikeit--Dexterity <1f127>1 Sokratisch Socratic <1f128>1 Verla%umderisch--Slanderous <1f 128v>1 Unu%berwindlich--Invincible Unverdrossen--unwearied Der u%berfluss. Plenty. <1f133>1 ein geringscha%tziges Thier--A despic. beast <1f134>1 Hahnrey--Cuckold <1f135>1 Du ja%mmerlicher Kerl Windiger Lumpenkerl Lumpicht--worthless as Rags. <1fl35v>1 Du Maulaff! --Jackanapes. <1f136>1 Ein Maulaff von Pfaff--of a <1Priest>1-- Possen--Nonsense! -- <1f13 8>1 Prahler. a Braggadocio. Prahlen--to vaunt. Zwischentra%ger, Friedenssto%rer--A make-mischief. <1f 139v>1 355 3.48 Sat. Oct. 6.--Peasant Children--a frock-coat but- <1f45v>1 toned behind--some of coarse blue Cloth, some of coarse plaid--/ <36at>3 Field-gate in miniature, sometimes for the door, sometimes before it-- --Shepherd walking up & down with his dog, with iron-soled boots, knitting a pair of white worsted Gloves-- --A mile from Ratzeburgh, the gallows three pillars, square, like chimneys, connected. 356 3.49 Oct. 8.--Bell--one man on each side pushes it from him with his foot.-- --Woman wished to have the Virgin Coronal--Father made a rout Gehtein <1[Geht ein]>1 --Various Wines after dinner at the Ammtmans-- 357 21.59o Oct. 10th--<1798.!!>--Saw the Town of Ratze- <1134v>1 burgh completely beautiful--20 minutes past 5--sky the western with light sandy clouds--the East blue--blue over Ratzeburg--/A red light in complete harmony, with the red Town, the fading Woods, & the reeds on the skirts of the Lake, and of the Isthmus, yellow-red, a few boats on the lake with single persons paddling them. 358 3.42 Octob. 11th --a German Party at Cards--One <1f44>1 man's long pipe on the table smoking half a yard from him, by the fish dish--another's, held in his teeth & hanging down between his thighs below the calf of his legs-- 359 3.43 Picture-- The white Ruff glimmering thro' the sable Bands Adam's hand round Eve's neck bubbying her, the twig from the trunk of the Tree, nice fig leaf-- <1f44v>1 360 3.45 Left hand--Church, & Houses at a little distance, in the same line, at the top of a Back Hill over low trees covering the Bank.--there saw a wood to the brink of the water-- open space with a house--woods [D] /Right hand --Ratzeburgh--you see it an island--the Coast that embraces it woody.--Houses & Trees like the skirt of a wood left stand- ing when the rest is cut down, not beautiful like the left Bank --The backward view, woods on each side the other piece of water --the House at the head--and thro' the stunted new Woods on the Isthmus a glimmer of water--The woods on the left bank run up into semicircles & Triangles leaving green banks for the <1f45>1 water-- [D] So the woods run for a mile from Rat. then cease, and for a quarter of a mile naked Arable with one farmhouse at the end where the wood recommences. The right bank becomes beautiful--groves of Trees sloping into the water with broken spaces between grove & grove. Left Bank-- wood recommences or rather the village of Buchholtz, a <1neighbour->1 <1hood>1 of houses with Trees round each house--making all together a wood--of rather more than a Furlong, perhaps two furl.--Left Bank recedes--and as far as I can see is naked or only with hedge- trees, & both banks cease to be beautiful--to the end of the lake, which is (they say) ten miles in length & 2 1/2 in breadth--at the end of the lake a small brick fort. <1f42>1 361 3.39 Lubeck nach Eutin und von da nach Kiel 1. Stockelsdorff. Gastwirth To%nnies oder Lu%bbertoch Garten 2. f Pannsdorf-- 3. .. Ploen bey Ro%hl 4. .. Preetz .. Priehn 5. .. Kiel .. Petzold in Kiel Schlossgarten &c &c Dorfgarten, bey Brun Oct. 16 Kitz 1798 zu Travemu%nde 362 3.40 From Lubec to Travemunde -- [D] Beggar--4 <1f43>1 strides the outside Thro' strait roads walled by woods--come to a river with shipping & a mud-machine. Road dreary & sandy--5 miles from Lubec another Beggar in such a Hut as the former, only straw instead of [?thatch]--about 7 mile from Lubec a third Beggar a woman by a gate--a piece of a hat tied to a stick-- Rage for the English-- Englisch Lodgement und Coffee Hous--at Travemunde Englisch Cards-- 363 3.35 Semnal stuck over the door in a napkin. [?To- <1f36v>1 day/To dry]-- 364 3.36 1. <1f40v>1 Schlaf, su%sser Knabe, su%ss und mild Du deines Vaters Ebenbild. Das bist du--zwar dein Vater spricht Du habest seine Nase nicht. Noch eben jetzt so war er hier Und sah dir ins Gesicht Und sprach/viel hat er zwar von mir Nur meine Nase nicht. 3- Mich dunkt <1[du%nkt]>1 es selbst, sie ist zu klein, Doch muss es seine Nase seyn; Denn wenn's nicht seine Nase wa%r Wo ha%tt'st du denn die Nase her? 4- Schlaf, Knabe! was dein Vater spricht Spricht er wohl nur im Scherz. Hab' immer seine Nase nicht, Und habe nur sein Herz! <1f41>1 365 3.37 Blow out a candle with a sigh--& present a pencil case for a smelling bottle. One lady passionately in Love with me for three years or more--my Mother. <1f41>1 366 3.38 Kiesewetter's Einleitung in die kritische Philoso- phie. <1f43v>1 367 3.41 Bones about the Gallows--the Hangman-- Graves in Cases.-- Sticks for owls to perch on-- Wundarzter? [ <1Wunda%rzte]>1 Freude feuer-- <1f44>1 368 3.44 6 Halstuch <1[Halstu%cher]>1 3 Snupftuch <1[Schnupftu%cher]>1 I Weste 1 Pr Strumpfe <1[Stru%mPfe]>1 1 Mutze [Mu%tze] 4 Hemde-- <1[Hemden]>1 <1fiii>1 369 3-52b Postillions--twopence a german mile/they have a right to add 8 pence for the whole station & content--Waggon- master--8 or 10 pence-- 370 3.53 2 Hemde<1[n]>1 1 Weste 5 [. . .] 3 Strumpfe <1[Stru%mpfe]>1 3 Schnuftuch <1[Schnupftu%cher]>1 1 Mutz <1[Mu%tze]>1 <1f1>1 371 3 1/2.2 Pacchiaretti <1f173v>1 372 3.14 Spondee, Iambus, Trochee, <3Da~>3 Pyrrichius, Dactyl, Anapest, tribrachys, amphibrachys, Amphimacer or Cre- tic, Ditrocha|eus, Dijambus, & Disponda|eus, Molossus [M.S.] Bacchius [M.S.] Anti-bacchius [M.S.] Procleusmaticus [M.S.] Choriambus [M.S.] Antispastus [M.S.] Ionicus a majore, [M.S.] Ionicus a minore, [M.S.] Epitritus primus, [M.S.] --secundus, [M.S.] --tertius [M.S.] --quartus [M.S.] Pa|eon primus --secundus --tertius [M.S.] --quartus [M.S.] 373 3-15 Spondee [M.S.] Dark-red. Egypt <1fl5>1 Iambus [D] Depart Trochee [M.S.] Languid Dactyl [M.S.] Lovelily Amphibrachys [M.S.] Beloved Amphimacer [D] <3~l~an>3 Cuirassier--Helvellin Antibacchium [M.S.] Housebreaker--Helvellin Ditrocha|eus [M.S.] Promisebreaker Dijambus Extinguisher, according to the place in the verse which it occupies. In an Iambic Pa|eon Secundus Verse it is a Dijambus.--In the <3& I~-->3 first or 5 place of an Hexameter it Ionicus Major may be elther Pa|eon Secundus, Ionicus <3~~as t~as>3 major.--Come, Extinguisher. The Ex- tinguisher. Choriambus Arquibussier We have therefore in our Language 12 feet--the Greeks & Romans had 28.-- <1f16>1 1 Choriambic Asclepiad Tetrameter Acatalectic--(And in English must consist of one Amphibrachis and three Dactyls or Amphim- acers--for in good truth most of the Dactyls both in German & English are but Dactyls by Courtesy--We have no <1learned>1 name to express their measure--the first syllable is about as much longer than the third, as the third is longer than the second). We will always mark it Thus [M.S.] [M.S.] Majestic Spectacle Beauty of Holiness The Horatian Sapphic as read by an Englishman of an English Dactyl/and four Trochaics--the pause always at the first Trochaic-- Tell me, divinest/Annabella, tell me Littus Etruscum/violenter undis, with the Adonic--Terrint urbem. <1f16v>1 This Sapphic will assume <3there>3 two different tho' similar har- monies in English, according as the words are divided--thus 1. Tell me, divinest Annabella, tell me. 2 Beautiful Maiden/Annabella, tell me N.B. I cannot conceive the reason of Karl Wilhelm Ramler's marking this measure thus [M.S.] [M.S.] Fu%hlten seine Lieder! und du, gewo%lbte Steine [M.S.] Movit Amphion lapides canendo It is true, Sappho does occasionally put a Trochaic for a Spon- dee/--but assuredly both the German & English Languages are far better adapted to the more manly Horatian--The Reason, Ramler assigns, viz--that they have no pure Pyrrhic, is no reason--unless <1f17>1 he had shewn that we really read the Latin Pyrrhic as a Pyrrhic--/ No! we read it as a Trochaic--& therefore in the imitation must use a trochaic--/. In short, tis a muddy business of Master Ram- ler's. Choriambix Glyconian trimeter acatalectic--/. In Latin it con- sists of in the first line a Spondee, Choriambic, & a Pyrric or Iambic, in the second line, of a Spondee, two Choriambics, & a Pyrric or Iambic. Sic te Diva potens Cypri Sic fratres Helena|e lucida Sidera./ But as in English & German we form our harmony from tone not quantity--or perhaps as our quantity depends on the Intona- tion/& as this system of Intonation is almost always in utter discord with the position of the Latin Quantities--So no Englishman or <1fl7v>1 German can read this measure in the original so as at once to let a hearer perceive the sense & the harmony/--In English or German this metre must consist of, in the first line, a Trochaic & two English Dactyls--i.e.--amphimacers or, [M.S.] and in the second line of our Amphibrachis, & three English Dactyls--the pauses as marked by [M.S.] (but if, as we scan it, thus [M.S.] See the Camels and Elephants! Compulsion horrible maketh them hop & dance! The Fourth or Dactylicus Archilochius heptameter Acatalectus [M.S.] is utterly unfit for our Language--Horace uses it but once. The fifth, which may perhaps be called, the Asclepiadus Alchaic, <1fl8>1 must in English be thus, [M.S.] or thus [M.S.] But I more than suspect that our Language will not permit such changes-- The sixth Metre, in English must consist of three lines of Choriambic Asclepiad (V. Metre I), and <34>3 the fourth, a Chori- ambic Glyconian. See first line of metre the third. [M.S.] Ditto Ditto <1f18v>1 The Seventh Metre of two lines the First an English Hexame- ter, & the Second, the four last feet of an Hexameter The Eighth Metre, Hexameter and Pentameter/in which Tro- chaics must be admitted for Spondees, & Amphimacers for Dac- tyls--as in <3~$>3 all the other Measures. [M.S.] 9th metre. [M.S.] As thus marked, may be perhaps in English possible: but not as in Horace-- --Lydia, dis per omnes Te Deos oro, Sybarim eos prope es amando 10th Metre. The Alchaic. 11th Metre [M.S.] This perhaps were better in two lines [M.S.] 12th Metre [M.S.] 13th Metre-- An Hexameter, & the last Half of a Pentameter.-- It would be worth trying whether this metre would not have a better effect, if the Hexameter were docked of one foot.-- 14th Metre <1f19>1 The Iambics of Hipponax & Archilochus.-- The first line an English Alexandrine, the second, as marked [M.S.] This is unsuitable to the English for two reasons--being Iambics, they recall the rhyme-verses, & the Ear expects rhyme & is disap- pointed/--& secondly, the first line is out of proportion to the second. 15th Metre [M.S.] This might suit some whimsical ode, in which the second line was ever a Transition from the First. 374 3 1/2.9 Johannes Picus, Count Mirandula, went to Rome, <1f3>1 Oct. or Nov. 1486 in the four & 20th year of his age, and proposed publickly to defend against all opposers nine hundred Theses--& promised to pay the Travelling Expences of all learned men who themselves could not afford it, from all parts of Europe.--The most remarkable of these Theses appear to me-- [1] Die Behauptung der Averroisten una est anima intellectiva in omnibus hominibus.-- [2] Ipseitas uniuscujusque tunc maxime est ipsa, cum in ipsa ita sunt omnia ut in ipsa omnia sint ipsa. 3 The universe may divided into super ens, vere ens, non vere <1f3v>1 ens, non vere non ens, vere non ens.-- 4 Man sagt nicht so richtig (magis improprie) von Gott, dass er ein versta%ndiges Wesen, als dass die Engel vernu%nftige Geister seyen. 5 Die Seele erkennt nichts wirklich und deutlich als sich selbst.-- The Platonists held that Unity & Entity were distinct Ideas, & different--We can predicate Unity of God, but not Entity. The <1f4>1 Aristotelians denyed this--/The Thing was learnedly disputed in the year 1490 by Politian & Mirandula on the side of the Aristoteli- ans, & Lorenzo de Medicis, on the Platonic Party. Tantum scit homo, quantum operatur. N.B. To procure & read Mirandula de Ente et Uno. In this book is found the Expression adopted by Milton Divini Splendori ca- ligine exaculati. <1f4v>1 375 31/2.10 Gerard Groot, born 1340 founded a sort of pan- tisocratic Society of literary Christians in Deventer, who lived with- out property & maintained themselves.--He was the first Illumina- tus of Germany--& was succeeded as president of the Brother & Sister House by Florentius Radewin--under whom were Educated Gerard von Zutphen, and Thomas a Kempis. Thomas a Kempis educated the illustrious Moriz von Spiegelburg, Rudolph von <1f5>1 Lange, Antonius Liber, Ludwig Dringenburg & Alexander He- gius, all Westphalians--& Rudolph Agricola, from Frieseland-- Count Spiegelburg, Rudolph von Lange, & Agricola travelled to Italy/their poorer Schoolfellows studied hard at home--the ten- derest Friendship subsisted between these great men during Life.-- Rudolph Agricola is a singularly interesting character.-- Get his works at Go%ttingen-- Agricola was the Teacher of Erasmus's Teacher-- 376 31/2.109 <1f130>1 Weint, ihr Grazien, und ihr Amoretten, Und was artiges auf der Welt lebt! meines Ma%dchens Sperling ist todt! des Ma%dchens Liebling! Der ihr lieb, wie der Apfel in den Augen, Und so freundlich, so klug war! und sie kannte, Wie ein To%chterchen seine Mutter kennet! Denn er ru%hrte sich nicht von ihrem Schoose; Nein, er trippelte munter auf dem Schoose Hiehin, dahin und dorthin; nickt' ihr immer Mit dem niedlichen Ko%pfchen, piept' ihr immer. Ach! nun wandert er jene finstre Strase, Die man ewiglich nicht zuru%ckewandert. O! wie fluch' ich dir, finstrer alter Orcus, Der du alles, was scho%n ist, flugs hinabschlingst. Uns den Sperling zu nehmen, der so hu%bsch war! Welch ein Jammer! O Sperling! armer Sperling! Hast gemacht, dass mein trautes Ma%dchen ihre Lieben Aeugelchen sich ganz roth geweint hat. 377 31/2 3 All Lessing's Ancestors, from 1580 were literary <1f8v>1 Men--Theophilus Lessing (40 years before the birth of Voltaire) in 1660 published a Disputation in favor of an Unlimited Tolera- tion--Johann Gottfried Lessing, one of the Sons of Theophilus, was a most learned Historian, Theologist, & Orientalist--& deeply intent on purifying Religion from its Prejudices--Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was his Eldest Son--Born Jan. 22. 1729 at Kamenz--received the first rudiments of Education from his Fa- ther--then from a Private Tutor, Mylius (the Son of Lessing's Friend who died on his Journey to London.) This M. Rector at Konigsberg--& Lessing attended the public School of which Heinze was the head Master. From thence to the <1f9>1 princely School at Meissen--where he received all his Educa- tion, Food & Cloathes gratis--Here he learnt Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Philosophy, & Mathematics.--Here he spent five years, out of School Hours he read Theophrastus, Plautus, Terence, & Anacreon (books not read in the School) translated passages into German--acquired a taste for Latin Poetry, & con- ceived from the School world the idea of his Comedy--Der junge Gelehrte.--He left the School in 1746--& went to the University of Leipsig--Here he soon ceased to attend public Lectures--except to Ernesti, who read on the Roman Antiquities, the Greek Classics, & Universal [History]--. A Few Lectures which he attended on Chemistry & Botany awaked in him a <1transient>1 desire for Medicine. <1f9v>1 --Here he became acquaintance & Friend of Weisse--with him he walked, with him he visited the Theatres--/. He was intended for 377f ] DECEMBER 1798-<2JANUARY>2 1799 a Clergyman by his Parents--but a Lessing will seldom be what his Parents intend him to be.--Gottsched was at <3the>3 time <3the>3 a most idolized Poet & Critic. Lessing thought him <1little potatoes-->1This with the narrowness of his allowance (part from his Parents, part from the Magistrate at Camenz) made him an Author. He made his Debut in the Ermunterungen, (Recreation) a Hamburg Weekly Miscellany--The two Comedies, Damon or Friendship-- and the Old Maid (die Alte Jungfer) which he never suffered to <1f10>1 be reprinted, with some Lays & Epigrams, appeared here--at this time likewise he contributed some poems to Mylius's Natur- forscher likewise a weekly miscellany--which poems he afterwards <3~~>3 republished in his Kleinigkeiten, & afterward in his Schriften --/Together with Weisse, Christ. Mylius, Adolf Schlegel, & Zacha- ria were his Acquaintances--with these he practised disputation under Kastner, then Professor in Leipsig, a man of wit & penetra- tion--among the players he had much acquaintance with the cele- brated <1Neubers-->1and from them learnt much in Theatrical art--& here brought out his Junge Gelehrte which he had begun at School --it met universal applause. <1f10v>1 This news of Lessing's attachment to the Theater & of his ac- quaintance with Mylius, a reputed Freethinker, was represented to his Parents in a most formidable Light. This produced all species of Epistolary Admonitions. Lessing defended himself & his theat. attachments, and his friendship for Mylius. His Parents' Anxiety increased to anguish. They invited him home, & fearful that an ordinary Invitation would have little Effect, they pretended that his Mother was dangerously ill. This invitation was at Christmas, & Lessing tho' he more than suspected the real Truth, did not stay to change his Cloathes, but went on the open Stage-Wagon to Kamenz, spite of the Frost. <1f11>1 Stayed home till Easter following, & then Returned to Leipsig. His Father consented that he should <3&>3 give up the study of The- ology on the Son's promise that would devote himself to an Aca- demical Life. Scarce had he returned to Leipsig, but his Theatri- mania returned--nothing but Rehearsals & Performances took up his time--but the Neuberin lost their best Player, Mylius went to Berlin, Lessing cooled in his mania, & followed his Friend.--Berlin DECEMBER 1798-JANUARY 1799 <1(377f>1 from King and Customs was in bad repute among the religious--& from Berlin Lessing first acquainted his Parents, & his Leipsic Friends, that he was not at Leipsic. However to soften his Parents' anxiety, he concealed his intentions & plan. The plan existed in the restlessness of natural Genius, which it calls desire to see the world <1fllv>1 & to acquire new ideas--Hence carrying with him his whole prop- erty, amounting to his Cloathes & a few dollars, he assisted his Friend Mylius in editing the Beitra%ge zur Historie & Aufnahme des Theaters, Stuttgard, 1750--not long after appeared his "Tri- fles," & excited applause beyond his Expectation. He had at that time a friendly intercourse with Richier de Louvain, Voltaire's Secretary--which led to an Acquaintance with Voltaire--But the arrogance, Vanity, & Haughtiness of Voltaire suited not with the Independent & self-conscious tho' modest Lessing, and the ac- quaintance was as brief as brilliant--/ Lessing again left Berlin & went to Wittenburg, where his <1f12>1 Brother, now Conrector in Chemniss was studying--he dwelt with his Brother in one chamber, studied very hard, even in some degree after his Father's Plan, & to please his Father took the Degree of Master. He wrote here his 'Translation of Huarte, 'The Critiq of the Messiad, & 'its Translation into Latin Verse by Help of his Brother (incompleted because they had heard that a Danish Chaplain of the Embassy at Madrid had already finished one)-- die Verbesserungen und Verrichtungen des Jo%cherschen Lexicons, & the Controversies with Pastor Lange--His acquaintance in Wit- tenburg was circumscribed, his Life uniform--he quitted Witten- <1fl2v>1 burg & returned to Berlin. In Jahresfrist war er dort, thatig und arbeitsam wie immer. He superintended, in the place of Mylius, the Article, Literature, in the Vossian Zeitung, published the first & second parts of his Kleinen Schriften, translated the first part of Mariyny's History of the Arabs, the Drey Schreiben Friedrichs des Zweiten an das Publicum, und noch einer andern Schrift des Ko%nigs uber den damaligen Streit zwischen England & Preussen. He then collected the works of his buried Friend, Mylius, und <1f13>1 beschloss die Jahre 1753 und 54 with the third & fourth parts of his Kleinen Schriften, & the first & second numbers of his The- atralische Bibliothek.--His Industry here greatly bettered his cir- cumstances. To ease his Parents, he sent for his Brother from Wit- tenburg & another Brother to Berlin. Love of his Family was a deeply rooted Feeling in the mind of Lessing. At this time Lessing became acquainted with Nicolai & Mendelsohn. A more intimate <1f13v>1 Fraterus Egalia of thinking & feeling Philosophers could scarcely exist--<3~>3 Lessing's propensity to Disputation called forth the subtlest Investigations which his Wit & lightness of Heart shot thro' with colloquial Flashes--Nicolai is the only survivor--& like Ossian seems to live among little Men.--from Mendelsohn's & Lessing's common Labors & occasioned by the Prize-subject of the Berlin Academy, came out, 1755, die Schrift: Pope, ein Metaphysi- <1f14>1 ker--& Ramler, Meil, Premontval, Sulzer, Ko%nig, and Su%ssmilch, increased the List of Lessing's acquaintance in Berlin. In the same year was "Miss Sara Samson zu Potsdam" finished. A Journey which he took to Leipsig, occasioned a Journey thro' part of the German Empire to Holland, as Tutor of a Young Leipsiger--but this owing to the Irruption of the Prussians in to Saxony, soon came to an end. They were to have gone to England.--At this time Lessing became acquainted with the Poet Kleist who was with the Prussian <1f14v>1 Garrison who had now advanced to Leipsig. These two noble minds visited each other daily, & Weisse, Lessing's old friend, formed the third.--Young Brawe, the author of the Tragedies, der Freigeist & Brutus, increased the company. This young Man's Enthusiasm for the Mystical Philosophy of Crusius occasioned much metaphysical <1f15>1 discussion in this Triumvirate--From 1755 to 1757 he published Translations "der Hutchesonschen Sittenlehre der Vernunft, der Richardsonschen Sittenlehre fu%r die Jugend in den auserlesensten Asopischen Fabeln, & (curious enough) Law's Serious Call &c.--Of the last book he selected & translation the most interested and Weisse translated the rest. Zu der Bibliothek der Scho%nen Wissen- schaften, die ihre Entstehung ganz allein Hern Nicolai zu danken <1f15v>1 hat und im Jahre 1757 zuerst erschien, lieferte Lessing nur Eine Recenzion, besorgte aber in Leipsig ihren Verlag und ihre Korrek- tur. Auch an den darin ausgesetzten Preisen fu%r ein gutes Trauer- spiel, hatte er keinen Theil, sie ru%hren gleichfalls von Nicolai her, der sie auch ganz allein bezahlte. In the year 1759 Lessing re- turned to Berlin; & the Tragedy Philotas, & the Masterly Letters, die neueste Litteratur betreffend, to which he gave the first idea, were the consequence--In eben diesem Jahre traten die Asopischen Fabeln, und bald darauf, mit Ramler gemeinschaftlich die Heraus- <1f16>1 gabe der Logauschen Sinngedichte ans Licht. In the year 1760, on the Proposal of the Probst Su%ssmilch he was elected honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. His Life of Sophocles was published in this year--that is, the first 7 sheets which had been printed--when he was appointed Secretary to Tauenzien, went with him to Breslau, & the work remained incom- plete. This situation was favorable to the deep knowledge of Men <1fl6v>1 & manners--the necessity of adapting himself to the humours of his General gave, says his Biographer, a pliancy to his soul--& the frequent Converse with People of all ranks that polish to his Ex- terior which made his Manners fascinating to the Great as his better Qualities were to the great men of his own Circle.--Even his hide- ous propensity to Gambling, to <3~a>3 the Pharo Table, opened to him the passions of the human Heart. As Writer he finished in <1f17>1 Breslau the Translation of Diderot, & sketched out the Plan of his Minna; then left in 1765 the Service of the Prussian General & Breslau, visited his Father in Kamenz and his old Friends in Leip- sig. From thence he went to Berlin & laboured at his Laocoon which appeared this year. In the year 1766 he received the invitation to the Hamburger Theater enterprise. A Society of lovers of the Boards took das Akkermansche Theater. Lessing accepted the <1fl7v>1 invitation--signed the Contract & 1767 commenced Manager-- They soon disagreed--were too refined both for the Public & the Actors--& the Undertaking came to nothing. About this time Bode (the Translator of Yorick & Tristram Shandy) laid the Plan of a Printing House in Hamburg, with which he joined a very compre- hensive Scheme, which Lessing was to have helped him to execute. <1fl8>1 This was--before every Book Fair to sell the Books which were by them printed at 20 per cent under the Actual Sale-price, at a reason- able Credit. They were to print none but first rate works, & these <1continuously>1 in a Journal of which at every fair one or more Volumes were to be read. They had already for the first number, Klopstock's Herman, Odes & Abhandlungen on the Greek Metres, <1f18v>1 Gerstenburg's Ugolino and a Comedy of Zacharia%.--At this time came an apparently well authenticated Rumor that the Emperor Joseph would draw to Vienna all the Eminent among the German Literati, & form there a sort of learned Colony. They hoped to further their Plan by Editing the Herman with a Dedication to the Emperor--Both Plans failed--the first thro' ignorance of the Na- <1f19>1 ture of the Book Trade in Germany the other originated only in their credulous Reliance on the word of a Vienna <1Hofman [n]>1, from whom the report was spread.-- <3~>3 The whole Effect of Klop- stock's Dedication was a golden Medal with the Emperor's Por- trait.--The failure of these Plans deeply affected Lessing--he even meditated a residence in Italy, and then to commence <1Latin>1 Com- position & write only for the Learned--& tho' this plan gave way to <1f19v>1 the call to Wolfenbu%ttel, yet from this time he cultivated no longer the Belles Lettres--After these <3~>3 unsuccessful Plans came the Controversy with Kloz--& produced the Antiquarischen Briefe, und die Abhandlung--Wie haben die Alten den Tod gebildet? In the year 1770 Lessing was appointed Librarian at Wolfenbu%ttel. At the end of April he left Hamburgh, in this year he finished his <1f20>1 Emilia Galotti, the plan of which he had sketched so early as the year 1758, and at first laid only three Acts--The character of Orsina according to Nicolai was not in the first plan.--Tho' he was indefatigable as Librarian, yet the narrowness of the Society &c made him soon discontented with his residence in Wolfenbuttel-- He was weary of ever & ever taking care of Books, & besides deeply wished to be married to his female Friend, Ko%nig--a woman of manly Sense & Spirit with every feminine attraction. She was a <1f20v>1 Mother--& her solicitude for the education of her children min- gled with & formed her Love for Lessing--The long incapability of realising his wish preyed on his Spirits & debilitated his literary Efforts--to cheer himself he felt a necessity to travel.--He went to Berlin--from thence with the most flattering Letters from the Im- perial Ambassador to Vienna, where he was most honorably re- ceived. At this Time Prince Leopold of Brunswick wished to make <1f21>1 a Journey to Italy, & Lessing was his Companion,--in 8 months he returned back to Germany, & in the february of the following year he was again in Wolfenbu%ttel.--In 1776 he was invited to take a part <3~ ffis i~~ & ~ d ~>3 in the Creation of a sogenannten National Theater at Manheim, & presented with a Diploma of a Member of the Manheim Academy, together with the offer from the Prince? (dem fu%rstlichen Anerbieten) of a yearly Pension of a hundred Louis d'ors--on condition that he should cooperate with <1f2lv>1 the Labors of the Academy, deliver in yearly an Abhandlung, and at least once in two years be personally present, his Costs &c being paid. The Duke of Brunswic permitted him to avail him- self of this offer --But the Intentions both of the Government at Manheim & of the Academy were not Lessing's.--The one wanted Money, & the other Reputation--& Lessing's Name was to be their <1net.>1 This Lessing perceived & was disgusted--und da es mit den <1f22>1 Projecten zu seiner Versorgung im Pfalzischen nicht viel besser aussahe, so he returned to his Quiet <1Wolfbu%ttel.-->1The Pension was never paid, and for Entschadigung seiner Reisekosten he received from the minister together with a note "ein scho%n vergoldetes und mit Leder u%berzogenes Ka%stchen, mit dreissig kupfernen Medail- len." In the following year were the Wolfenbuttel Fragments pub- lished--and the controversies began--Go%tze, the Hamburgh Lu- theran <1Pope,>1 called on Lessing at Wolfenbu%ttel, & found him not-- <1f22v>1 & received no answer to a Letter desiring a Book--this affront, it is said, set this Priest in Battle Array--The consequence of this hot controversy was Bulls & Fulminations from Theological Faculties, Consistories, & Cabinets--& more immediately affecting Lessing, the loss of the <1Zensurfr[eiheit]>1 in the Brunswicks and the Com- mand to deliver up the beru%chtigte Handschrift des Ungenannten nebst den etwa genommenen Abschriften binnen acht Tagen, und <1f23>1 sich aller fernern Bekanntmachung dieser und a%hnlicher Schriften zu enthalten. In this bitterness of Spirit he wrote Nathan the Wise --according to the original Plan there was to have been an After- piece--called, the Derwisch--which was to have taken up the thread of an Episode in the Piece & brought it to a Conclusion, von verschiedenen Erla%uterungen und einer Abhandlung u%ber die dra- matis[c] he Interpunktazion begleitet.--His next Publication was die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts.-- In the mean while Lessing had Married his Freundin Ko%nig-- <1f23v>1 but she died binnen einer Frist von zwey Jahren in einem schweren Wochenbette.--the child died soon after his Birth--This eat into the heart of Lessing--he lost his spirits--was troubled with nar- rowness of the Chest--& died in the 15 Feb. 1781--in the 52nd year of his age. <1f1>1 378 21.4 Mind--min--meinen--mahnen--mahen vibratory yet progressive motion. 379 21.5 Omnia dat qui frustra negat./Qui mare tenet eum necesse est rerum potiri. Cic. ad attic. 1.19. Ep.7. 380 3 i/2.12 <1f6v>1 Butcher 1,,0,,0 Baker 5 Gr. Grocer 3 Grocer 13 Coals 10 Washing 10 ---3---1,,0-- 24,,8,,0 Bathing 6,,0,,0 Journey 12 42,,8,,0 Lodging 20,,0,,0 62,,8,,0-- <1f6>1 381 21.35 Severity of the Winter--the King's- fisher, its slow short flight permitting you to observe all its col- ours, almost as if it had been a flower.-- 382 21.36 Grammatical Essays in respect to Gender, & the Harmony of various Languages--a good subject for a study for 3 months at Cambridge. JANUARY-MAY 1799 [388 383 21.37 The elder Languages fitter for Poetry because <3~>3 they expressed only prominent ideas with clearness, <3~>3 others but darkly--Therefore the French wholly unfit for Poetry; because is <1clear>1 in their Language--i.e.--Feelings created by obscure ideas associate themselves with the one <1clear>1 idea. When no criticism is <1f6v>1 pretended to, & the Mind in its<3~>3 simplicity gives itself up to a Poem as to a work of nature, Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally & not perfectly understood. It was so by me with Gray's <1Bard,>1 & Collins' odes--<1The Bard>1 once intoxicated me, & now I read it without pleasure. From this cause it is that what <1I>1 call metaphysi- cal Poetry gives me so much delight.-- 384 21.38 Habe semper, says Caesar as quoted by Gellius, in memoria atque in pectore, ut tamquam scopulum sic fugias insol- ens verbum. 385 21.39 a fine Passage from Luther's Letter on Interpre- tation. Denn man muss nicht die Buchstaben in der Lateinischen Sprache fragen wie man soll Deutsch reden; sondern Man muss die Mutter im Hause, die Kinder auf den Gassen, den gemeinen Mann auf dem Markte darum fragen, und denselbigen auf das Maul sehen wie sie reden und darnach dollmetschen: so verstehen sie es denn und merken dass man Deutsch mit ihnen redet. 386 21.40 A Skeltoniad. 387 21.41 Was im eigentlichsten und scha%rfsten Verstande f7 erfunden wird, ist fu%r die Menschliche Gesellschaft nur selten wirklich nutzlich. 388 31/2.14 1. Brown has not proved that the Incitability it- <1f2 v>1 self can not be altered--not merely thro' incitement--but unmittel- bar--Says the Jena recensent, Feb. 1799, No. 48.--This I do not understand--how can Incitability, as Incitability, be acted on except by incitement?--Perhaps, the medicine is conceived to act on the <1cause>1 of the Incitability, & to render that <1cause,>1 whatever it be, more or less capable?--Obscure. 389] FEBRUARY-MAY 1799 2. It is a better objection that Brown himself admits Custom, & perhaps, a <1power>1 of the mind, checking stimulus.--& this seems wholly irreconcileable with his System.-- <1f25>1 3. Selbst wo offenbar grosse krankmachende Einwirkungen allgemein statt finden, erkankt nur immer ein verha%ltnisma%ssig kleiner Theil Menschen. Nach Brown musste <1[mu%sste]>1 sich nun aber das Gegentheil dieser Wahrnehmung in der Erfahrung be- wahren <1[bewa%hren].-->1No. 49. Ditto. In other words Brown's System does not account for that power which we <3~>3 possess of remaining so much the same in such differ- ent spheres & agencies of Inciting Powers--.-- 4. Strange Assertions, that we receive a given quantity of In- citability at our birth--yet that this is given out only in small quantities--and <3of>3 these small quantities can not be used suddenly without death--as in the case of those who die of fright or joy-- <1f25v>1 however large the reservoir may be. As a Merchant who <3~>3 has a sudden run on him, stops, altho' his <1capital>1 may exceed the Sum threefold--yet if all his ready Cash is exhausted, he must stop. <1f26v>1 389 31/2.19 Of Brown's Work there exist 2 German Trans- lations-- 1 by M. A. Weikard, Frankfurt. 1798. n.b. Second Edition. 306 pages octavo.--from the Latin 2 by C. H. Pfaff, now Professor in Kiel. To this is prefixed a Treatise from the Translator, & Lynch's little work is affixed. Ko- penhagen, 1796. 410 pages Oct. from the English.++ ++ <3& t$;e>3 the Second is said to be far the most valuable.-- <1f27>1 3 by J. Eyerel, 1796, 254 p. Vienna, <3~a>3 the ~~~>3 (with <3~es>3 Remarks of Joseph Frank and Rasori translated out of the Italian, & the Vorrede--of Moscati from the Latin.) is translated <3~~>3 Brown's well known work, "Observations on the principles of the old System of Physic, exhibiting a Compend of the new Doc- trine By a Gentleman--conversant in the Subject.--The German Title is Lehrbegriff--der Brownschen Arzneylehre.--/It is said to be an execrable Translation. Doctor Scheel has translated all that is original/or not in the other Editions/of Beddoes--"Kopenhagen. John Brown's Bio- FEBRUARY-MAY 1799 [389 graphie nebst einer Prufung seines Systems von Thomas Beddoes, und einer Erkla%rung der Brownschen Grundsa%tze von T. Christie. ---<3~as>3 116 pages. The Jena Recensent, Feb. 99--No. 40--treat Bedd[o]es in a blackguard way--"Bemerkungen u%ber den Ruf der Aerzte." In die- <1f2 v>1 sen interessanten Gegenstand (says the Recensent) dringt der Vf. wenig ein, und giebt uns statt bewa%hrter Resultaten der Beobach- tung leere Declamationen die es bemerklich machen wie bitter er es empfindet diesen Ruf zu entbehren. Nur eine Behauptung verdient ausgehoben zu werden. Die Wunda%rzte von grossem Ruf ha%tten vielmehr zur Vervollkom[m]nung ihrer Kunst beygetragen als verha%ltnisma%ssig die Aerzte, welche grossen Ruf hatten, fu%r die Medizin geleistet ha%tten. Verbesserungen in der innern Heil- kunde danke man vorzu%glich Ma%nnern die nur massigen Ruf im Publico hatten.--Es ist noch eine sogenannte Tatrologie nach der <1f28>1 Weise der Monachologie des Herrn von Born beygefu%gt; aber sie hat wenig originale Zu%ge.--It is remarkable that in Germany, where every thing new in foreign Literature is so quickly noticed, Brown's Elements should have been published 12 years before they were once alluded to, a few cursory sentences in Baldinger's Maga- zine excepted. At this time they were reprinted by Moscati who prefixed an Essay, & the Franks interested themselves in the cause. --The first separate Treatise was the Entwurf einer einfachern Arzneykunst, oder Erla%uterung und Besta%tigung der Brownschen Arzneylehre, by M. A. Weikard, who antecedently to his conver- <1f28v>1 sion to the Brownian System had himself published some most paradoxical opinions but <3e~>3 quite opposite to the Brunonian Sys- tem.--His defence of Brown is in the same assertory & paradoxical Style; but it is written with genius & contains pleasing & valuable fact--elucidations of the System. --After this came Go%ttingen--first Volume with Brown's Portrait, 419 pages, 1797 --2vd Volume, 624 pages, 1798--Ausfuhrliche Darstellung des Brownschen Systems der praktischen Heilkunde, nebst einer voll- standigen Literatur und einer Kritik derselben von Chr. Girtanner, geheimen Hofrath.--Here is Beddoes's Life of Brown translated, <1f29>1 very far better than by Scheel/--& a List of 102 treatises on the Brunonian Theory--from English, Italian, & German Authors.-- This is said to be a most valuable work--G. blames Brown for at- tributing Necessity & Universality to Theses built on Analogy & Induction. Answer--Brown was no Kantian & probably held noth- ing but high degrees of Probability possible--. Vienna, 1797, 16 pages--John Brown's System der Heilkunde in gedra%ngtem <1f29v>1 Auszug dargestellt--Extremely imperfect--calls Brown den medi- cinischen Kant--acknowleges the defects of the System & that a second Brown must arise to remedy them--and calls on the great Frank to undertake the task. Weikard's Magazin der verbesserten theoretischen & prakti- s<1[chen]>1 Arzneykunst--4 numbers. A magazine--its object by facts &c to diffuse the Brownian System--1790. Before Weikard pub- lished the Magazine, he had translated 6 Italian Treatises in favor of Brown, from Rasori, Deho, Dr Jos. Frank, Bartolini, Monteggia, & Cattanio. <1f30>1 --In 1797 came out at Jena ein Beytrag zur Berichtigung der Urtheile u%ber das Brown. System, von einem praktischen Arzte.-- without value. In 1797 & 98 came forth sundry Essays on the ap- plication of the Brunonian Theory--from Morbeck--Joseph Frank --and J. P. Frank, Markus, & Weikard.--Those from the Franks are highly valuable, full of facts, & free from any bigotry for or against Brown--particularly valuable are the Erla%uterungen der Browns. Arzneylehre von Joseph Frank-- <1f30v>1 390 3 1/2 20 The Bauer & the Spectacles--he tried one after another on a book, but could not read with them. Perhaps, said the optician, you cannot read.--"if I could, what should I want spec- tacles for?"-- 391 31/2.21 Baron von Mayerberg visited the court of the Tzar Alexei Michailovitch, in 1661--Italian Physician--Lithua- nian Nobleman--Cremor Tartari-- 392 31/2.22 Barbarous Nations give life &c to all Things.-- The Wife of Alexei had a Bell & Knife banished to Siberia/one for <1f31>1 cutting her & the other for disturbing her rest. 393 31/2.24 Gravesand in Introd. ad Philosoph. Sa|epe vero <1f31v>1 regularitas, qua|e, consideratis paucis effectibus, nos fugit, ubi plures ad examen vocantur, detegitur.--it appears by a collation of Lists that nearly the following are the laws that regulate Population--/ 13 are born when ten die.-- 14000 Million could live in the world, supposing men main- tained as they are now are-- Supposing the Pest, & War, & Vice to cease, <34~~~~&?~ffi>3 Sussmilch it would take 400 years to people the World to this amount-- 84--2/168/4/236/8/31 6/16 thousand millions --1000 Millions on the Earth now <3&$>3 <1f32>1 till 5 years old live 108 million 10 65 15 62 20 60 about the 25th year die 1 in 70 ------- 30th 1 -- 60 35th 1 50 40th 1 44 --------- <1th ---- -->1 -- 50th -------- 1 -- 30 ---------- <1th>1 1 25 60th 1 20 65th 1 1 70" 1 10 ----------- <1th -- -->1 - 80th ------- 1 -- 394 31/2.25 Anrede eines Mohammedanischen Geistlichen an <1f32t,>1 einen Verstorbenen--Ein jeder muss den Tod schmecken und 1hr werdet gewiss einen Lohn am Tage der Auferstehung erhalten. Wer alsdenn von dem Feuer befreyet und in das Paradies versetzt wird, der ist glu%cklich. Das gegenwa%rtige Leben gewa%hret nur flu%chtig voru%bergehende Vortheile. O Knecht Gottes! dessen Eltern wahre Verehrer Gottes waren, erinnere dich des Bundes, welchen du in der irdischen Wohnlung u%bernommen hast & mit welchem du in den himmlischen Auf enthalt gehest. In deinem Leben bezeugtest du dass nur ein Gott, ohne Ge- hu%lfen, er der einzige, der ewige. Er hat keine Gemahlin & keinen Sohn. <1f33>1 Auch bezeugtest du, dass Mohammed sein Knecht und sein Gesandter sey, den er mit dem Unterricht und der wahren Re- ligion gesandt hat, damit er sie neben allen anderen Religionen bekannt machen mo%chte. Und wenn Abgo%tter dieselbe verachteten, so bezeugtest du, dass der Tod gewiss, dass das Grab gewiss, dass die Fragen des Moukars und Nakirs gewiss, dass die Wage und die Bru%cke u%ber die Ho%lle gewiss, dass das Paradies & die Ho%lle gewiss, dass der Umgang mit dem ho%chsten Gott im Paradiese gewiss, dass die Stunde der Aufer- stehung gewiss kommen, und dass Gott alsdenn alle die in den <1f33v>1 Gra%bern sind, auferwecken werde. Und nun bist du, umgaben von deinen Handlungen, in einem gefa%hrlichen Ort, zwischen Le- gionen von Todten. Wenn die zwey vortreffliche, harte & ma%chtige Engel zu dir kommen, welche dir vorgesetzt sind, der Moukar und Nakir; so wurden <1[werden]>1 sie dich nicht in Furcht und Schrecken setzen. Auch sie sind Gescho%pfe des ho%chsten Gottes. Wenn sie dich alsdenn fragen: wer ist dein Herr & wer ist dein Prophet? Was fu%r eine Religion hast du und gegen welchen Ort hast du dein Gesicht im Beten gerichtet? Was fu%r ein Buch hast du zu deinem Unterricht gehabt und wer sind deine Bru%der? so antworte: Gott ist mein <1f34>1 Herr, und Mohammed mein Prophet. Der Islam ist meine Re- ligion, und die Kaaba der Ort, wohin Ich mein Gesicht beym Beten gerichtet habe. Durch den Koran habe ich mich unterrichtet, und die Anha%nger des Islams sind meine Bru%der. Nach diesem hast du gelebt und nach diesem bist du gestorben. Du wirst auch darnach auferweckt werden, wenn es Gott gefa%llt, und du ein wahrer Glaubiger gewesen bist. <1f34v>1 Gott hat dir eine gewisse Versicherung gegeben, und er wird dieselbe den wahren Gla%ubigen in diesem und dem zuku%nftigen FEBRUARY-MAY 1799 [396 Leben gewiss erfu%llen. O zufriedene Seele, gehe wieder zu deinem Herrn, vergnu%gt & gutes Muths. Begieb dich unter meine Ver- ehrer, und gehe in mein Paradies.-- Translated by M. Johann Henrich Wepler from an Arabian Mss.--In Niebuhr's Description of Arabia, is to be found the Be- ginning of this Address, in Kufish Characters--which he had copied off from a grave-stone at Galesca--/--The age of this Address is not known--the Mss. which Wepler found in Marburg was evi- <1f35>1 dently written by a Christian, as appears by the Latin words which are prefixed. Allocutio Imami ad Musulmannum moribundum vel forte ad mortuum, nam, qua|e illorum est Superstitio, non tantum pro mortuis orant sed et inter orandum ipsos sa|epe mortuos allo- quantur.-- 395 31/2.26 Tyll Eulenspiegel died 1350--at Mo%lln--near <1f35v>1 the Church is a small sort of house in which his monument lies-- his figure, half-angle [D] , an owl looking in a looking glass-- under which now obliterated-- Diesen Stein soll niemand erheben, Hie stehet Eulenspiegel aufrecht begraben This formerly stood under the Linden Tree, that still remains-- but for safety against Weather & mischief was removed-- <1f36>1 --The monument 3 yards high & one broad.--A sort of Coat of mail is shown, as belonging to him--made of Wire.--Of his Joke- book have been numberless Editions--in 1558 by Nemius into very elegant Latin Iambics--and again, in 1567 by Perandi A|Egidius Periamter of Brussels--in Elegiacs--<34w~>3 5 times in French-- twice in Dutch--once in Polish--and in English, under the Title-- <1f 6v>1 Merry Jest of a Man that was called Howleglass.-- this seems to have been among the oldest Books printed in Eng- land, and even the Antiquarians are in general ignorant of it.--It has likewise been translated into Italian. 396 31/2.27 Du brauner Hirt, der du die Schafe <1f37v>1 Zum Buchenhaine treibst, Ich gehe gern bey dir voru%ber 397] FEBRUARY-MAY 1799 Und such ein nicht verlornes Lamm; Dann blick ich unter meinem Kranze Dich seitwarts freundlich an. Warum willst du mich nicht verstehen Ich sehe mich in klarem Bache Und la%chle so mir zu, Als unter meinem Rosenkranze Mein Auge dir zu lacheln pflegt, Wie vieles sagt dir doch mein Auge? Ach! allzublo%der Hirt! Warum willst du mich nicht verstehen <1f38>1 Seh ich den Scha%fer Den braunen Scha%fer, Dann sag' Ich: Scha%fer, Ich will nicht lieben. Ach! sagt mir, Ma%dchen, Die ihr schon liebet, Ich habe, denk' ich, Doch nichts zu fu%rchten; Wenn ich gleich seufze So oft ich sage, Du brauner Scha%fer, Ich will nicht lieben. 397 31/2.28 Two common Iambic Eights-- the [M.S.] <1f38v>1 398 31/2.29 Am 9. Febr. machte der katholische Garde Unter- offizier Herlt mit einer geschwa%chten Frau; Wilhelmine Pfeifer, eine Spatzier Schlittenfahrt auf den Keller, (ein eine Stunde von hier in einer Waldgegend gelegenes Wirthshaus) liess sich da herrlich bewirthen und erschoss zuletzt seine Geliebte und dann sich selbst. Er war aus Bo%hmen, und mit einer Kaufmans Tochter aus Leipzig verheirathet, hatte sich aber einer liederlichen Wirth- FEBRUARY-MAY 1799 [398 schaft, dem Trunke und Spiele sehr ergeben und den Entschluss sich zu entleiben schon zuvor mehrmal gea%ussert. Die Unmo%glich- keit von seiner ihm angetrauten Frau los zukommen, hatte seine Verzweiflung befordert. Vor dieser gra%sslichen That schrieb er an seine Frau unter andern folgendes: Verzeihe mir auf immer, dort sehen wir uns vielleicht wieder.--Mein Tod war unvermeidlich, Ich & Du sind nicht die Ursachen: nur bo%se Menschen u. der bo%seste sind der Hr Lieut. Slawianowsky*. Der Tod will eine Ur- sache haben. Der meinige hat deren noch viele die ich hier nicht sagen will. Es la%sst sich denken, dass die Aussicht fu%r die Zukunft mir schrecklich seyn musste. Klage also nicht! Dieses Schicksal war von einem ho%hren Wesen schon so fu%r mich bestimmt. Ich sterbe so wie einer, der auf seinem Bette stirbt und 4 Monat krank liegt. Seit Michael bin ich krank und nun gehe ich wieder zu dem allbele- benden Wesen u%ber, Von meiner Kindheit an hat mich das Glu%ck geflohen und das Unglu%ck verfolgt, besonders im Ehestande. Ich beklage mich nicht u%ber dich; denn ich wusste, dass du ein schwaches Weib warst, ietzt erfa%hrst Du meine (verbotene) Liebe. Durch Zufall fand ich dieses Weib; liebte sie von Tage zu Tage heftiger und <1[wir>1] wurden wie Du siehest, unzertrennlich. Unsere Liebe kann den menschlichen Gesetzen nach durch keinen Priester verbunden werden. Wir mussen uns selbst verbinden. Dieses ist nun <1f39>1 nicht der Grund warum ich aus der Welt gehe. Du weisst, wie die Menschen mit mir umgegangen sind und mir das Meinige abge- nommen haben, Ich bin schuldig,--du siehest wie meine Gla%ubiger mit mir umgehen, Gerne wollt ich Jahr und Tag von Wasser und Brod essen, wenn ich der Menschen Wu%nsche, die sie von mir verlangen: befriedigen ko%nnte. Bitten den Herrn Obristen Lieu- tenant bey allen Heiligen und bey allen Verstorbenen, die auf der Erde gelebt haben,--dass er uns begraben lasse, das Fleckchen sey auch wo ist<1[es>1] seye.**) Sorge fu%r mein und dein Kind als Mutter! Es hat einen Vater verlohren,--einen Unglu%cklichen durch Men- schen gewordenen Vater. Das Portra%t meiner Wilhelmine soll S. zur Mutter tragen und ihr sagen, dass wir durch das grosse allbele- bende Wesen unzertrennlich waren. Nun schla%gt die Todesstunde und wir gehen. Mein letzter Wille ist fu%r uns beyde nur ein 399] FEBRUARY-MAY 1799 Grab!" Seine Geliebte hatte unter diesen Brief folgendes geschrie- ben: "Zu sterben mit Herlt ist mein Wille. Ich hoffe drauf mit Freudigkeit, mit Dir, mein Herlt! zu sterben; Und dort in jener Herrlichkeit, mit Dir zugleich zu erben. Ich liebte dich im Leben sehr, so wie im Tode noch vielmehr. Du Treugefundner jauchzst nun da, wo ewig Freude wohnet. Es war die scho%ne Stunde da, die Deine Treu belohnet. Dein Schluss fu%hrt Dich zur Todesgruft, wo Dich zum besseren Leben ruft--Dein ewiger Erbarmer. In dieser Stunde bin auch ich nah an des Grabesho%hle. Du fu%hrtest auf den Wolken mich, da schied sich meine Seele, ging freudenvoll mit Dir zugleich in jenes himmelische Reich: da wir uns nicht mehr trennen." Euer Herlt & Wilhelmine Pfeifer Eine Unglu%ckliche Ueberspannung, schife Begriffe von Recht und Unrecht lagen bey dieser That zum Grunde. Jene und das Laster fu%hrten endlich zum Verderben.--<1Dresden.>1 Herr Lieut. Slawianowsky--after the news of Herlts Suicide he fled.-- <1f2>1 399 31/2.6 March 25th--being Easter Monday, 1799 Chester & S.T.C. in a damn'd dirty hole in the Burg Strasse at Go%ttingen--possessed at that moment eleven Louis d'ors & two Dollars.--When this money is spent, on the supposition that it is spent in common expences, S. T. Coleridge will owe Chester 5 pounds, 12 Shillings.-- <1f2v>1 400 31/2.7 Hochgeehrteste Herrn Verzeihen Sie gu%tigst, dass ich Sie mit einem Wechsel auf meinen Freund, den Herrn----bemu%ht habe. Sie wu%rden mich sehr verpflichten, wenn Sie mir selbige durch die Post <(und zwar in Louis d'ors) > zusenden wollten. Meine Addresse ist &c-- Ich verharre Eur Hochedelgeborner erbegenster S. T. Coleridge-- MARCH-APRlL 1799 [405 401 3.16 A Plain man that <1f20>1 & whenever he wanted to be witty, lifted up his thigh, and let a fart--/-- 402 3.17 The Shadow of the Tree auf ein vorbeyfliessendes Wasser--Better perhaps, the Light playing on a rapid stream-- 403 3.18 State of the Catholics in Marburg,--the Bishop- rick of Paderborn, Westphalia. Bead-prayers to the Holy Virgin universal--& magical Powers attributed to a particular Prayer, which is probably unintelligible--Vows & pilgrimages to particular Images very common among the Bauers--if any die before the Performance, he schwebes between Heaven & Earth, & hobgoblins his Kin till they perform it for him.--Particular Saints are sup- posed eminently favorable to particular prayers--& I was informed <1f20v>1 solemnly, that a Lady of Marburg prayed & gave money for the same to be prayed for at St Erasmus Chapel that the Baby with which she was big might be a boy with white hair & rosy cheeks. When their Cows &c are sick, they take them to the Dominican Monks, who prescribe spiritual Remedies, & exorcise the Sickness--/ When children are sick, the Monks dress them in church robes, lay a Crucifix on the Breast of the Child &c &c--Yearly on St Blasius Day to the communicant at the Lords [Table] the Monks hold what is called--a Blasius Taper--before the Forehead of the kneel- ing Person--prays to St Blasius to drive away all head aches for the ensuing [year]--Mother--cross--& the charm--wonderful what multitudes cured on this day 404 3.19 <3Johan>3 Io. David Michaelis de ea Germania|e dia- <1f21>1 lecto, qua in sacris faciundis et in scribendis libris utimur. Go%tt.-- 1750. 4to. (Ist wieder gedruckt in Syntagm. Commentat.P.I.p.171. Go%tt.-- 1759. 4to) 405 31/2.3 From Sept. 8th to April 8th, I shall have spent 90%% <1f1>1 of which 15 %% pound was in Books, & 11 %% Cloathes mending & making 10%%.-- 406] MAY 1799 <1f26>1 406 31/2.18 Three a|eras of the Anglo-saxon Dialect from the Arrival of the Anglo-saxons in Britain in the year 445 to the ar- rival of the Danes; including a period of 337 years--few monu- ments of this exist, & before the introduction of Christianity none.-- 2nd a|era--from the Danes to the Normans--274 years--the Anglo- saxons Dialect interpolated, with Danish words & idioms, especially in the North of England & S. of Scotland, in which the Danish con- quest was the most complete.--The third Period, from the arrival of the Normans to the reign of Henry the second--during which it <1f26v>1 was further mingled with Norman-french. <1f39v>1 407 31/2.30 Das Heimweh im Aug. 1780 Su%ss ist's, nach des Tages Hiz und Lasten, wann der Hauch des Monds uns erfrischt, in der mondbegla%nzten Laube rasten, bei dem Mahl, das Freundschaft aufgetischt. Su%sser, wann von allem Zwang der Sta%dte uns ein la%ndlich Eigenthum befreit, wo auf selbst-gegrabnem Gartenbeete, Kraut und Kohl zur Hausmannkost gedeiht. Was ist alles gegen dem Entzu%cken das die Brust des Wanderers durchglu%ht; der sein Bu%ndel jauchzend, nun von Ru%cken wirft, und, ach! die traute Heimat sieht! Gott! wie muss das Herz dem Menschen schlagen der ins Wohnhaus seiner Va%ter tritt! Alles stu%rzt ihm zu. Da gehts ans Fragen was er sah und ho%rte, that und litt? Tummelt euch, ihr Stunden! fliegt, ihr Tage, wie ihr Glu%cklichen voru%bereilt! Heimweh ist, bei Gott! nicht Kinderplage. Nur die Luft des Vaterlandes heilt! Bu%rde MAY l799 408 31/2-8 May 10th, we have 17 Louis d'ors, of which as <1f2v>1 far [as] I can present calculate 10 1/2 belong to Chester. 409 31/2.43 <1f53v>1 At the bottom of a little Print in a Roman Catho- lic Village in the electorate of Mentz--May 1799 Dormi Jesu, mater ridet Qua|e tam dulcem somnum videt-- Dormi Jesu blandule. Si non dormis mater plorat-- Inter fila cantans orat, Blande veni Somnule Sleep, my Jesu! --Mother's smiling, Sweetest Sleep thy sense beguiling, Sleep, my Jesu! balmily-- If thou sleep not, Mother mourneth, Singing while her Wheel she turneth, Stay, sweet Slumber, hov'ringly. 410 3.20 Hessen Dreisch, 5 1/4--from <1f21 v>1 Go%ttingen/a Wooden Post with Pais Neutre, thereon/for fear of the French--we pass thro' <3woods>3 areas surrounded by woods now opening, now closing--the little hills before us variously sloping/ Trees beech & Firs--/--They were brewing at the Inn, I enquired, & found that to 20 Buckets of Water they put three Bushels Malt & 5 large Handfuls of Hops.--Passed immediately from the Inn, <3thro'>3 in a narrow path thro' a very lofty fir-wood--the bright green Moss on the Ground speckled with the sun--thence burst out on a beautiful Prospect, the village Wage on the slope of a little Hill/ --pass thro the village, & travell for a mile or so thro' coombs very much like those by Stowey--at the end a smooth Hill <3plante>3 green with young Corn/ and here the Coomb curves into a new & broader Coomb, green with corn, all but one side which is walled with Beeches. <3Farm>3 Cottages in the Coombs as in those near <1f22>1 Holford Rudolph's Hausen-- Womarshausen, the first Catholic Village I have seen, belongs to the Elector of Mayence/A <3picture of Jesus>3 Crucifix at the end of the Town--Children greater part only with a short shirt on, but fit & healthy--/--thro' a no ways remembrable road came to Gie- boldhausen--/there on the Bridge a figure of a Bishop with a great crucifix--in his arms--that Bishop we were told was St John --/--a long and ugly village, but a pretty church--took a guide as we got out of the Village/ascended a Hill, the Woods appeared be- <1f22v>1 fore, enchanting in their Spring verdure/entered the wood, thro' a beautiful path--& now all was rich with evening Light & the Moon rose--& the nightingales sang.--Came to a square piece of Greenery of perhaps 16 Acres, completed walled on all four sides by the Beeches--again entered the wood--came out of it into a beautiful plain with a very rapid river running thro' it, Mountains on one side, in the distance & close by us the skirt of the green wood --enchanting red lights in the West & the River illuminated by them--/Came to Poele a pretty little Cluster of House between Hills in the shape [D] of a little half Moon completely covered with Beech--Now the country ceased to be interesting & we came to the ugly town of Schlachtfeld, an Hanoverian Village--Coffee & Supper--Straw & Beds-- 411 3.21 Left Schlachtfeld 1/2 past seven, entered a broad Coomb, turned up a smooth Hill on the right, & entered a wood/ <1f23>1 on the way had the story of the Castle whose ruin had been in sight from the time we entered/it was besieged in the year 1760 by a French Army of 11000 under General Bobby Core or Beaubecour, & defended by 80 Invalids under Prince Eisenburg/stood eleven days & was then taken by Treachery--the French pitched their camps on the opposite Hill/--Now we came to a enormous Cavern, descended by numerous steps rudely cut by nature or some of her creatures, out of the rocks--At the top of the first room of the Cavern is opening of an elliptical form, 20 yards in length, and in the Broadest just 8 yards-- [D] The Beeches spreading their green arms that do not however form a ceiling, but as you stand MAY 1799 [411 from below on the huge snow-heap, they contrast beautifully, i.e. with the Snow/The Snow lies on a huge Heap of Rock in the mid- dle of the antechamber, the side of which are deep down--i e From the steps you enter a Cathedral arch, then the antechamber-- [------]- The Cavern was 800 feet in length, & consists of various apart- <1f23v>1 ments, dripping & stalactitious, & chimnied; but nothing <3rem>3unu- sual./Reascended, left the wood, descending--came to an exqui- sitely beautiful Rotund of Greenery, 170 strides in diameter--/As we entered, the Old Ruin peeped over the opposite woods/--re- entered the wood, & still descending came to a little Brook--from whence <3left us>3 the wood left us--/& we ascended a smooth green Hill <3by>3 to the Castle--when we had nearly reached the Top, I lay down by a black blasted stump of a Tree surrounded by wild Goose- berry bushes--& looked back--there I saw again the beautiful spot <1f24>1 of Green, and woody Hills ranging over Hills--/we reached the Top and a valley opened on us with two villages in it--saw nothing particular in the Castle.--Descended the Hill, at the foot of which lies the village, Neuhof-- [D] went up the hill AA, thro' a valley the Hills of which on both sides were prettily wooded, & a lively rapid river ran to it--the valley is about 2 miles & half in length/almost at the end of it lies the village the Village Lauter- Berg/the houses neat/--Here the country very much resembles that about Dulverton--just at the Entrance two streams come from two deep & wooded Coombs--the hill on the left hand as you pass thro' the Town, <3peeps>3 looks over the Houses magnificently, & in every break you see the Whole--at the end an high woody Hill faces you [D] --and from the great barrier of the valley, you leave the valley thro' a narrow pass at the left hand. So the vale <1f2 v>1 winds on, the river at the foot of the woody Hills./other coombs 412] MAY 1799 crossing it--and so ever before you woody Hills crowd upon each other, as morticed & jointed/In short the scene extremely resem- bles some parts of the River Wye/& still more the Coombes about Porlock &c, except that here the valley is somewhat broader, & the River tho' nothing very great, is yet more than a Brook.--and now we perceived all <3the>3 at once that we had been ascending, as we left third apartment of the valley, & entered the fourth, we found all the verdure gone, the Trees leafless, & low down & close along the Banks of the River the Conical Fir Trees, in great multitudes/a melancholy & romantic Scene that was quite new to me.--Herds of Cattle, every third of which had a considerable bell cylindrical/and as they wandered scattered about, the noise was like that of a large Town on Sunday when all the Churches are ringing to Church-- Passed three smelting Houses, & ascended to St AndreasBurg, a <1f25>1 town built quite of Wood/--Here we arrived, Whitsunday <3Eve->3 <3ning>3 afternoon, 1/2 past 4, May 12th--/--/ 412 3.23 Left AndreasBurg, May 13th, 8o clock, ascended still, the nothing now appearing but Fir Trees, now came to a beautiful Road on the side of a Hill, from whence we looked down into the deep Valley full of Firs, & the opposite Hill too full of Firs--the Valley called--Rauschenbach, the Roaring Brook--/ Above us a tremendous Rock black & yellow, called Rehburg--/ --the story is that according to tragical punishment, a <3man>3 venison stealer was tied to a stag, & the stag leaped down this tremendous precipice.-- Now on all sides Firs, nothing but Firs, below, above, around us--Saw the little dancing Cataracts thro' the Firs in vari- ous Parts of the vale or deep Bason below--& now from the very high Hill above us, from the very Top, came down a very con- siderable Stream, dancing over the Rocks, & seen ever & anon thro' the Breaks of the Fir boughs--till towards the Bottom it became nakedly visible.--Over the high opposite Hill a round naked Hill, <1f25v>1 very much Hill, looked in upon us over the distance. We walked on in the same scenery/the snow lying in patches along the sides of the Road, & glimmering in company with waterfalls thro' the firs in the Hill above, the hill opposite, & the deep Bason below/In MAY 1799 [415 about a quarter of a mile when our Road was crossed by the Reh- bach, or the Brook of Roes, a picturesque Waterfall or rather aggre- gation of little dancing Kittenracts over mossy Stones with young little Firs growing in the midst crossed the road, & falls down as before down the Hill beneath us.-- Walked on, the same scenery continuing, till we came to the Oder Teich, exactly 5 miles from Andreas Burg--This Oder Teich is a Lake, made they say by man, 2 miles in Length & here we descended into the Ravin/& stood at the foot of a noble cascade which rushed out of the Fir Wood, the rocky caves which it formed were particularly wild in shape--& the motion of the Firs here contrasted with the still Sea of Forest everywhere else--/We now entered a second Wood, & now the Snow met us every where in large masses, & we walked knee-deep in it with infinite Toil, till we came to the little Brocken/here even <1f26>1 the Firs left us, or only now & then a patch no higher than your knee, cowering to the ground, like the Thorn bushes on our coldest Hills--the <3gr>3 soil splashy & boggy, descended & came to the foot to the foot of the great Brocken--reached the height, 573 toises above the level of the Sea/--The Blocksburg, & place where the Witches dance--two Masses of Rock--but nothing particularly wild or romantic--/proceeded to the House on the Hill & dined there--the Stammbuch--/--descended (here insert the Poem) & came in the evening to Elbinrode, bladder'd in feet & ill.-- 413 3.51 Fluctibus extollens novum salutat Augustum <1fiii>1 from the Album in the Brocken, a dante Hexameter-- 414 3.22 Walzen/One couple, a Girl with a fellow in night <1f26v>1 cap & whiskers, & long tail/Another fellow with a pipe in his mouth --little girl & boy join'd & danc'd after with Stocking about heels. 415 3.24 Left Elbinrode, May the 14th,--& travelled on <1f26>1 for half a mile thro' a wild Country of bleak stony Hills with two or three Caverns visible in their breasts--& came to Rubelland/en- chanting scene--a few sweet Cottages in a vale <3of>3 that formed a very small amphitheatre, a stream flowing thro' it [D] c. the 415] MAY 1 stream; B.b.b. an half moon Hill with first one over the other like Spectators in Theatre with masses of rock-like Obelisks & Walls--c. <1f26v>1 the stream--a. a low green Hill with Cottages at its foot/D. Bare high Crags with some twenty scattered Firs, & companies of Goats on them.--As we advanced a little farther, we lost sight of the Crags, & the half moon hill, the stream & the Cottages at the foot of green Hill become complete & uninterrupted--the Cavern-- the Dance--As we go out of the village sinks & forms only a heap of Firs, & now the opposite Hill rises & becomes in its turn a perfect half moon--but ornamented not cloth'd with firs-- the larger part being great interspaces of Rock, grey, & mossy, & yellow--/The River Bode lively, shallow, perhaps 30 yards broad --/--a mile from Rubeland, came to a marble polisher's--exquisite Beauty of the veins of the Blankenburg Marble--2 feet square 18 G. Groschen--/here the path divides, a road thro' a fir wood run- ning one way, & the river losing itself immediately in another deep grove of Fir, the other--a huge Steep [D] Angle of Rock form- <1f27>1 ing this division--We left the River unwillingly--& journeyed into the deep woods where the pillars of Rock seemed to live among the black Fir Trees/& I wished to be its companion/Our path led us thro' a very short wood over a Green hilly place with Mine shaft & scattered Firs thro' a Village, Hu%ttenrode, an uninteresting coun- try, till we came to the Foot of a Hill up which the Road winded with scattered Firs by the side/We came to the Top of the Hill & behold now again the Spring met us--not indeed in the fullness of tender Verdure as on our first days journey, but soft & half-un- folded <3amid>3 with spots still iron brown/We saw the plain with rocks on the right hand, an immense wall, & on the left & curving round & forming the front view surges of woody Hills, beeches-- & the Town & Castle of Blankenburg at our feet.--Castle--on the right a hill of most noble outline, half wood, half rock--then a plain of young Corn--then Rocks--walls & towers--And pinnacles of Rock, a proud Domain, disdainful of the Seasons--this formed <1f27v>1 the Right Hand--the left & front Hills dappled with green & iron brown, not like the single Hill of simple & grand Outline, but rising & sinking, yet on the whole still rising, in a playful surgi- ness--/-- 416 3.25 Left Blankenburg where we heard much of the French King, on Wed. May 15th--turned round at the distance, & the backward view as delightful as the former, except that we now saw the Towers of Bermberg, interesting as being near the <1Rhine.>1 About an English mile from Blankenberg we came to a small Lake surrounded with Beech Trees, but the margins solid Rock/stone Brick/this on the left hand of our road/our road itself a pretty little one arched Bridge under which the Lake emptied itself, & at the distance of 10 yards from the Bridge on our right hand plunged itself down into a <3deep>3 Chasm of 30 feet & somewhat more in length, of mossy Rocks, & ran under Ground--/ 417 3.26(a) A valley on the right semicircle stretching to an <1f28>1 immense length--to the side of the Left Semicircle the arc, woody Hills, the higher lot firs with intermixture of yellow green Beeches --below & flowing down the Hill into a valley a fine flood of trees. The town of ------ from here begin the description--far off on my right hand & close by my left--/two greeneries the latter a parallelogram, walled on three sides by silver Birches, on the 4th by firs--the high proud Hills of Fir & behind-- 418 3.26(b) About three English Miles from Clausthal--hav- <1f28v>1 ing passed up & down little hills thro a Pine Country, & looking down into wild Pine Coombes till we came to Lehrberg--A little village in the bottom of a very narrow Coombe/Three or four of the houses on the Slope--here the Beeches fill the Coomb/the Pines at the top of the Hill & here & there intermixed. Ach! sie haben Johann Reimbold Einen braven of Man begraben-- Catlenburg Vielen war er mehr-- From here to Catlenburg, a hilly, pleasant country, the Fields heav'd up & down, with little dells & hollows, & the Pine prettily scattered. We passed from Osterode to Catlenburg/the view of the <1f29>1 Amtshause <1[Amthaus]>1 on the Hill forming a fine English Prospect --and from hence the prospect was quite English in those counties 419] MAY 1799 where many noblemen's Seats with great Woods are--for here every where were lovely woods, some in the plains, others clothing considerable Hills, the Trees Beech & Birch/with now then near the road some most majestic Oaks./About a mile and half from Catlenburg we came to a lovely scene, of Cottage, & lake, uneven ground/but all completely circled before us, & behind by the grand- est Swell of Woods I ever beheld--So completely circled that I could not discover where the wood opened to admit our road. <1f29v>1 Passed thro' the Wood for a mile & half under a complete Bower-- as we emerged from it that glorious prospect--how can I forget it --Behind the high Harz Mountains, close around us woods on hillocks of an hundred shapes, which to describe were a Chaos, but <3to>3 in nature all in harmony before us green Cornfields in the plain, & creeping up the opposite Hill,/& closing the view on the Angle at the left the Wood-covered Hill so wild in its Shape on which the monarch Ruin of the Plesse stands-- weary as [we] were it added no little that the Plesse was but 4 miles from G-- 419 3.27(a) <1f30v>1 Die in Plessen Hochgesessen Hochgesteinet Wohlgebeinet Damit den Knabben wenig gedeinet Grosse Schu%sseln und wenig darin Das ist der Herrn von Plessen ihr Sinn <1f29(x)>1 420 3.27(b) Wood entered sufficiently interesting. ? Corn yes, clumps of Cottages on slopes of little Hills--Villages at the foot of Hill cornfields occupying the middle & beech Woods crowning the Top--Hardenberg on the boldest buttock of Rock of I have seen/in the same line with a complete Bow Hill, then a small long field & still in the same line the flat side of a Hill [D] py- MAY 1799 [425 ramidal and clothed with Beeches as with Glosses--this Hill now long & in the midst of its length Plesse appears on an eminence above the ?middle 421 21.42 The nightingales in a f7 blossomed Trees singing--and a bat wheeling incessantly round & round.--The noise of the Frogs not unpleasant--resemble the humming of spinning wheels in a large manufactury, now & then a distinct sound, sometimes like a Duck, & sometimes like the shrill notes of Sea-fowls.--May 20th, 1799. Go%ttingen.-- 422 3.27(d) Hu%bichen Stein--Man sieht hier sehr weit in die <1f2 (x)v>1 Welt-- May [? 2] 2nd--/very ill in the evening--little Girl & Cub./ 423.31/2.31 The Price of Meat for Hanover as appointed by <1f4'>1 the Government--for the month of May, 1799 a Pound of Beef Of the best sort-- 4d Of the middle sort 3 1/2 Of the third sort 2 1/2 of Veal Of the best 3 1/2M Of the ordinary-- 2 3/4 Mutton Pork of Whatever kind. Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1/2 3 d the pound. 2nd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33/4 3rd .................3 1/4 424 31/2.32 In the year 1783 The Tarter Chan, Schapin <1f ov>1 Gueray, who had been driven out of his dominions by his Subjects, & reinstated by the Russian Court, set on foot a Translation of the Great French Encyclopa|edie into the Tartar Language/. 425 31/2 .33 The fable of the 4 Wheels. 426] MAY 1799 <1f41>1 426 31/2.34 Luigi Alamanni, ein Italiener und Anha%nger Ko%- nig Franz des Ersten, machte ein Gedicht wider Karln 5. Er spielte darin unter andern auf den Reichsadler an, und sagte: L'aquila grifagna Chi, per piu [<1piu\>1] devorar, duoi rostri porta *) Als die beiden Fu%rsten Frieden gemacht hatten, ging Alamanni als Gesandter an den kaiserlichen Hof. Bei der ersten Audienz hielt er, nach damaliger Sitte, eine lange Rede, worin alle bewunderns- wu%rdige Eigenschaften des Adlers auf den Kaiser angewendet wurden. Karl ho%rte ihm aufmerksam bis ans Ende zu, und sprach dann mit grossem Ernste die Worte: L'aquila grifagna, Chi, per piu [<1piu\>1] devorar, duoi rostri porta. Alamanni lies <1[liess]>1 sich nicht irre machen. Magnanimo Prin- cipe, erwiederte er, alora ragionava come gli poeti, a quali e Lecito di favoleggiare; io ragiono in questo discorso come un Ambascia- tore, che non deve fingere. **) <1f4lv>1 427 31/2.35 Des Waasenmeisters in Salzuflen Knecht starb im Ma%rz und Niemand wollte den Leichnam zur Gruft tragen. End- lich bestellte der Magistrat die Thorwa%chter--zwey von diesen weigerten sich. Dafu%r erboten sich aber unerwartet 4 auswa%rtige Sa%genschneider (Dielenschneider) aus Aspe, einem benachbarten Dorfe im Amte Scho%tmar im Lippischen, unter der Anfu%hrung eines Mannes Namens Rocker, zum Tragen des Abgeschiedenen. Der an der Spitze des Magistrats stehende Rath un Burgermeister Mu%ller ging im Geleit des ganzen Magistrats und der Leichen- tra%ger zu der Wohnung, wo der Todte stand. Er legte zuerst Hand an den in dem Todtenkasten ruhenden Leichnam, um die An- wesenden zu u%berzeugen, dass die Handlung nicht entehrend sey. Angefeuert von diesem Vorgange folgten die u%brigen seinem Bey- spiele, und so wurde denn in feyerlichem Zuge der Begleitung des ganzen Magistrats die Hu%lle des Waasenknechts zur Grabsta%tte begleitet. Auf dem Kirchofe senkte man ihn <1[in]>1 die Gruft, und auch hier war Rath Mu%ller der erste, der den Sarg mit Erde zu be- decken anfing. 428 31/2.36 <1f42>1 **) Salzuflen oder Ufeln. Ufeln ist ein Landsta%dtchen in der Grafschaft Lippe-Detmol Auser andern Kriegen hat es vorzu%glich im Jahr 1447 von den Bo%hmen viel gelitten, welche den gro%ssten Theil desselben ein- a%scherten. Eine nicht unbetra%chtliche Saline, die seit 1766 dem Landesfu%rsten geho%rt und die ganze Grafschaft sowohl als auch in den mehrsten Jahren auswa%rtige Provinzen mit ihrem Fabrikate versicht macht den Ort merkwu%rdig. Die Natur hat dieses Sta%dt- chen ausser diesem unentberlichen Produkte mit mehreren Gaben reichlich versehen. In einer ununterbrochenen Kette sieht man scho%ne Weiden und Wiesen an dem Ufer der Weise gelegen, die den Einwohnern zugeho%ren. In dem Mittelpunkte der kultivirte- sten Aecker liegt das Sta%dtchen in der angenehmsten Ebene. Zur Seite ein nicht unbetra%chtliches Waldrevier, woraus ein ieder Bu%r- ger seine Bau-und Brandkonsumtion nach forstmassiger Taxation herholt. Ein anderes unentbehrliches Bau-Material, eine Mauer- stein Grube haben sie auf ihrem Gebiethe, und mehrere Mergel- gruben womit sie ihre Lando%konomie mit betriebsamer Neigung bey harten Wintern erho%hen ko%nnen, liegen nah und fern in den Umgebungen des Orts. Das Verdienst guter Oekonomie leuchtet aus ihren Bemu%hungen in dieser Art deutlich hervor. Die zahl- reichen Schaafherden deren Besitzer Schaaf-Interessenten genannt werden, unterstu%tzen diesen Zweig der Landkultur in nicht gerin- <1f42v>1 gem Maasse. Der Handel ist hier ebenfalls sehr blu%hend, und dieser hat darin vorzu%glich seinen Grund, weil das Preuss. daran granzt. Viele Kaufmannsguter werden von Blothe aus auf der Achse hierher gesandt. Die fernere Expedition derselben mit der musterhaftesten Punktlichkeit begleitet besorgt der Kaufmann Schro%der. Die Anzahl der Bu%rgerwohnungen kann man etwa auf 366 Feuerstellen, und die Population auf ungefa%hr 1000 Seelen anschlagen. 429 31/2.39 Es ist zwar ein recht gutes Bier, <1f43v>1 Die Goslarische Gose-- 430] MAY 1799 Doch wenn man glaubt sie sey im Bauch, So ist sie in die Hose.-- This Goslars <3Gose good and staunch>3 ale is strong & staunch, Yet <3strangely one by>3 sure 'twas brew'd by by Witches: For <3scarce you launch it down>3 ere you think, 't has reach'd the Paunch Odd's fish! tis in your Breeches! <1f44>1 430 3 1/2.4o Beobachtung des Brockengespenstes mitgetheilt von J. Lud. Jordan. He had after Whitsuntide ascended to see the Sun rising. Schon hatte sich der Himmel gero%thet, und die Sonne fieng an in voller Pracht hervorzubrechen; und im Lande war alles unaussprechlich heiter, als sich plo%zlich die u%brigen, unter dem Brocken liegenden Harzgebu%rge sudwestlich nach dem Worm- berge u.s.w. hin, in dike Nebel zu hu%llen begonnen. In diesem Augenblicke erstieg ich den Granitfelsen, die TeufelsCanzel, als sich, doch weit von mir, nach dem Wormberge und der Achter- mannsho%he hin, eine Riesengestalt eines Menschen, wie auf einem grossen Piedestal zeigte; doch kaum wurde ich aufmerksam auf dieselbe, die Nebel sanken schnell und verdu%nnten sich, und ich <1f44>1 erblickte die Erscheinung nicht wieder. Ein andermal aber sah ich dieses Brockengespenst etwas deutlicher, es war weiter unten am Kopfe des Brockens, nach der Heinrichsho%he zu, als ich Morgens vor 4 Uhr dem Aufgang der Sonne entgegen sah. Es war stu%rmisch, der Himmel war im Lande wenig bewo%lkt, allein auf dem Harz- gebu%rge hatten sich schon mehrere dicke herumziehende Nebel gesammlet, die sich an den Brocken zu lage[r]n anfiengen, und die Aussicht hemmten. In diesem Nebel sah ich, wie die Sonne schon herauf gestiegen war, meinen Schatten in ungeheurer Gro%sse ein paar Secunden, so wie ich mich bewegte, sich bewegen, allein jezt wurde ich schnell vom Nebel umhu%llt, und die Erscheinung war verschwunden. Bei einem ho%hern Stande der Sonne, als wo sie ihre Lichtstrahlen gerade auf uns wirft, ist diese Erscheinung nicht <1f45>1 mo%glich zu beobachten, indem bei einem ho%hern Stande derselben unser Schatten mehr unter uns als vor uns geworfen wird.-- A Mr Haue, on the 23rd of May, 1797, likewise observe[d] this Spirit of the Mountain--& wrote in the Stammbuch the following observation-- Nachdem ich an die 30 mal, so oft ich hier war, unter andern meine Aufmerksamkeit auf oben genannte Natur-oder Luft- Erscheinung gerichtet hatte, so war ich endlich so glu%cklich, mich an derselben heute zu ergo%tzen/vielleicht kann meine Beschrei- bung mehreren Brockenga%sten dies Vergnu%gen verschaffen. Nach 4 Uhr gieng die Sonne auf; gegen Osten war die Luft rein; die Sonne konnte also ungehindert ihre Strahlen u%ber die Heinrichs- ho%he hinwerfen. Gegen Su%dwesten (S.W.) aber, nach der Achter- mannsho%he hin, trieb ein scharfer Westwind feine durchsichtige <1f45v>1 Nebel vorbey, die noch nicht in dickere Wolken zusammenge- dra%ngt waren. Nach 41/4 Uhr gieng ich nach dem Wirthshause nach dem klei- nern herschaftlichen Hause, sah mich um, ob gegen Su%dwest hin die Luft heute rein werden und mir eine freie Aussicht verstatten wu%rde. Und siehe da! ich sahe gegen der Achtermannho%he hin in einer sehr grossen Entfernung eine Menschenfigur in ungeheurer Gro%sse, und da eben ein Windstos mir den Hut abreissen wollte, und ich in der Geschwindigkeit darnach griff, mithin eine Be- wegung mit dem Arme nach dem Kopfe hinmachte, auch die Kolos- salische Figur eine Bewegung machen. Mein Vergnu%gen uber diese Entdeckung kann ich nicht beschrei- <1f46>1 ben, denn so manchen sauren lieben Tritt hatte ich schon gethan und nach diesem Schattenbilde gehascht, und es noch nie erhaschen ko%nnen. Ich machte sogleich wieder eine Verbeugung, und mein gegen u%berstehender Koloss machte sie nach. Noch einmal wollte ich sie machen, und--mein Koloss war verschwunden. Ich blieb in dieser Stellung stehen, wartete ab, ob es sich nicht noch einmal zeigen wollte. Nicht lange--so stund er wieder an der Achtermanns- ho%he, ich machte ihm mein Compliment; er machte mirs wieder. Nun rief ich den Brockenwirth herbei. Wir nahmen beide die Stellung die ich allein genommen hatte, sahen nach der Achter- mannsho%he hin, und sahen nichts. Wir blieben so stehen. Nicht lange bildeten sich an der gedachten Ho%he zwei solcher Kolosse von Menschen; wir machten Verbeugungen gegen einander, jene <1f46v>1 machten sie nach. Nun verschwanden sie. Wir behielten unsere 431] MAY 1799 Stellung, hefteten die Augen unvera%ndert dorthin, und nicht lange, so stunden die zwei Figuren wieder da. Der 3te Mann kam dazu. Die Bewegungen, welche wir machten, machten uns jene nach, nur mit dem Unterschied dass die Erscheinung bald schwach und matt, bald stark und deutlich war; das lezte etwa 7 oder 8 mal. Nun habe ich also das ganze Geheimniss selber belauscht, und kann meinen Lesern rathen: Wenn die aufgehende Sonne (und analog ists auch wohl der Fall bey der untergehenden) ihre Strahlen hori- zontal uber den Brocken auf einen Menschen wirft und in gerader Linie gegen u%ber schweben oder gehen feine Wolken vorbei, so darf man nur die Augen unverwandt dahin heften, so hat man <1f47>1 wahrscheinlich das ganz eigene Schauspiel, seinen Schatten in einer Sa%ulenho%he von wohl 5 bis 600 Fuss in Entfernung etwa 2 Stunden La%nge von sich zu sehen. Eine der angenehmsten Erscheinungen wird mir immer diese bleiben, die ich auf der grossen Warte Deutschlands gesehen haben. From the Go%ttingisches Journal der Naturwissenschaften, he- rausgegeben von Joh. Friedr. Gmelin. Ersten Bandes drittes Heft.-- 431 31/2.41 Dissertazione prima sopra un Fenomeno volgar- mente detto Fata Morgana: O sia apparizione di varie successive, bizarre immagini, che per lungo tempo Ha sedotti i populi e dato a pensare ai dotti. Roma 1773--/P. Anton Minasi u%ber die optische Erscheinungen im Meere und in der Luft an dem Leuchtthurme von Messina welche dort Fata Morgana heissen.-- <1f47v>1 Wenn die aufgehende Sonne von dem Punkte her scheint, wo ihre auffallende Strahlen einen Winkel von ungefahr 45o, mit dem Meere von Reggio machen, und die gla%nzende Fla%che des Wassers in dem Meerbusen weder durch Wind noch Stro%me gesto%rt wird, so erscheinen dem Zuschauer, wenn er auf einer Anho%he der Stadt mit dem Rucken <1(nach der Sonne)>1 (some mistake, certainly.) und mit dem Gesicht nach dem Meere zu sieht, plo%zlich im Wasser wie in einem Spiegel manche vervielfa%ltigte Gegen- sta%nde, nahmlich zahllose Reihen von wohl gezeichneten Pfeilern, Bo%gen, Schlo%ssern, regelma%ssigen Sa%ulen, hohen Thurmen, pra%ch- tigen Pallasten mit Altanen und Fenstern, lange Spazierga%nge mit MAY 1799 [432 Ba%umen besezt, ammuthige Ebenen mit Heerden, Heere von Men- schen zu Fuss und zu Pferde, und manche andere sonderbare <1f48>1 Bilder, in ihren natu%rlichen Farben und den ihnen eigenen Bewe- gungen, die wa%hrend des kurzen Zeitraums, als die oben erwa%hnte Ursachen bleiben, langst der Oberfla%che des Meers schnell auf einander folgen. Kommt aber zu diesen Umsta%nden noch hinzu, dass der Luft- kreis mit Dampfen, und dicken Ausdu%nstungen, welche durch Winde oder Wellen nicht vorher zerstreut oder durch die Sonne verdu%nnt werden, sehr u%berladen ist, so ereignet es sich dass der Beobachter in diesem Dampf, wie auf einem Vorhang, der la%ngst dem Canal ungefa%hr dreysig Hoch und nahe am Meere, den gan- zen Auftritt jener Gegensta%nde, so wohl in dem Bilde, welches der Spiegel des Meeres zuru%ckwirft, als auch doch nicht so deutlich, im Luftkreise wahrnimmt. <1f 8v>1 Ist endlich der Luftkreis nebelicht und tru%b, thaut es zugleich, und la%sst sich zu einem Regenbogen an, so zeigen sich die oben erwa%hnte Gegensta%nde, wie im ersten Falle, nur auf der Meeres- fla%che, aber alle mit sehr lebhaften Farben, und roth, gru%n, blau, oder mit einer andern Farbe des Prisma eingefast.-- 432 31/2.42 1 <1f49v>1 No mortal Genius yet had clomb so high As Kepler, and his Country <3let>3 saw him die For very want! The <3Souls>3 minds alone he fed And so the Bodies left him without bread! Jack drinks the costliest wines, wears splendid Clothing <3What is his future Where lies his>3 Estate?-- In Algebra; for there I found of late A Quantity call'd less than nothing. <1[3>1] On Lucas Cranach's Grave-stone he is called Pictor celerrimus-- a mistake of the Stone-cutter for celeberrimus. With some of our <1432f50]>1 MAY 1799 Poets the Public makes just the contrary blunder--& puts celeber- rimus, where celerrimus only is the Truth. <1f50>1 4 --On Mr Ross, usually cognominated <1Nosy.>1 I fancy whenever I spy nosy Ross More great than a Lion is Rhynose- ros N.B.--bad in itself--& (as Bob. Allen used to say of his <1Puns)>1 it looks damn'd ugly upon paper We sing the deeds of our forefathers--but we shall leave to our Posterity stuff for howling not singing. Solomon might be a wiseman but he was no prophet--in enu- merating the things that could never be satisfied he forgot Taxa- tion. War & Poverty are Brothers--When War has eat up every thing else, then Poverty & eats him. <1f0v>1 8. <3Should John the Baptist come again,>3 He'ed still repeat his ancient strain>3 <3O vip'rous Race O race of lies>3 And so I venture to advise That ere on mortal 8 O would the Baptist come again And <3cry aloud his ancient Strain>3 preach aloud with might & main, Repent,<3Repent!-Ah>3 ance to our vip'rous Race! <3And>3 Yet should this ever be the case, I hope ere <3mortal>3 Irish ground he treads He'll lay in a good stock of Heads. 9 I hold of all our vip'rous Race The servile greedy Things in Place Most vile, most dangerous; & then The United Irishmen. Now by miraculous deeds to stir men To come on earth should John determine Impunis we'd excuse his sermon With out a word the good old Dervis Might do incalculable service, At once from tyranny & riot <1f51>1 Save laws, lives, liberties, & moneys, If taking sticking to his ancient diet He'd but eat up our locusts & wild Honeys. 10 a blunt Sailor--salutes not by dropping the flag but by discharge of [?vocal/discal] guns. 11 Dreamt that a great man had promised me great things--awoke & found that it was almost as much a deception as if the Thing had really happened. 12 <1f5lv>1 Forced & natural Wit --In the one case the fruit falls ripe from the Tree--the other <1shakes>1 it.-- 13 The Voice was in my heart--it is only the echo which you hear from my Mouth. 14 Die Sonne & der Mond-- the-------men as horned--/.-- 15 <1v>1 So dass kein Vers gefa%llt wenn der nicht der ihn liest, Geschickt ist einen Schwung im Lesen ihm zu geben, 432f52] MAY 1799 Und fertig, halb den Ton zu senken, halb zu heben, Ein besserer Poet als der Verfasser ist. Wernikens Ucberschriften Neunt. Buch <14th Ep>1 <1f52>1 16 Hoarse Ma|evius reads his hobbling Verse To all & at all times; And finds them both divinely smooth, His Voice as well as Rhymes. Yet folks say; Ma|evius is no Ass; But Ma|evius makes it clear, That he's a Monster of an Ass, An Ass without an ear. 17 Ein jeder sieht mit Lust diess scho%ne Bildniss an-- Ich nicht: weil Ich nur noch diess Bildniss sehen kann. 18 Nea|era's Portrait this--not as she should Be Portraited, but as she would. 19 Der sey dir nicht erkiest, Wer Freund ihm selbst nicht ist: Wer Freund ihm selbst nur ist, Der sey dir nicht erkiest! <1f52v>1 20 Werden meine Reime nicht Wohl in fremden Ohren klingen; So bedenken Fremde nur, Es gescheh auch ihren Dingen. Worte haben, wie die Menschen, Ihr gewisses Vaterland. Gelten da vor allen andern, Wo sie lang & wohl bekannt-- Logau-- 21 Freunde muss man sich erwa%hlen Nur nach wa%gen, nicht nach za%hlen. 22 Heart the husband, the Tongue the wife--every word that comes not from the heart, is therefore a Son of a Whore. 23 A pretty little space between the Tongue & the heart, like that between East & West. 24 <1f53>1 Captain Naso always announces himself before he enters--does he send his Lacquay? No?--his Trumpeter?--Why--yes--if so you'll name his Nose. 25 A Satire like a good Sallad, more oil than vinegar--Yet enough of both. 26 To change old Friends for new Is giving fruits for flowers. 27 I applied to Po|etus for help--he sent it me; but the car- riage was drawn by Crabs. 29. It is not true that men always go gradually from good to evil or evil to good. Sometimes a flash of lightning will turn the magnetic Poles. 30 When angry with-- --, reflect how she would weep & be in anguish over my death-pillow, & how she would never forget me?-- 433 31/2.44 German Sounds <1f54>1 a as in Mama a% as in hate, capable. 434] MAY 1799 e light <1a,>1 not so distinct as a% N.b. a% before <1two>1 consonants sounds as e--thus Ma%mme sounds Memma ## i as in fatigue. ei as I in Iron. o% I cannot give the exact sound--I pronounce o% like e: thus scho%n u% I sound schoen. u% like i, thus Mu%tter = Mitter. au = ou. schaum = schoum. a%u between oi et ei. Scha%ume = schaima, schoima, scheima. eu = ei. Freund, Freind. th=t v=f w = v, except after Sch. Schwa%rmerei = Schwermerei. J = y. Jugend = yougend. ## only, I recollect, in a short syllable--Ma%dchen = madechen. Here however the ch forms no part of the first syllable, which is pronounced as it would be had it been a monosyllable--ma%d = mede. <1f54v>1 434 31/2.45 Der Harz from the old German Word, Hart or Haart, or Harz, sylva ardua./It is not the Sylva Hercynia of the Romans, to whom it was wholly unknown. Divided into the upper Harz & Under Harz/The first contains the seven Towns, Claus- thal, Betterfeld, Andreasburg, Altenau, Lautenthal, Grund, and Wildemann/and the <3Ortschaften Manors>3 Hamlets of Buntenbock, Lerbach, Sieber, Hahnenklee, and Bockswiese/to these some Cat- tle-farms, and the <3Villages>3 town & County Elbingerode, & the village of Lauterberg.--The Country around the Rammelsburg near Goslar, & the town of Harzburg form the Unterharz/lying <1f55>1 to the North.--The rest <3which>3 is not properly the Harz/and may be called the Vorharz.--The whole extent including the Vorharz (i.e. the County of Stolberg, the Skirts of the Regensten Forest, Blankenberg, & Werningerode) is 80 miles in length & 20 in breadth. 435 31/2.46 Alle Gebu%rge des Harzes, die meistens Ganzge- bu%rge sind, werden durch einen hohen vom kleinen Brocken herab, MAY 1799 [435 gegen Abend ziehenden Bergru%cken, den Bruchberg' fast nach einem rechten Winkel mit der Mittagslinie, in zwey ziemlich gliche Thile <1[gleiche Theile]>1 abgesondert. Von der ho%chsten Pla%ne des Bruchberges an, in der na%he des Oderbru%ckenhauses, ist bis zum Brocken hinauf alles Granit, und gleich bey dessen Anfang mit einer bruchigen oder morichten Ebene, die eine halbe Stunde breit und eben so lang ist, u%ber deckt, so wie auch selbst die beyden Spizen des Brockens durch einen Torfmoor, der zu beyden Seiten <1f55v>1 gegen Mittag und Mitternacht stark abfa%llt, getrennt sind.--Die ganze La%nge dieses Bergru%ckens betra%gt von dem Fusse des kleinen Brockens bis zu seinen vordern Spize gegen Herzberg zu ho%chstens vier starke Stunden, und wird in drey Abtheilungen unterschieden. Der obere Theil gleich unter dem kleinen Brocken, heisst das Brockenfeld, der mittlere Theil eigentlich Bruchberg, und der vordere gegen das platte Land liegende Theil der Acker. Es ist dieser Berg nie bergmannisch bebaut worden, und man kennt sein Innres weiter nicht, als dass man weiss, dass die obere und etwas kleinere an den kleinen Brocken anschliessende Ha%lfte aus Granit, die untere Ha%lfte aus Schiefer besteht, und blos der Fuss, womit der an die neben ihn <1[ihm],>1 Liegenden Berge gra%nzt, wechselt hin <1f56>1 und wieder mit Grauwacke, oder unten an seiner Spize gegen Abend mit einem andern Lauchgru%nlichen mit hornblenden ver- mischten Gestein aufgesezt.--Der Abfall des Berges vom Fusse des kleinen Brocken, bis zu seiner Spize gegen Abend ist zwar nicht u%berall sehr merklich, aber doch betrachtlich. Vorn Oderbru%ckenhause erstreckt sich die bruchige Ebene ( #.41 .) nach Abend zu, ho%chstens eine kleine Stunde weit, bis zum grossen Sonnenberg, in einer Breite von einer halben Stunde. Hier ist der Boden noch immer Torf, oder Haidensand (zerfallner Granit), auf Granit, und hier trift man auch wieder einzeln stehende, freilich kleine unansehnliche Fichten an, vermischt mit Moos, Haidekraut und los dazwischen liegende Granitstu%cken. Auf diesem Berge, der <1f 6v>1 einer nur durch kleine Anho%hen unterbrochene Ebene von beynahe einer halben Stunden breite, und zwey Stunden La%nge ist, ent- springen die Bude, die Radau, und die Oder. Die Bode und die Oder nehmen ihren Lauf gegen Mittag und die Radu gegen Mit- ternacht. 436] M" 1799 Am Sonnenberge, ungefa%hr in der Mitte des grossen Bergru%ck- ens ( #.41.) vom Fuss des kleinen Brockens angerechnet, ho%rt der granit auf, und nun findet sich statt dessen eine blaue jaspisartige Schieferart, die am Stahle Feuer schla%gt, und zwar noch blatterig ist, aber einen muschlichen Bruch hat. Dieselbe Steinart findet sich auch ha%ufig im Sonnenthale, welches am Sonnenberge von Mittag nach Mitternacht den bruchberg hinauf la%uft, als Geschiebe zwi- schen Geschieben von Granit, auf Granit. Noch weiter vor auf der <1f57>1 ho%he des Bruchbergs gegen Abend wird das Gestein sehr bald ein murber gelbbrauner Thonschiefer, der kein Feuer mehr schla%gt. Beym Anfange dieses Thonschiefers findet man die Oberfla%che des Bruchberges mit Losen Stucken eines feinko%rnigen Sandsteins, in welchem nur sparsam etwas Glimmer eingestreut ist, und mit fest- stehenden Klippen desselben Gesteines, die an manchen Stellen ganz deutlich auf dem Schiefer sizen, und sich in ihn verlaufen, bestreut und besezt. 436 31/2.47 Ein grosses Unglu%ck fu%r die Harzwaldungen is die seit einigen Jahren wieder sehr u%ber Hand genommene Wurm- trocknis, Trocknis oder der Wurm, wogegen bey aller angewand- ten Mu%he doch noch kein hinla%ngliches Mittle *) <1[Mittel]>1 aus- fu%ndig gemacht, auch noch nicht einmal die Ursache derselben sicher bestimmt ist. Es sterbt <1[stirbt]>1 nemlich bey dieser Krankheit <1f57v>1 der Baum vom Gipfel herunter ab, die Nadln <1[Nadeln]>1 werden bleich, dann roth, und fallen ab, und, man findet, wenn der Baum umgeschlagen wird, in dem Splint zwischen Borke und Holz, eine ungeheure Menge von Larven des Borkenkafers oder Fichtenkreb- ses (Dermestes typographus), welche sich daselbst hin und her Cana%le durchgefresse<1[n]>1 haben; wie man den in einem Baum mit- tlerer Grosse einige 80000 solcher Larven geza%hlt hat. Diese un- geheure Menge von Larven berauben den Stamm alles seines Saftes und Harzes, so dass Holz zu brettern und Bauholz nur sehr schlect <1[schlecht],>1 und kaum zu Kohlholz zu gebrauchen ist. Es greift dies Uebel nicht nur starke, sondern junge und alte Sta%mme von aller Grosse an, und verbreitet sich o%fters auf Stunden lange <1f58>1 Waldstrecken. Die Forstversta%ndigen sind noch nicht eins daru%ber, ob der Borkenka%fer die Ursache oder Folge dieses Unglu%cks sey. Einige glauben nemlich, die Ba%ume waren durch allzustarke Trock- nis, durch Windbru%che, durch das Entblossen der Wurzeln beym Streurechen, und andre Umsta%nde krank geworden, und nach diesen zogen sich dann diese Insekten, deren starkere Vermehrung unla%ugbar durch Unreinlichkeit in den Waldungen, durch das Lie- genlassen des Fallholzes, durch das Stehenlassen der Stuken oder Sto%cke begunstigt werden kann; andere hingegen glauben bemerkt zu haben, dass sich der Borkenka%fer eben so gut an die ganz ge- sunden als kranken Sta%mme mache, und die ersteren durch einen u%berflu%ssigen, austretenden Saft der Sta%mme viele 1000 dieser Insekten umkommen mu%ssten, da alsdann aber die u%brig bleiben- den, und die nachfolgenden Schwa%rme desto eher ihren Unterhalt <1f58v>1 daran fanden. So viel ist gewiss, und durch Erfahrungen besta%tiget, dass warme, trockne Sommer, und zu gelinde Winter, zumal wenn noch mancherley Unachtsamkeit und Unreinlichkeit in den For- sten dazu kommen sollten, die Verbreitung des Unglu%cks begun- stigen ko%nnen, so wie von der andern Seite nasse Sommer, und kalte Winter dasselbe verringern.--Die Langen anhaltenden Winter der Jahre 1784 und 1785 haben auf dem Harze das Un- glu%ck sehr vermindert. Das Mittel, wie man auf dem Harze solche abgestorbene Forsten, die besonders ha%ufig in der Communion, vorzuglich um Grund anzutreffen waren und noch sind, behandelt, ist, dass man die abgestorbenen Ba%ume umhaut, sie abscha%let, und die Borke, in welcher die junge Brut befindlich ist, verbrennt, und <1f59>1 das Holz zu Kohl--und Brennholz verbraucht; denn zu oben- und unterirrdischen <1[m]>1 Bauholz ists viel zu bru%chig und schwach. Aber bey dieser Behandlung, welche bis jezt schon viele 1000 R:thlr. Unkosten veranlasst hat, muss man nicht nur das abgestor- bene, sondern auch ein stuck des noch gesunden Waldes umschla- gen, und alles Fallholz, so wie die Sto%cke und die noch mit der Borke versehenen, umgehauenen Ba%ume so gesc <1[h]>1 wind als mo%g- lich aus dem wege schaffen, um die weitere Verbreitung des Uebels zu verhu%ten.--Zu diesem Borkenschlag gebraucht man, unter der Aufsicht von Manspersonen, Frauenspersonen in Tag- lohn, welche gelegentlich auch auf die Bevo%lkerung des Harzes <1f59v>1 bedacht waren, indem im Jahre 1783 allein zu Clausthal einige 40 Ma%dchen bey dieser Arbeit geschwa%ngert seyn sollen. 437] MAY 1799 Diese Wurmtrocknis ist aber bey weitem nicht dem Harze al- leine eigen, denn man trift sie seit einigen Jahren auch in den Nadelwaldungen von Sachsen-Weimar, Thu%ringen, im Sachsischen Erzgeburge (we sie seit wenigen Jahren schon gegen 30000 Klafter Holz verdorben hat), in dem Reichswald an, und auch auf dem Harze ist sie schon in den altesten Zeiten von zeit zu zeit bemerkt worden.-- <1f72v>1 437 1/2 65 Der Verf. will von mittelbarer Offenbarung nichts wissen, und glaubt, was uns nicht so scheint, dass man diese nur darum angenommen habe, weil man gewisse Einwu%rfe gegen die Offenbarung nicht beantworten konnte, und die Offenbarung selbst doch nicht aufgeben wollte, oder weil man den Glauben an Offenbarung selbst dadurch unter- graben wollte, den man nicht offenbar anzugreifen wagte, weil es der Glaube der Kirche war. Er zeigt besonders das Tauschende der Verfahrungsart, wo man aus dem Begriff der Gottheit den Begriff einer offenbarenden Gottheit ableitet, und stellt dagegen folgenden <1f73>1 Begriff auf. Ein Mensch wird sich des Sittengesetzes bewusst. Es fordert schlechthin; was es gebeut, soll geschehen. Hier wird keine Ausnahme Statt finden ko%nnen. Es ist keine Regel, wie die, welche er sich gestern selbst vorschrieb, und heute wieder verwarf; er kann es nie verwerfen, es ist ein Gesetz fu%r die Ewigkeit. Er selbst, der sich so oft ta%uschte, er kann nicht Urheber dieses Gesetzes seyn; es ist das Gesetz dessen, der sich nie ta%u[s]cht; dessen Willen u%ber- all gelten soll, wo es auch sey im Raume, und wann es auch sey seyn. Er reflectirt auf dieses Gesetz des allweisen, Allma%chtigen, Ewigen; es ist ein Gesetz der Gottheit. Aber die Gottheit ist im <1[ihm]>1 nicht erschienen und hat ihn unterrichtet. In seinem Inneren <1f73v>1 hat er es gefunden. Also: die Gottheit hat es ihm geoffenbaret. Er fra%gt nicht, wie das zugegangen sey; denn diess wu%rde er nur im Falle des Zweifels thun, um sich zu gewissern, dass das Gesetz von der Gottheit komme; mit dem Gesetz ist ihm die U%berzeugung, dass es Gesetz Gotts sey, gegeben; beides liegt unzertrennlich in seinem Bewusstseyn. So wie jener Inspirirte des Gestzes in sich bewusst wird, wird er sichs auch bewusst, dass diess Gesetz allen Menschen geho%re, und dass er verpflichtet sey, ihnen MAY 1799 [438 <3ihre Offenbarung>3 diess Gesetz zu promulgieren. Woher haben die Schu%ler Jesu ihre Offenbarung? und woher wissen sie, dass ihre Offenbarung echt sey? Der Geist Gottes, der in ihnen wohnt, hat es <1f74>1 ihnen geoffebaret <1[geoffenbaret]>1 ; dieser bezeugt es ihrem Geiste, dass sie nicht irren. Hier ist u%berall von keiner mittelbaren, sondern von einer unmittelbaren Offenbarung die Rede; und diesen Geist Gottes haben nicht blos sie. Diess sagen fu%nfhundert Stellen des neue<1[n]>1 Testamentes. 438 31/2.66 Der Anbau der Runkel-Ru%ben, Beta vulgaris <1f74v>1 Linn, oder nach Beckmann Beta altessima, und dass solche gewo%hn- lich, nachdem die pflanzen auf einem Samenbeete fru%h im Fru%h- jahr gezogen worden, auf tief gepflu%gtem und gut bedu%ngten Acker nicht in frischem Mist 1 1/2 Fuss im Quadrat von einander ausgepflanzt, auch den Sommer durch mehrmahl zu wiederholen- des Behacken vom Unkraute mu%ssen gereinigt werden, ist bekannt; es fehlt aber noch an sichern Erfahrungen daru%ber, durch welche Behandlungsart den Runkel-Ru%ben selbest die mehrste Sussigkeit, oder zuckerstoff mitgetheilt werde, da die zu Berlin angestellten Versuche es erwiesen, dass sehr grosse und schwere durch den Kriegsrath No%ldechen gezogene Runkel-Ru%ben nicht so zucker- reich gewesen, als kleinere Runkel-Ru%ben, welche im Halbersta%d- <1f75>1 tischen gezogen werden, daher es sehr wu%nschenswerth ist, dass erfarhne Landwirthe daru%ber Versuche anstellen mo%gen, durch welche Behandlungsart der Runkel-Ru%ben die mehrste Su%ssigkeit mitgetheilt werde, ob es besser sey, den Samen gleich an die stelle zu legen, wo die Runkel-Ru%ben wachsen soll, oder die auf Samen- beeten gezogenen Pflanzen, wenn sie ihre geho%rige Su%ssigkeit er- langt, zu verpflanzen, auch ob bey dem Behacken die Erde an die Runkel-Ru%ben oder davon abgezogen--werden mu%sse; endlich auch, ob dass Abladen zum Viehfutter wahrend des Sommers der Su%ssigkeit der Runkel-Ru%ben scha%dlich oder vortheilhaft sey. Wenn die Runkel-Ru%ben zu geho%riger Zeit gepflanzt sind, werden selbige gegen Ende des Septembers oder anfang Octobers ihre ge- <1f75v>1 ho%rige Gro%sse und Reife erlangt haben, alsdann werden sie bey trockner Witterung aufgenommen, die Bla%tter zur Verfu%tterung verbraucht, die Runkel-Ru%ben selbst aber in Kellern oder Erdgru- ben, wo sie fu%r starken Frost gesichert sind, aufbewahrt. Hierbey ist jedoch zu beobachten, dass mit der Runkel-Ru%ben nicht wie mit den gelben Wurzeln oder Mohrru%ben verfahren werden darf, bey welchen man gewo%hnlich mit den Bla%ttern auch den obersten Theil der Wurzel abschneidet, sondern dass sie Runkel-Ru%ben die ober- sten kleinen Bla%tter, welches der Landmann den Herzpoll nennt, behalten mu%ssen. <1f76>1 Wenn demna%chst die Runkel-Ru%ben zum auskochen des Zuckers sollen gebraucht werden, mu%ssen selbige zufo%rderst sauber abge- waschen und gereinigt werden, auch hat man selbige wol abge- scha%lt, aber befunden, dass dieses garnicht notwendig sey. Wenn sie Ru%ben geho%rig gereinigt sind, mu%ssen die vollig zermal- met werden; bey Versuchen im grossen wu%rde dieses sicher durch ein, einer Oel-oder pulvermu%hle a%hnliches Stampfwerk am ge- schwindesten geschehen ko%nnen. Der Director Achard in Berlin hat sich bis jezt hierzu einer grossen cylinderfo%rmigen von Blech verfertigten, festliegenden Reibe bedient, wo mehere Menschen neben einander stehend, mit Hu%lfe ho%lzerner oder eiserner Ringe, in welchen sie die Runkel-Ruben befestigen, um sich auf der Reibe nicht Ha%nde und Finger zu bescha%digen, in kurzer zeit eine Menge <1f76v>1 Runkel-Ru%ben zermalmen <3eder>3 ko%nnen. Diese zermalmten oder zerriebenen Runkel-Ru%ben werden auf einer gewo%hnlichen Obst- presse rein ausgepresst, und will man genau verfahren, so kann, wenn der Saft abgelaufen, auf das Zuru%ckgebliebene etwas heisses Wasser gegossen und dieses noch einmal ausgepresst werden. Hier- durch wird man von 100 Pfund Runkel-Ruben 50 Pfund Saft erhalten. Der ausgepresste Saft darf nicht lange stehen, weil er nach 24 Stunden sauer wird, und dadurch an Zuckerstoff verliert; daher wird derselbe sogleich in kupfernen oder, welches vielleicht besser wa%re, in zinnernen Gefa%ssen bis zu der Dicke des gewo%hnlichen <1f77>1 Birn oder Wurzelsaftes eingekocht. Durch Zusass von etwas Ey- weiss oder Ochsenblut kann das Auswerfen der Unreinigkeit durch den Schaum befo%rdert werden; es ist dieses aber nicht nothwendig, da in den eigenen Bestandtheilen der Runkel-Ru%be so viel eyweis- sartige Substanz enthalten ist, dass dadurch wa%hrend des Kochens sich alle unreinen Theile absondern, und mit einem Schaumlo%ffe<1[l]>1 MAY 1 799 <1[438f78v>1 oben abgenommen werden ko%nnen. Durch dieses Einkochen wird man von 50 Pfund rohen 15 1/2 Pfund verdickten Saft erhalten. <3Hie my>3 Hierbey ist nur zu beobachten, dass die Flamme des Feuers nicht an die Seite des Kessels schlagen, sondern denselben nur un- ten am boden beruhren du%rfe, weil das Anbrennen des Saftes den- selben zum Extraturen des zuckers gleich untauglich machen werde; daher wird auch, wenn eine grosse Quantita%t Saft einge- f77v kocht werden soll, dieses durch mehrere Kassel von verschiedener Grosse sehr befo%rdert werden ko%nnen, wo der schon etwas einge- kochte Saft in kleinere Kessel zu fu%llen und so vo%llig zu verdicken seyn wird. Wenn der Saft die geho%rige Steifigkeit erlangt hat, wird derselbe in dazu vorrathige flache offene Gefa%sse von Blech oder S<1[t]>1eingut gethan, so dass er etwa 3 bis 4 zoll hoch darin stehe. In diesen Gefassen muss der Saft in einem dazu besonders geheitzten Zimmer in einer Wa%rme von 80 Grad Fahrenh so lange obdunsten, bis nach verlauf von 24 Stunden oder 2 Tagen in diesem verdickten Saft kleine zwischen den za%hnen oder auf der zunge als Sandko%rner bemarkbare Zuckerkrystalle angetroffen werden. Es wird auch der eingekochte Saft durch die wa%rme des Zimmers, darin er zum Krystallisiren des Zuckers aufbewahrt wird, so weit abdunsten, dass die vorigen 151/2 Pfund nur noch 10 Pfund krystallisirtter Saft f78 bleiben. Dieser krystallisirte Saft wird nun endlich in dichte und starke Leinwand gethan, und in einer Presse stark ausgepresst. Dieses ist bisher noch unbekannt gewesene Kunstgriff, durch welchen man leicht den wirklichen Zucker vom Extractivstoff oder eigentlichen Syrup scheidet; denn durch dieses Pressen wird der Syrup ablau- fen, der wirkliche Rohzucker, welcher dem Rohzucker oder Mos- cobade welchen wir aus West Indien erhalten, an gu%te vorzuziehen ist, in dir <1[der]>1 Leinwand als eine trockne, Substanz zuruck blei- ben; und es geben 10 Pfund krystallisirter Saft 5 Pfund Rohzucker und 5 Pfund Syrup. Der Zucker is sehr su%ss und so rein von Geschmack, dass er in <1f 8 >1 unsern Ku%chen bey den meisten speisen wird verbraucht werden ko%nnen; wer aber auch dieses nicht will, wird ihn leicht an irgend eine Zucker-Rafinerie absetzen, und fu%r das daraus zu lo%sende sich feinen zucker verschaffen ko%nnen. 439] MAY 1799 Der Syrup ist auch von feinem su%ssen und angenehmen Ge- schmack, folglich nicht nur in unseren Ku%chen, sondern auch als Surrogat der Butter auf Brod zu essen, sehr gut zu gebrauchen; in grossern Quantita%ten wird daraus ein dem Rum a%hnliches geistiges Getra%nk gebrannt werden ko%nnen. Auch ist es wol nicht zu bezweif- len, dass, wegen der gesunden Bestantheile der Runkelru%be, der daraus erhaltene Syrup bey Menschen, vorzuglich aber bey Vieh, als ein blutreinigendes Nahrungsmittel werde zu bebrauchen seyn. <1f79>1 439 31/2.67 Zu verschiedenen Malen und von mehreren Seiten durchwanderte ich jezt diese grosse Sandsteppe; und so wie ich vom Harzgebu%rge aus Wolfenbu%ttel zuru%kgelegt hatte, und schon mehr den halben weg von Wolfenbu%ttel nach Braunschwig gekom- men war, begann sich eine grosse unu%bersehbare Ebene vor mir auf- zuschliesen; und ich glaube, man ko%nnte von hieraus den Anfang fu%r die grosse Ebene sezen, die unter dem Namen der Zeller-und Lu%nebu<1[r]>1 gersandhaide bekannt ist. Diese Ebene wird endlich hinter Braunschweig nach Zelle u.s.w. zu, nach wenigen sandigen Erho%hungen und Hugeln, immer flacher und flacher, bis sie sich endlich ganz mit Haidekraut u%berziehet, und sich fast ohne eine merkliche Erho%hung, nur mit wenigen kleinen do%rfern und einzel- nen Hu%tten, und dem wenigen bei diesen liegenden urbar ge- <1f79v>1 machten Sande, unterbrochen, nach Zelle hinziehet. Den ersten, doch kleinen Hu%gel findet man auf diesem Wege in der eigentlich sogenannten Haide, dicht vor den Mauren von Zelle, wo er auch genugsam durch das auf demselben erbaute Hochgericht ausge- zeichnet worden. Auf eine gleiche Weise fieng sich diese grose Ebene bei Patten- sen, drei Stunden vor Hanover an, unu%bersehbar vor mir auszu- breiten. Die Do%rfer der Haide, selbst einzeln stehende Hu%tten sind mit Laubholz, meistentheils mit kleinen Eichenhainen umpflanzt. Es ist eine gemeine Sitte der Haidebewohner, ihre Hu%tten mit Ba%umen zu umpflanzen; und sie scheinen hiedurch dasjenige der Natur in Rucksicht ihrer gegend abgewinnen zu wollen, was sie in andern Gegenden im vollen Maase und mit so reichlicher Hand <1f80>1 spendete und man muss gestehen, es ist eine angenehme u%berra- schende Erscheinung, diese du%rren und o%den Sandsteppen nach ku%rzern oder la%ngern Zwischenra%umen, durch kleine Haine oder mit Eichen umpflanzten Do%rfer, unterbrochen zu sehen.-- Sehr selten wird ein Dorf der Heide von einem kleinen Bache durchstro%mt, meistentheils nimmt <1[rinnt]>1 hie oder da ein kleiner Graben, der deiser <1[dieser]>1 oder jener Ansammlung des Haide- wassers, aus dieser oder jener moorigten Vertiefung, seinen Ursprung zu verdanken hat, neben demselben vorbey. Der Theil der Haide von Hannover u%ber Zelle nach Lu%neburg, ist mit den meisten Hu%geln bedekt. Gleich hinter Hannover erhe- ben sich einige dieser Sandhu%gel aus der grossen Ebene, wie Wel- len von <1[vom]>1 Spiegel des Meeres empor. Noch betra%chtlicher aber erheben sich sogleich einige hinter Zelle, jedoch sehr sanft, <1f80v>1 und steigen sodann in der Gegend des Dorfs Garsten zu ihrer gro%sten Ho%he heran. Mehrere Hu%gel reihen sich in der gegen<1[d]>1 des Schafstalls bis nach dem Haidekruge u.s.w. Ueberhaupt be- merkt man, dass sich die gegend nach Lu%neburg zu, immer mehr und mehr erhebet. Bei Lu%neburg selbst ist der sogenannte Kalkberg von der gro%sten Ho%he. Alle diese Hu%gel aber erheben sich sehr sanft, und breiten sich meistentheils auf ihrem Ru%ken in eine grose Ebene aus, welche sich sehr sanft mit der anderseitigen Ebene wieder verfla%chen. Selten steigen einige Hu%gel kuppenformig heran, und breiten sich sodann weniger auf ihrem Kopfe in eine Ebene aus. [. . .] Die Geschiebe der Haide sind denen an den Ufern von Seen und <1f81>1 Meeren ganz a%hnlich; sie sind vollkommen abgerundet und abge- gla%ttet, weder eine Eke noch Kante la%sst sich an denselben noch deutlich erkennen, ja einige unter denselben sind vollkommen kugelrund. Diejenigen Geschiebe der Haide, die mo%glichst gut wegzubrin- gen, sammlet der Haidebewohner; die gro%sern Granitblo%ke aber zersprengt er durch Pulver, und fa%hrt sie sodann neben seine Woh- nung, wo er sie aufha%uft und zu Mauerung und zum Pflastern verwahrt. So bestehet das Pflaster vor den Bauerho%fen und in den Sta%dten der Haide, so wie mehreres Mauerwerk daselbst, aus diesen ver- schiedenen Geschieben. So sah ich Mauren aus denselben, z.B. um Kirchho%fe la%nglich rund von 5 bis 7 Fus hoch aufgefuhrt. Sie ver- <1f81v>1 440] MAY 1799 schma%lerten sich nach oben zu, und die Grundlage derselben hatte oft einen noch einmal so grossen Durchmesser als ihr obere Theil. Sie waren fest zusammengefu%t und die fugen derselben mit moos ausgefu%llt, welches an mehreren Stellen wieder weiter fortge- wachsen war, und die Mauren mit dem angenehmsten sanften Gru%n u%berzogen hatte. Man findet Granitgeschiebe in diesen Mau- ren, die nicht selten 2 bis fast 3 Fus im Durchmesser haben. Diese Kirchho%fe sind dann oft noch mit grosen Eichba%umen umreihet, die ihr dichtes Laubdach u%ber Kirche und Graber wolben. Der Rasen- teppich hat daselbst ein hohes Gru%n. Die Kirchen selbst sind aber klein, gothisch und von rothen Baksteinen aufgefu%hrt. Ein kleiner von Holz erbauter und mit Dielen beschlagener Thurm steht auch <1f82>1 noch wol daneben. In einer geringen Ferne sieht man die niedrigen mit Stroh bedekten Hu%tten der Dorfbewohner ebenfalls unter hohen gru%nen Eichba%umen; hieneben nun noch die du%rre abgestor- bene Haide in mehrere<1[r]>1 Ferne; alles dieses so zusammengenom- men erregt die seltsamsten jedoch nicht unangenahmen Kontraste, und man vergisst hier gern eine Zeitlang die o%de Haide. 440 31/2.71 <1f146v>1 In the Batavian Republic the astonishing quantity of waste Sand- land/50000 acres, on which 300000 Sheep could pasture.--Mr Van- so%hlen, who himself possesses a large estate near these Sand-lands, & to whom part of them belongs, assured me, that this was <1false.>1 Every attempt had been made to render them pasturable; but in no one instance followed by any Gleam of Success. This quantity too is grossly exaggerated. 441 31/2.72 On a Slanderer From yonder Tomb of recent date There comes a strange mephitic Blast! Here lies--Ha! <1Backbite!>1 'Tis He indeed: and Sure as fate They buried him in over-haste And in this Grave He breath'd his last MAY1799 On a Slander <1f147>1 From Yonder Tomb of recent Date There comes a most mephitic Blast: Here lies--Ha! Backbite!--Sure as Fate <3The Undertaker was in haste>3 They buried him ere Life was past, And in this Grave <1He breath'd his last!>1 The W ere yet the Life had past, Into the earth they must have cast, And left him, there to breath his last. 442 31/2.73 In den Harzwaldungen schadete diese Wurm- trochnis vorzu%glich in folgenden. 443 31/2.81 Beta altissima--belongs to the Beta Vulgaris--in <1f106v>1 Germany called Runkelru%be/closely resembles the Beta rubra vul- garis in the colour of its great red (or red-brown) Ribs of the leaves & in the form of the Roots--distinguishes itself from the same chiefly in that the Great Root, cut across, <3have>3 are white but have red <3Circle>3 Rings--(though after these red rings disappear). The upper skin is red--but the root white--whereas the Beta vulgaris is just the contrary-- Director Achard-- 444 31/2.82 Der Apotheker Carette Sobies zu Lille in Flan- <1f107>1 dern erfand das (schon zuvor von einem Bernhardiner-Ordens- geistlichen entdeckte) Mittel: ein Zimmer zwey Stunden lang ohne Feuer in gleicher Wa%rme zu erhalten. Es besteht darin, man nimt eine zinnerne Flasche, ungefa%hr wie eine Wa%rmflasche, worauf der Deckel mit einer Schraube befestiget werden kann, legt einige Stu%cke Kalk (welche vorher mit kaltem Wasser angefeuchtet wer- den mussen) hinein, verschliesst das Gefa%ss, & 2 minuten darauf wird man es brennend heiss finden. 445 31/2.84 Winkler's Preisschrift, <1f108>1 --Unger J. G.--Jahrbu%cher der Preussischen Monarchie. 446] JUNE 1799 <1f29(x)>1 446 3-27(c) Wenn Sie, bester Freund, auch in Ihrer Heimat die Natur bewundern werden wie wir beyde es auf dem Harze gethan haben, so erinern Sie sich des Harzes, und ich darf dann hoffen, dass Sie auch mich nicht vergessen werden. Leben Sie wohl, und reisen glu%cklich!-- Ihr Blumenbach. Written Midsummer day, 1799 <1f31>1 447 3.28 Having met <3the>3 on Saturday night the amusing adventure at Menfelde & slept, under a Tree a hundred yards from a little Inn, the vicinity of which we did not know, but the master of which proved a fine fellow who spoke English &c &c--On Mon- day June 24th, 1799, bad farewell to Gottingen--in Company with Greenough & Carlyon, God bless 'em/in Brandis's Coach with old Kutscher, Heinrich Frede, a worthy fellow, quiet & steady & a great Master of successful meditation or conjuration--how the Horse fell down in the dark two miles from Clausthal in a damnd deep rut, & how he walked up & down mumbling something, then <1f31v>1 fell to, & up rose the Horse--/--But we dined at Northeim/arrived at Clausthal half after eleven--Greenough & I about 3 miles from Clausthal in a place where we were obliged to walk lost our way, and after Halloos most clearly re-halloo'd by Echo, at last, in answer to Carlyon, we heard an Irish Echo, calling Greenough-- & recovered our Party--Guide to the Brocken, a thickset woman 45 years old--carried our Portmanteau which was heavy, in one of the Baskets on her Back & trudged on most stoutly--Boy--Cran- berries & Wortleberries--Brocken--setting Sun--sharp cold-- house built by the Count Nerniger rode--/--Horse--intense Heat <1f32>1 & Stink--8 on the same bed of straw, & 5 besides--& two dogs--/ the morning early--a severe Frost--the little houskin--& the nice fire--by which we saw the sun rising from rim into a broad bank of light--& then appearing in a fine Egg of light--/another Woman Guide to Elbingerode--Greenough ill--the curse of that scoundrel Landlord's eye <26 & 27>--Blankenberg by a different but uninteresting <3Course>3 road --Praise on the Landlord, but not the Wagen-meister--Rosstralp--/<28th> arrived at Wolfen- bu%ttel--how dreary--O Lessing! --Library--that scoundrel Langer JUNEl799 --/29th--view from the Ramparts not unlike the Country by the Mole round Stoke house--On the left hand in the corner an open- <1f32v>1 ing, and the ~<3vie >3glimse of some mount higher than the highest before me looking as from the distance covered with wood--then running off to the right a huge high hilly Rock covered along its tips luxuriantly with wood, and dying away into the distance with a soft luxuriance of wood--but in its steep thinning & thin--/Mid- way its view hid from me: for on the left & unless parted by the small opening forming an arc of the semicircle of which the high wall is the front, [D] a huge parting-wall comes out--then within that a similar wall from the arc 3--then within that a similar wall from the arc 1, again so from 3--between these the River had flown, & and become visible. <1f33>1 448 3.29 A fellow that puts his arm inside the Girls & so walks cuddling to her, is in lust with her--a fellow who walks with a girl in his arms, with a face of tenderness, but without pressing on her or perhaps looking on her, is in love perhaps--the first is certain-- 449 3.31 Hans Sachs Shop--a bench with the Shoemakers <1f34>1 implements on it--then Andre Herneisen on the stool with the nearly finished portrait of H. S., in his hand & resting on the Table --on the Table near the bottom of the Picture a sheet of Paper with the word Zway Monat 81 Jar aldt Wardt ich Hans Sachs in dieser Gestalt Von Andre Herneisen abgemalt. Beyond the paper Inkstand--then a desk on which H. Sachs leans --on the Desk a <3cat>3 Kitten/in the corner of the Room a dog, his head only visible, sleeping in H. S's Mantle--Under all Als ich in Conterfeyhen wardt Am Tisch nach Boetischer Art Ein kleines Ketzlein wie ich sprich Sie umb sein Bardt herru%mmer strich Ich sprach Herr Sachs sol ich darnebn 450] JUNE 1799 Dem Ketzlein auch seine Farb gebn Wie es sich da streicht auf dem Buldt Bei Leib nein sprach er man gab dschuldt Das ich sol ein marxbruder sein Darumb so mallt mirs Ja nit herein <1f34v>1 450 3.32 Monument of a Lessing, as square Pillar/or Column Weiser, Dichter Deutschlands Stolz einst der Musen und seiner Freunden <1[Freunde]>1 Liebling opposite square Ihm Errichteten dieses Denckmahl einige Seiner Danckbaren Zeitgenossen 1795 on the left hand square of Masks of Tragedy, & Comedy, the Dagger--On the Right hand an Alto Relievo of Lessing-- <1f35>1 451 3.33 Register des Buches der Cronicken und Ge- schichten mit Figuren und Bildnissen von anbegin der Welt der Welt bis auf <3dises>3 unsere Zeit. Liber Rarus--vide Th. Sinceri Sammlung Tom. 1. 149. Omnium Antiquissimum hoc Chronikon nulla ante se alia ex- cerpta vidit, Test. L'Abbe1 Lenglet du Fresnoy et Cel. Cennius. Autor hujus Chron. Hartm. Schedelius-- JUNE-SEPTEMBER 1799 [455 452 3.34 For Greenough mem. to send the whole of the <1f35v>1 works of that interesting writer, Mr. S. T. Coleridge/and as I have a superficial acquaintance at the least with that celebrated gentle- man, mem. to take the liberty of consulting him in the choice of the new books which I am commissioned likewise to send over to my worthy & excellent Friend, Mr. Greenough-- Mem.--Runkel Rubel <1[Runkelru%be]>1 seed, a little to W. Hunt Esq. No 127, Bishopgate's Street within, London-- Mem--to write from Hamburgh &c Mem--A Claude Lorraine & the coloured glasses for Greenough --30s Books--Good Blacklead Pencils-- --N.B.--for Professor Wiedemann-- [?Words]worth for Blumenbach-- [? Maces] on the flute--Wm Cowper's Poems <1f36>1 Pursuit of Literature. 453 31/2.38 Das erste Buch sehr Herzliche Scho%ne und war- <1f43>1 haffte Gedicht Geistlich und weltlich allerley art, als ernstliche Tragedien, liebliche Comedien, Seltsame Spiel, kurzweilige Ge- sprech, sehnliche Klagreden, wunderbarliche Fabel/sampt andern lacherlichen Schwencken und Bossen & Welcher Stu%ck seind drey hundert und sechs und sibentzig/Manniglich zu nutz und frommen inn Truck verfertiget. Durch den sinnreichen und weitberu%mbten Hans Sachsen, ein Liebhaber Deutscher Poeterey/vom M.D.XXI. biss auf diss M.D.LVIII Jar zusammen getragen und vollendet. Gedruckt zu Nu%rnberg durch Leonardum Heussler. at the end of the title page <1f42>1 Im Jar M.D.XC. 454 5.76 Oer the bridge of Rocks in whose Interstices the <1f6lv>1 Foam still lay of the yester night's Torrent Lesley Cleve--Sep. II 455 5.77 The moon in thrusting thro' a thin slip of white Cloud about half her own breadth pushed with contracted point, like the narrow part of the Egg--then recovered her shape above, and her under half contracted in the cloud. 456] SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 1799 <1f62>1 456 5.78 Thousand, derived probably from Thou and Sand.--Sept.14th Newton Bushel <1Annual Anthology>1 Vol. I Southey a Salmon dressed with Shrimp Sauce 457 5.79 Man Traps & Spring Guns &c Till'd in this Garden--1/2 mile from Newton Bushel--Sep. 15 <1f60v>1 458 5.80 Mildred Court Poultry <1fl>1 459 5.1 23, Bryanstone St. Gen. Watson 460 5.2 [ ? T.] [ ? Brothers/Mother] [? Pavilion/Ravi- liou]--Ned--/ 461 5.3 Hayward, 53, Titchfield St. 462 5.4 Regular Post an immense boon to the <1general>1 Literature of country--& makes all <1writers.>1 463 5.5 Of new poems Parodies a ridicule, but compli- ments to old Poems. 464 5.6 Tribes of Negroes who take for the Deity of the day the first thing they see might have originated in a sublime Conception <1f2>1 465 5.7 Edwards Templer & Co Stratford place 466 5.8 Launceston Church-- 467 5.9 Socinianism Moonlight--Methodism &c A Stove! O for some Sun that shall unite Light & Warmth 468 5.10 Musk in the rooms of dead men or putrid patients/ false praises! SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1799 [479 469 5.11 Defences & Proofs of personal Identity well ridi- culed in little old Woman whose [?song of her] little dog If it isn't me, he'll bark & he'll rail, <1f2v>1 But if it's me, he'll wag his little Tail. 470 5.12 Of the harm that bad Poets do in stealing & mak- ing unnovel beautiful Images. 471 5.13 From the too hasty absorption of the thinner parts of the Bile the remainder is left too viscid and crystallizes into Lumps, which if too large to pass, obstruct the ductus choledochus. 472 5.14 The aromatic smell of the Poplars in the fall of the Leaf/ 473 5.15 No. 7. Barnard's Inn/ <1f3>1 474 5.16 Characters--1 Permit me to doubt--2. Advice asker 3. Give no trouble 4 Journalist--5. Wrangham--6--Hoblin of Exeter--Prints--Dead Cat & Ivy--Chamberlain-- 475 5.17 Lady's Diary--Rebuses answered by N M in an Elegy on his Father's Death 476 5.18 Disforrest-- 477 5. 19 Advantage of public Schools--Content with <1f3v>1 School Praise where others publish-- 478 5.20 N.B.--Religious Slang operates better on Women than Men/ Why? 479 5.21 To fan fresh air upon the face of Heaven. Davies-- 480] SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1799 480 5.22 Chief Cities, Towns & Countries many <1 Which this vast Globe of Earth affords I oft have view'd but never any So well described by maps & words. <1f60v>1 481 5.81 Governments <1gouge>1 Highlanders towards Scot- Sh e---- g- k-- r ument--in circulo. Water for shaving <1f61>1 483 5.83 jew--the Officer--& the turned Coat-- 484 5.84 Kestell after supper relating my Brother's after dinner story to the same company, as happening to himself-- 485 5.85 mIv Lawler Red Lyon Square. 486 5.86 --Children cry & squawl when washed & combed --the unpleasantness of sensations which we can't expect <1f60>1 487 5.87 George Dyer's Character--moral ( not intellec- tual) Truth & benevolence struggling 488 5.88 Celebrate this pocket book--Begin with a Dedica- tion to the Inventor 489 5.89 Ludicrous--the growth of in respect to Poetry & Morals. OCTOBER 1799 [494 490 5.90 Aspen--Oct. 25--one a lovely light yellow--the other red, or rather <1poppy->1color'd. 491 5.91 Easingwould--opposite the Crown, a thatched House, the thatch so completely covered with <3Heap>3 Weeds of every description as to look like a Hill bank-- 492 5.1o3 Dicterish <1[Dichterisch]>1 und mahlerisch <1f58v>1 493 5.104 --Few moments in life so interesting as those of an affectionate reception from those who have heard of you yet are strangers to your person. 494 5.1o5,1o6 --Mr Ward--the most lovely scene on the Tees --Neesham bank. a painter Derbyshire--fond of Drawing-- Brother--Blindness--Parish pays so much per annum for all to [be] ferried over to church--charming Ferry. Peninsulating Tees-- Herworth, where Emerson lived--the village so dialled. Frag- ment of a Tombstone--the words in Memory of-- Mile from Herworth the village of Croft--winding River-- <1f58>1 House in Trees--picturesque Bridge and high Waggon Oct. 27th We approached it by the footpath from Herworth on the eastern side of the River--over the river the scene was thus disposed. 1. A Gentleman's House sweetly buried--Major Trotter's--2. low Cottages--3. The Bridge. 4. the grey flat-roofed church peep- ing between two Trees--5--A <3little>3 neat parsonage house--6. Meadow--7. Gentleman's House with an avenue of Trees [D] 8--fields--9--Curve of the River how elegant--N.B. a seven- <1f57v>1 arched Bridge--/in Yorkshire --Send for Schiller's Go%tter des Greekenlandes--& remember W's remark--near Blackwall Oct. 27--on a Sunday-- Tombs by Roadside --Shadow of the Tree in the ruffled water scarce distinguished from the Breeze but by its stationariness-- 495] OCTOBER 1799 --Pierce Bridge on the Tees--/Sea-shell for the handle of the Bell--Landlady & Alfred-- <1f57>1 495 5.107 Oct. 28th./We all ascended the Bank of the Tees, the high sylvan cottaged bank--L. Darlington's Estate begins--of farm-houses built not by and for the tenant, but by and for the Lord--Gaudy Red, White & Black--9 o'clock. 1/2 past 9--Gainsford--a sweet Village with a mirror smooth Green before the Parsonage House, behind which is the Church--whose low Tower just looks over it. This on the left hand--on the front of the Green neat Houses--here the Skulls were found--As we enter this Green we find that the Village is an irregular Circus-- <1f56v>1 and by an opening near the Parsonage we glance the Tees--Pass into the Church-yard--behind the church flows the River, the Church yard being its bank, which however in another field, slopes shattered, with scattered rockery & sylva. The curve of the River, not indeed the line of exquisite Beauty as at <3Herworth>3 Croft, but wild & more <3more>3 playful, in true keeping with this all lovely Scene--The rocky sylvan Bank is a single Hill, the water deep and smooth in its shadow, then rushes down at once in a rapid--/This <1f56>1 Hill bank drops at once & both sides become flat--the left finely wooded--the right a green meadow-- Epitaphs here--The old one of the Blacksmith is here--to make observation-- Praises on Tombs are Trifles idly spent, A Good man's name is his best monument. On the smooth in the shadow of the Hill bank a boat--Epi- taph, the letters all filled up with moss--& moss nowhere else-- <1f55v>1 Arabic & Hebrew--About a mile from Gainford in that delicious country on a board against a Tree Welcome to the Nuts, but Spare the boughs-- 1/2 past 4--We arrive at the Abbey--a grey ruin on a slope, the river in wild turns below it<3w>3 & the grey Church tower & houses of Castle Barnard in the Distance--/Rich woods in the vicinity of the Abbey-- We pass on and come to a bridge built like Castle walls with battle- OCTOBER 1799 [496 ments--here struck & astonished with the <1rush>1 of Sound which <1f55>1 came upon the ear at each opening--till at last we look up the River & behold it pouring itself down thro' a steep bed of rocks, with a wall of woods on each--& again over the other wall of the Bridge the same scene in a long visto except that here instead of rapid a deep-solemn pool of still water, which ends in a rapid only in the far distance.--The grey ruin faces you on the one side--over the <1f54v>1 other in contrast of this still pool with the soft murmur of the distant rapid--& a handsome Gentleman's house in the distance-- rocks rising stepwise--The Banks & [? mirror/murmur] pained to look up-- Castle--Star over the Tower-- Twinkling behind the motionless Fragment 1/2 of a mile behind the bridge see half the arch--the abbey seem- <1f54>1 ing to rise upon the arch--or when the knowlege of the contrary has altered even the visual power, appearing to float in air--The murmur of the rapids, and again a deep pool motionless as its walls of rock almost-- --River Greta near its fall into the Tees--Shootings of water threads <3over>3 down the slope of the huge green stone--The white Eddy-rose that blossom'd up against the stream in the scollop, by fits & starts, obstinate in resurrection--It <1is the life>1 that we live Black round spots from 5 to 18 in the decaying leaf of the Syca- <1f53v>1 more-- 496 5.108 Oct. 29--Huge dry root snapped or rather cracked in the half, & bent over the road for a Gothic Arch, somewhat perilous to fore- head of musing--N.B. a vandal Arch This Ann Moritt, died aged 3 score-- Bricknell Church The floods have flashed over Morritts' Bridge-- The Cones catching the Light with misty black Cross fell behind them Thursday--October 31st-- <1The Hartshorn>1--Oak--there seen from all the country-- --Maybrough--a stone fence--between the stone-fence which is 497] OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1799 green circle-plot thus inclosed an upright stone 10 foot high, with an ash close by its side umbrellaing it--a scene of religion & se- clusion. <1f4>1 497 5.23 Vindication of Homer and of the ancient Poets & Historians who have recorded the Fall of Troy in answer to Two late Publications of Mr Bryant--First [?& Second] By J. B. S. Morritt 498 5.24 Injury Scotchmen have done our Language-- <1f59v>1 499 5.92 Quote from my Baby's Handkerchief 500 5.93 House of Lords & Commons, and Bishop's Charge on Ching's Worm Medicine-- 50 1 5.94 Analyse the causes why the Ludicrous weakens the Memory--the difficulty of remembering a story at which you have laughed very heartily--Reading Fly-- 502 5.95 Our adventure in Mentfelde--associations sud- denly shattered--Wordsworth and the Welshman--German Proffes- sor's treatise on the amorous Poetry of the English, the extracts all from the New Lady's Magazine.-- <1f59>1 503 5.96 Jo Cottle's angry Blow with the down of a Goose. 504 5.97 Where I am told by Some that Travellers say They have in playing whist a different way Whist. 9 Canto. 199. 505 5.98 Painters exciting <3by>3 Appetite by Beauty in Inno- cence. Northmore 506 5.99 Quotations--Ching's Worm & the Chief Baron. 507 5.loo Wordsworth--Gobbets of Bread & Butter--& the Fighting Cock-- 508 5.101 Gold-headed Cane on a pikteresk Toor--Describe the ornaments-- 509 5.102 Taylor at Exeter--Gaiters--Charge you no more than my Brother Officers-- 510 5.109 Bampton--left it Nov. 1st-On the bold rock <1f52v>1 wooded Lord Lonsdale's Father's spirit. Walla Crag--Sir James would let them rest in Lowther Hall About two miles from Bampton our road walled by the moun- tains--that on our left Walla Crag--a mountain whose constituent lines with infinite variety yet all in segment of Circles--the whole Crag a rude semicircle--the other Hills bare (save at their feet inclosed fields) the Walla's <1Toes>1 run into the Lake in Lingulis Where the foot of the Walla runs with its distinct Toes into the <1f52>1 Lake, there the inclosures too from the opposite mountains run into it--& these form that narrow part of the lake, which as you first approach appears the termination/But standing a hundred yards high you behold a second reach--where no inclosures are seen, but the bare Mountain on the right which alone we see, forms a bay/a beautiful Crescent/ Walla Crag--the hill with inclosures & crescent bay--termina- <1f51v>1 tion of the second reach--/a ++ hollow ridgy mountain--peeping over it a mountain-top in the mist--. Walla crag is wooded up to the Top--The Wall by the road side roofed with moss running like a serpent in its firm lines--The solemn murmur of the unseen river far in the distance behind us--& the silence of the Lake--/In first & second views the only object of Life is a flat roofed grey cottage, a little patch of clustered Trees running above it--& above this Sylvula a silvery steep Water course. In the third view after ++ Where the first Mountain on the right runs into the Lake, the <1f51v>1 ridgy mountain likewise runs down, in almost the same direction, <1f51>1 but vastly higher--& enfolds the scene. 511] NOVEMBER 1799 <1f50v>1 the chasmy interval the Arm, the embracement of the enfolding mountain--& another arm, rises again as much higher than this, as this was than the first--<3White>3 Gleams of the white Cows streaming behind the Trees of the Walla on the Marge of the Lake-- On that steep of the Walla crag which terminates your sight, at the first approach to the Lake, and in which Sir James is confined-- <1f50>1 on the top of this when you come opposite to it, a stone wall on the top appears upright like a pillar or watchman--then comes the steep precipice which renders the wall useless & impossible; but 3/4ths down the hill the green recommences, & with the stone wall run- ning in a bold Line straight down into the Lake--4th View we <1f49>1 stand right opposite that narrow part of the Lake which now is a complete River/the simple & tame Beauty of encircled lower Lake, & the wild betongued savage mountained upper Lake--& the pas- toral River, on its right bank mirror-smooth enclosed Meadows, the steep mountain its left bank--the steep Mountain its one pre- cipitous huge Bank! 5th View--ascend the Hill & stand by the wa- <1f49>1 terfall here the upper Lake assumes a character of Beauty, but of a bold many featured original Beauty--the Walla divides itself now into three compartments--the first ending with Sir James' precipice --the second being the bank of the river-reaches the third running slant down into a Lake in a soft tongue--a most woody prom- ontory/then <3comes>3 a chasm, then a Hill steep as a nose running <1f48v>1 behind the embracing Giant's arms/with a chasm interposed--then the high black rampart, Mist-covered terminating all-- Churches & School houses by them--& at a distance still the one arched Bridge Sandbeds--Bell grange--Curwen let in. Mountains in my Bounds-- <1f48>1 511 5.110 Sunday Morning--leave Esthwaite on the road survey the whole of the Lake on my right, straight before me a peep of Wynandermere, and over a Gate on my left 5 huge ragged mountains, rising one above the other in wild relations of posture-- our road turns--we pass by Blellum Tarn, the 5 Mountains now facing us-- <1f47v>1 Mr Law amid the awful Mountains with his 20 cropped Trees, NOVEMBERl799 four stumps standing upen[d] upon on the Trunk of each, all look- ing thus like strange Devils with perpendicular Horns-- Head of the Lake of Wyandermere--Mr Law's White palace-- a bitch! --Matthew Harrison's House where Llandaff lived/these and more among the mountains!--Mrs Taylor's House!-- 512 5.111 The damned Scoundrel on the right hand with his <1f47>1 house & a Barn built to represent a Chapel--His Name is Partridge from London--& 'tis his Brother's Cow-pen. This <1Fowl>1 is a stocking-weaver by Trade,--have mercy on his five wits! 513 5.112 We saw the signs in the north <1inlayed>1 as it were in the Walls 514 5.113 While at Sir Fleming's a servant, red-eyed &c <1f 6v>1 came to us, to the Road before the Waterfall to reprove us for having passed before the front of the House--/= by our Trespass of Feet with the Trespass on the Eye by his damned White washing! 515 5-114(a) Embraced round by Hill's arms behind--before <1f46>1 us what ridges & on the side of that little spot of Lake What an awful mount! --Rydale Lake--two Islands--Theory of Firs--Contiguity --Flies on the snow mangled by the Hail Storm-- On the top of Helvellin First the Lake of Grasmere like a sullen Tarn/then the black ridge of mountain--then as upborne among the other mountains <1f45v>1 the luminous Cunneston Lake--& far away in the Distance & far to the Lake the glooming Shadow, Wynandermere with its Island --Pass on--the Tairn--& view of the gloomy Ulswater & moun- tains behind, one black, one blue, & the last one dun/ Greisdale Halse--Gowdrell Crag--Tarn Crag--that smoother <1f45>1 Eminence on the right is called Fairfield-- 516 5.114(b) Churnmilk Force--appearing over the Copse/the steaming air rising above it--the water fall--the rock that stands up & intercepts all but the marges & rims of the lower half--the Copse, whose trees sometimes yielding & parting in the wind make the waterfall be- <1f44v>1 neath the rock visible--/the first Bridge from the water fall, one- arched--ferny--its parapet or ledge of single stones not unmorter'd yet cemented more by moss & mould-- <1f4v>1 517 5.25 From the Right Honorable The Lord Chief Baron to Mr Ching, Apothecary, Cheapside, near St Pauls, Lon- don-- <1Sir.>1 I do you the Justice of acquainting you that my Son has de- rived <1very material>1 benefit from your worm-medicine. Having been attacked by Worms above a year in the most formidable manner, & attended by a Physician of great Skill, <1my own personal Friend,>1 I ventured, <1but not without acquainting him,>1 to administer your medicine. The Consequence, that my Son was delivered from a Load, which cannot without impropriety be described, but which <1f5>1 appeared the Nest of these pernicious animals; & I further acquaint you, that from the Ease & Efficacy of the operation of your medi- cine I am encouraged to repeat it, if I perceive any of those symp- toms with which I am well acquainted, from very disagreeable Experience. I have also recommended your Medicine to my Friends, particu- larly a Family with which I am nearly connected, where it has done <1very great>1 Service, and when we meet I shall acquaint you <1f5v>1 with more instances in which it has been attended with perfect Suc- cess, especially among poor Children. I am, Sir, Your very obedient Servant, A. Macdonald Duke Street, Westminst. Nov. 21. 1798 The Cumberland Pacquet-- And Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser Tuesday, October 22, 1799 In the same paper of Oct. 29, 1799-- <1f6>1 From the Honourable and Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Carlisle To Mr Ching Apothecary, Cheapside London Sir, I readily embrace the opportunity your Letter affords me, of adding my Testimony to that of the Lord Chief Baron, in favor of your worm-medicine--&c &c-- 518 5.26 Exquisite Network of Film so instinct with gentle motion which, now the Shower only steadies, & now it melts it into such a mistiness as the Breath leaves on a mirror-- 519 5.27 Modern Poetry & Landscape--vice of judging <1f6v>1 from defects not from excellencies-- 520 5.28 Universities--Pox--Impotence--Lord Lonsdale 521 5.29 People in the country--their vindictive feelings-- 522 5.3o Letters--& Ladies-- 523 5.31 Ghost of a mountain--the forms seizing my Body as I passed & became realities--I, a Ghost, till I had reconquered my Substance 524 5.32 Man but an half animal without drawing--but yet f7 he is not meant to be able to communicate <1all>1 the greater part of his Being must [be] solitary--even of his Consciousnesses-- 525 5.33 Worm in motion flattens its tail into the head of a venomous serpent-- 526 5.34 Appearance on the snow-Hill like that of a Tree, or large plant of Sea weed-- 527 5.35 Let other climes their southern wonders boast, <1f7v>1 Their wide-extended Lakes, midst varied coast; The golden richness of the setting Sun, The mellow purple when his course is done; The soften'd Fragrance of the evening air, That lulls the sad variety of care The mighty mountains, less'ning to the sight Till lost, in the deep awfulness of night. E'en snows eternal & extensive plains, All! --All! --that vast magnificence ordains Be't yours', adventurous Britons, to admire With that Enthusiasm the Scenes require-- Yet ere we wish in search of such to roam View them in perfect miniature-- At Home ! <1f8>1 528 5.36 The sunny mist, the luminous gloom of Plato-- 529 5.37 Mist as from volcano-- Waterfall rolled after long looking at like a segment of a Wheel --the rock gleaming thro' it-- Amid the roar a noise as of innumerable grasshoppers or of spin- ning wheels. <1f8v>1 530 5.38 Pugnatum in obsidentis, et ereptus Segestes, magna cum propinquorum et clientum manu. Inerant femina|e no- biles ; inter quas uxor Arminii eademque fillia Segestis, mariti magis quam parentis animo neque victa in lachrymas, neque voce supplex, compressis intra sinum manibus, gravidum uterum intuens---Ar- minium super insitam violentiam rapta uxor subjectus servitio <1f9>1 uxoris uterus, vecordem agebant, volitabatque per Cheruscos arma in segestem, arma in Ca|esarem poscens-- I shall not transcribe the whole of the <1flat>1 translation, <1but press->1 <1ing her hands on her bosom,>1 she fixed her eyes on the ground.* The seizure of his wife & her subjection to foreign servitude &c * The original expression can hardly bear a translation. <1f9v>1 531 5 39 Directions concerning our Ideas from Watts's Logic and selected by Knox--456 El. Ex. in Prose-- Furnish yourselves with a rich variety of Ideas, acquaint your- selves with things ancient & modern; things natural, civil and re- ligious; things of your native Land and of foreign Countries; NOVEMBER 1799 [537 things domestic & national; things present, past & future, and above all be well acquainted with God & yourselves; learn animal nature and the workings of your own spirits. Such a general acquaintance with Things will be of very great advantage.-- [?And/W] Creech <1fl0>1 532 5.4o Spence, Blackwall & Blair, the Damon, Mopsus, & Menalcus of Criticism--Master Knox--the parody on a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh--321 533 5.41 %%3,,10 before the War for Powder--now 10%%/in the meantime the Slate 15 S a Ton less 534 5.42 Distance removing all sense of motion or sound painted the waterfalls on the distant crags-- 535 5. 1 1 5 Friday.--Pass over the inverted Arch--Saddle- <1f44v>1 back White & streaked--thought a cloud for a long time--Passed the Cherry--the foam in furrows--behind the inverted arch, before in the narrowing & end of the view that rude wrinkled beetling <1f44>1 forehead of rock--all between on both sides savage & hopeless-- obstinate Sansculottism. 536 5.116 From Ouse bridge, from the Inn Window, the whole length of Basenthwait, a simple majesty of water & moun- tains--/& in the distance the Bank rising like a wedge [D] --& in the second distance the Crags of Derwentwater/ What an effect of the Shadows on the water!/--On the left the conical Shadow <1f43v>1 On the right a square of splendid Black, all the area & intermediate a mirror reflecting dark & sunny Cloud/--but in the distance the black Promontory with a circle of melted Silver & a path of silver running from it like a flat Cape in the Lake--The Snowy Borrodale in the far distance/& a ridge, nearer mountains sloping down as it <1f43>1 were to the faint Bank of the Basenthwaite. Nov. 11 537 5.117 On our left hand from Ambleton to Lorton the smooth Hill sinks into an inverted Arch, & over the arch appears a fantastic ridge, brown, iron brown, but all over-spotted with snow --only <1spotted.>1--Close by the place, I stood, on my left a square Tumulus with a deep Trench on three sides--a remain of antiq- <1f42v>1 uity?. We turned over a small common, the Hills before us inter- mitted on each side, & the interspace was a plain animated by Hill- ocks, the front view being terminated & ramparted by the snowy tent-shaped Mountains--/The unseen river Cocker roaring-- Passed thro' Lorton/Just over the Bridge (there the Brook flings itself down a small chasm of rock)--a field on the Right Hand a <1f42>1 yew prodigious in size & complexity of numberless branches flings itself on one side entirely over the river, the Branches all verging waterwards over the field it spreads 17 Strides--On its branches names numberless carved--some of the names being grown up ap- pear in alto relievo--Names of Crags--Dodd--Boat Crag--that which I saw so spotted Dodd Head-- <1f4lv>1 Beyond Lorton, opposite to Grasmere (which is a continuation of <3Boat Crag>3 Whiteside & Dodd & Dodd Head) is Melbreak, a huge long single Ridge Hill/--Fronting us snowy Ridges. Before we come to Melbreak we <3pass>3 meet on the same side/ (i.e. our Right) a single Hill covered with wood & fantastically shaped called Red How Hill--as we pass, its gable a precipice woody with peeping Rocks. <1f41>1 Grasmere is a most sublime Crag, of a violet colour, patched here & there with islands of Heath plant--& wrinkled & guttered most picturesquely--contrasts with the Hills on my <3left>3 Right, which tho' in form ridgy & precipitous, are yet smooth & green--We pass the Inn at Scale Hill, leaving it to our right & to our Right is Lowes Water which we see--tis a sweet Country that we see before <1f4ov>1 us, Somersetshire Hills & many a neat scattered House with Trees round of the Estates Men.--The White Houses here beautiful--// & look at the river & its two-arched Bridges--We have <3passed>3 <3it>3 curved around the Hill--the Bridge, the Plain, & Lowes Water are at my Back--& before me--O God, what a scene.--the fore- ground a sloping wood, sloping down to the River & meadows, the serpent River beyond the River & the wood meadows terminated <1f40>1 by Melbreak walled by the Melbreak. At the end of this wall a peep of the Crummock Water and in continuation of the Melbreak, NOVEMBER 1799 [540 after a break but in the same line the snowy Ridges, which seem to curve round, but a huge Gable-Crag starts up in the middle & fronts me--close by my left hand a rocky woody Hill, & behind it, half hidden by it, the violet crag of Grasmere/the woody Hill leaves only the Top Third of Grasmere visible--I climb up the <1f39v>1 woody Hill & here have gained the Crummock Water--but have lost the violet Crag. We pass thro' the wood, road ascending--now I am between the woody Hill/& a stone wall with trees growing over it & see nothing else--& now the whole violet Crag rises & fronts me--Then the waters near the upper end of Crummock the <1f39>1 archipelago of tiniest Islands 7 in number Pleiads--& two near the opposite shore--Buttermere comes upon us, a fragment of it-- the view enclosed by a huge Concave Semicircle-- 538 5.46 The Hill like a Dolphin so beautiful in the Lines <1fllv>1 of Snow in Crummoch is named Red Pike--the Ridge that seems to run in behind it is named High Stele-- 539 5.47 On our left where first we see the Buttermere is the Crag House Crags-- 540 5.1 18 Nov. 12 On ascending the Hill to Scale force <1f39>1 we behold the grand Ness & about half of the Concave Semicircle-- <1f38v>1 the rest is cut of[f] by a Ness running down from my right, as I now stand, into the plain that divides Crummock & Buttermere. It is not a plain, but a lovely Slope whose highest point is the Town of B. & hence the lovely River runs half visible by the side of the Hill on the right hand-- Scale force--The first fall a thin broad white ribbon from a <1f38>1 stupendous Height, uninterrupted tho' not unimpinged by, the perpendicular Rock down which it falls, or rather paralel with which there is no pool at the bottom, but a common shallow brook over small flattish pebbles--but the chasm thro' which it flows, is stupendous--so wildly wooded that the mosses & wet weeds & <1f37v>1 perilous Tree increase the Horror of the rocks which <1ledge>1 only enough to interrupt not stop your fall--& the Tree--O God! to think of a poor Wretch hanging with one arm from it/The lower Fall i.e. from the Brook is broader; but very low in com- parison & only markworthy as combining admirably. <1f37>1 Before the great fall there are six falls, each higher than the other, the chasm still gradually deepening, till the great fall, of which the Heighth & Depth is sudden & out of all comparison/I never saw Trees on rock Zigzag in their Lines more beautifully-- Trees white in bark & more than half over patched with blackish <1f36v>1 Moss--Then the green moss upon the rocks mingled with flats & little precipices of the grey Rock--& Trees again. We climb up the Hill, & now have entered entirely enclosed by Hills, a plashy Plain--My eyes fatigued--walking climbed & a cold, looked at the lovely mosses at feet <1f36>1 Leeza R. pours into the water of Ennerdale, the Enn flows out of it--On the Island of Rock in the Lake there the blackheaded Sea mews build in May/follow the Ploughman in sewing Time, & pick up the worms/being quite harmless. Mr Syms won't let <1f35v>1 them be destroyed--Two years ago one friendly Farmer saw Ea- gles--One took off a full-fed Harvest Goose, bore it away, whelped when weary, & a second came & relieved it--A little beyond Scale Force a man, named Jerome Bowman, slipped, broke his leg, & crawled on his hands & knees up & down Hill 3 miles to that Cot- <1f35>1 tage in Sycamores where we met the dirty old Woman with the two Teeth--/All this is in the night--/he died soon after, his Wounds festering--This man's Son broke his neck before this by falling off a Crag--<3near this>3 supposed to have layed down & slept <1f34v>1 --but walked in his sleep, & so came to this crag, & fell off-- This was at Proud Knot on the mountain called Pillar up En- nerdale--his Pike staff stuck midway & stayed there till it rotted away-- The Lake is so full of Springs that it scarcely ever freezes-- <1f34>1 541 5.119 The lower End of Ennerdale a circular Bay, like the head of Battledore--& supposing the handle clumsily broad, the remaining Part is the Handle exactly/No house--no Tree-- & the Unbroken Line of the steep Crag is tremendous--but on the left hand of the Lake, as you ascend up it, the rubbishy Crag with NoVEMBER 1799 [542 sheep picturesque as Goats & as perilous feeding on the very <1f33v>1 Summit two large Yews or Hollies-- Screes--opposite to it Middle fell--next to Screes Scawfell--the large one that faced us is Great Gavel--the other is Great Yea- borough-- We left T. Tysons on Thursday Morning--for Borrodale-- Brooks in their anger--all the Gullies full & white & the Chasms <1f33>1 now black, now half hid by the mist, & ever & anon the waterfall in them flashing thro' the mists. On one hill I counted 7 huge Gullies--a dark misty thunder-murmured Scene--Remember all about the Sheep & Larches. 7 Gullies but numberless Tapes, white tiny Streams to which the <1f32v>1 mountains owe their colouring, in conjunction with the breaking & frost chasms of Stone, with the Stone-cataract/the largest Stones still at the bottom of this solid Stream-- Tarn Force--Sour Milk Force--Raven Crag over it--/the <1f32>1 Huge Yew Tree, spreads its branches over a ruined Cottage--the Gravel End & part of the Tiles remaining & the [D] woodwork remaining in the midst. Over the Yew Tree Rocks--then the Top of this single Hill, above which is High Crag with all its waters-- <1f3lv>1 Pocklington--Colonel--had taken off the steeple of the mock church--Ey! Ey! turn'd my Church to a Presbyterian Meeting-- Derwentwater--they wished to have opened it at the foot of the Lake, by which means the meadows would be less overflowed--P. <1f31>1 dissent: it would join his kingdom to England-- Pocklington shaved off the Branches of an Oak, Whitewashed & shaped it into an Obelisk--Art beats Nature-- 542 5.120 We passed (Friday Morning) by the Grange--in the Pict--Saw Lodore--passed thro' a grove of Birches--at a <1f ov>1 hundred yards from the Grove paused--Lake quite up to the marge of the Grove--high Crags of Lodore over them in a broad all-comprehending Back Ground--Noise of Lodore & another--on the right of this Backgr. & continuing the same Line that beautiful crag just past the Grange/ Commonplace Cascade at King Pocky's--Whales Jaws--N.B. <1f30>1 the same at Osterode/Battlements by at the top of the Cascade. --J. P. on the great staring Gate, in black Wood--the [D] of the P. fractured--Mile & 1/2 from Keswick A Druidical circle-- <1f29v>1 on the right the Road & Saddleback on the left a fine but unwater'd vale walled by quarry Hills & a fine black Crag standing single at the Termination ascending--before me, i.e. towards Keswick, the Mountains stand one behind the other, in orderly array as if evoked by & attentive to the assembly of white-vested Wizards--N.B. The Keswickians have been playing Tricks with the stones. <1flov>1 543 5.43 Friday/Four miles from Keswick a Peat-moss ad- mirably fitted for a Lake with Spaces islands <1f12>1 544 5.48 Girt Gavel--& Green Gavel Warnscale Hollow 545 5.49 Sheep will not eat Larches/eat every thing else-- 546 5.50 Only two Funerals in the whole year at Was- dale--/Something affecting may be made of it. 547 5-44 <1flov>1 --/Ipsa ingens arbos, faciemque simillima lauro, Et si non alium late jactaret odorem Laurus erat. Georgicon II.131 applied to Peter Pindar's [?proputative/propositions] Neve inter vites corylum sere to the Anthology 299 548 5.45 An Epitaph on Q. Elizabeths death styled doleful by Cambden-- <1fll>1 The Queen was brought by Water to Whitehall, At every stroke the Oars did tears let fall More clung about the Barge fish under water Wept out their eyes of pearl & swom blind after I think the Bargemen might with easier <3eyes>3 Thighs Have row'd her thither in her people's eyes, <3For>3 But howsoe'er, thus much my thoughts have scann'd-- Sh'ad come by water had she come by Land. NOVEMBER 1799 [549 549 5.121 Friday Night we sleep at Threlkeld--Saturday <1f29>1 Morning proceed over the Hills, a barren moss-peat, to Matterdale --The whole huge Tract Treeless, yet admirably adapted for wood, but under such Tenure who would plant it? Arrive at Matterdale--struck as by a flash with its similarity to the Devonshire Cleaves--bare green Hills, the knobs of them <1f28v>1 black-moss, so cleft, so slop'd, so coomb'd, so cottag'd--and the cot- tages so the sole Tree-possessors--all as between Maniton & Ash- burton. The stream is quite a Devonshire brawling Brook. One cottage we noticed more particularly--it stood 2 or 300 yards above a cascade, in a small but sweet curve of the Brook, its front to the Hill, the gabel end which faced with two windows so wildly placd, the other gavel end overbranch'd by the stately Trees there--& the <1f28>1 whole Roof greener than the grass field on which it stood--as we proceeded, we came to a lovely Delve, the Wye in miniature, but the Brook brawled & foam'd unsteadily. The Scene, as we turn still Devonshire--we noticed on our right one field--the Back ground a Hill inclosed in part with stone fences knobby with bare stones; the interspaces black, yellow, brown-red,--yea, all colours with the <1f27v>1 mosses & withered--the field itself a small Inclosure of about an Acre [D] 1. a stick with a rimless Hat on it looking like a Bell--2. an- other--the Hat sunk down to the Bottom, a bit of the crown re- maining on the Top. 3. a single ram-- I have come suddenly upon Ulswater, running straight on the <1f27>1 opposite Bank, till the Placefell, that noble Promontory runs into it, & gives it the winding of a majestic River, a little below Place- fell a large Slice of calm silver--above this a bright ruffledness, or atomic sportiveness--motes in the sun? --Vortices of flies? --how shall I express the Banks waters all fused Silver, that House too its slates rainwet silver in the sun, & its shadows running down in <1f26v>1 the water like a column--the Woods on the right shadowy with Sunshine, and in front of me the sloping hollow of sunpatched 549] NOVEMBER 1799 Fields, sloping up into Hills so playful, the playful Hills so going away in snow-streaked savage black mountain--But I have omitted the two island Rocks in the Lake--(& the colours of the Lake all <1f26>1 changed!> the one scarce visible in the shadow-coloured Slip now <1f26>1 bordered by the melted Silver--the other nearer to me, likewise in the glossy shadow, but far removed from the Dazzle & quite con- spicuous--The Sun, it being just past noon, hangs over the Lake-- clouded so that any but a weak eye might gaze on it--the clouds being in part bright white, part dusky Rain-clouds, with islets of <1f25>1 blue Sky--How the scene changes--What tongues of Light shoot out from the Banks!--We visited the water fall--too much water & no where ground low enough to view it from/the chasm is very fine--& violet-coloured Beeches & Hawthorns quite Trees, red & purple with fruits, as if the berries were flowers--/the higher part of the water, the two streams running athwart each <1f25>1 other is original but where the Wheel-part is broken, it spreads into a muslin apron, & the whole water fall looks like a long- waisted Lady-Giantess slipping down on her Back but on the bridge where you see only the Wheel, it is very fine/ it circumvolves, with a complete half-wheel [D] We gain the road that runs close by the Lake--the Lake so full, <1f24>1 as in some parts to leave only <2on>2 <3only>3 the inner rim--curve round over a Bridge, fine Trees between us & the Lake, thro' whose branches we glimpse the bare knobby Cliff opposite, & the Shadow of it so soft in the water--and now I have gained the upper end of the first Reach, & look down to the other end, (towards Pooley) comprehending a long majestic Parallelogram but when I stand <1f24>1 so as to take in part of the 2nd Reach the whole appears a semicircle enfolding in its two arms the convex semicircle of the bare knobby crag--but I turn my Back to the Lake/& what a Cliff! [D] 1. The Cliff admirably wooded, one knob of grey Rock butting out in the middle-- 2 a Hill in a curve almost a straight line, green on the Top, but all else black & precipitous snow-patched & snow-streaked all <1f23v>1 over. 3. The green Hill that rises off, & runs along the Lake opposite to the Convex Semicircle. 4 A House or Outhouse, of most savage aspect--with a quite green roof--three slender but stately Trees behind, the first at the gavel end near me, the second at the other gavel, the third at an equal distance close by the 5. Stone fence, which runs in a trembling circle round a green Lawn. 550 5.122 Two ugly white Houses, one inhabited by Mr <1f23>1 Sutton, one by Mr [? Manning/Murray] who built both/about to have abused them, but for the heart-felt panegyric of the old Woman, who with such a heart-full of indignant Satire following Mr Hoskinson. 551 5.123 Sunday Morning left our bad Inn, & went down the lake by the opposite shore--the hoar-frost on the ground, the lake calm & would have been mirrorlike but that it had been <1f22v>1 <1breathed>1 on by the mist--& that shapely white Cloud, the Day- moon, hung over the snowy mountain opposite to us--./We passed the first <1Great>1 Promontory, & What a scene! Where I stand, on the shore is a triangular Bay, taking in the whole of the water view-- on the other shore is a straight deep wall of Mist/& one third of the bare mountains stands out from behind it--the top of the wall only in the sun--the rest black--& now it is all one deep wall of <1f22>1 white vapour, save that black streaks shaped like strange creatures, seem to move in it & down it, in opposite direction to the motion of the great Body!--& over the forke of the Cliff behind, in shape so like a cloud, the Sun sent cutting it his thousand silky Hairs of amber & green Light--I step two paces, and have lost the Glory, but the edge has exactly the soft richness of the silver edge of a <1f21v>1 cloud behind which the Sun is travelling!--The fog has now closed over the Lake, & we wander in darkness, save that the mist is here & there prettily color'd by the wither'd fern, over which it hovers-- 552 5.124 Visit Clark's Niagara--one of Nature's occasion- als, horse-shoe in shaped but with none but two locum-tenentes of a petty order-- <1f21>1 553 5.125 Now as we return the fog begins to clear off from the Lake, still however leaving straggling Detachments on it--, & clings viscously to the Hill/--all the objects on the opposite Coast are hidden, and all those hidden are reflected in the Lake, Trees, & the Castle, & the huge Cliff that dwarfs it!-- Divine!--The reflection of the huge pyramidal Crag is still hid- den, & the image in the water still brighter//but the Lyulph's <1f20v>1 Tower gleams like a Ghost, dim & shadowy--& the bright Shadow thereof how beautiful it is cut across by that Tongue of <1breezy>1 water--now the Shadow is suddenly gone--and the Tower itself rises emerging out of the mist, two-thirds wholly hidden, the tur- rets quite clear--& a moment all is snatched away--Realities & Shadows-- 554 5.126 The Yew Tree in Patterdale Church Yard the length of 7 1/2 of my Lord Hopetoun's Lash. <1f20>1 555 5.127 Monday Morning--sitting on a Tree <3at>3 Stump at the brink of the Lake by Mr Clarkson's--perfect serenity/that round fat backside of a Hill [D] with its image in the water made together <1one>1 absolutely undistinguishable Form--a kite or a Paddle or keel turned to you/the road appeared a sort of <3opening>3 suture, in many places exactly as the weiblich <2Tetragrammaton>2 is paintd <1fl9v>1 in anatomical Books! I never saw so sweet an Image!!-- <1fl2v>1 556 5.51 If I begin a poem of Spinoza, thus it should begin/ I would make a pilgrimage to the burning sands of Arabia, or &c &c to find the Man who could explain to me there can be <1oneness,>1 there being infinite Perceptions--yet there must be a <1one>1ness, not an intense Union but an Absolute Unity, for &c <1f13>1 557 5.52 Original?--Yes! Tis implied in the very idea of a Monster 558 5.53 From the Star, Tuesday, Novemb. 12. 1799. We are sorry to observe, amongst the numerous Subscribers & numerous Gentlemen who have come forward in support of the Widows, Wives and Children, of the killed and wounded British Soldiers in Holland only 2 Psysicians, viz W. Heberden, M.D. Pall Mall, and W. Brodum, M.D. No 9. Albion Street, when it is well known that few men can so well afford subscribing to Char- <1fl3v>1 itable Deeds as Physicians who are so splendidly payed for the little they do.-- 559 5.54 In the Civil Wars beyond York & Lancaster a Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, wandered about under Sattelback & deemed by the Shepherds an astronomic mysterious man 560 5.55 The Giants' Cave in the Banks of the Emont--2 <1f14>1 miles from Penrith, visited religiously on the 3rd Sunday in May-- Torquin lived here--A maiden (one of his Prisoners) escaped-- leaped over a chasm, with a torrent underneath her, called the Maiden's Leap-- 561 5.56 Road--Gait--Walk/all Substantives from Rode-- <1fl4v>1 Goeth--Wadeth 562 5.57 Sir Edward Blackett--secret proposals--a Tenant of more than 30 years within 4 pounds, & yet turned off--John Mowbray, at Appleton, 9 miles from N Allerton--his name. 563 5.58 Wednesday, Nov. 20th, Scotch Corner, Where I was obliged for the swelling in my left foot to use a very warm Foot-bath. I found perpetually that the first Plunge into very warm <1fl5>1 Water produces precisely the same sensation, as a Plunge into ex- ceedingly cold Water would. 564 5.59 Partridges towering after <3a>3 being shot is a cer- tain<3ly>3 Proof that they are mortaly wounded-- %% s d This from Calvert, who would give for Miss Dykes 2,,2,,0, were she on the Town-- 565] NOVEMBER 1799 565 5.60 N.B. to write a History of Levellers-- <1f15>1 566 5.61 Your very humble men in company, if they pro- duce any thing, are in that thing of the most exquisite irritability & vanity--Ex. gr. Cottle & his Alfred-- 567 5.62 Characters for the satire/ Canning & the Anti-Jacobins Mackintosh Pursuits of Literature Lloyd & his Gang Peter Pindar <1f16>1 Pleasures of Memory 568 5.63 Truth still more than Justice blind, & needs Wis- dom for her guide/-- 569 5.64 N.B. The Reading Fly & the Anselm & his Coachman in Hell--in Dibdin's Manner-- 570 5.65 Remember Miss W. Dolly. 571 5.66 Miss Mary Hutcheson & Cottle immediately <1fl6v>1 after Tea on our arrival "Pray, what do you think of Mr Cole- ridge's appearance?" 572 5.67 A Blind Man, perfectly blind, of Temple Sow- erby, named Fowell, goes a fishing on the River Eden/He has a friend too, an intimate/likewise quite blind, who plays cards, knows every Gate far & near/& these two are both coursers, & often course together/--The people, fond of the marvellous here as every f17 where, affirm that they are the best Beaters up of Game in the Country-- 573 5.68 How many blind men there are among us in metaphysics who talk the language of <1Sight,>1 of the internal Sight, so glibly--playing sweet Tunes upon Hand Organs!-- NOVEMBER 1799 [581 574 5.69 Mr. J Cairns supposes that the Nazarites who un- der the Laws of Moses had their heads shaved, must have used <1fl7v>1 some sort of wigs. Gentleman's Diary for 1800 575 5.70 In the arms of Morpheus--Miss Potter of Whitehaven 576 5.71 Print of the Blackwall Ox, of Darlington --so spot-sprigged/Print, how interesting--viewed in all moods, un- consciously distinctly, semiconsciously, with vacant, with swimming <1f18>1 eyes--a thing of nature thro' the perpetual action of the Feelings! --O God! when I now think how perishable Things, how imperish- able Ideas--what a proof of My Immortality--What is Forgetful- ness?-- 577 5.72 May not Time in Association be made <1serviceable>1 & evidence Likeness/. 578 5.73 The long Entrancement of a True-love's Kiss. <1fl8v>1 579 5.74 In the North every Brook, every Crag, almost every Field has a name--a proof of greater Independence & a so- ciety more approaching in their Laws & Habits to Nature-- 580 5.75 All about Sockburn, & indeed generally in York- shire, N. Riding, & in Durham Asses are counted so lucky, that they are almost universally found among Cows in Dairy Farms-- <1f19>1 & if a man should happen to have a Horse of great value, he im- mediately purchases an Ass--for luck!--The ass runs both with the Horse & with the Cows--especialy with the Cows, as in calving &c they are more subject to accidents--/ 581 5.128 Nov. 27th, Awoke from the uneasy Doze-dream <1fl9v>1 of the Coach/a rich orange sky like that of a winter Evening save that the fleecy dark Blue that rippled above showed it to be morn- ing/--soon became a glowing Brass colour, fleeces of Brass like sand--convolves high up in to the Sky--the Sun rose o'er the plain <1f19>1 like a Kite/rose wholly, & a column in the waters, and soon after, a Hill meeting with it, rose thro' other clouds--with a different Glory--Starlings-- <1fl>1 582 4.1 Nov. 27. Wed. Starlings in vast flights drove along like smoke, mist, or any thing misty [without] volition--now a circular area inclined [in an] arc--now a globe--[now from a complete orb into an] elipse & oblong--[now] a balloon with the [car suspend]ed, now a con- caved [sem]icircle & [still] it expands & condenses, some [mo- <1flv>1 ments] glimmering & shivering, dim & shadowy, now thickening, deepening, blackening! -- 583 4.2 Wretched Hovels, half roof of rotten Thatch, wholly [?swamped] by weeds--where vegetable Life prospered, not animal. 584 4.3 Thin flank of Beef is taken out sprinkled with <1f2>1 salt petre--n.b. not with common Salt to lay for a fortnight turning it every day--it must be tied very close--boil it three or 4 hours according to the size till quite tender--then press it with a small weight. 585 4.4 Brown Stone embedded in Quartz Crystal: Lab- rador. 586 4.5 3 Shirts 4 Cravats 2 Stockings <1f49>1 587 4.99 "Lank Writing" 588 4.100 First make your thoughts scholastically accurate; then popularize. Rule your paper lightly with black Lead, write in the Lines--& then rub them out. 589 4.101 A blind man has no notion of Darkness; nor an ignorant man of his Ignorance. <2NOVEMBER->2DECEMBER 1799 [600 590 4.6 Remarks made in London at which place I ar- <1f2v>1 rived Wednesday midnight, Nov. 27, 1799--Thursday--Nov. 28. T's Joy at a new Cockfighter. 591 4.7 Nov. 29. Evening--The unmoveableness of all things thro' which so many men moved--harsh contrast!--Com- pared too with the universal motion of things in Nature. 592 4.8 Sunday--about the pocket size--12 syllables &c <1f3>1 593 4.9 No. 43 Lamb's Conduit Street-- 594 4.10 There has been presented to the Consuls of the Republic a model for a Consular Dress. It is proposed that they shall have a French Dress of white Velvet, embroidered with gold, buttoned down to the middle, pantaloons of Light Blue, a sword Belt over the Coat, and the sword perpendicular to the side & red boots bonnet of the same color. <1f3v>1 The Walking advertisement for a Farce-- 595 4.11 Is that your own Hare? or a wig?-- 596 4.12 Chairman & Empress of Russia divide the <1Poles.>1 597 4.13 Two old women on a Fir Apple--A Cone un- der 'em. 598 4.14 Montague--Azariah Pinny 30%%--& his Letter-- told me by Tobin Dec. 5/if not worth 30%%; yet at least 20%%. <1f4>1 599 4.15 As the quantity of attraction exerted by particles must be in some proportion to their distance when the particles are moved from each other by any impulse they will either have a tendency to remain at rest or to become repulsive-- <1f4v>1 600 4.16 The whole to be divided into 25 prefectures, these subdivided into cantons & districts, in order to be an active Citizen, a person must pay 12 days wages. All the active Citizens shall assemble in the principal town of their canton, & reduce their number to the number of cantons These again to 10--& the total <1f5>1 number of these [. . .] will be 5000--Out of these a constitu- tional Jury shall elect all the officers of State--first a Grand Elector, 2 Consuls, afterwards removeable by the G. E. or the Jury that are absorbed into one of the 20. (to be thus added to the 80). Coun- cil of state, six members & 7 ministers--2 Chambers, one (the senate) of 22 and one (the Tribunate) of 80. The Tribunate are no <1f5v>1 house constitutive of Laws--they are to be Pleaders, & Disputants --& when they have disputed enough, the Senate are to stop them, & pass what they please into Law--they are to pronounce by private Ballot. 60 1 4.17 Avocado Pear, by corruption Alligator lacertus. Lagerto-alligatus. 602 4.18 A Tall thin man stooping & bending in the middle <1f6>1 tightly buttoned up, like a cracked Stick tight corded or ragged round the Fracture. 603 4.19 No 21 Buckingham Street-- 604 4.2o The man with one coat. Does it rain? No--Give me my blue Coat then. Does it rain? Yes! Give me my blue Coat then. <1f6v>1 605 4.21 In the poems on Infancy to introduce poor Wil- liams as one-- Another on a Princess, unkissed, & foully husbanded. Another to a young man exhorting him to despise wealth & marry a beautiful Woman--/ 606 4.22 [- . .]exit Voltaire. 607 4.23 Howard 13 Poland Strt. DECEMBER 1799 [614 608 4.24 Poultry-counter--Dec. 14. Mr Purkis--& Hog- f7 killing Suicide 609 4.25 Mackintosh intertrudes, not introduces his beau- ties. Nothing grows out of his main argument but much is shoved between--each digression occasions a move backward to find the road again--like a sick man he recoils after every affection. The Serpent by which the ancients emblem'd the Inventive faculty ap- <1f7v>1 pears to me, in its mode of motion most exactly to emblem a writer of Genius. He varies his course yet still glides onwards--all lines of motion are his--all beautiful, & all propulsive-- Circular base of rising folds that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his Head Crested aloft, and Carbuncle his eyes, <1f8>1 With burnish'd Neck of verdant Gold, erect Amidst the circling spires that on the Grass Floted Redundant-- So varied he & of his tortuous train Curls many a wanton wreath; yet still he proceeds & is proceeding.-- 610 4.26 Bucella 611 4.27 If Death be what Davy asserts, but little harm of <1f8v>1 killing a bad man 612 4.28 "an affectionate Lover of venerable Antiquity." Cambden-- 613 4.29 Wie, a little River speedily cutting over this part cometh rolling adown out of Wierdale, a very solitary place & runneth by Grenhaugh Castle, which Thomas Stanley, the first Earl of Derby out of this family, built: what time as hee stood in <1f9>1 feare of certain outlawed Gentlemen of this shire whose possessions King Henry the 7th had freely given unto him. 614 4.30 20 minutes before ten--& Mt Pinker immediately sent his boy for the Frenchman to let him know--/the Frenchman 615] 1799-18o1 came down<3first informed >3 who on Wednesday had informed you that some [. . . .] Dec. 16th 1799 <1f9v>1 615 A Pigeon & a Cock to represent a Cock Pigeon 616 4.32 Commerce & its Effects disguised as a Fairy Tale. 617 4.33 Sunday--Dec. 21, 1799, Hartley said--When I'm a man, I'll get a Ladder, & get up to the Sky, & pick out the Stars, & give them to Anny Sealy--I'll pick 'em out with a knife-- <1flo>1 618 4.34 To write something on the phrase--Launched into Eternity-- 619 4.35 Sheridan--Mem. Godwin. 620 4.36 Praise of Poetry--vine-dresser--compare the au- thor of the Babes in the wood with Buonaparte. 621 4.37 Essays on Property as the Basis of Government-- <1flov>1 622 4.38 Each witness of all: The last day of the century the weather was clear. All the world seemed to play except the Galley Slaves who for being becalmed, were forced to ply their Oars. At the last day twill be nothing but Blab. 623 4.39 The Ticking Bonnet-- <1f33>1 624 3.3o Hazlitt has made the usual mistake of loveless observers--Seeing weakness on the surface of a Character, he has made no allowance for Strength : tho' seeing characteristic Strength (as in Wordsworth) he would be apt enough to make allowance for undiscovered but certainly existing Weakness--In every char- acter, that commands notice or is worth talking of, there is Strength & Weakness, tho' in very different ratios of inversion. 625 31/2.104 4 <1f120>1 Last Monday all the Papers said, That Mr was dead! <3Portentous news>3 Ah then! What said the City? <3What>3 <3said the natib>3 <3With pious Renation>3 The tenth Part sadly shook their head, And shaking sigh'd, & sighing said-- Pity! indeed 'tis Pity! 2 But wh<3at>3en the sad Report was found A Rumour wholly without ground, Ah then, what said the City? <3What said the nation.>3 The other nine Parts shook their head Repeating what the tenth <3par>3 had said-- Pity! indeed 'tis pity. [a] Thy Babes ne'er greet thee with the Father's Name My Lord, they lisp--. <3And>3 Now whence can this arise? <3The>3 Perhaps their Mother feels an honest shame And will not leave her Infants to tell Lies. [b] <1f120v>1 On Solomon--(there is not one good woman among a thousand)-- he, who like Solomon collects a thousand to gratify his lust, does not deserve to find one.-- 6 On a notorious Liar, in <1rough>1 Verse. As Dick & I in Cheapside late were walking, <3At>3 On th'other side o'th' street whom should we spy But Informator, with a stranger talking-- <3And>3 So I exclaim'd at once--Heavens! what a Lye! Says Dick--What? can you hear him?--Hear him? Stuff! I see him open his mouth. An't that enough? <1[c]>1 He lived like one who never thought to die He died like one who never thinks to live-- <1f121>1 7 On the same Say what you will, ingenious Youth! You'll find me neither Dupe or Dunce. Once you deceived me, only once-- Twas then when you told truth. An Oxford Brothelhouse Caught fire At Midnight. From their peaceful Pillows Leapt up a dozen reverend Fellows To quench the Conflagration dire-- <3Where were>3 This brave, this philantropic band/ Where were they?--O--they were at hand. It was a Brothelhouse, caught fire. <3Thy>3 Lapdog, Rufa, is a dainty beast-- It don't surprize me in the least-- That thou should'st lick so <3elean nice>3 dainty clean a beast, But that so <3nice>3 clean a Beast licks thee-- Yes! --that surprizes me. <1f121>1 10 Here moulders Mimulus, an Ape-- Alas, alas! <3how>3 O what an Ape. So tame, as in the world no other Ape-- So clean, as in the world no other Ape-- 1799-1 80 1 <1t625f122>1 So chaste, as in the world no other Ape So grave, as in the world no other Ape. So loving true--! O what an Ape! In short, that I may all together scrape-- He was, in truth, quite an Original Ape. 1 1 Here lies he now, the <3little>3 pretty Paviun Who after us so many things has done. I lay a wager, what he now has done, We all do after him, the pretty Paviun. 12 No doleful Faces here, no Sighing-- Here rots a Thing that <1won>1 by dying. Tis Cypher lies beneath this crust, Whom Death <1created>1 into Dust. Tis xCypher rots, beneath this crust, <1f122>1 Whom Death <1created>1 into Dust. xNo Weeping <3hers,>3 no groas, no sighing-- Here lies a Thing that won by dying-- 13 Bob now resolves on <3Love's delights>3 marriage schemes to trample And now he'll have a wife all in a trice-- Must I advise?--Pursue thy Dad's Example And marry not. There hast thou my advice. 14 We still call Bet a maid--<3for sure we wis & is it this?>3 perchance, from this, That a fallen Angel still an Angel is. Wernike. 15 You're careful o'er your wealth, tis true-- Yet so, that of your plenteous store The poor man tastes, & blesses you: For you flee Poverty, but not the Poor. <1f122>1 16 Old Gripus shakes his head, & swears That I have cost him many tears <3Well>3--Grant, pious Gripus this; were this true-- Pray, how much might your tears cost you. 17 On the Recovery of a Harlot. Pluto commanded Death to fetch away Lais--& Death made preten<3ded>3ces to obey, And only made pretences; for he shot A headless Dart that struck but wounded not. The ghaunt Economist who (tho' my Grandam Thinks otherwise) ne'er <3shoots>3 deals his blows at random, Cried--Lais?--put <1my>1 Lais in arrest! Upon my Life, that were a pretty Jest. So flat a Trick of Death shall ne'er be said or sung-- No! Whores & Doctors--no--I <3fetch>3 take <1them>1 not so young! 18 Your Poem must <1eternal>1 be, Dear Sir! --It cannot fail: For tis incomprehensible And without head or tail <1f123>1 19 The Madman & the Lethargist, an Example. Quoth Dick to me, as once at College We argued on the use of Knowlege, In old king Olim's reign, I've read, There lay two Patients in one bed. The one in fat lethargic trance Lay wan and motionless as lead: The other, like the Folks in France, Possess'd a different disposition-- In short, the plain truth to confess, The man was madder than mad Bess. But both diseases, none disputed, Were unmedicinably rooted. Yet so it chanc'd; by Heaven's Permission, Each prov'd the other's true Physician. Fighting with a ghastly stare Troops of <3monarchs>3 Despots in the air, = Obstreporously Jacobinical The Madman froth'd & foam'd & roar'd: The other, snoring octaves cynical, Like good John Bull, in posture clinical Seem'd living only when he snor'd. The <1Citizen,>1 enrag'd to see This fat Insensibility, Or tir'd with solitary Labor, <1f123v>1 Determin'd to <1convert>1 his Neighbour. So up he sprung, & to't he fell Like Devil piping hot from hell; With indefatigable Fist Belab'ring the poor Lethargist, Till his own Limbs were stiff & sore, And Sweatdrops roll'd from every pore. Yet still, with "flying fingers" fleet-- Duly accompanied by feet, With some short Interludes of Biting He executes the self-same Strain, Till the Slumbrer woke for pain And half prepar'd himself for Fighting, That moment, that his mad Colleague Sunk down & slept thro' pure fatigue. So both were cur'd: & this example, Gives demonstration full & ample, That Chance may bring a thing to bear When Art sits down in flat Despair. That's true enough, Dick!--answer'd I-- But as for th'example, tis a Lie! <1f124>1 20 On an Infant who died before its Christening-- "Be rather than be call'd a Child of God-- Death whisper'd! with assenting nod Its head upon the Mother's Breast The Baby bow'd, & went without demur, Of the Kingdom of the Blest Possessor, not Inheritor. 21 To the critic who quoted an insolated passage, & then declared it unintelligible. Most candid Critic, what if I By way of Joke pluck out your eye And holding up the fragment, cry-- Ha ha! that men such fools should be! Behold this shapeless Dab. & he Who own'd it, dreamt that it could see! The Joke were mighty analytic But should you like it, candid Critic <1f124v>1 22 1 I ask'd my Fair one happy day, What I should call her in my Lay; By what sweet name from Rome or Greece, Lalage, Nea|era, Chloris, Laura, Lesbia, or Doris, Dorima|ene or Lucrece. 2 Ah! (replied my gentle Fair) Beloved! what are <3was>3 names but air? 1799-1 801 <1[625f125>1 Choose thou whatever suits the line, Call me Laura, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage or Doris-- Only, only call me <1Thine.1>1 23 On a Rake Pass under Jack's Window at 12 at night, You'll hear him still--he's roaring! Pass close by Jack's Chamber at 12 at noon, You'll hear him still--he's snoring! 24 <1f125>1 Over my Cottage The Pleasures sport beneath this thatch But Prudence sits upon the Watch Nor Dun nor Doctor lifts the Latch! 25 1 Sly Beelzebub took all occasions To try Job's constancy & patience. He took his Honor, took his Health, He took his Children, took his Wealth, His Servants, Horses, Oxen, Cows-- And the sly Devil did <1not>1 take his Spouse. But Heaven, that brings out good from evil And loves to disappoint the Devil, Had predetermin'd to restore <1Twofold>1 all he had before, His servants, Horses, Oxen, Cows-- Short-sighted Devil! <1not>1 to take his Spouse. 26 He writes his verses with more speed Than the Printer's Man can set 'em. <3Almost>3 Quite as fast as we can read And only not so fast, as we forget 'em <1f125v>1 27 Swans sing before they die--'twere no bad thing Did certain persons die, before they sing. 28 A <3stingless>3 Joke, cries Jack--<3a hum>3 without a sting! <3How>3 <1can>1 <3follows>3 no one post obitum sing? And true, if Jack don't mend his manners And quit his Atheistic <3role>3 banners Post Obitum <3may>3 will Jack run foul Of such folks, as can only howl. 29 To a living Ninon d'Enclos. Thy Charms, O Nina, are not flown, And mine was ne'er a heart of stone. I pay'd my suit, it is most true, And saw with Joy that you preferr'd me-- And that I did not marry you-- Indeed, twas not <1your>1 years deterr'd me! -- But your Son, that grey-hair'd Prig-- O wherefore wore he not a wig? Something more humorous instead of this.-- <1f126>1 30 Tho' forc'd to part from my dear Will, From my sweet True love forc'd to part. Thank heaven, I bear his image still-- 'Tis in my Heart! So oft in tender tones sings Nancy, And Nancy best the truth must know-- 1799-18o1 [5f v Else I confess, that I should fancy, It were an inch or two below. 30 Timorous Love. We plighted vows, my Love & I, Me in her Arms, the Maiden clasping-- I could not tell the reason why, But o! I trembled like an Aspen. Her father's leave she bad me gain, I went but shook like any reed! I strove to be a Man--in vain! We had exchanged our hearts indeed. 31 <1f126v>1 Billy Brown, how like his Father Mr Brown indeed says, No! <3And the Mother>3 Mrs Brown too, who knows better, Says the same, but thinks not so. 32 If I had but two little wings, And were a little feath'ry bird-- To you I'd fly, my dear! But Thoughts like these are idle things, And I stay here. But in my sleep to you I fly--! I'm always with you in my sleep-- The world is all one's own. But then one wakes--& where am I? All, all alone. Sleep stays not tho' a Monarch bids, So I love to wake ere dawn of day: For tho' my sleep be gone, Yet while 'tis dark, one shuts one's Lids, And still dreams on! <1f127>1 Friends should be weigh'd not told: who boasts t'have won A multitude of Friends, has ne'er had <1one.>1 626 31/2.105 We sparkle an hour & then we go out-- Pluck thou the Rose-buds while they are growing then--&c &c-- Do you not think so? <3Yes>3 I should perhaps, were it not for the <1thinking>1 so./Had this been our Nature, we should all do so, & could not do otherwise--as the Leaves on the Tree, the But- terfly in the garden, the Small Birds in early Spring.--But a wis- dom that is opposed to an action from the Nature of the Wisdomist is either Derangement or supposes a higher Nature.-- 627 31/2.106 The pars maxima of religious People (I speak of those who are sincerely such) remind me of exquisite Music set to nonsensical Words-- <1f147>1 628 31/2.74 a Piastre, 1.s 8D. a Florin = Scudi = 2.s 629 31/2.75 Clavigero 630 31/2.76 <2eis--w--est.>2. <2para--off>2 <2para oikon>2 <2eis oikon>2 <1f107v>1 631 31/2.83 Dissemblances of Voice and <1Industries>1 of Face. <1fl0v>1 632 4.40 Hazlitt, the painter told me that a picture never <1f11>1 looks so well as when the Pallet was by the side of it--/Association with the glow of Production. JANUfARY l8OO [634 633 4.41 Beggars, & child at 1/2 past 1 in a rainy morning in quite a solitary Street--Jan. 18. 634 4.91 Locke's non-innateness of all ideas asserted--Doc- <1f56v>1 trine introduced by Descartes & destroyed by Locke-- Chapter on association in Locke not inserted till the IVth Edition. Hobbes affirmed to [be] hence both Discoverer & completer of the Law so that nothing could be added. Condillac [?no brief for] <1f56>1 Hartley. M's Explication of Likeness as only a species of Contempora- neity to me vague & unmeaning-- M. speaks of the abolition of the intermediate Link in ideas re- motely associated. Qu? The effect of Wit appears [to] be either ludicrous or <1approaching f55v>1 to the Ludicrous-- M. asserts the old Tale of no abstract Ideas. Makes Idea (of course) mean Image--/ Few words excite ideas <1(this contradicts the former & fairer>1 <1statement)>1 Second Lecture begins with the analysis of the Pleasures & Pains <1f55>1 --(distinguishes them) mere Perceptions, as at least separable from Sensation (this was a mere sophism, using particular pleas- ures for Sensation in general) Is it true that the <1Perception>1 is really unchanged, the Sensation being changed, Pleasure denotes all those Sensations which having experienced we desire to experience again. Qu?--& then the converse <1f54v>1 Qu? <1Do Sensations>1 as distinguished from <1Perceptions,>1 leave <1traces>1 behind them? M. asserts the effect of Words on the Passions-- M. makes his examples out of Books--& has not applied his metaphysics to real objects--/Love of Fame, ex.gr.--No popula- tion of mind--/Should have excluded it at least Talked a great deal of Nonsense about <1judgement>1 & used a most <1f54>1 false example of a Parent's Love to a worthless Infant--might as well have talked of the love to unroasted meat-- The Sophists ever talked as M. states them to have done--they object to Funerals as drawing off affections from useful objects-- <1f53>1 635 4.92 Dr. Bardili, Grundsatze der Logic--99 <1f11>1 636 4.42 deep, das, steep, lie, high, stream, dream, done, bore, son, lament, roar, sent, shore. <1f11v>1 637 4.43 Mackintosh + Godwin = Godwin + Thelwall 638 4.44 Meridional in his Horizon 639 4.45 As for that formal Election and stipulation, who <1f12>1 sees not what a vain and ridiculous cheat it is, they coming with swords in their Hands to demand the scepter of a weak & stupid Multitude that appears only to gaze upon the Ceremonies; & whose refusal were ineffectual but it is a gracious piece of the Cabal of <1Tyranny>1 to deceive the People with Shadows, Fantasms, & names of Liberty--Hall's Grounds & Reasons of Mon. <1f12v>1 640 4.46 Commonwealths unfit for citied Kingdoms--am- bition becomes every man's Trade--the Countryman can't follow it without leaving his Business. 641 4.47 Humorous Plan of Harrington's for peopling Ireland with Jews-- 642 4.48 Dutch Expedition turn English [. . . .] spit frogs--[. . . .] from [. . .] <1f13>1 643 4.49 C. Chevallier--Stock Exchange <2W megalou philosophou!>2 644 4.50 Nose not usable in poetry because no passion <3I>3 --but nostril is--no worthy passion-- <1f37>1 645 4. 1 1 1 (b) Sovereignty of the People <1admitted-->1a Para- graph-- 646 10.16 To write to Miss Mary Brown <1fl3v>1 647 10.17 Is there a Bird shop at the corner of Wood Street? --Ward 648 10.18 Henry Coxwell, No 200, Fleet Street--concrete Lemon Juice. 649 10.19(a) [. . . . . .] <1f52>1 [. . . . . .] 39, 287/8th Bought/Feb. 2-- The fat Semicircle of an Infant's Cheek/The rosy convex 650 10.19(b) Mem. <1Striking-->1 <1f51v>1 Tobin An Essay on the Adultery Bill. 651 4.1o2 Tell us [. . .] States &c in not private Mem-- <1f49 f 8v>1 Now let us see what this change has been--its Quality--from its [. . .] [. . . .] contempt of in his military [. . . .] sword <1f48>1 [. . <1v>1 .] More than any Despot. What in his character of promise?-- If he were a new name so invested &c--all this invested in one person--All as before uncurtailed only all in one unmodified be- fore we lay down our security--We only ask who this stranger is-- <1f47v>1 But we have heard of him and what do we know of him?--First we are told it is second attempt--but my H has hated it--I too No proposals for general Peace All for separate Treaties <1f47>1 The former disposition illustrated by anecdotes recalled banks of the Thames--this not on mere authority Monge & Berthier Campo Formio War with Austria terminated--Britain & France now then <1f46v>1 for Britain What do know of him as a [. . .] of his fidelity to his country 1st Day of the 3rd year [. . . .] by his own plan Revolution which <1f46>1 drove [. . .] the [. . . .] Little procured by the adherence of the Soldiers to him His Speech to His Soldiers--Sworn on new Ban- <1f45v>1 ners Patriots that have died The morning before the Evening who had destroyed this last. In all the Treaties all broken Bonaparte's name--[. . . .] time of [. . .] Peace his own military power of 5 <1f45>1 million Military execution at Genoa at Modena First protection promised then exaction--then personal arrest of the Duke--then new Plunders-- at Rome-- <1f44v>1 The proceeding to Venice to deliver them from Austria revolu- tionized purchased its all by--& all ransacked--then transferred to Austria--This followed by Egypt--the planner Executer, & De- <1f44>1 serter--to speak on an Equality with the Kings of Europe--Quot. from Intercepted Letter. applied to England B's interest in Negotiation--not in Peace or its Preservation in <1f43v>1 drawing England away, in palsying Russia--recruit France-- he has precisely that Interest which commands us to not to lend ourselves to it--/His Permanence--his Hold upon France is <1f43>1 on the Sword--how connected with the Soil--Hearts of France-- Stranger, Usurper--opposite to Republicans, Royalists--he appeals to his Fortune--i.e. Soldiers & Sword--Can he afford to let his <1f42v>1 military fame die away--Can he hope &c &c Aboukir & Smith Insurrection of Ireland <1f18>1 4.53 I have heard that military Despotism least stable --if any as--applied No Government can stand that does not opin- <1f17v>1 ion--Revolution has made all Govern. stand on opinion--French G. an exception--In May last past the greatest violence to opin- <1f17>1 ion--Out of all others Bonaparte might If opinion be new it stamped with Instability. What then is the inference I draw--In no case treat with B. By no means!-- We have a right to Fact when all Presumption is against him-- <1fl6v>1 For Fact <3suff>3 would be of power sufficient every thing depeds on Degree & Comparison. If different maxims be assum'd--& his In- <1f16>1 terest appear differ. if the Effects of the Armies of the Allies, if the Hope of substitut[ing] less--if the risk increase, & success diminish --these for myself & colleagues have a due weight to regulate our advice to Sovereign-- But there is nothing all goes to the counting combined arms <1f15v>1 every hope that the Contest will make us comparatively worse What is your Hope from Change? From Monarchy--against the Nation--I never thought it, I never hoped it, I never wished--but <1f15>1 I did hope, that the people might be allowed to have a vent hole-- that experiment we ought to make/all of monarchy not legitimacy, stability a limitation-- appeal to the Western Provinces--not by the instigation of this <1fl4v>1 Country--I can venture to state that it is the spontaneous & violent effect in opposition to the wishes of this Country--their Condition alone an objection to Negociation--But what time is necessary?-- <1f14>1 This [?our/one] Circumstance/we are not to be discouraged too, nor persist in it too long-- That a man can talk of Bourbon who has Bonaparte!-- Is it nothing whether a System shall be sanctified by the Trans- <1f13v>1 fer of Property? Answer to E[rskine]'s--That which did not pre- vent the Rev. from taking place--What is the value of 4. 1 1 1 (a) Property now? Therefore cheaply repurchased- <1f41>1 It is therefore superficial rallying & compliant in E's 3 per cents-- If they should rise as much as in the 3 last years No parallel in France--they perform an op. on Debt, republi- <1f ov>1 canized. 2/3 struck-- 17 per cent.-- France is so exhausted that never any thing but the Torture to be applied by revolutionary means/Suppose the House of Bourbon <1f o>1 restor'd--enough to do to [?retire/return] exhausted F. can't be formidable--and rev. power with rev. Leader not [?join/form] against such a Confederacy With that rev. power/I see no possibil- <1f39v>1 ity of that Peace which justifies liberal interest & on that ground as Lover of Peace I look at that System which ensures solid Peace. As a Lover of Peace I will not sacrifice its peace. We treated before <1f39>1 because the vast means of France had exhausted our regular means --therefore appeal to the People--& Negotiations at Lisle as proof --/Were we then insincere? I know nothing that would justify <1f 8v>1 being sincere--but on the principle of combination & comparison-- danger of Peace against War. I did believe that a Neg. preferable 652] FEBRUARy l800 <1f38>1 to War to be conducted as without Neg. it must have been--I found that even if Peace had been made, it would not have been durable. Will this operate as motive to any men, now all the Inducements are gone-- <1f37v>1 Every month by which we exhaust, draws us nearer--We are now more likely to gain by War than Peace--but we are at liberty <1f37>1 to decide differently. <1f2>1 652 1o.2 For a very few minutes two allusions one from opp [. . .] frightened in a very facetious manner arraigned mealy <1f2v>1 mealy-mouthed tripping in a lie of a candour atone for in reply meally-mouthedness that I no desire of [D] Maj. Ministers could any <1f3>1 arguments of Mine [. . .] even wished/the consolatory argument. Saw no use in holding forth to allies the influence of Ministers I . am to infer from my honorable friend that People have not found/if in one instance only, a little hard (a loud laugh) would not carry him over--Stop half way--The other personal Dispute <1f4>1 --rather a singular species of attack for not bringing it in October --all my vivacity--before the failure known--Parliament not sitting--The very first day that Parliament did meet <1f4v>1 With regard to Officers and all concerned free from disgrace no question attached it to the Planners--a defeat, a citadel standing a <1f5>1 siege with honor--disgrace consists in leading others by boasts & false promises--If this fails, more or less disgraced Enter a country inhabitants living thus peaceably--if--if--if-- <1f5v>1 instead of being <3obliged>3 to protect them obliged to capitulate your- self, then North Holland the most whimsical place--But suppose <1f6>1 that a great number of wealthy farmers had been seduced still the result would have been the same--What then the feelings--execu- = tions, of Family, confiscation/ <1f6v>1 If in Ireland the French had landed/& it is a melancholy [. . . . .] It is our selves if 4500 French in Ireland--would they f7 not have been in [. . . .] caused all the F [. . . .] Boasts not to will[- - -] Much has been said on Diversion--3 objects--Dutch Fleet any, not answered by no [. . .] success, yes that that most of all the Fleet Mutiny not systematic by a general manifestation of the will <1f7v>1 of Dutch But the Diversion how reconcilable with Rest. of Prince of Orange-- Russians no part of the Diversion as good as Swiss. <1f8>1 to the British Force alone-- Would the French have left Batavia naked?--If so, how done with Fr Tyranny they would have done no so such--[. . .] per- haps so great an army--Recollect the nature of the Country--to be <1f8v>1 kept back by a inferior--This not my principal objection--If-- Join--but When-- [. . . ] Prince, civil order, Liberty--that you will persist/then to have this in reserve it will do pretty well as a Diversion--and repeated --will the Dutch come forward again-- There never was an opportunity in which so clearly proved that <1f9v>1 the Dutch not willing--a superior force--not a single man induced to forego their caution.--tho' not quite compelled-- <1f10>1 another point--I approved, but added in proportion as great & momentous, &c, and as the failure fatal to Stadtholder--in that proportion be more cautious Unquestionably no [. . .] of contra- <1f10v>1 diction-- There is another point--I heard express disapp. of Dutch Fleet --If we had stopped short, immortal power--my single Opinion/ <1f11>1 the Public, I am sure, will condemn Mv Taylor--with respect to any plea &c 653 10.76 Security--against a danger the greatest that ever <1f34>1 threaten'd that never threaten'd that it is a danger that it is a dan- ger--which no nation so successfully--because no nation so ener- <1f33v>1 getic--because none other perceived abroad--but here--that we are attractive [. . .]. That which we did not dream of under tyr. <1f33>1 Of Robes[pier]re 5 directors shifting of that scene--mocking name of Liberty to that Usurpation because all Hope united under one <1f32v>1 person, the nursling & champion--& pars ipse sine of Jacobins-- The hon. now discovery that they are at an end because concentred <1f32>1 --because by the efforts of Direction and Uniformity of Design <1f31v>1 [. . .] the best means is all [. . . . .] What do you mean by de- stroying the power of Jacobinism--Extinct in every man?--No! <1f31>1 The mind once tainted, can never wholly free itself from it. I know no means of purification--Those who are now telling us, Jacobins-- are now endeav. to call<3ing>3 up all those arguments that lulled us <1f30v>1 into security--they are telling us that do--200,000 millions Sir, will men be governed by mere words without application-- <1f30>1 This Country will not. It knows--its prosperity--Constitution--2 or 200,000 million--spends & it can find/the only way to make it <1f29v>1 not necessary to avail hearty --& by your own Con- <1f29>1 duct--The H[on. Gentleman] then comes back upon me--There may be in the minds of diff. diff. means of Security--even in this House--The Em. of Russia may have announced rest. of Mon- <1f28v>1 archy tho not of this Country--The H[on. Gentleman] falls into contradiction--Had the Emperor of R. What E. & A. not--then he would have been satisfied-- <1f28>1 I will deal most fairly-- If I did believe which I do not, that Aust. saw no advantages in <1f27v>1 Restor.--yet still I would avail myself of him without changing my own object--security of B. & Europe--I [. . .] think it my <1f27 f26v>1 with that right of believing it sincere Mem. <1their>1 experience that Austria above all must know the Insecurity of peace with Jacobins --Yet even ambition--even on that ground it--to our security--if <1f26>1 it tend to strip France of territorial aggrandisement, yet (Jacobin- ism) aggrand. of Aust. a true British Object-- But, Sir--the H. says he has another motive because he thinks <1f25v>1 not just a necessary (Conversation across the Table) Is it to be treated as a fallacious Distinction, not sole object--my object security--& I think nothing tends to that as Monarchy. But <1f25>1 if you can present any other mode, that mode I will adopt/I am unwilling to accept an inadequate but--& <1if>1 if you can shew to me <1f24v>1 that there is no chance of diminishing Jacobinism--if you can shew to me that we are exhausting our means more than Enemy--these <1f24>1 are the Ifs & the Buts/not the special Pleading & I desire to be tried by no other than my Country/ But are we not weakening ourselves--from Lisle to now has Engl. or Fr. more weakened themselves--Whether in the End of <1f23v>1 the Campaign Fr. more likely--Whether if Jac. enthroned in Bonaparte--Whether therefore it would not better to compromise <1f23>1 with Jacobinism, it would not be safer then than now-- To connect the war by false facts & false reasoning with acci- dental Scarcity because to appeal to the people on a subject which touches their <1f22>1 feelings & precludes their reasons--it is this which makes me say, that those who are now open yet from early partiality--if not to <1f22>1 these spectators, how much more Danger I did not deem them pledged--but assigned my reasons of prob- ability-- My Argument to the majority was not that they had pledged <1f2lv>1 themselves to this meas--but only a means--of bringing the war to the conclusion, to which they have pledged themselves-- For unless Gent. tell me that tho' they cannot prevent votes, <1f21>1 they will endeavor to palsy the arm of the country in the execution Now, Sir! however the G. it appears to form an Instance <1f20v>1 I did not hear from B[ouverie]--who said the most against the early part of the Debate--a few representing the many--this is Jacobinism--from that G. who is not often here--the minority <1f20>1 who represent the opinions of the Country--if general abuse stamps representation they have been fewer here & extra than ever be- fore-- the people are cry for peace--so I am? But what peace--broken <1f19v>1 tomorrow.--not, because peace insecure & hazardous as war--Why <1f19>1 did I wish for Peace at Lisle--because War then more hazardous-- it then resulted from parties new in France less Jacobinical than any thing since--with increased danger of Peace with increased <18v>1 means of War--will it follow that then I was insincere?-- Then as other Argum. of less consequence because opposition <1f18>1 not made to this measure but to the general principle of carrying on the war with Vigour--Defection of Russia--withdrawn itself from confident. Coop not from concert with this Country--has <1f17v>1 it never occurred that army of France to make head against armies 654] FEBRUARY l800 --& internal will it not be distracted by moveable maritime force <1f16>1 --What may be the ultimate extent of Russia's cut off from contin. by weather ministers can't be expected-- the Russ. acting on maritime diversion--if our own force in- creased if greater than drawn from Switz.?--& Italy-- <1fl5v>1 it does follow--I don't know positively the number of F. Army, but reason, on probabilities. 12 Million needed for corn--this gravely stated-- <1fl5>1 Not cease a war for security in order to procure Corn for own subsistence-- I do object that unfairness--unjust & unnecessary--the fallacy is equal to mischief--it <3does>3 is not true that you could procure corn <1fl4v>1 more easily if Peace were made tomorrow--but to assume the War unjust, it ought to be stopped on its own account--but if <1f14>1 Fortress sure of being put to the sword would not--Surrender for want of provisions if he That man does not act wisely if he act like a good Citizen, if he use those Arguments which favour the Enemy-- <1f51>1 654 10.20 Soup shops <11/15th>1 of the whole people of England ruptured from excess of labor & deficiency of nourishment 150,000--pers <1f49v>1 The result of these useful Labors nearly demonstrated what the great Body of the People had never once conceived, that taking the Inhabitants of this Country in the Aggregate, Children & adults, male & female, rich & poor, one in fifteen laboured under this malady-- Advert. of Soc. for Rel. of rupt. Poor <1f49>1 its general fatality has relaxed, in a very alarming degree, the physical Strength of the Empire-- 10.27 Mr Dundas accepts the Presidenty--This faint homage to the Excellence of Mr Dundas's mind & disposition <1f4sv>1 would not have been inserted in this address, from Motives that principally allude to the Delicacy of his Feelings, had it not ap- peared to the acting Governors that the indigent & suffering In dividuals of the Community should know the Hand that is <1princi->1 FEBRUARY l800-1803 [666 <1pally>1 & sedulously engaged in alleviating their misfortunes. Morning Post. Thursd. Feb. 27. 1800. 655 10.21 Accomodation-Ladder <1f50v>1 Clamp. 656 1 o.22 Young Poplars before new built Houses good Subject for Poem-- 657 10.23 Child <1picking>1 the Leaf as it was arranging its Mother's hairs better [. . . . .] 658 10.24 To have a continued Dream, representing visually <1f50>1 & audibly all Milton's Paradise Lost. 659 10.25 Sundry Apophlegmatisms--Sonnets &c &c/ 660 10.26 Jardine's Sermons for Poole-- 661 l0.l A pernicious Opinion that of Dr Johnson's & Dry- <1fl>1 den's & Adam Smith's &c that Authors by compulsion in the pro- fession are likely to be the best i.e. professional musicians &c-- 662 4.1o3 Learning without philosophy a <1Cyclops. f49>1 663 4.1o4 "nipped in the Bud, anno Domini, 1596, aetatis 26--Carlo Veronese, Son of Paul. 664 4.112 Blue, red, & yellow make a neutral colour-- <1f41>1 665 4.93 The pedantry of <1Generals & Officers-->1all party <1f53v>1 men--all <1lie>1 in each party (their ignorance/what did ignorant men ever do? ) Examine this minutely. 666 4.94 <1On Foot--within an ace of-->1these & 1000 others are the true colloquial Barbarisms--phrases begun in accidental 667] FEBRUARY-MARCH l800 fashions, & continued by habit--distinguishable from genuine Id- ioms by the obscurity of their Origin. <1f48>1 667 10.28 Apology for Treasury Scribes--Dog yelping--not against Socrates--but for its master/ 668 10.29 Wife talking of her Husband's ill-tempers on par- ticular Days (coming home after business) as if his Head aches. 669 10.30 Like Pope & Dryden till 15, well! --if from <1f47>1 thence to 25 or thirty--no hopes of Genius--but may have Talents & make an excellent Lawyer. 670 10.31 To write the Travels of a Protestant & "affection- ate Lover of Venerable Antiquity" in the times of Queen Mary-- Ballads of all Kinds--&c &c-- <1f47>1 671 10.32 Strange in the vulgar Aristocrats their resistance to <1Novelty-->1I have as venerable aff. of antiquity as any man, but-- 672 1 0.33 Shakespere makes ignorant men describe Char- acter <1f46v>1 673 10.34 A great Vice is <1metaphysical Solution>1 in Poetry. 674 10.35 I never travelled but in a map, in which mine un- confined Thoughts have freely expatiated--Burton omne meum nihil meum. Macrobius/ <1f46>1 675 10.36 Monument--6d admission engraved on its Base-- fellow who threw himself off it--a Suicide on Fish Street Hill-- 676 10.37 Buxtorf's Pen with a broad Nip/ 677 10.38 Biblis would rather die than eat a Hogs pud- ding-- <1f45v>1 10.39 Euseb. Eccles. His. 5. C.1. 678 10.40 The apparent comparative size of the Moon/how difficult to the Imagination 679 10.41 Sympathy of Christianity with Paganism turned their Gods into Devils--this believable--/but had they denied that their reality--no converts-- 680 10.42 Burton's Gentleman who on his wedding Day <1f45>1 walk in the fields after dinner/Tennis Court--Ring--Statue curled her Finger--Venus comes at night--Palumbus the Magician/gives him a Letter to Saturn, Saturn at the end of the Town--the Pro- cession--Venus riding before--Tree against the [?Wall/Water] <1f44v>1 with the little red knots 681 10.43 The varyingness of Lakes--Ulswater--Clarkson --in London lose your way from sameness--in country can't find it for variety-- 682 10.44 Coals made pretty--Wood kill'd by fire-- 683 10.45 Irishman--Meat & Drink--Washing & Lodging. <1f4>1 684 10.46 The Scotchman & his Master both drunk, mistak- ing the Shadow of the Ship for another Vessel &c 685 10.47 Ropemaking--goes backward <3spinning>3 drawing out the Thread--Prolixity. 686 10.48 What an Essay might not be written on the sym- pathy of individual morals with national Downfall. <2bestia.-->2 <2monster-->2 to lead about the Country to get his Bread by-- <1f43v>1 687 10.49 How wishedly will some pity the case of Argalus and Parthenia; the patience of Gryseld in Chaucer, the misery and troublesome Adventures of the phanatic Lovers in Cleopatra, Cas- sandra, Amadis de Gaul, Sidney & such like. Yet all these are as meer Romantick as Rabelais his Garagantua and yet with an un- <1f43>1 moved Apprehension can peruse the lamentable murder of Edward the second of England, & James the first, and Milcolumb the first of Scotland, the cutting off the head of good king Alpinus, the poisoning of Fergusius the third by his own Queen, and the throat-cutting of King Fethelmachus by a Fidler, and besides these the martyrdome of old Queen Ketaban in Persia. The Stabbing of <1f42v>1 Henry the 1Vth of France the sacrilegious poisoning of the Emperor Henry the seventh in Italy, the miserable Death of Mauricius the Emperor with his Wife & five Children, by the wicked Phocas, and can read the fatal Stories recorded by Boccace with less Grief than the deplorable Narrative of Arnalte's love to Lucinda/. And the patience of the good King Henry the sixth, who being grievously struck by a murthering Varlet, only made this <1f42>1 reply (Forsooth & forsooth [being his words for most earnest ex- pression, never using an oath] ye do foully to smite a King anointed so) may be far outrivalled by some, with the misfortunes & hardship of some inchanted Lover, in Ariosto, Parismus, the two Palmerins, or Mirrour of Knighthood Foulis' History of the <1f4lv>1 Wicked Plots & Conspiraces of our Pretended Saints. London. Printed by E. Cotes for A. Seile over against St Dunstans-Church in Fleetstreet--MDCLXII 688 10.50 Thus I would waste, thus end my careless days And Robin Redbreasts whom men praise For pious Birds, should when I die, Make both my Monument & Elegy Cowley 689 10.51 Blew as terrible a blast, as if he had picked the last Horn of a Devil-- <1f41>1 690 10.52 England like the Compass Needle--septentriates at one Extreme, and australizes at another. Brown's Vulg. Err. 691 10.53 As many Curves as a Stranger makes climbing up a craggy Hill, pathless 692 10.54 A Brown for which Heaven would disband The Galaxy, & all the Stars be tann'd. 693 21.43 Cogito quam sit magnum dare aliquid in manus f7 hominum: nec persuadere mihi possum, non et cum multis et sa|epe tractandum quod placere et semper et omnibus cupias. Plin. <1Ep.>1 lib. 7. ep. 17.-- 694 21.44 Multi populi, quibus pro eloquio nutus est. Pom- ponius Mela Lib. 3. Cap. 19. Mem. Casaubon's S [. . .] 695 21.45 Would Royalty restored be permanent! Is the Dog, who has licked up his Gorge, secure from revomition? 696 21.46 the Lute's delicious fingering. 697 21.47 We all grew jolly at his laughing eye-- 698 21.48 "The all-ey'd Firmament" Donne-- 699 21.49 Malice with canicular eye <1f7v>1 700 21.50 "Instead of outward actions to bring [our] inmost Thoughts into Front" Milt. Apol.-- 701 21.51 Was this the Flower of all thy Synonymous & voluminous Papers, whose best Folios are predestined to no better end than to make winding Sheets in Lent for Pilchards. 702 21.52 Alexander--Mount Athos--a city in his hand--/. Pitt. 703 21.53 impertinent Efflorescence of Rhetoric 704 21.54 a synodical Individuum-- ] MARCHl800 705 21 55 a cracked Looking-glass--such is man's mind-- 706 21.56 Something deeper than his Lead can fathom-- 707 21.57 To overdoe in expiation 708 21.58 under the broad-seal of nature-- 709 21.59 blind man with the Dagger--C. Lamb--Sunday, March 23--1800-- 710 21.60 Nescimus quid agunt; sed scimus per quales agunt. Augustine-- <1f8>1 711 21.61 No person I can believe--no thing I can disbe- lieve--March 23--1800--at Lamb's--had no more Lemons-- agasp for thirst-- 71221.62 [. . . . . ? dream], dream [. . . .] & [. . .] venture to write a folio on the [. . . .] indifferent eyes. What we would & dare not express from fear & from the dyspathy of women Sara Sara [. . . . ?surrounded] [. . . . . . .] [. . . . . . .] [. . . . . .] 713 21.63 slanting pillars of misty light moved along under the Sun hid by clouds. 714 21.64 Leaves of Trees upturned by the stirring wind in twilight--an image for paleness from affright. MARCH-APRlL l800 [719 715 21.65 What! in the Dumps Friend? Chear up! I shall <1f8v>1 now give you an Opportunity of seeing to what extravagant Ex- cesses the late Politicians have run on both hands; some swelling the sovereign Magistrate into such a monstrous Bulkiness that he bursts asunder with the shining venom they infuse into him; others scattering the supreme Power into whole Herds of Pharoah's ravenous lean Kine. Some are for Absolute Tyranny, others, for dissolute Anarchy &c &c. 716 21.66 [M.S.] Fleas that bite / little dogs / have less Fleas / that bite 'em [M.S.] So less Fleas / bite little / Fleas on <1ad>1 /infinit /um. 1. Two Amphim + 2 amphibrachs 2nd. 2 Amphib + two Am- phimacers, hypercatalectic by one [short syllable] . The Distich a good instance of the effect of encharsis in determining the quantities of each word in English Verse. The emphasis on the last Fleas to express the wonder that so much stress should be layed on Fleas!--and on the <1ad,>1 from the pause of wonder before you can pronounce "Infinitum!". For as a profound metaphysical Poet very harmoniously couplets it-- [M.S] Fleas that bite / little Dogs / have less Fleas / that bite 'em, [M.S.] So less Fleas / bite little / Fleas on <1ad>1 / Infinit /um. And as I wrote this, I immediately [saw] that the two Lines do really comprize a very artificial metre, the first Line being two amphimacers & two amphibrachs, the second two amphibrachs fol- lowed by 2 amphimacers, with a superab. Syllable. 717 4.51 Flower Seeds for Lamb. <1f13>1 718 51/2.1 Mr Coleridge <1fl>1 A little of Sara's Hair in this Pocket/ 719 51/2.3 Arrived at Grasmere April 6--1800-- <1f2>1 720] APRIL-OCTOBER l800 <1fl>1 720 51/2.2 Bell thro' a mist in Langdale vale--the [?fable/ toll] of the [? offending/self-ending Matin] what a [? simile] for a melancholy [. . .] <1f2>1 721 52.4 Cap = set there the supper = as to down or over- power a person--/Old Goose <1(just of age)>1 21 years old, bought & set before the Famine in <3Matterdale>3 Wythburn. I'faith it capp'd 'em all. <1f13>1 722 4.52 Mable, a woman's name in Grasmere Church- yard-- <1f41>1 723 10.55 5 1/4 from Keswick on the road to Wytheburn-- J. STANDLEY lives here & sells good Ale Come in & drink before it grows Stale-- <1f40v>1 JOHN Succeeded his Father PETER But i' th' old mans time 'twas never better. 724 1o.56 Calm flowing broad Stream with whole Fleets of foam circle like Lichens, such as an old man's &c/the Children of a Rapid heard faintly in the Distance but not seen/ 725 1o.57 Tickell, Auth. of Kensington Garden, born two miles from Cockermouth/ <1f40>1 726 10.58 [?Kieran/Kienan]--tomb of-- 727 10.59 Palladius/[. . .] 728 lo.6o Mem. Scrape Cheese with Silver Spoon C. Danvers--May 7--1800. 729 10.61 Mr Estlin remarked that as he grew older, all events appeared more nearly coincident. May 7. <11800>1 <1f39v>1 730 10.62 First year of the next Century, or the concluding year of the last./ MAY-JUNE l800 [738 731 10.63 Gentleman in Leicestershire ride[s] 30 miles for an Execution--& collects the Halters--each of which he labels with the name & Death/they are hung up in a Row/ 732 10.64 Vitriolic Acid--one part to 9 of water/cures the <1f39>1 Itch. 733 10.65 The effect of similar Organization constantly pre- sented to the mind, as in cities, & in China? Acuteness? Improgres- siveness? Defect of <1obscure>1 Feelings especially?-- 734 10.66 Borrowed half a guinea of Mrs.King <1f38v>1 735 10.67 Adam's Smith's arguments on the superiority of <1f3B>1 Rustics false, I think--Farmers talk always of their own occupa- tions--Mechanics on abstracter things--Were the Mechanic only a mechanic, Adam S. were right--but his own reasons are to be turned against-- 736 10.68 Nature's pictures all in motion = shadows <1f37v>1 737 10.69 Two drunken men, arm in arm, the one imagining himself sober, the other acknowledging himself drunk, the former <1acting>1 the other's leader & care-taker. June 2. 1800 738 10.10 Chepstow 17 Whitehurst 2 <1f11v>1 Monmouth 323/8 Ruabon 2 Abergavenny 20 Wrexham 51/2 <3Builth>3 Brecon 20 Roset 51/4 Builth 15 Pulford 1 Newtown 20 Chester 5 Montgomery 83/4 Liverpool 20 Forden 33/4 ----------- Welch Pool 5 204 B to L 42 S to B Llanymynach 10 32 L to P Oswestry 5 42 P to K Gobowen 253/8 31 K to K Chirk 3 ---- 351 739] JUNE l8OO <1f12>1 739 10.11 For the Piles. Lenitive Electuary and compound Powder of Senna, of each half an ounce. Lac Sulphur, 2 drachms--Raleighs Confection a drachm & a half--powder of Jallap and vitriol of Tartar of each 30 grains, <1fl2v>1 Syrup of Oranges a suff. quant. to make it into an Electuary. Take the size of a Nutmeg going to Bed. 740 10.12 A Blacksmith 5 feet, 10 inches high, very thin, dark looking, pitted with the small pox, hath a prominent upper Jaw & broad teeth. 741 10.13 [?Eastham/Entham] Church-tower steeple to the middle Third wild, half the clock under the Ivy. <1f13>1 742 10.14 Roscoe's story of Fuseli, & [?Hamlet]--What a fine subject for your pencil, Mr Fuseli--Horrors--/Terrors--Mrs Currie <1f37v>1 743 10.70 Mem.--That property in detected or confessing Guilt to deny obstinately <1parts>1 & these proved, <3to deny>3 & confessed; again & again to deny others-- <1f37>1 744 10.71 The old woman spinning &c N of Bampton-- Good friday--"Hope they havn't kill'd the poor Gentleman-- --Well, it is so long ago & so far away, that I hope it is not true-- --O well--we live up under the Hill here--we do never hear a bit of news!" <1f36v>1 745 10.72 Mr Ellis, of Glostershire, paints well--manages shades of color well--yet is totally incapable of remembering names of colors--on being shewn red he will say Green--in all else his memory strong-- 746 10.73 An old man of 80--"Hope of God's Mercy, that he won't cut me off short in the midst of my Days--" <1f36>1 747 10.74 Rathbone, Hughes, & Duncan, to the care of My Martin JUNE-JUNE l800 [751 748 10.75 1. 9d between B & Newport. <1f34v>1 2. 9d Chaise & Boy--1,,5,,6 Dinner &c 0,,13,,9.--Hartley, one shilling. Ostler &c 0,,0,,6 3. 0,,1,,0 between Newport & Gloster 4. 0,,0,,6 Chaise &boy 1,,2,,6 Tea 0,,4,,6 Ostler 6 5-- 0,,0,,9 <3entering>3 6.-- 0,,0,,9 Supper &c &c 0,,13,,0 + Chambermaid 2d Chaise & Boy 0,,16,,0 Ostler 0,,0,,8 7. 0,,0,,9 8. 0,,1,,0 Breakfast 0,,6,,0 <1f35>1 Chaise &c 1,,1,,0 Ostler 0,,0,,3 9.-- 0,,0,,6 10.-- 0,,0,,3 Chaise & boy 1,,0,,0 Ostler 3 749 51/2.5 Re-arrived at Grasmere June 29th, 1800, 0n a Sun- day, with wife and child. 750 51/2.6 Pleasures of Religion <1f2v>1 Introduction My Mother--prayer in the Lap--prayer by the bed side--prayer in the great Hall at evening/Church--Cathedral--/ Mother associated with God--Father--Schoolmaster--Clergyman --play after school/God with rocks &c-- 751 51/2.7 Ihm ist Einsamkeit und Gesel<1[l]>1 schaft recht, ja nicht einmal unter der Menge ist er einsam, worin man sonst am 752] JUNE-JULY l800 <1f3>1 wenigsten Gesel<1[l]>1schaft hat, wie man auf dem Meere am leich- testen <1verdurstet.>1 applied to a common place Voluminist--nothing fresh. 752 51/2.8 Don Pilchardo--ha|ec olim meminisse juvabit-- applied to humane feeling towards disagreeable companions on a journey 753 51/2.9 Dungeon Gill Force Stand to the right hand close, by the bellying rock, so as to see <1f3v>1 the top of the waterfall only by the Daylight on the wet rock--the arch right above the little <1imitation>1 of the great waterfall (connec- tions in nature) between the arch & the great Waterfall an arch of Trees--hollies, ash, & 1 birch--the Stream widens from a foot to a yard & a half, as it widens, varying from a vivid white to a blue <1f4>1 thro' all the intermediate shades--the second divided from the first by a huge [D] contiguated to the two sides by rocks small & pendulous--plumy ferns on the side, & over the second pool, on the left side, the light umbrella of a young Ash-- <1f4v>1 Going up to the Force notice the Sheepfold the higher--of whose parall[el]ogram is faced with fern, one a plume, the rest bunches of parsley fern--& the fold inclosed a curve of the path of a moun- tain[beck], as may be seen by the elegantly winding stream of pebbles close by the right hand wall-- <1f5>1 754 51/2.10 Inscription for a Spring to be Story of the Girl that ran & climbed in sleep, violently in strange places always pre- determinately, having dreamt the particular place overnight-- dreamt once of a Spring whose Waters would heal her--ran in & out of the paroxysms, & was cured-- 755 51/2.11 To a Christian all the sources of consolation are <1f5v>1 so often in his mouth, & must be so often, that a domestic calamity, which makes him <1feel>1 them, is no bad thing--especially, to a minister JUNE-JULY l800 [762 756 51/2.12 Old woman & the Star--all Stars--all of one color --some darker & some lighter 757 51/2.13 Horse shoe & Horse--Apply to Wordsworth for the particulars 758 51/2.14 Mountains &c seen thro' the smoke of our wild <1f6>1 fire, made of fir apples--Alder bush outmost twigs [s]mouldering in <3flare>3 sparks green ling--column of Smoke--the twigs & boughs heav'd up by the smoke-- July 20th 1800 Grasmere--W & D. Wordsworth Mr & Miss Simson-- 759 51/2.15 Alexander's Feast--a noble subject still for a bold <1f6v>1 fellow. 760 51/2.16 Ladies reading Gilpin's &c while passing by the very places instead of looking at the places. 761 51/2.17 Poor fellow at a distance idle? in this haytime when wages are so high? Come near--thin, pale, can scarce speak --or throw out his fishing rod. 762 51/2.18 About a 1/4 of a mile from <3Jackson's>3 Jakesson's en- <1f7>1 quired of an old Woman the way to Watendlatter.--She was carry- ing in hay into a barn with vigor--four Grandchildren--sitting on the hay lazily helping her. <3How far>3 Which way to W?--Up the gap--a gay canny road--How far--Two miles & more?--Is there <1f7v>1 much to climb beyond the highest point we see?--as much again before you get on a level--Tis a gay canny clim--/You may get there in an hour--I'self could ga there in an hour who's eighty & over. She was eighty three--her son had 9 children those we saw <1f8>1 were the 4 youngest-- Wednesday Afternoon--5 oclock--July 23, 1800 Mr Jakesson's house blue slated--the corners, the wood-work of the windows, & the 2 chimneys painted gore-color-- 763] JULY-AUGUST l800 763 51/2.19 July 25--1/2 past 8 in the evening--wind playing gently about the head of a young poplar--flies over it. <1f8v>1 764 51/2.20 Multitude of competitors for <1public>1 praise in re- publics introduced general refinements so as to make the divisions of <1quantity>1 & <1accent>1 possible--in monarchies these refinements only in course, of course transient & unable to form a national taste--/ the nearest approach to it in France under the monarchy-- <1f9>1 765 51/2.21 The woman in the book-seller's shop whom I asked for a volume of Aristotle--My Wife too asked if he was not a <1midwife-->1 766 51/2.22 And tho' the Stars were many & bright in Heaven, There was a hoary Twilight on the Mountains-- July 25, 1800--a grey whiteness all over them, <3yet>3 they looked black thro' a grey gauze of mist-- <1f9v>1 The Intenebrants & Nephel<2hk>2eka-lummenists. 767 51/2.23 N.B. To write an Essay on solitary Confinement, addressed to Sir F. Burdett 768 51/2.24 The Rydale Lake glittering & rippled all over/ only on the Rydale side of the oval Island of Trees that lies athwart the Lake a long round-pointed wedge of black glossy calm <1f10>1 --Rocky Island across the narrow like the fragment of some huge bridge, now overgrown with moss & Trees-- 769 51/2.25 Silver How casts its shadow in two Lakes--Ry- dale & Grasmere-- <1f11v>1 770 51/2.26 The Druids & Hebrew in piling stones in hon- orem genii Loci suffered them not to be defiled by a Tool. 771 51/2.27 Ada Melvill, a good name. AUGUST l800 [781 772 51/2.28 The same custom as at Wernigerode, is in the parish of Bewcastle--Schoolmaster hired for 10%% a year, & goes about with the scholars begging for victuals by rotation--the cus- tom is called "Whittlegate"-- 773 51/2.29 Lady Dame-- <1f11>1 774 51/2.30 Travelling Conversations--the three Friends called by their Sticks--Larch, Hazel, & Lilack 775 51/2.31 Duty of a Poet to write like a Gentleman. Ad. Smith Europ. Mag. Aug. 1791. 135 776 51/2.32 Skeletons & [? cases/corses] that fall to dust in the air. 777 51/2.70 Wanthate or Wanthwaite continued to Little <1f64>1 Dod, then Great Dod, Watson Dod, Styborough, Whiteside, Helvellin-- 778 51/2.71 Swinside with P's house--then Barrow & the Scar is called Barra/High Moss Hill--Three distances beyond 779 51/2.72 Scar crags with the hollow bason so scored called Ill-crags Rolling end--ascends to <3Caumy>3 Causeway Pike. <1f6 v>1 780 51/2.73 Buttermere scale at the very distance--A large Mountain Gold Scob--Brandlow--that side facing Newland is called Scell- gill bank-- 781 21.67 August 24--Sunday Evening, walked to Latter- <1f9>1 rigg with Sara & Hartley--the Sun set with slant columns of misty light slanted from him/the light a bright Buff--/Walla Crag purple red, the lake a deep dingy purple blue--that Torrent Crag opposite <3our>3 Elder seat a Marone--/but the Clouds--that great 782] AUGUST l800 Egg--almost 1/20 of the whole Heaven in appearance--a fine <1smoke->1 <1flame/-->1--the helm on Skiddaw--in that semicircular Hollow a bridge of clouds [D] over the <3turn>3 bend of the circle, namely at A : B.--and the blue sky seen under it.--The Helm itself a well defined ridge of lead- color'd Clouds.--As we turned round on our return, we see a mov- ing pillar of clouds, flame & smoke, rising, bending, arching, and in swift motion--from what God's chimney doth it issue?--I scarcely ever saw in the sky such variety of shapes, & colors, & colors <1f9v>1 floating over colors.--Solemnly now lie the black masses on the blue firmament of--not quite night--for still at the foot of Bas- senthwaite there is a smoky russet Light.--Tis 9 oclock.-- On the 22nd being last Friday <3nigh>3 evening, on the night when the wind blew from the Helm with such insatiable fury, the sun set more volcanically, but not with such profusion of forms, &c. --Last Sunday morning (,Aug. 17th--)--the Sun then mounting above Windy Brow caught the middle <3Hill>3 Cone of the five Moun- tain Cones before our house--the two foremost black as night, black as night the two farthermost--that in the middle <(High Moss)> a bright Flame. It was a glorious sight.-- <1f63v>1 782 51/2.74 Sun setting over Whinlatter in river of amber <1f63>1 mist over the middle half of it [. . . , . . .] pile of Walla Crag a rich yellow--/only the crown of its head--showed his face for a minute--but setting with moving clouds++/exquisite sattiny yellow now on the green lefthand (as I front) of Walla Crag-- ++ gone--but the Crag beyond it is marone--& Wanthwaite Crag-- <1f9v>1 783 21.68 Monday, August 25.--Clouds over all, and rest- ing on all Skiddaw, & on the <1high>1 crags opposite--/but sun gleams wander about--once the whole vale of Newlands sunny, the <1only>1 sun-spot--& often the High Moss caught a smile from the monarch <1f10>1 whom we cannot see. The Sun setting over Whinlatter sent a river of amber mist athwart the <3hill>3 GREEN below Ill Crags Hollow-- meantime the very <1crown>1 of Walla Crag hath a spot of rich yellow --/Now the sun shews his face--one cheerful gleam over the vale between me & the hill--now gone--/it sets behind moving clouds, of sandy light--/--now a rich satteny yellow on the green ridge to the <3left>3 East of Walla Crag--which soon went to the Wan- thwaite Crags, & the Crag that peeps up above Walla, is a <3rich>3 dusky marone.--No gleam in Newlands.--The Sky to the East & South a large mass of heavy Clouds <3here>3 with one <1small>1 break of dusky marone--to the N. & W. larger but broken masses, red & fluky, & deepening into a Marone--over head marbled Sky with under clouds of pink--the Helm still on Skiddaw.--Our house is <1f10v>1 not a good site for the coloring of the Lakes-- 784 51/2.33 Tour up Saddleback--passing Windy Brow & <1f11v>1 Wood &c, came to a stream which runs between Latter-rigg & <3Threlkeld -:Fells>3 Skiddaw. mounted above High <3rig>3 row--the Der- went water, & the Greta meandring, its right bank <1(down>1 the stream) being Latterig, hollow & woody--two Vales on my left-- mount & mount & mount, the vale now fronting me as I stand-- <1f12>1 lay down, beautiful effect of the vale of St John's with Withburne Water on the right in the distance/endless squares of Land, whose multiplicity by multitude acquires unity--Now at length come to Saddleback properly so called, & see beneath me those precipices & ridges which from the vale of St John's appear tents--the stones <1fl2v>1 burnt evidently--ascend again & again leave the precipices & tents behind me, descend Northward, and ascend, & thence see the Tarn --/a round bason of vast depth, the west arc an almost perpendic precipice of naked shelving crags (each crag a precipice with a small shelf)--to the East the outlet--/North west between a nar- row chasm a little sike, wound down over very green mossy, at <1f13>1 every fall the water fell off in little liquid Icicles, from the points of Moss Jelly bags--in one place a semiround stone, with 16 of these Moss Jelly-Bag-shaped/the tarn oval [D] all within A.B. the shadow of the Northern wall of the Bason, Green with huge scars of bare blue stone dust, & whiter stones--on the <1fl3v>1 green slips within the scars sheep--/all this a beautiful picture within A.B. in the Tarn--no noise but that of the loose stones roll- 785] AUGUST-SEPTEMBER l800 <1f14>1 lng away from the feet of the Sheep, that move slowly along these perilous ledges-- 785 51/2.34 An eminently beautiful object is Fern, on a hill side, scattered thick but growing single--and all shaking them- selves in the wind-- 786 51/2.35 A child scolding a flower in the words in which he had himself been scolded & whipt, is <1poetry>1/past passion with pleasure-- <1f65>1 787 51/2.69 [. . . . . . . . . .] all savages should [ ? purpose/suppose/passive] imitation of [. . . . .] or [. . .] means of [. . . . . .], so poetry [. . . .] recalling of passion in tranquillity, or demands [. . .] [ ? disjunction/distinction/dissociation] of poetry & [ ?painting/pas- <1f64v>1 sion/prose] [. . .] [ ? real/great] [ ? divisive/division] of music [. . . .] not separable [? poetic characters]--Metre distinct and artificial--till at length poetry forgot its essence in those forms which were only hieroglyphic of it. [? Different/Defence of] [?end/aim] of poetry <1f10v>1 788 21.69 Tuesday Aug. 25.--A day of clouds & threaten- ing Showrlets. The Helm on Skiddaw resolved itself into a cloud connected with the great burthens of the Sky. Visited Applethwaite --a divine Village! 789 21.7o Wednesday, 26. Morning--six o'clock--Clouds in motion half down Skiddaw, capping & veiling Wanthwaite. No sun, no absolute gleam/but the mountains in & beyond Borrodale were bright & <1washed-->1And the vale of Newlands silent, & bright --/All the crags that enbason the Derwent Water very dark--espe- cially walla crag, the crag such a very gloomy purple, <3the>3 its treeage such a very black green--shortly after, the Castle & Grange became <1fll>1 illumined--but all soon darkened--a mere gloom of cloudiness.-- N.B. What is it that makes the silent <1bright>1 of the Morning vale so different from that other silence & bright gleams of late evening? Is it in the mind or <3in>3 is there any physical cause?--Our House, in all else a true temple of Nature, is unfortunately placed for the water lights--Derwentwater being to the S. & Bassenthwaite to the N.--& the latter likewise too distance.-- 8oclock--White Cloud rolling along on the edge of a green Sun-spot on the Bassenthwaite Extremity of Skiddaw.-- --1/2 8. In this whole Bason from the mountains of Borrodale to the Hill behind Ouse Bridge but one field is sunny--that with a white Cottage--The Grass yellow green, so bright--the white Cot- tage sparkles like a Diamond in the surrounding gloom.-- A day of cloudiness--& the Sun known to have set by the <3hour>3 <1f11v>1 clock only. Somewhat windy, & in the intervals of the wind drizzly. 790 51/2.36 Silver (jagged) Hem round the shore of the <1f14v>1 Lake, & the shores of its Island/in breeze, mist, & rain--seen from Skiddaw, August 26, 1800. 791 21.71 <3Wednesday>3 Thursday, Aug. 27. A morning of <1f11v>1 masses of clouds rolling in Sunshine the Grange well lighted up--. It rained a trifle. Sunset lights slanted Newland Holl<3and>3ows--smoke flame over Wanthwaite & under that mass a <1wedge>1 of light on the cliff--but soon the whole of Wanthwaite drunk with a black-hued <1scarlet-->1 the distances of Borrodale duskily colored long after the set, & the end of the Lake <3all>3 was crimsoned during the Sunset. As I sate on the side of Skiddaw at one oclock in the noon of this day saw the shore of the Lake & those of its island hemmed with silver in the misty, cloudy, rain-spatter'd Lake-- 11oclock at night--that conical Volcano of coal, half an inch high, <1f12>1 <3sending>3 ejaculating its inverted cone of smoke--the smoke in what a furious wind, this way, that way--& what a noise! The poet's eye in his tipsy hour Hath a magnifying power Or rather <3he diverts his eyes>3/his soul emancipates his eyes Of the accidents of size/ In unctuous cones of kindling Coal Or smoke from his Pipe's bole His eye can see Phantoms of sublimity. 12oclock at night no moon--Heard a nick! nick! at <3my>3 the window-panes--went with the candle--saw at both windows an amazing of flies or small gnats (very small) and a spider whose web was on the outside, as busy as a successful poacher. <1fl2v>1 792 21.72 Friday, Aug. 28.--a sunny day with just clouds enough to make shadows on the mountains. <1fl4v>1 793 51/2.37 August 27--Friday Evening saw the force of the Sattleback Tarn beck about 40 feet high--for the first 8 or 9 <1f15>1 feet it falls perpendicular, water-color--meets a rock, & rushes down in a steep slope, all foam, till the last two feet when the rock ceases but the water preserves the same color & inclination as if it were there/the pool into which it falls is almost a circle, ten yards in diameter with blue slates at the bottom/a young Mountain Ash, with one unripe & never to be ripe cluster is growing athwart it-- <1f15v>1 the fall when perpendicular is about a good yard across, when it runs slope, not more than a foot and a half--but in winter & after rain no doubt it fills the whole capacity of its Scoop, & will then be a yard & a half in breadth/ Something more than a furlong from the Force, not ten yards from <1f16>1 the beck, on the hill 8 heaps of moss, ranged thus [D] each an exact grave, each in the descent somewhat longer than the one higher up, the first 4 feet in length, the lowest 8 1/2. feet--/You have then an august view of (<3Tent>3 Cove-Cragg) <1fl6v>1 with a tree on it--a few yards further a small force with a fine mountain ash over it, and a beautifully long smooth bathing pool at its foot--6 or 7 yards long--/a little further down a third force, uninteresting--but then what a view of that half-moon crag before me, and the inverted crescent on its right hand--ran along & in a <1f17>1 half furlong another beck joined my fellow-traveller. I looked up it into a magnificent embracement of cliff, an embracement two thirds of an oval/another tarn! another tarn! I cried--I ran, and ran, as I approached, psha! said I--where are my wits--tis the same as I before visited & I have been blundering--every moment this conviction increased--& now I saw every minute object of my <1fl7v>1 old friend/but behold! when I came up there was no Tarn awhile --/It might be made a noble Tarn by a couple of stout men in a day's time/--/As I approached, I thought that <3ove>3 Ban Crag & the adjacencies were mossier/ A far more magnificent embrace than that of the Tarn--the as- cent in its central part more bulged & step-like--the Crag that imitated Foul Cragg not so fantastic or terrible, but far far more <1f18>1 majestic/What a noise of Kites! How the sheep stand each on the green ledge-top of <3the>3 its black violet naked Clifflet/ On the next morning I was on the top of Bannerdale Cliff--an erection of Stones is there/ Conical Hill standing belly-high over the Hill <1f18v>1 which forms the left bank of the beck--the right bank that precipice so steep, so very high-- Now our beck joind again Bannerdale Beck Bannerdale Crag--but the fine one Cove Crag 794 51/2.38 Fall of the golden Arc/to be drawn about with four Oxen-- Up Spink! and <3domn>3 [?under] Spark! <1f19>1 Up with God's golden ark Whether God will or no-- 795 51/2.39 Isaak Ritson with Slee & others carried off the Bell of Grisdale Chapel & buried it among some stones in woody Park--They took it down on a ladder, it made a Hole in the <1fl9v>1 Earth/weighed 14 Stone/hummed the folks & sent them to seek for it in strange places-- 796 51/2.40 300 or 400 Sheep in a winter, & [?cant] hold it-- 797 51/2.41 Left Isaac Todd's at Grisdale about 8 oclock, passed along under a Raven Crag, not very high, but craggy as need be, then under a part of Bowscale Fells/and came to Bowscale/ <1f20>1 a pretty cluster of 4 houses, with 5 Sycamores in the green yard of the first--still kept over by Bowscale Fell, on my right hand Carrock, dirt-stone, & red brown Heath/at its foot the sweet cluster of Mosedale, each house with its own trees--before me Slatestone <1f20v>1 Crag--some houses at Mosedale had Firs, some Ashes, some Syca- mores.--So I wound along still under Bowscale Fells till I came just above Drycombe Beck which runs up in the [D] the syke divides it B. & Slatestone Crag, if division it be called which a Baby might pass--there I stopped to look at Swinside three houses, equidistant, each perhaps a furlong from the other, the mid- <1f21>1 dle house hid by Trees, the nearest Mosedale, with two trees at its Gavel end [D] -- Mosedale the <3house>3 other with a fine group ++ of Tree--the Caldew flowing between stone walls both by Swinside & Mosedale this is two Houses, Nicholson the proprietor of all lives there--/ the middle is uninhabited--at the bottom of Carrock it has five <1f2lv>1 Scotch firs--the other trees which encompass are Ash & Sycamore/ Two dry Gills, torrent worn, run down that heath-patched rubbish precipice Carrock, and join at the house [D] the fields on the other side so green till you reach the Caldew--I counted 21 fields in this hamlet in its broadest one long field is its breadth, about 4 1/2 acres in <1f22>1 length is that field whose length forms the breadth of the vale-- from the foot of Carrock to the Caldew--the last & small house with 2 trees is only a wintering House for Hogs--i.e. sheep one year old-- I now wound along up to the Tarn--the water runs nearly from East to West in something of this form [D] A. A. A. A. Its <1f22v>1 shores are a craggy precipice, bulging out where I have put the [D] then at the very edge & with floating reflections of Green, hang a few dwarf trees--B. B. its shore rises up into a round low Hill of gradual ascent, not above 80 strides, for I measured it--lay on its slope, and look at the central part of the Bow [D] : a fine effect of the crags laying as I did on my face sideways to look at them/it <1f23>1 looked in this way like a strange City where nothing was left but the Churches & Steeples--Churches & steeples with green spaces betwixt them--standing at the East & looking down it--you see its outlet the center of an inverted arch, & you look over upon that dead red clay chasm called Brandel head Gill, on that part of Car- rock which ascends from [the] Skiddaw side-- <1f2 v>1 Climbed up the highest part, and came out in Bowscale Mun- grane, Skiddaw fronting me, Carrock, Westfell, Brandelhead Gill, Cokelakes, Snab, & [?Cawvey] which is part of Caldbeck Fells/ Skiddaw ends in Littledaw Crag--on my left the eminences, into which the Grand Island rises up, are Tarn Crag, & Scaknot-- mounted Scaknot. Down down & ascended again to the stone-raise on the highest <1f24>1 part of Bannerdale Crag--My God! What a thing a Lake would make that place!--behind me now was Foul Cragg, it is as it were the step above Bannerdale Crag--a step for Homer's Neptune/ went on toward it, faced <1my>1 Tarn the first, descended to the Beck by the Sheepfold in the valley, ascended a small part of Blen- <1f2 v>1 karthur and followed the road almost to Souterfell then wound down, passed a spring cold as ice & not larger than the palm of my hand, & finally came down by the White horse, about 5 1/2 miles from Keswick. 798 51/2.42 The next morning, it being Sunday, Aug. 31, 1800, left my house, crossed the Greta, passed Window brow, went <1f25>1 on thro' the wood by Wescote and kept the road till it joins the great Turnpike a little above Threlkeld, then got into a field, crossed the Glenderatara, then scaling stone fences wound up along the stony knot at the foot of the green fells/under the White- pike, a hot cloudy Day--Ascended, straight up, for at least an hour <1f2 v>1 --and O! how glad was I at last to see the blue sky on the other side/walked by a more l<3i>3easurely ascent to the very summit of Whitepike--I front Saddlleback stretching away on my left into <3Saddle>3 Skiddaw, Bassenthwaite, and the mountains on the other side of Bassenthwaite to my <3right>3 left hand Derwentwater and the Mountains, which <1f26>1 are the last surge of that enormous ocean formed by the Mountains of Ennerdale, Butterdale, Wasdale & Borrodale--Great Gavel is supereminent on my right hand a flat vale of a vast extent bounded by a range of Hills running from the Sea far, far, far up behind the Mountains of Patterdale behind me in a cres- <1f26v>1 cent the Ulswater Hills & Mountains, the Dodds, Helvellin/ --N.B. Saddleback runs of[f] on its right into Souterfell--and just over Souterfell, my eye I passing by Bowscale Fell & Carrock, I catch a glance of the Sea/--. Immediately on my left hand the Bull Crag over Thirelemeer--I do not see ++ Thirelemeer where I stand, but only about one half of Derwentwater, then the whole <1f27>1 vale of Keswick, & about 2/3 of Bassenthwaite Water. What are the names of the ridges that run that divide St John's vale & Wanthwaite from themselves & from that other which goes up into Keswick? On that which is nearest, indeed close by the great road to Threlkeld there are 2 Tarns, lying like ponds below me. This ridge is divided from the narrowest vale, I almost ever saw. <1f27v>1 Trudge on over a heathy, boggy ground, over the rotten wet scarlet & yellow moss--over ground, which in a wet time would, I suppose, be unsafe--with a little descent & then a little ascent come to a blunt Cone-hill white with stones--a sheepfold at the bottom of it--Surely this must be White pike? & then what is the name of that high round hill, which I have left? Objects seen from thence are to my right-- <1f28>1 1 Saddleback, that is to say from Whinlatterig to its first Tent almost I see the whole, High <3bank>3 Row, Westcott, & its green fields, but after this, it is more than half cut off by the round <3Hill>3 Mountain. 2 Whinlatterig & Skiddaw. 3 Vale of Keswick, the Keswick part of Derwentwater, Bas- senthwaite in an extraordinary beautiful form, and all the Moun- <1f28v>1 tains on the other side of the Lakes-- to my left/the two or three green Mountains & Helvellin/its deep torrent chasmy crags bound the view, so high, so perpendicularly steep ++ on moving a few steps I saw a part of Thirelmeer. behind me Melfell & the vale, not interesting--but in front--a most delicious view/what a Universe Convention of Mountains ending in that vale which goes from Thirlemere to Keswick--all <1f29>1 Thirlemere & the vale of Wytheburn/that grand single Hill at the <3under>3 end of the Lake--how beauteously the river winds between this Hill & the ridge that runs up between the vales into Threlkeld --that ridge how fine with torrent worn, raspberry & milk colored crags--/The Tarn Ridge & the other here appear as one--From this point I hear swelling & sinking a murmur--is it of water? or is <1f29v>1 it of falling screes?--Fine columns of misty sunshine sailing slowly over the crags. I make for the water--it runs down that green Mountain which is so directly behind that which I first ascended/ & somewhat higher than it. I drank, & was refreshed--/ascend this green Mountain/that opposite which immediately fronts Saddle- back & seems to say, I am as high as thou, is surely not Whitepike/ <1f3o>1 I think, I see Whitepike, peeping up on its slope like a Wart be- tween me & the end of Souterfell--and what is the name of that with the Sheepfold?-- How populous is this landscape--<1between>1 the Mountains & the clouds, & slanting adown the clouds, and adown the Mountains, are columns or arches of misty light! from the utmost points beyond the great Gabel to the head of Derwent water they extend--I count <1f3ov>1 25 of them.--What a view of mountains/looking over into the Buttermere Country I count 7 great Mountains, one behind an- other--and I can look in no direction from Langdale to Whinlatter but there are 4 distances/in one direction I count 9--yea, 10.--I left the mountain beck behind me, & went towards St John's Vale. Then wending up the mountain, had St John's at my back as I <1f31>1 climb--till I reach the summit/<1obliged>1 to ascend <1near>1 the top for this Mountain till near the top is divided from that other Mount that looks down on Wythburn by a deep Gill, which, were there any water, would flow down into the Wythburn end of St John's Vale--/When I had wound round so as to come at the very head of the Gill I I determined to wind up to the very top, tho' it led at <1f3lv>1 least 3 furlong back toward Threlkeld--I went, my face still to- ward Wasdale, Ennerdale, Buttermere, &c till I reached the very top, then, & not till then turned my face, and beheld (O Joy for me! ) Patterdale & Ulswater/about Patterdale all that reach, & the rest of it in an edge of Water down to Mr Clarkson's I think I see <1f32>1 his house, but I am sure I see that round <1backside>1 Hill that the Wordsworths & I laughed at there//. I see the whole Vale/ Ulswater like a pond in the midst of it. & then just a turn of my Head and lo! Bassenthwaite in the shape of a Wedge--& Derwent- water (the higher third of it) a Dusky yellowy richness, indented <1f32v>1 & tongued, & with a rim of <1brightness>1 along all its tongued & in- dented Shores--The Island appears a promontory--the house is not visible to me--/This Mountain has two summits, on that which I reached first is a great Heap of stones--but there B. and D. are not seen--I hastened to the second, all one Carpet of Moss, and <1f33>1 found What I described/but to be sure, by the stones we behold that delicious green vale to the left of Ulswater, or rather between me and the head of Ulswater/from the summit nearest Threlkeld to my next object (that sugarloaf on the Mountain that looks down <1f33v>1 on Wythburn) my path bends like a bow, [D] and again another Bow toward Helvellin/& besides these two bows. [D] The <1path>1 is indeed like the space between two bows laid back to back [D] on my right hand a bow & on my left--the left is a sort of narrow vale running to Ulswater-ward, the right Wyth- burne-ward, as I approach the sugarloaf marsh, the ground becomes <1f34>1 morassy, & I pass by many pools--and this is all out of my way, I have nothing to do with this bend of the bow/however I reached the sugarloaf, an uncommonly well built <1Cone>1 of Stones-- The view it commands is divine, Thirelemeer, so black a mirror, & appearing like two lakes--its shores running ever in crescent bays --but (O God) the river that runs across the vales, & that beauteous <1f34v>1 bridge just seen over the bottom of the ridge that divides the vales of St John's & that Keswickward--it's one arch! the Trees by the side of the river near it! [D] A the Lake--B that noble single Hill--C the river--D the ridge <1f35>1 that divides these vales--E E St John's & Wanthwaite--F F. that Keswick-wards but the misty lights upon the mountains--rivers of light--no longer columns, connected with the horizon but the sun/ that vale which I look into over the opposite Thirelemeer Cliffs what is it--Ennerdale or Wasdale? [D] The second Bow looking into a wild vale--or rather gill--for the offrunning mountains <1f35v>1 only <1flatten>1/and>1 indeed that only by those nearest the lake--this Gill runs directly fronting the single noble Hill which blocks up this Hollow or Vale-- the mountains that slope away each side this Gill are huge arms of the Mount on which I stand, but it must be confessed that the sugarloaf point is rather a <1high>1 shoulder, and <1f36>1 that green to which I am bending a <1monstrous>1 high one--/I reach it, the view Wythburn & Keswick-ward much less interesting, but the peep of Ullswater & its white building is delicious--Here I descend, soon to ascended--What a scene of horrible desolateness the ascent is--so scarified with peat holes, on its left running down <1f 6v>1 with white cliffs--Whiteside I suppose--and its top so rugged with white cliffs--this place is evidently Styx Top--/as I ascended (N.B. a perilous morassy bit of Level, unpassable certainly in less dry Weather) The whole of Bassenthwaite and the vale of Keswick behind me with part of the vale of St John's, or rather that Hill all <1f37>1 hedge-fields which divides the Vale of K. & that of St J.--but on my left, my left--Ulswater, a mirror, in the whole [D], passed by the ragged stones on the top, scorious as the dross of a smelting House --the evening now lating, I had resolved to pass by it; but Nature twitched me at my heart strings--I ascended it--thanks to her! <1f37v>1 Thanks to her--What a scene! nothing behind me!--as if it would be an affront to that which fronts me!--two complete reaches of Ulswater, then a noble Tongue of a Hill intercepts by me, and then I see it again, about the half of the Patterdale reach, with its two vales, both its own, like a lake by itself, and away up in the <1f38>1 mountains on the right two Tarns--and close on my right those precipices stained with green amid their nakedness, & ridges, tents, embracing semicircles--I front to them--there are two, and there is a narrow ridge between them--I will go up it--descended/as I bounded down, noticed the moving stones under the soft moss, hurting my feet/ ascend a hill bright yellow green--regain Bassenthwaite. Skid- <1f38v>1 daw & Saddleback--on my left that "Lake by itself" with nothing but itself & the rocks that intercept all else--as I descended before me I saw a scabby Tarn, but now beneath me is another, quite round, a sweet pond--the rill from the higher one--runs close by <1f39>1 it--on the eminence from which I descend to that ridge which I vowed to ascend, a pile of stones--Ulswater on my left, two reaches, on my right all but Derwentwater/in a few steps you see Thirelmeer but can look at nothing for that prodigious Precipice of grey stone with deep Wrinkles facing me/to <3the>3 my right hand as I extend it-- <1f39v>1 ascended that steep & narrow ridge on my right that precipice & the morass at its feet--on my left the two Tairns/& another preci- pice twice as lofty as the other, but its white stones more coated and lined with moss/Am now at the Top of Helvellin--a pyramid of stones--Ulswater. Thirlemere. Bassenthwaite. Wyndermere, a <1f40>1 Tarn in Patterdale On my right Two tarns, that near Gras- mere a most beautiful one, in a flat meadow-- travelling along the ridge I came to the other side of those preci- pices and down below me on my left--no--no! no words can con- vey any idea of this prodigious wildness/that precipice fine on this <1f40v>1 side was but its ridge, sharp as a knife, level so long, and then ascending so boldly--what a frightful bulgy precipice I stand on and to my right how the Crag which corresponds to the other, how it plunges down, like a waterfall, reaches a level steepness, and again plunges! -- <1f41>1 The Moon is above Fairfield almost at the full!--now descended over a perilous peat-moss then down a Hill of stones all dark, and darkling, I climbed stone after stone down a half dry Torrent and came out at at the Raise Gap/And O! my God! how <1did>1 that op- posite percipice look--in the moonshine--its name Stile Crags.-- <1f4lv>1 799 1/2 3 September 1--the beards of Thistle & dandelions flying above the lonely mountains like life, & I saw them thro' the Trees skimming the lake like Swallows-- 800 51/2.44 Tuesday, Sept. 2.--passed the Lake, crossed over by Hammerscar & the Slate quarries--Warthwaite Chapel stile, Harry Place [?Rawhead]/Bower or rather arch of Hue, all flower-gem'd with Honeysuckles in the garden of the <1f42>1 Cottage--climbed up by the Knots to the Tarn, Langdale Pike at the side nearest the vale, fronting me a stupend. Perpendicular crag--ascend that--meet rocks overgrown as with limpets, exact Pyramids/see from this place Helterwater, Loughrigg Tarn, Wynder & Esthwaite, & the Sea-- 801 51/2.45 Range of Hills Coniston Fells & Old Man, Lang- <1f 2v>1 dale Mountains, to Bowfell, Bowfell to Scafell, to Great Gavel/ The whole prospect in one huge sunny mist/ Wednesday, Sept. 3--1800--on the top of Helvellin Harrop Tarn just opposite the Cherry Tree 802 51/2.46 Tarn bank, Stoney rigg, Burset, Whelpside, & then Helvellin--Green Crag at the head of St John's--Wern Crag, <1f43>1 Riggs Haws end/ 803 51/2.47 Subjects for Essays-- 1 Character of Burton & his anatomy of Melancholy. 2 on the <1morality>1 & <1dramatic>1 of Grammars, Spelling-books, & dictionaries-- 3 Compare account of ancient Feasts with Stewart's Routs--See Heath's Ragland Castle-- 4 on the supposed detraction of Authors-- <1f43v>1 5 Nursing of Children on Taylor's life of Christ Why polite Authors have done more than Divines--Vanity more powerful than Religion/ 6 Smoking-- 7 Drinking. 804 51/2.49 Tuesday, Sept. 9--Crossed the meadows to the <1f44v>1 Lake, a heavenly walk this--noticed the houses with the woods at their back, in the best stile of picturesque & at a little way down the River a Boat-house of Bushes, high as a large cottage, with two fine ashes growing high above it, as the lowest part of their Trunks touches the middle half of the house--a perfect model of a Boat- <1f45>1 house, with Gravel ends, a perfect triangle, the base a loft for dry wood &c--waded over the River, passed on the risht of the houses (belonging to old Women) passed thro' the Trees, over fields & fences, came to a peat-ground full of Dutch myrtle & so to Swin- <1f45v>1 side--first mounted the peak on the right, & so passed to that which we see more noticeably from our house--the color of this hill is owing to the red, yellow, & rusty green mingled every where with the grass--as the color of the Barrow is owing to the black ling & green fern/From the point of Swinside the Vale of Newlands (called Portinscale in this part) which runs up between it & Barrow/ <1f46>1 it is so arborous as to look almost like a Somersetshire vale--the winding river with its one arched bridges, hid chiefly where houses by its side have more & higher trees, lovely-- Barrow, Barrowgill, Rolling End, with Causeway Pike for its summit--then the vale of Newlands runs up between it & Maiden Bower & Rubbishin--Gold scob is at the descent of Maiden <1f46v>1 Bower & part of it Then the next hill nearer to the Lake Little Town End, & then Scell Gill Bank, the highest part of Scell gill Bank is called Howthwaite, the other side facing the Lake Brandel How--/ The woody end of Barrow nearer Bassenthwaite is called Little Braithwaite How--/ Next to Barrow that way Whinlatter, then Barth, which the Hill of which Thornthwaite is the <1Vale/>1 <1f47>1 That cone seen over Barrow is Force Crag/ Went down the Lane, stopped at the gate, saw a beautiful of Bassenthwaite thro' an inverted Arch--the round Hill Binsey ter- minated the view--the lake looked like a large reach of a majestic River running straight from W. to N.--this gate not a stone thro' from the Houses called Swinside.-- <1f47v>1 Went down the Lane, crossed the Bridge, O lovely Bridge, left the river & the lane & went straight up a Field till I came to Bar- row Gill--it runs thro' a bed of rock--Almost at the foot of Rolling End a well ivied Bridge/beautiful Pools & water<1slides>1 in this Gill --an eminently beautiful Spout & Pool under the Bridge--the walls <1f48>1 of the Bridge reach to my Ancle only, but the Stone work above the Arch is at least 2 yards/followed this Gill, winding along with Causey Pike on my left & on my Right one point of Barrow, and then another & then a third--& there spotty Skiddaw with his Chasms & ribs in sunshine looked in on me, and Latterig so so soft a pea green, its soft knobby Gavel End yellow/it looked so lovely-- <1f48v>1 Objects thus in front Skiddaw & Latterig seen over the two points of Barrow--2. the vale from Saddleback to Melfell--3. Naddle Fells & <1all>1 Wanthwaite Crags/A peep of the Lake & Castle Crag/ I now came to a level, passed a moss peat, & beheld a narrow <1f49>1 bottom & on the other side, a hill how high I cannot see for the cloud/Grass & Ling, most magnificently <1streamed>1 with purple & Scarlet Screes--made up to some sheepherds by a sheepfold (whom I had seen running down the Hill thro' the mist.) The sheepfold on the other side of Causey Pike called Long Coomb Fells--/That so streamed is called Long Ridge/between the Sheepfold and it a <1f49v>1 point called Sale, <1then>1 Force Crag, & then that long Ridge/the points we see from our House must be some one of the 3 points of Barrow, of which the first is called Barrow, the 2nd Stile Point, the 3rd Outerside I never saw any screes so crimson as those that run down to this <1f50>1 Sheepfold--and others at a little distance on the right are as <1purple-->1 The narrow Bottom is called Cowdale/over Force Crag is Cow- dal Haws which leads into Buttermere--On the left of Cowdale runs Grysdale Pike, standing on Long ridge which descends into a Tongue End called Heavyters and undivided <1f50v>1 descend into Keenbrow/On the right Outerside, & Steil Point Keenbrow is divided by a narrow bottom from Braithwaite Hows/the Gill that runs down from [ ? Clemerson Waters] to Braithwaite is likewise called Barrow Gill--Skiddaw Tent is called Carsleddam-- 805 Friday, Sept. 12th--Grysdale Pike over Heaviters <1f51>1 & Long Ridge./the ridge up to it like that up to one of the Helvel- lin Points//between that & Heavitas & Long ridge a bottom with a stream running toward the turnpike road--the slope of Grys- dale on the other side of that bottom prodigiously steep, & cov- ered with heath so as almost to look like Rappee-- <1f5lv>1 reached the point of Grysdale Pike, look down into another & broader bottom/a wondrous precipice, bulgy, & stained with green which descends & rises again into another ++ Pike/from the end of the Long ridge looking down on the Turnpike, going round that ++ Pike which likewise slopes down into the Road, you <1f52>1 will have described a perfect [D] Horse-shoe/a. Grysdale b. a second pike--c. the precipice pike-- d. that which slopes down into the road/N.B. Grysdale Pike & Ridges to it & from it, quite bare, slatey stones/no grass or moss. A little way from the head of the Horse-shoe another very high Dodd or Pike, from <1f52v>1 which you descend straight down to a small level, nearly over Force Crag, & from thence ascend immediately to Sail & the Crag next it//To this high Dodd I went, & looked down into an- other bottom, and as I fronted, on my right hand a long ridge led <1f53>1 directly down on Crummock, which I saw at the bottom of the bottom/this ridge is a precipice, the chasms of which are so deep, so continuous, & so regular, as to give the appearance of huge black rampart walls running half way down the Steep--I counted 23 of these walls/-- <1f53v>1 Ascend Sail, saw Buttermere & Scale Force with its prodigious length of silver <1Lock,>1 or Twist/passed on over Hill Crags & Long Comb Fells, Coledale on my left, on my right & far away Comb- making Ridges in all directions--Crummock Water is now be- hind me-- <1f54>1 Having as I said, passed over Long Comb Fells on my way toward Causey Pike I hold out my right hand to Steil Point & Heaviters, & the Bassenthwaite, in front is Grisdale Pike/& the Force Crag to the left of it/Over Force Crag is a Green Ascent, making an inverted Arch at its summit--over that arch on <1f54v>1 the right I see the <1wall->1crags I before described--/now I turn my- self round--On my left Derwentwater &c on my right Hill Crags & Sail--in front Coombes--that immediately fronting is a Ness quite grey-white & naked--/under my feet a precipice walled as deeply & strikingly as that leading to Crummock Water/ reach Causeway Pike properly so called--i.e. that which rises up <1f55>1 so high all at once from Rolling End/Bowfell & Great Gavel look immensely interesting from this--so strangely regular in their forms--Bowfell just like St Paul's in a Picture/ 806 51/2.51 Sunday Night 1/2 past 10, Septemb. 14, 1800--a <1f55v>1 boy born/Bracy? 807 51/2.48 A beautiful Rainbow on Skiddaw--the foot of the <1f43v>1 arch in the 3rd Field under Ormathwaite, the other foot just under the nearest part of Skiddaw Dodd--the height of the Arch just in <1f44>1 the half way height of Skiddaw Tent--it faded away into a green reflection preserving its figure--yet so that if I had not seen it be- fore, I should not have thought it a rainbow--/Sept. 19th 1800-- 1/2 past 11. 808 21.73 An interval, during which I travelled much-- <1fl2v>1 Sept. 22. 1800. Monday.--After the so unusual continuance of fine weather the rain seems to have come at last--. Lodore & the fall in Borrodale whiten conspicuously--yet ever and anon the Sun is on the Hills & Mounts, the universal mist not <1dissipated>1 but <1at->1 <1tenuated-->1& sometimes the mist will dissolve wholly from some field or eminence, that stands out from the rest of the Landscape, bright & newbathed--Now the Hills are all in mist but the Vale all bathed & clean, one column of watry Sunshine falls upon the Grange.--To the inverted arch in Newlands clear; at the Arch a wall of impenetrable Darkness-- A pelting shower.--Clear;--& a road of silver brightness from the woods far over the Lake to the <1f13>1 other side of the Island.--Vanishes--beautiful appearance of mov- ing mist, over Newlands--in long dividuous flakes the interspaces filled up by a thinner mist--all in sunlight.-- 809 51/2.52 Star of Wed. 10 Sept.--1800 <1f55v>1 On Saturday Morning, a spectacle &c the body an infant &c-- from the length of time the body had remained in the water the legs had assumed a greenish hue, <1probably from the weeds,>1 and the <1f56>1 flesh was more yielding to the touch than is either necessary or agreeable to describe. 810 51/2.53 <1Essays>1 On the favorable appearances of Society--Dress Dedications &c 81 1 51/2.54 Catch hold of the Bough, as you climb not to sustain but balance--<1Moral use>1 <1f56v>1 812 51/2.55 The most melancholy time after the death of a Friend, or Child is when you first awake after your first Sleep/ when the dizziness, heat, & drunkenness of Grief is gone/and the pang of hollowness is first felt. 813 51/2.56 Sept. 27. 1800--The child being very ill was baptized by the name of Derwent/The Child hour after hour made a noise exactly like the Creeking of a door which is being shut very slowly to prevent its creeking. <1f57>1 814 51/2.57 "To part with a little Babe one had had 9 months in one's arms--and to be glad to part with him too!" 815 51/2.58 Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana a|edificavit urbem/God made the city, & man made the town--Varro lib. 3. Cap. 1. 81651/2.59 Nought by experience than the Wood-rose found Better to cure a mad dog's poisonous wound, This brings away the Gravel & the Stone And gives you ease, tho' to a quarry grown-- Cleve <1f57v>1 817 51/2.6o Sept. 29, 1800--after a most tremendous storm of Hail/the lower Half of the lake bright silver/over it & intercepting Borrodale a <1thick palpable Blue>1 up to the moon/save that at the very top of the blue the clouds rolled lead-coloured--small detach- ments of these clouds running in thick flakes near the moon, & drinking its light in amber & white.--The Moon in a clear azure <1f58>1 sky--the Mountains seen indeed, and only seen--I never saw aught so sublime! 818 51/2.61 Essay--Taste of the Public--to be despised--the <1Vanity>1 of men attaches them to Commonplace because it reminds them of something themselves had said/Taste bad because their occupations bad--go study the different classes 819 51/2.62 Princes by not moving away appear to advance-- <1f 8v>1 as the Moon to the Clouds. 820 51/2.63 Moonlight with no Moon visible--Brandelhow & all the Mountains on the side of the Castle black--but the Castle & that high mountain on its right, in short, all Borrodale, in a white shroud. 821 51/2.64 Listning with untir'd eagerness, while the un- <1f59>1 snuffed Candle's Cone burnt with two points-- 822 51/2.65 Statues of great men, not warriors, should never be more than half--criticize Roubilliac's <1Newton>1/Praise Leibnitz 823 51/2.6 Eastdale--the dusky orange upon the yellowing green under the tender gloom of black [?Purple/Poplar]. = 824 51/2.67 As vehement as a cripple or as a Cross <1f59v>1 825 51/2.68 Oct. 10 White Water Dash, at the top of a Horse shoe valley. [D]/The Dash a precipice of white rock & purple Screes almost perpendicu- lar/The Dash laves its feet/b.b.b.--A semicircular Bason of craggy rocks not very high, variegated with Screes, heath, & moss--/-- this is the upper part of the valley--/The Dash itself is by no <1f60>1 means equal to the Churn milk at East dale, or the Wythburn Fall --this I wrote standing under b.b.b. & seeing the whole Dash--but 826] OCTOBER l800 when I went over & descended to the bottom there I only saw the real <1Fall,>1 & the Curve of the steep slope & retracted--It is indeed so seen a fine thing--it falls parallel with a fine black rock for 30 <1f60v>1 feet, & is more shattered, more completely atomized & white than any I have ever seen--the pool likewise is formed by a few high large stones, and not a yard in breadth, of course as white as the fall itself--/Standing at the bottom you have no view of the Preci- pice on the right of which the Dash comes down--the Fall of the <1f61>1 Dash is in a Horse-shoe Bason of its own wildly peopled with small ashes standing out of the rocks. ./Crossed the stream close by the white pool, stood on the other side, in a complete Spray-rain/Here it assumes, I think, a still finer appearance--You see the vast rug- <1f6lv>1 gedness & angular points & upright Cones of the black rock--The fall assumes a variety & complexity--parts rushing in wheels, other parts perpendicular, some in white horse-tails--white to- ward the right edge of the black two or three leisurely Fillets have escaped out of the Turmoil/Turning your back on the Waterfall you look over in up an arc off the Top In short, <1f62>1 go <1close>1 to it and tis well worth seeing/About 20 yards the Beck forms two other Waterfalls, both pleasing, & both singular--N.B. The precipice, which of course when you are at the bottom loses its perpendicularity, has a row of fine pyramidal rocks on its top of it-- I ought to say, appears when you are at the second Waterfall to have them--for only one is on the Top--/Ascend/and over this <1f62v>1 wch I have been describing as if it were the only yet another far finer, & above that another/they are the finest Water furies, I ever beheld/ <1f53>1 826 4.95 Fingunt simul credent 827 4.96 Mother <1praising>1 another Woman's Infant in dis- praise of her own! 828 4.97 Caldbeck town imbosomed in low woody Hills, a woody scattered village of Mickle-beck--near the Howk--on the <1f52v>1 bank of the Beck prodigious quantities of that huge-leafed Plant Before you stand Fairies' parlors and fine Cathedral <1f52v>1 seats overhung by the rock--in the parlour two window-holes, one at the top, ++ at the ## left as you enter & near the top--/thro' these you see [. . . .] after [. . . . .] [. . . . resemble] bason Kettles on account I suppose of the full- <1f52>1 ness of the Beck, then re-ascend--go again into the Cavern, and see another Chamber, crawl into it--at the end one round Hole, thro' which I glimpse another Waterfall. Shut my eyes/the noise of Water, like that when you are in a Mill, a room off the Great <1f5lv>1 Wheel--climb out thro' the Window hole Just above 5 [. . . . .] or rocks overhanging from a big square <1f5l>1 pillar 3 yards at least Great swinging Pendula of Ivy almost down to the Water./The Inclined Rocks make a natural Bridge over the Beck/ Climbed Carrock--descended just over the last house in Swin- side & almost broke my neck/Above Swinside, just at the bot- <1f50v>1 tom of that 1st winding of the valley, (Swinside is at the head of the second winding) a very fine Slope of Water in the Caldew, a very large rock forms the whole channel, and is about as much raised, as a man lying & raising himself on his elbow--the water in the pool at the bottom for ever fighting up against the fierce descending army of foam/Dolphins [?with the] Water from <1f50>1 the rock/a lively Image of a battle. As I passed under Caldbeck fells, with the Bowscale Fells on my left, found on my splashy mossy path immense quantities of the Tremella, in one either a Mouse's or a Mole's Leg, with a bit of the Skin of the thigh. Oct. 11, 1800. on October 10th, the first Snow fell on Skiddaw. <1f49v>1 ## near the top, & come out on mossy rocks sloping down toward the higher Waterfall--the lower you look down upon from the higher part of this inclined plane--a wild river, two falls, rocks, & trees, all placed in fine & fantastic forms 829 4.98 Those who have written delightful Poems with good sense, & the common feelings of <1all>1 good & sensible men; but without the passion, or the peculiar feelings, <3of>3 & stronger excite- ments of the poetic character--Deserted Village, but especially Cowley's Cromwell-- <1f35v>1 830 4.115 The Sopha of Sods--whole life--sliding down Lattrig--Snow-tree--planting & sowing--poem hid in a tin box-- stooping from sublime Thoughts to reckon how many Lines the poem would make/ 831 4.116 by the Blessing of God, et cetera <1f37>1 832 4.113 Oct. 21--Morning--2oclock--Wind amid its [?brausen] makes every now & then such a deep moan of pain, that <1f36v>1 I think it my wife asleep in pain--A trembling Oo! Oo! like a wounded man on a field of battle whose wounds smarted with the cold-- <1f13>1 833 21.74 Oct. 21. 1800. The dazzling Silver of the Lake in this cloudy, sunny, misty, howling weather! <1f35>1 834 4.1 17 He knew not what to do--something, he felt, must be done--he rose, drew his writing-desk suddenly before him --sate down, took the pen--& found that he knew not what to do. Octob. 30. 1800 835 4.1 18 Derwent laughed at six weeks old--the first thing he appeared to take notice of was the Trees bending &c in the strong wind--this too at 6 weeks. <1f13>1 836 21.75 November. 2--Night--8oclock. one of the sub- limest scenes--it was Moonlight, but the Mist was so thick on the Lake & between me & the Mountains, that of the whole vast Land- scape I could see only Peach's House, the whole of Swinside, & Pocklington's House--//One advantage of white houses.--their shine in the moon. 837 21.76 Nov. 6. Morning--Behind the Grange & the mountain above the Grange a thick Blanket of white wooly cloud --which thinning here & there shewed bits & edges of the Moun- tains behind in the most sublime style NOVEMBER 1800 (848 838 4.114 Nov. 18--Derwent had tears in his eyes when he <1f36>1 cried--Miss W. touched his face with her cold hands. Hart. seemed to learn to talk by touching his mother [. . . . .] 839 4.119 Butcher, Chickens will you kill 'em?--Neay-- <1f34v>1 I don't much like it--I had far fainer kill an Ox.--Novem. 24, 1800. 840 4.120 Melancholy as Sunshine in a dying man's Chamber 841 4.59 have drank, or dropped a teaspoonful down the <1fl9v>1 sides of the glass (which is to stand upon white Paper) you see the lovely coral-shaped shadows--Nov. 24. 1800--1800 842 4.60 [? Stinks/Stoats] like the vulpecula or stiffling Weasel-- 843 4.61 Miss Harrisons--Dr Bellows & Miss <1Vile>1 = Viol --Ear-rings [ ? chants/charity] Sermon 844 4.62 Rabbits hung out to air. <1f20>1 845 4.63 Miss Harris's story. 846 4.121 Nov. 27. Hartley taken ill, white as a sheet-- <1f34v>1 the snow-Mountains almost covered with a <1fog,>1 yet here & there & every where clear spots of bright yellow Sunshine. 847 4.122 The first day on which the whole ground was cov- <1f34>1 ered with Snow--looked like a Sunday. 848 4.123 Friday Night, Nov. 28, 1800, or rather Saturday Morning--a most frightful Dream of a Woman whose features were blended with darkness catching holding of my right eye & attempting to pull it out--I caught hold of her arm fast--a horrid feel--Wordsworth cried out aloud to me hearing my scream-- <1f33v>1 heard his cry & thought it cruel he did not come/but did not wake till his cry was repeated a third time--the Woman's name Ebon Ebon Thalud--When I awoke, my right eyelid swelled-- 849 4.124 Sat. Nov. 29--Rydale looked more lovely than Grasmere, its fantastic variety being counteracted & counterpoised by the uniformity of the Snow every where--The sameness of Grasmere Sombrous-- 850 4.125 Sea [. . . .] burn Hades [. . . . .] <1f33>1 Losing all sight of Land, & still meeting the Billows working out of the West; which together with the blueness of the Water made them quickly expect the Main South Sea. (toiling, tumbling) 851 4.126 <2ta gar kaloumena Daimonia, tauta de ponhrwn>2 <2anthrwpwn pneumata tois zwsin eisduomena>2 Joseph. <1De Bell. Jud.>1 l.7.c.25. 852 4.127 Do you think Swift was really the Author of Mawwollop--? Peach. 853 4.128 Do unto others as they would do unto you--/ Hartley, Derwent Nov. 1800--the rationality of Hans Sachs's law-- <1f32v>1 854 4.129 Cottage, Garden high up the hill--favorite stocks &c with three sticks, roofed with a slate, & stone to keep the slate down/ Three recesses in the Wall, each closed with shutter--in one bees, & a mouse trap--in another a lovers' Chain in a broken pint pot in a broken brown glaz'd Pipkin/in the same recess a Sun- day's Cap hung to dry 855 4.130 The little Rockery Wilderness--sliding down the Rock [. . . . .] children-- <1f32>1 856 4.131 [? Monday/autumn day] In the Lawn by the Wilderness of Rocks an Oak bush with NOVEMBER 1800-<2FEBRUARY>2 1801 (863f <1v>1 oblong carrotty Leaves--heard as I came near it, a noise like a spinning wheel or grasshopper--observed one leaf in brisk mo- tion, from whence this noise proceeded--only one of all the bush --thought it must be some bird, woodpecker pecking, but no! --this one Leaf was by the bending in of its sides a complete scollop shell, & so placed as to catch the wind--hence the upheaval. 857 4.132 Mr Locke supposed himself an <1adder>1 to Descartes <1f3lv>1 --& so he was in the sense of <1viper>1 858 4.133 One of those thoughtful men whose plate of pudding often swims before their eyes while they are eating. 859 4.64 Dec. 1st. 1800 Two Chimneys their smoke form- <1f20>1 ing an arch the one rising straiter-- 860 4.65 A round Club with a branch wound together into knot--cottage in Newlands cockpit--[?at/ask] [?Penrith] for Bi- bles. 861 4.66 She'll gang like a daisy. 862 4.67 Dec. 8. 1800 A Column of yellow Light slanted <1f20v>1 over Pocklinton's Borrowdale while under thick Mist & Cloud [. . . . . .] 863 21.77 <1Adders Tongue. Alder.>1 Ale-hoof. All-good All- <1fl3v>1 heal. A <1llisander. A lkanet.>1 Anise. Agrimony. Archangel. A <1rrow>1 <1grass.>1 Arrow-head. Arsmart. Ash-weed. <1Asp. Asphodel.>1 Awl-wort. <1Balm. Bane-berries.>1 Bank-cresses. . <1Basil. Barberry.>1 Barley. Bast. Bastard-Cress. Bastard-parsley. Bastard-pellitory. Bawd- money. Bear-berries. Bears-foot. <1Bee-flower.>1 Beet. Bell-flower. <1Bent. Bethlem-star.>1 Betony. Bilberries. <1Bird's eye.>1 Bird's foot. Bird's nest. Bistort. Bitter-cresses. Bitter-sweet. Black-berried Heath. Black berry. Black thorn. Bladder-Campion. Bladder-nut-tree. Bladders' snout. Blea-berries. Blinks. Blite. Blood-wort. Blue bot- tle. Bog-moss. Bog-rush. Borage. Bottle moss. Box. Brakes. Bram- <1863f14]>1 DECEMBER l800 ble. Branks. Breakstone. Bromegrass. Brook lime. Brook weed. Broom. Broomrape. Bruisewort. Bryony. Buckbean. Bucks horn. Sea buck thorn. Buck-wheat. Buddle. Bugle. Bugloss. Bullace. Bu- gloss-cowslips. Bull-rush. Bumble-kites. Burnet. Burnet-saxif rage. Burdock. Burweed. Butchers broom. Butter & eggs. Butter bur. Butter-cups. Butter-j ags. Butter-wort. Wild Cabbage. Calamint. Calfsnout. Caltrops. Camline. Cam- mock. Campion. Canary-grass. Candock. Candy-tuft. Canterbury Bells. Capon-tail-grass. Caraway. Cardamine. Carline-thistle. Car- rot. Catch-fly. Catch-weed. Cat-mint. Cats'-ears. Catsf oot. Catsmilk. Cats-tail. Chamomile. Charlock. Cheese-renning. Checquered Daf- <1f14>1 fodil. Cherry-tree. Chervil. Chick weed. Cicely. Churn-staff. Cichory. Cinquef oil. Clary. Cleavers. Cliff-kale. Clivers. Clot weed. Clott-burr. Cloud-berry. Claver. Clover. Club-grass. Club- moss. Club-rush. Cluster-cherry. Cockle. Cock's foot. Cock's head. Codded mouse ear. Codlings & cream. Colewort. Colts-foot. Colum- bines. Comfrey. Couch-grass. Couch-wheat. Cop-rose. Coral-wort. Coriander. Corn-berries. Corn-cale. Cornel. Corn-flower. Corn- parslery. Corn-rose. Corn-sallad. Corn violet. Cotton-grass. Cotton- weed. Cow-bane. Cow-parsley. Cowslips. Cow-parsnip. Cowquakes. Cow-weld. Cow-wheat. Coxcomb. Crab-tree. Crake-berries. Crake- needle. Cranberries. Cranesbill. Crap. Cresset. Cross-wort. Crocus. Crow-berries. Crow-flower. Crow-foot. Crow-garlic. Cuckow-bread. Cuckow-flower. Cuckow-pint. Cudweed. Currants. Cyperus. Cy- perus-grass. Cyphel. Daffodil. Daisy. Damewort. Dandelion. Dane-wort. Darnel. Dead-nettle. Dead-tongue. Dee-nettle. Deers-hair. Devil's-bit. Dew-berry. Dill. Dittander. Dock. D ock-cresses. Dodder. Dog- berry Tree. Dogs-grass. Dogs'-mercury. Dogs'-tail. Dogs'-wheat. Double-tooth. Drank. Drop-wort. Duckmeat. Dutch Agrimony. Dutch Myrtle. Dutch Rushes. Dwale. Dwarf bay. Dwarf Elder. Dway-berries. Dyer's Weed.-- Earth-moss. Earth-nut. Elder. Elecampane. Elm. Enchanters' wort. Endive. Everlasting. Eye-bright. Fair Maids of February. Fat-hen. Fea-berry. Feather-grass. Fell- <1fl4v>1 wort. Fen-berries. Fennel. Fern. Fescue grass. Fetch. Fever-few. Fiddle-dock. Figwort. Finkle. Fir. Five-leaved Grass. Flag. Flax. DECEMBER l800 <1[863f15>1 Flea-bane. Flea-wort. Flix-weed. Flower-de-luce. Flowering Fern. Fluellin (= Veronica officinalis, or common Speed-well). Fools- parsley. Fools stones. Fowl-grass. Fox glove. Foxtail grass. Fram- boise. Frank wort. French Mercury. French Wheat. Fresh Water Soldier. Friars' Crown. Frog-bit. Fritillary. Frogs' lettuce. Fumi- tory. Furze. Gale. Galingale. Garlic. Gatten tree. Gatteridge Tree. Gentle Thistle. Gentian. Germander. Gill. Gilly flower(= Wallflower). Gleddon. Gladioli. Gladwin. Glasswort. Glastonbury Thorn. Globe-flower. Goats' beard. Gold-cup. Golden Rod. Goldilocks. Goldins. Gold of pleasure. Good King Henry. Gooseberry. Goose corn. Goose foot. Goose Grass. Goose-tongue. Gorse. Go to bed at noon. Goulans. Goule. Gout weed. Grass of Parnassus. Grasspoly. Grass wrack. Gray Mill. Greeds. Greenweed. Grig. Gromill. <2e>2 Gromwell. Ground Ash. Ground furze. Ground Ivy. Ground-pine. Groundsel. Guelder Rose. Guinea-hen-flower. Gypsie-wort. Hair Grass. Hard beam Tree. Hard grass. Hard heads. Hard Irons. Harebell. Haresfoot. Harestail. Hares strong. Hartshorn. Harts tongue. Hart wort. Hasel nut. Hather. Hawk-nut. Hawk's beard. Hawksweed. Hawthorn. Headwark. Heartsease. Heath. Hedgehog Grass. Hedge Hyssop. Hedge Mustard. Hellebore. Helleborine. Helme. Hemboreth--Hemp Agrimony. Hemp <1f15>1 weed. Henbane. Henbit. Hensfoot. Hep-Tree. Herb Bennett. Herb Christopher. Herb Gerrold. Herb Paris. Herb Robert. Herb- twopence. High Tapers. Hind-berry. Hogs fennel. Hog weed. Holly. Holy Rose. Honesty. Hone wort. Honey suckle. Hops. Hop trefoil. Hore hound. Hornbeam Tree. Honey suckle Dwarf. Horn-beech Tree. Horned Poppy. Horn weed. Horse-bane. Horse- beech Tree. Horse knope. Horse-radish. Horse-shoe Vetch. Horse- tail. Hounds' berry. Hounds' Tongue. Hounds tree. House leek. Hover. Hur burr. Hurtle-berries. Hurt-sickle. Hyacinth. Jack by the Hedge. Jacob's Ladder. Ivy. Jurnut. Ivy-leaf. Juni- per. Impatient. Kale. Kelp-wort. Kernel Wort. Kex. Kidney Vetch. Kidney wort. Kings' claver. Kings' spear. King cup. Kipper-nut. Knap weed. Knawell. Kneed Grass. Knee Holly. Knolles. Knop weed. Knot grass. Knout-berries. Ladder to Heaven- Ladles Bedstraw. Ladies Cushion. Ladies finger. Ladies Mantle. Lady Seal. Ladies Slipper. Ladies Traces. Lady Grass. Lady-Smock. Lake weed. Lamb-lettuce. Lambs'- quarters. Lancastrin Asphodil. Lark Heel. Lark Spur. Lark Heel. <1fl5v>1 Lang de boeuf. Lavender Thrift. Leopards' Bane. Lettuce. Lily of the Valley. Lime Grass. Lime Tree. Linden tree. Ling. Liq- uorice. Little Sun flower. Live for ever. Lizard-flower. Lob-grass. Locker Gowlans. London Pride. Loose-strife. Lords & Ladies. Louse berry. Louse wort. Lovage. Love in Idleness. Lucern. Lung Wort. Madder. Madnep. Madwort. Maiden hair. Maithes. Makinboy. Mallow Maple. Marestail. Marle-grass. Marigold. Marjoram. Marram. Marsh Cleaver. Marsh Gentian. Marsh Locks. Marsh Mallow. Marsh Marigold. Marsh trefoil. Master wort. Mat grass. Matfellon. Mathen. Matweed. Mauls. May. May lily. May weed. Mazzards. Meadowbouts. Meadow grass. Meadow pink. Meadow Saffron. Meadow Saxifrage. Meadows-sweets. Mealy Tree. Me- dick. Medlar. Melic. Melilot. Mezereon. Milfoil. Milk Thistle. Milk wort. Millet. Millet grass. Mill mountain. Milk Weed. Milt waste. Mint. Missel. Misseltoe. Mithridate-mustard. Money Wort. Moon flower. Moon wort. Moor-berries. Moor-grass. Moor- wort. Moss-berries. Moschatel. Moss Crops. Mother Wort. Moun- tain Ash. Mountain Saffron. Mouse-ear (= Forget me not) . Mouse <1v>1 tail. Mudweed. Mug weed. Mug wort. Mullein. Muscovy. Mus- tard. Myrtle flag. Myrtle grass. <1f16>1 Nail Wort. Nape. Navel Wort. Naven. Needle Furze. Nep. Nettle. Nettle Hemp. Night Shade. Nipple Wort. Nonsuch. None so pretty. Oatgrass. Oat. Oller. One-berry. Orach. Orpine. Osier. Osmund royal. Osmund Spicant. Owler. Ox-eye. Ox-heel. Oxlips. Ox- tongue. Paddock pipe. Paddow-pipe. Pagils. Paigles. Painted Cup. Panick. Pansies. Parsley. Park leaves. Parsley piert. Parsnep. Pasque flower. Pea. Pearl wort. Pear-tree. Pease-everlasting. Pease- ling. Pellitory. Penny cress. Penny grass. Penny royal. Penny wort. Pepper grass. Pepper moss. Pepper wort. Perriwinkle. Per- sicary. Pestilent Wort. Pettigree. Petty-muguett. Petty Whin. Pewter wort. Pignut. Pilcorn. Pile wort. Pills. Pill wort. Pimper- nell. Pink. Pipe wort. Pipperidge-bush. Pissabed. Plantain. Pleas- ant in sight. Plowman's Spikenard. Plumb-tree. Poley-mountain. Polypody. Pond weed. Poor man's Pepper. Poppy. Poplar. Prick Madam. Prick timber. Prick Wood. Prim. Prim rose. Print. Privet. Purslane. Princes Feather-- Quake Grass. Queen of the Meadows. Quicken Tree. Quick-in- hand. Quill-wort. Quitch-grass. Ragged Robin. Ragwort. Rait. Rampions. Ramsons. Rape. Rash <1fl6v>1 berries. Raspberry. Ray Grass. Red Morocco. Red rot. Red shanks. Reed. Reed Mace. Reseda Rest harrow. Rib grass. Roan Tree. Robin run in the Hedge. Rock cress. Rocket. Rose. Rose bay. Rose mary. Rose root. Rose wort. Rose weed. Rupture Wort. Rush. Rush Grass. Rush Wheat. Rye. Rye Grass. Saffron. Sage. Sage of Jerusalem. Saintfoin. Sallow thorn. Salt wort. Samphire. Sand wort. Sanicle. Sauce-alone. Saw wort. Saxi- frage. Scabious. Scorpion Grass. Scotch fir. Scrambling Rocket. Scrogs. Scrooby grass. Scurvy grass. Sea Cole wort. Sea cushion. Sea Gilliflower. Sea Grass. Sea Holly. Sea Lavender. Sea Parsley. Sea Parsnep. Sea Rocket. Seaves. Sea wheat. Sea Worm wood. Seg. Seg gram. Self-heal. Sen green. Septfoil. Seseli. Setter wort. Service tree. Shave grass. Sheeps bit. Shepherds' needle. Shepherds' Pouch. Shepherd's Rod. Shepherds' Staff. Shoreweed. Silver weed. Simplers Joy. Simson. Skerret. Skull cap. Sloe. Small age. Snailshell. Snake weed. Snap dragon. Sneerewort. Snow Drop. Soap Wort. Soft grass. Solomon's Seal. Sorb. Sorrell. Southern Wood. Sowbane. Sow thistle. Sparagus. Spatling Poppy. <1f17>1 Spear wort. Speed well, (or Fluellin). Sperage. Spicknell. Spider Ophrys. Spider Wort. Spignell. Spindle Tree. Spinnage. Spleen- wort. Spoon wort. Spring grass. Spurge. Spurge flax. Spurge Laurel. Spurge Olive. Spurry. Spur wort. Squill. Squinancy Ber- ries. Squinancy Wort. Squitch. Squitch Grass. Star grass. Star of the Earth. Star Thistle. Star-Wort. St Barnaby's Thistle. Stitchwort. St James's Wort. St John's Wort. Stock bill. Stone crop. Stone Parsley (= Crisped Stone Fern). Stone wort. St Peter's Wort. Strap wort. Strawberry Tree. Strawberry. Succory. Suffolk Grass. Sulphur Wort. Sundew. Sweet Briar. Sweet Fern. Sweet Flag. Sweet William. Sweet Willow. Swines' Cress. Swine's eye. Swine's Succory. Sycamore Tree. Tansy. Tare. Tassel Grass. Teasel. Tent Wort. Thistle. Thorn Apple. Thorough Wax. Three-faces under a hood. Thrift. Thrum Wort. Thyme. Timothy Grass. Toad Flax. Toad Grass. Tooth Wort. Tormentil. Touch me not. Tower mustard. Tower Wort. Travellers' Joy. Treacle Mustard. Tree Mallow. Trefoil. True love. Tube root. Tulip. Tun hoof. Turkey pod. Turneps. Tutsan. Tway-blade. <1fl7v>1 Upland Burnet. Valerian. Velvet leaf. Venus Comb. Venus Looking glass. Vernal Grass. Vervain. Vetch. Vetchling. Vine wild. Violet. Violet Calathian. Viper Grass. Virgins' Bower (= Travel- ler's Joy, Great Wild Climber, Honesty, Clematis) Wake Robin. Wall cress. Wall flower. Wall Penny wort. Wall pepper. Wall rue. Wall wort. Wart-wort. <1Water->1-Agrimony, Aloes, Avens, Betony, Can, cresses, Dock, Elder, Gilliflower, hemlock, hemp, lily, Milfoil, Moss, Parsnep, pepper, radish, rocket, socks, trefoil, Violet, & lastly <1Water->1wort. Way-bennet, Way bread. Way faring Tree. Weasel Snout. Weld. Wheat Grass. Whins. White-beam Tree. White-bottle. White rot. White thorn. Whitlow Grass. Whortle Berries. <1Wild->1-Cheiv, Briar, Climber, Parsley, Pear, Radish, Rocket, & lastly <1Wild->1Williams--Wilding. Willow. Willow-herb. Wind- berries. Winter cresses. Winter green. Winter Rocket. Witch Elm. Witch Hazle. Woad. Woalds. Wolfsbane. Wolfs claw. Woodbine. Wood roof. Wood rowe. Wood sage. Wood Sorrel. Wood waxen. Worm seed. Worm wood. Worts. Wound-wort. Wymote. <1f18>1 Xanthy. Yarrow. Yellow rattle. Yellow wort. Yellow-weed. Yew tree. Youth wort. Zannichelly--or Horned Lake Weed. Xanthy, or lesser Burdock. 864 21.78 Luther--a hero, one fettered indeed with preju- dices; but with those very fetters he would knock out the Brains of a modern Fort Esprit. 865 21.79 Frightening by his Prejudices, as a Spirit does by clanking its chains. 866 21.8o Not only words as far as relates to speaking, but the knowlege of words, as distinct component parts, which we learn by learning to read--what an immense effect it must have on our reasoning faculties?--Logical in opposition to real. 867 21.81 Children in making new Words always do it analogously--explain this.-- 868 21.82 Hotheaded men confuse, your cool-headed Gen- try jumble, the man of warm feelings only produces order & true connections--in what a jumble M. & H. write--every third para- graph beginning with--"Let us now return" or "We come now to the consideration of such a thing"--i.e. what I <1said>1 I <1would>1 come to in the Contents prefixed to the Chapter.-- 869 21.83 Act the first-- <1fl8v>1 Essex returns from Expedition, hastens to report it to the Queen who is at <3an>3 a Lady's Seat--this Lady he in Love with--determines to see <1her>1 first, & enters the garden by a private key--. a beautiful Woman bathing in a half mask--attempted assassination--he saves her Life--she gives him her Scarf to bind round his scratch--. Scene. 11. Essex & his Confidant--Essex afraid of being now detected in consequence of this attempted assassination gives up his design of visiting Blanca--. This is evening/ Scene 3 --The next morning-- The Duke of Alonzon, & Blanca's Maid Flora--Alonzon came to England as Ambassador, but in truth to woo the Queen--but he is now deadlily in love with Blanca & wishes to <1debauch>1 her--Flora scouts the idea, but without disclosing her connection with Essex-- he gives Flora a letter & wishes himself to steal upon her while she is reading it in order that he may see what effect it will have-- gives Flora a golden chain, Scene IV Essex & Blanca--protestations of Love, & she opens her treachery --he finding it vain to dissuade her pretends to join it--he finds that it was her Uncle who had attempted to kill the Lady, & that the Lady was the Queen/he sits down to write a Letter--/ <1fl>1 Scene 5 The Duke of Alonzon steals in, observes Essex writing, hears him read the Letter & then suddenly rushes in/Quarrel between him & Essex. Scene 6t Queen & the Chancellor disagree on the assassination-- she forbids any search--will return to the Capital on the morrow Essex & the Queen--he with the Scarf--a love Scene--/ Act 11. <1London>1 Essex & Confidant--gives the Pistols to be carried into Blanca's room--whither he is going--for fear on his return he should be attacked. Takes off the Scarf, lest Blanca should see it & be jeal- ous-- Scene 11-- Enter Blanca--Cosmo awkwardly hides the Scarf, not unob- served by Blanca who comes to bring Essex to the Queen--Essex privily orders Cosmo to be secret about the Scarf. <1fl9v>1 Scene 111-- Cosmo alone, tormented with his Secret. Blanca returns, & finds out from Cosmo that a Lady has given Essex this Scarf--/-- Scene lv The Queen--low spirited--Blanca goes off to call Irene, to sing to the Queen --as she goes, enter Scene v Essex--wishes to avoid the Queen--the Queen him, yet both stay Irene sings before the Chamber/a Love Scene he parodies or glosses the song/she encourages him to speak his mind out. when lo--who comes in but Blanca with the <1Scarf>1 on to announce Alonzon--/ Scene 6 Excellent--the Queen's jealous agony, Essex not perceiving the Scarf, she bids Alonzon--Blanca returns--Essex ventures to name his Love--She falls into rage, & threatens him on his daringness-- Both go off--& in come Scene 7 Blanca and Alonzon--Blanca confesses to the Duke all her con- nection with Essex--Alonzon promises to plead for her with the Queen-- Scene 8 The Queen returning--Alonzon says he begs of her to grant one request which Blanca will make--& Exit-- <1f20>1 Scene 9 Blanca & the Queen-- Blanca declares her Love--the Queen treats her with rage-- & sends her off-- Scene 9 The Chancellor & the Queen--presents papers, the first from an Earl--she takes them dismisses the Chancellor & falls asleep-- Scene 10 Blanca enters with the Pistol &c &c Act 111. Cosmo brought back with the Letter, & the Duke tells all he knows. Scene 2 The Prison--Essex & the Chancellor. Essex wishes to see Blanca in order to dissuade her from further treason but being refused resolves to write to her Scene 3 Essex & the Queen in the Mask--the Key &c--Essex gives Cosmo the Letter--the rest make out songs close. <1fl>1 870 1.2 Pacchiaretti <1f8>1 871 1.11 Scene the first--a fertile Plain with cottages, at the foot of the Pyranees. Don Curio, Sandoval, Herrera, in military Dresses, with attendants.--The Indignation of all at their recall, just after the victory &c. Scene 11 Enter Don Henry--reproves Don Curio for his disrespectful expressions to the Queen--sends them on to solicit hospit. at the Castle in view of Donna Oropeza--all but Sandoval, to whom he confides his amour with Donna Oropeza & sends him to her to inform her that he is coming to her thro' the private Door . .--60 Scene the third changes to a Grove in a garden, <3the>3 Three Con- <1f8v>1 spirators, in masks one with Bow &c, as Archers--The Lady in a veil &c--the Scarf given etc. 50 XX 60 Scene the fourth, changes to an elegantly furnished Room of Donna Oropeza--Alva & Mira--[. . .] Scene the fifth-- Don Henry & Oropeza, &c--&c--end of the first act.-- Act the second, Scene the first. The grove in the garden, Don Henry, & Sandoval, after that a Priest. Scene the second <1f9>1 changes to the Royal Apartment--The Queen alone, a short solilo- quy--the Chancellor Alva announced. He gives the Report & calumniates Don Henry, which is ill received by the Queen--he endeavors to persuade her that Don Henry is at the bottom of the assassination &c. Scene the third--the General &c announced. The Queen. Alva. Don Henry. Don Curio. Herreras. and several other officers. High Words. Don Henry, tho' he curbs in Don Curio, yet bursts himself into haughty language against Alva, who almost charges him with being privy to the assassination of the Queen--He starts--& puts on the Scarf, the Queen had given him--. The Queen orders all <1f9v>1 to leave her, but Don Henry--and a love Scene follows. Act the third-- An apartment in the Royal Palace at Pampilona. Don Henry & Barnard--/ the Scarf--Oropeza &c--Don Henry goes off to the Queen. Scene the 11 Oropeza & Barnard--he tells a hundred lies, & makes Oropeza believe Don Henry had the Scarf from a most beautiful Lady &c-- Scene the third changes to the Queen's apartment = The [Queen] and her <1fl0>1 Ladies. She low-spirited, wishes to be alone--bids them send Aspa- sia to sing behind the Scene.--Don Henry enters while singing, in commenting on the song declares his Love--she urges him to be more explicit--he is about to do it--Oropeza with the Scarf to an- nounce the Alva &c &c-- Scene the fourth Oropeza & Alva she confesses her Love--the Queen returns--& Alva requests one thing of the Queen, to be granted--Oropeza can tell what--/. Oropeza relates her passion, & requests per- mission to marry Don Henry--the Queen's rage &c &c <1fl0v>1 Act the fourth 872 1.12 For we rarely meet with such spirits which love Virtue so metaphysically, as to abstract her from all sensible & de- licious compositions, and love the purity of the Idea. St Lewis the king sent Ivo Bishop of Chartres on an Embassy: & he told; that he met a grave Matron on the way with a fire in one hand, and water in the other; and, observing her to have a melancholic, re- 873] DECEMBER l800-<2JANUARY>2 1801 ligious and fantastic deportment & look, asked her what those symbols meant, & what she meant to do with her fire & water. She answered, my purpose is with the fire to burn Paradise, & with my water to quench the flames of Hell, that men may serve God with- out the incentives of hope & fear, & purely from the love of God. <1f20>1 873 1.27 Sara sent twice for the measure of George's Neck --he wondered, Sara should be such a fool, she might have meas- ured William's or Coleridge's, as all poets' Thropples were of one Size. <1f20v>1 874 21.84 Albert's Neue Biographien der Selbstmo%rder First Vol. 122. Lord Pisport. In Paris lebte ein Engla%nder, den wir den Lord Pisport nennen wollen. 875 21.85 The thin scattered rain-clouds were scud- ding along the Sky, above them with a visible interspace the cres- cent Moon hung, and partook not of the motion--her own hazy Light fill'd up the concave, as if it had been painted & the colors had run.--Dec. 19. 1800. 876 21.86 He to whom all things are one, who draweth all things to one, and seeeth all things in one, may enjoy true peace & rest of spirit.-- Jerome Taylor's Via Pacis. 877 21.87 To each reproach that thunders from without May Remorse groan an echo. 878 21.88 A Prison without ransome, anguish without pa- tience, a sick bed in the house of contempt-- 879 21.89 <2`O eusebwn a)/krws philosopheiv kiwris ga\r philo->2 <2sophias ~krws eusebhsai advnaton.vO de mathwn oi estiv kai p~s>2 <2diatetaktai, kai Upo tinos kai eneken tinos kiarin tw dhmiouyg~,>2 <2ws patri agathph, kai trophei kirhstph kai epitropw ~ist~v>2 <2omolognsai.>2 <1vO>1 <2d~ ki~rin omolog~n euseb~sei- ~ d~ euseb~n>2 <2isetai kai pou estin h alhtheia kai tis estin ekeinh, kai mathwn>2 <2eti mallon eusebesteros estai.>2 <1f21>1 Herm. Trismeg. in libro qui inscribitur <2peri eusebeias kai philo->2 <2sophias.>2 880 21.9o Harum indagatio subtilitatum etsi non est utilis ad machinas farinarias conficiendas exuit animum tamen inscitia|e ru- bigine, acuitque ad alia. Scaliger. Exerc. 307. #.3. 881 21.91 Exul cui nusquam Domus est, sine sepulchro est mortuus. Publius Mimus. 882 21.92 Medea came to the aged Pelias, pretending that she would restore him to his <1Youth,>1 as she had done A|Eson, her Husband, Father--persuaded his credulous Daughters to cut in pieces his aged Limbs, and to boil them in a Cauldron which she had prepar'd--which when the Daughters had done, she leaves them guilty of parricide, & frustrate of their foolish hopes, & by flight escapes their vengeance./Applied to revolutionary Incen- diaries. 883 21.93 Lactantius reports that Hymen was a beautiful Youth of Athens, who, for the love of a young virgin, disguised himself & assisted at the Eleusinian Rites--& was, with his Beloved & divers other maids of that city taken & carried away by Pirates (and by them who supposed him a maid) lock'd with his Mistress. He when the Pirates were asleep cut their throats, & then making hasty way to Athens told the Parents that he would restore their Daughter if they would consent to their marriage. They did--the marriage proved peculiarly happy--& thence it became a custom to invoke the name of Hymen at nuptials.--an excellent subject for a Poem. 884 21.94 Age, anime! fac quod nulla Posteritas probet, <1f2lv>1 Sed nulla tacent. 885 21.95 French Liberty a Colossal Statue of Corinthia Brass, made by commixture of all metals in a conflagration of the State-- 886] DECEMBER 1800-<2JUNE>2 1801 886 21.96 To <1think>1 of a thing is different from to <1perceive it>1, as "to walk" is from "to feel the ground under you"-- a succession of perceptions accom- panied by a sense of <1nisus>1 & purpose. 887 21.97 Space--is it merely another word for the percep- tion of a capability of additional magnitude--or does this very per- ception presuppose the idea of Space?--The latter is Kant's opinion. 888 21.98 A Babe who had never known greater cruelty than that of being snatched away by its mother for half a moment from the nipple in order to be kissed. 889 21.99 If he were dissected, the cerebellum alone &c 890 2l.loo To attempt to subordinate the idea of Time to that of likeness. 891 21.101 Every man asks--<1how?>1 This power & instinct is <1f22>1 the true substratum of philosophy--Hence called by Wolff eine Wissenschaft aller mo%glicher Dinge, wie und warum sie mo%glich sind. <1f20v>1 892 4.68 In the Essay on Criticism to examine whether or no a great Critic must needs be himself a great Poet or Painter--/& to introduce a <1highly>1 written character of <1Rotha-->1 893 4.69 Much injury has been done to society by the naked <1assertion>1 of Truths which have been repeated till at least they have [been] treated with contempt as old Paradoxes. Ex.gr. If Berkley instead of asserting that England could sustain three times its num- <1f21>1 ber, tho' it were encompassed by a brass Wall 50 cubits high, had written a treatise as long & eloquent as that which he squandered upon Tar Water & layed open the whole of the good, & all of the evil & delusion of Commerce, & artificial Wealth--my God, what a difference-- 894 4.7o Objects, namely, Fire, Hobs, and Kettle, at the first Look shone apparently upon the green Shrubs opposite to the Parlour, but in a few seconds acquired <1Ideal>1 Distance, & tho' there <1f2lv>1 were of course no objects to compare that Distance by, the Shrub- bery limiting the view, yet it appeared <1indefinitely>1 behind the Shrubbery--/I found in looking an unpleasant sensation, occa- sioned as I apprehend from the distinctness of the Shrubbery, & the distinct shadowyness of the Images/ 895 4.71 Silver & Gold repel the Dews from Heaven--dry when all around is blessed with it--except indeed in its immediate <1f22>1 vicinity. 896 4.72 Old Willy Bank has a passion for old antique Cupboards & Drawers & at different Sales, of the old farmers of the Country, he has bought 19.--Now how to reconcile this with his avarice?--Why, he lets them out to poor people at a shilling a year each & they are to keep them in repair--he gets from 15 to 20 per cent for his money as few have cost him more than 3 or 4 Shillings. 897 4.54 The gray Authority of most unchangeable & sov- <1fl8v>1 ereign Rules 898 4.55 A Wish not to perish by the vain Breath or Doom of this Age-- 899 4.56 Upon a sunny Holiday When the Bells were ringing merrily I looked from my window On the dazzling Lake that twinkled Thro' the dancing Leaves of The Trees on the Margin 900 4.57 On a man's Coffin--"Died in his 208th year"-- <1fl9>1 <1Bless me!-->1I enquire--he was 28, when he died.-- 901] DECEMBER 1800-FEBRUARY 1801 901 4.58 He received a letter, knew from whom it came, determined not to read it--yet still his Heart burnt, beat and was heavy--at length he put it out of his pocket, and felt himself easier by that very act-- <1f22>1 902 21.1o2 The excellent distinction between klar und deut- lich (clear and indicable)--I have both a clear and indicable notion of Rain--it is a multitude of Drops of Water falling to- gether & successively through the air from the clouds or from above at least--it is clear, for I have an intuition accompanying each word which I use in the analysis--and it is indicable, for I can in like manner analyse snow & hail & running water, etc. and <1show>1 that Rain is different from them. But <1Red>1 is a clear notion. I <1know>1 it when I see it, and I know that it is different from Green, & Blue--but I cannot shew the difference/in like manner the noise of winds, compared with the noise of Water--. and all Tastes & Smells, are clear, but none of them indicable ideas or notion. Qua|ere--all are unindicable Ideas, that are clear, elementary or simple?--That is, not composed?--It is certain that all indicable notions are compounded, or they could not be analysed/ yet I am inclined to believe, that many unindicable notions are com- posite, and that we are conscious that they are so--there always <1f22v>1 however remains the possibility of <1making>1 such notions indicable/ and this is the distinction between clear & muddy headed men/& this too the business of Education, in its <1latter>1 stages. I say, <1latter,>1 because I believe,nothing more unfavorable to intellectual pro- gression, than a too early habit of rendering all our ideas distinct & indicable. Jan. 31. 1801 903 21.103 Notions are of course <1indicated>1 in different degrees of perfection--The Cartesians indicated Body, when they said it was a being extended in length, breadth, and thickness--or depth/but they hereby imperfectly indicated, because these quali- ties belong to Space likewise. The discovering whether or no your notions of a thing are <1completely distinct>1 (ausfu%hrlich) greatly taught by Chemistry--in a less degree, by Botany.-- <2JANUARY->2FEBUARY 1801 [908 904 21.104 Empirics are boastful <& Egotists> often because they introduce apparent novelty--which excites great op- position-- opposition creates re-action (which is of course, a consciousness of power) associated with the <1person>1 reacting. Para- celsus was a boaster, it is true--so were the French Jacobins--& Wolff, tho' not a boaster, was persecuted into a habit of Egotism in his philosophical writings.--So Dr John Brown--Milton in his prose works--&c--and those in similar circumstances who from prudence abstain from Egotism in their writings, are still Egotists among their friends--/It would be unnatural effort not to be so/& Egotism in such cases is by no means offensive to a kind & discerning man-- Some flatter themselves that they abhor egotism--& do not suffer it to appear prima2 facie either in their writings or conversation: <1f23>1 however much & however personally they or their opinions have been opposed--What now? Observe, watch those men--their habits of feeling & thinking are made up of <1contempt,>1 which is the concentrated Vinegar of Egotism, it is La|etitia mixta cum odio/. a notion of the weakness of another conjoined with a notion of our own comparative strength, tho' that weakness is still strong enough to be <1troublesome>1 to us --<1Die Bette>1 <1thut.>1 905 21.105 Imaginatio quoque in actum perceptionis influit-- Wolff. Annot. in Psych. rat. #.24. vide Pl. 76. 906 21.106 Positive or accumulate Pain not necessary to Sym- pathy--Hartley & the horrid pictures--"out of action" excites di- vulsion in the mind &c-- 907 21.107 So <1limited>1 his proposition, that the poor proposi- tion is squeezed to death. 908 21.108 Quare ulterior disquisitio morosi atque satagentis animi est: Humana|e enim sapientia|e pars est, qua|edam a|equo animo nescire velle. Scal. Ex. 307. #.29 909 21.109 of arguing in a circle and so we whirl round & round in perpetual & vertiginous agitation--agitation & vertigo.-- 910 21.110 Godwin's Philosophy contained in these words, Rationem Defectus esse defectum Rationis. Hobb. 49. Examin. & Emend. Hod. Math. 911 21.111 Animadverte quam sit ab improprietate verbo- rum, pronum hominibus prolabi in errores circa res. Id. p.55. 912 21.112 p.59.--Look for an exquisite illustration of words put in to balance & produce uniformity 10 + 01 = 0011--which hath certainly a very magnificent appearance. <1f23v>1 913 21.113 Maximum et velut radicale Discrimen ingenio- rum quoad philosophiam et scientias illud est; quod alia ingenia sunt fortiora et aptiora ad notandas rerum differentias, alia ad notandas rerum similitudines. Ingenia enim constantia et acuta figere contemplationes et morari et ha|erere in omni subtilitate dif- ferentiarum possunt: ingenia autem sublimia et discursiva etiam tenuissimas et catholicas rerum similitudines et agnoscunt & com- ponunt--utrumque autem ingenium facile labitur in excessum, prensando aut gradus rerum aut umbras. Novum Organum. Aph. Lv. Contemplationes natura|e et corporum in simplicitate sua intel- lectum frangunt et comminuunt: contemplationes vero natura|e et corporum in compositione & configuratione sua2 intellectum stupe- faciunt & solvunt. Id optime cernitur in schola L[eucippi] et D[emocriti] collata cum reliquis philosophii. Illa enim ita versatur in particulis rerum ut fabricas fere negligat: reliqua|e autem ita fabricas intuentur attonita|e, ut ad simplicitatem natura|e non pene- trent--Itaque alternanda|e sunt contemplationes ista|e et vicissim sumenda|e--ut intellectus reddatur simul penetrans et capax, et evitentur ea qua|e diximus incommoda atque idola ex iis provenien- tia. Idem LVll. JANUARY-MARCH 1801 (918 Pessima: [enim] res est errorum Apotheosis.--Mr. Hume says --Go into everlasting Darkness--of Virgil &c--Verus enim con- <1f24>1 sensus is est, qui ex libertate Judicii (re prius explorata2) in idem <1v>1 conveniente consistit. At numerus longe maximus eorum qui in "Virgilii laudes" [Aristotelis philosophiam] consenserunt, ex pre- judicio et authoritate aliorum se illi mancipavit; ut sequacitas sit potius et coitio, quam consensus. Novum Organum-- [Idem Lxxvll ] --Et tamen (quod pessimum est) pusillanimitas ista non sine ar- rogantia2 & fastidio se offert. [Idem Lxxxvlll]. For the Progressive- ness of H. R. Nov. Or. Indeed the whole of Aph. 88 is noble to this purpose. Item 92. p.298. Vol. 1. 914 21.1 14 --Nec tamen in eo Scepticos imitabar, qui dubitant tantum ut dubitent, et pra|eter incertitudinem ipsam nihil qua|erunt. Nam contra totus in eo eram ut aliquid certi reperirem. Cart. De Method. 915 21.1 1 5 Itaque faciam quod ultra solitum modum hanc epistolam porrigat; sed non apud te, cui nulla est pagina gratior, quam qua|e me loquaciorem apportat tibi.--Aug. Epist. 72. Novi ego aliquem qui dormitabundus aliquando pulsari horam quartam audiverit, & sic numeravit Una, una, una, una; ac tum pra|e rei absurditate quam anima concipiebat, exclamavit Na|e! delirat horologium! --quater pulsavit horam unam.--It has struck <1one>1 four times. Bulls almost always confusion between Logic & Metaphysics, a science of things as they <1are>1 out of the mind.-- 916 21.116 Triumphant generals wore <1Rouge-->1Ladies al- ways in the Chair of Triumph?-- 917 21.117 Mr. W. squints. Squints?--but not a bit more than a gentleman ought to do.-- 918 21.118 It seems to elucidate the Theory of Language <1f24v>1 Hartley, just able to speak a few words, making a fire-place of stones, with stones for fire.--four stones--fire-place--two stones-- 919] FEBRUARY-MARCH 1801 fire--/arbitrary symbols in Imagination/(Hartley walked remarka- bly soon/& <1therefore>1 learnt to talk rem. late.> 919 21.119 Anti-optimism--Praised be our maker, & to the = honor of our nature is it that we may truly call this an <1inhuman>1 opinion. Man strives after Good.-- 920 21.120 Materialists unwilling to admit the mysterious of our nature make it all mysterious--nothing mysterious in nerves, eyes, &c: but that nerves think &c!!--Stir up the sediment into the transparent water, & so make all opaque. 921 21.121 = --and the deep power of Joy We see into the <1Life>1 of Things-- i.e.--By deep feeling we make our <1Ideas dim-->1& this is what we mean by our Life--ourselves. I think of the Wall--it is before me, a distinct Image--here. I necessarily think of the <1Idea>1 & the Think- ing I as two distinct & opposite Things. Now think of <1my-->1 <1self-->1of the thinking Being--the Idea becomes dim whatever it be --so dim that I know not what it is--but the Feeling is deep & steady--and this I call <1I>1 identifying the Percipient & the Perceived--. <1f25>1 922 21.122 As we recede from anthropomorphitism we must go either to the Trinity or to Pantheism--The Fathers who were Unitarians, were Anthropomorphites. 923 21.123 March 17, 1801. Tuesday--Hartley looking out of my study window fixed his eyes steadily & for some time on the opposite prospect, & then said--Will yon Mountains <1always>1 be?-- I shewed him the whole magnificent Prospect in a Looking Glass, and held it up, so that the whole was like a Canopy or Ceiling over his head, & he struggled to express himself concerning the Differ- ence between the Thing & the Image almost with convulsive Ef- fort.--I never before saw such an Abstract of <1Thinking>1 as a pure act & energy, of <1Thinking>1 as distinguished from <1Thoughts.>1 MARCH-APRIL 1801 (927 924 4.134 Babies touch <1by taste>1 at first--then about 5 months <1f3lv>1 old they go from the Palate to the hand--& are fond of feeling what they have taste--/Association of the Hand with the Taste-- till the latter by itself recalls the former--& of course, with voli- tion. March 24, 1801. 925 21.124 Wednesday--Afternoon. Abed--nervous--had <1f25>1 noticed the prismatic colours transmitted from the Tum- bler--Wordsworth came--I talked with him--he left me alone-- I shut my eyes--beauteous spectra of two colors, orange and violet --then of green, which immediately changed to Peagreen, & then actually <1grew>1 to my eye into a beautiful moss, the same as is on the mantle-piece at Grasmere.--abstract Ideas--& unconscious Links! ! 926 21.125 The soil is a deep, rich, dark Mould on a deep <1f25v>1 Stratum of tenacious Clay, and that on a foundation of Rocks, which often break through both Strata, lifting their back above the Surface. The Trees, which chiefly grow here, are the gigantic Black Oak, Magnolia, Fraxinus excelsior, Platane, & a few stately Tulip Trees.--Bart. p.36. I applied this by a fantastic analogue & simili- tude to Wordsworth's Mind. March 26 1801. Fagus exaltata sylvatica. 927 21.126 Ad ist ha|ec qua|eso vos, qualiacunque primo videan- tur aspectu, adtendite; ut qui vobis forsan insanire videar, saltem quibus insaniam rationibus, cognoscatis. Giord. Bruno. De Im- mens. et Innumerab.-- Quid ultra ad co|elos illos et celestes illas umbras atque somnia istiusmodi, platonicis, divinis, mathematicis, abstractis, evanidisque sustollimur alis, quasi nihil habeamus ante oculos quod nos alte moveat, incitet, invitet, perficiat, ornet! --Id.-- Bruno, p.524, 525, 528. De Univ. et Innum. = speaks familiarly of the circulation of the Blood--& not only of the Circulatio minor <1f26>1 discovered by Servetus--Liber VI. Caput 8. Ut in nostro Corpore Sanguis per totum <1circumcursat>1 et recursat sic in toto mundo, astro, tellure-- Quare non aliter quam nostro in corpore sanguis 928] APRIL 1801 Hinc meat, hinc remeat, neque ad inferiora fluit vi Majore, ad supera a pedibus quam deinde recedat. Item Caput ix ejusdem libri. --Quid esset Quodam ni gyro Natura|e cuncta redirent Ortus ad proprios rursum, si sorbeat omnis Pontus, aquas, totum non restituatque perenni Ordine, qui posset rerum consistere vita? Tanquam si totus concurrat sanguis in unam In qua2 consistat partem, nec prima revisat Ordia, et antiquos cursus non inde resumat. <1f26v>1 928 21.1 28 Monday, April. 1801.--& Tuesday, read two Works of Giordano Bruno, printed in one book with one title-page Jordani Bruni Nolani de Monade, Numero, et Figura2 liber consequens. Quinque de Minimo, Magno, et Mensura2. Item De Innumerabilibus, Immenso, et Infigurabili seu de Universo et Mundis libri octo. Ad illustrussimum et Reverendissimum Princi- pem Henricum Julium Brunsvicensium et Luneburgensium Du- cem, Halberstadensium Episcopum, &c Francofurti Apud JOAN. Wechelum & PETRUM Fischerum consortes. 1591 Then follows the Dedication--then the Index of Contents of the whole Volume, at the end of which Index is a Latin Ode, conceived with great dignity & grandeur of Thought. Then the Work "De Monade, Numero et Figura2, secretioris nempe Physica|e, Mathe- matica|e, & Metaphysica|e elementa" commences--which as well as <1f27>1 the 8 books de Innumer. &c is a Poem in latin Hexameters, divided (each Book) into Chapters, & to each Chapter is affixed a prose Commentary. If the 5 books de Minimo, &c to which this Book is consequent, are of the same character, I lost nothing in not having it. The work de Monade.--It was far too numeral, lineal, & py- thagorean for my Comprehension--it read very much like Thomas Taylor & Proclus &c. I by no means think it certain that there is no APRIL 1801 meaning in these Works, nor do I presume even to suppose, that the meaning is of no value--/but it is for others, at present, not for me--Sir P. Sidney, & Fulk Greville shut the doors at their philos. conferences with Bruno--if his Conversa- tion resembled this Book, I should have thought, he would [have] talked with a trumpet. The Poem, <& Commentaries,> de Immenso et Innumerabili is of a different character-- The first Commentary is a very sublime enunciation of the dignity of the human Soul, according to the principles of Plato--(Compare Stolberg) & then affirms his own principles--Insitus appetitus est ut <1omnia>1 fiant <1singulis,>1 et unicuique--Appetit <1semper>1 esse quicquid <1aliquando>1 est, <1Ubique>1 videre quicquid <1alicubi>1 [videt], <1universaliter,>1 habere, quicquid <1singulariter>1 habet. <1Toto>1 frui qui <1parte>1 fruitur-- <1f27v>1 ANIMA SAPIENS NON TIMET MORTEM, immo interdum illam ultro appetit illi ultro occurrit. Manet quippe substantiam omnem pro Duratione eternitas, pro loco immensitas, pro actu omniformitas. Non levem igitur ac futilem, atqui gravissimam perfectoque; Ho- mine dignissimam contemplationis Partem persequimur ubi divini- tatis, natura|eque; splendorem, fusionem, et communicationem (non in A|Egyptio, Syro, Gra|eco vel Romano Individuo,) non in Cibo, Potu, et ignobiliore qua2dam materia cum attonitorum Seculo per- quirimus, et inventum confingimus et somniamus; sed in augusta2 omnipotentis Regia2, in immenso a|etheris spacio, in infinita2 natura|e gemina|e omnia <1fientis>1 et omnia <1facientis>1 potentia2--unde tot astro- rum, mundorum inquam (magnorumque; animantium), et numi- num uni altissimo concinentium atque saltantium absque numero atque fine, juxta proprios ubique fines atque ordines, contemplamur. Sic ex visibilium a|eterno, immenso, et innumerabili effectu, sempi- <1f28>1 terna immensa illa Majestas atque bonitas intellecta conspicitur, proque sua2 dignitate innumerabilium Deorum <1(mundorum>1 dico) adsistentia2, concinentia2, et gloria|e ipsius enarratione, immo ad oculos expressa2 concione glorificatur. Cui Immense mensum non quadrabit Domicilium atque Templum--ad cujus Majestatis pleni- tudinem agnoscendam atque percolendam, numerabilium ministro- rum nullus esset ordo. Eia igitur ad omniformis Dei omniformem Imaginem conjectemus oculos, vivum et magnum illius admiremur simulacrum--hinc miraculum magnum a Trismegisto appellabatur Homo, qui in Deum transeat quasi ipse sit Deus, qui conatur omnia fieri sicut Deus est omnia; ad objectum sine fine (ubique tamen finiendo) contendit, sicut infinitus est Deus, immensus, ubique totus.--Ca|elos non esse, sed ethereum unum spacium circa omnia astra, sicut circa Tellurem, & Solim. Duo item esse Astrorum <1f28v>1 genera, Soles et Tellures.--Cometes item esse planetas omnino, et tellures seu mundos. Attacks on the Aristotelians. The second Book is wholly in answer to the Aristotelian Argu- ments against the Pythagorean system of the Universe. The Third Book Utters a sublime panegyric on Nicolaus Copernicus--but mentions in quibus sublime illud Ingenium deficerit.--The only real fault, he finds, is Copernicus's limitation of the Universe by his Octava Spha|era--Des Cartes not the first therefore &--vide Verb. Supplement. the other supposed faults are Blunders of Bruno's own --ex.gr. Proinde nec in eam possum currere sententiam, qua Mercurium atque Venerem minores circulos a Telluris atque Luna|e Circulo comprehensos constituit efficere/ The fourth, 5, 6, & 7 books consumed chiefly in answers to & attacks [on] the Peripatetics--except that he affirms the Sun's mo- <1f29>1 tion, that it too is a Planet, differing in the quantity of its Light-- that all Planets have more or less of their own, evolved from them- selves, but the Sun most of all--still however <1aqueous.>1 Whatever is not Light, is aqueous--this Aqua is either fixed, or fluid, or aeri- form--it is capable of combining with Light in its aeriform state & then constitutes <1fire.>1 There can be no Fire in A|Ether (i.e. Space) only in the Air. He affirms the existence of an absolute Vacuum, of which God is the sole Plenitude. Gravity &c he explains by Affinity & Repulsion-- Cap. 13 of Lib. 5--affirms the Earth to be etherogeneum in- tegrum animal-- Book the VIth--Cap. v. Quodsi astra seu mundi essent contigui sicut uxor et vir, qualia etiam sunt Soles cum suis Telluribus singuli, non tamen idcirco partes unius effluunt aut alterius-- Differentia inter conjugium et coitum Deorum et nostrum, coit enim cum Sole Tellus, et concipit continue et successive ex omni parte corporis atque parit: animalia vero minora ex una2 et inter- <1f29>1 misse. Cap. 14. Unde velut toto est animantum in corpore A|Etherius fervor, pura Aura, ignisque animalis. Non aliter magni miranda2 in numinis hujus Compage abstrusus commixtus, et insitus exstat Vita|e pro gradibus aurai simplicis ignis. --Corpore ut ex uno hoc sortiti corporis omnes Membra sumus, certo qua|e tempore restituamus. Spiritus et vita e materno fonte recepta, De quo viventem jussit producier omnem Ille opifex Animam, quia princeps est Anima illi, Et princeps illa est Animal, venerabile numen, Fortunatum astrum, splendescens, incola co|eli Authori laudes decantans atque ministrans Qualem non credunt sine sensu pectus adepti. Ergo, ne dubita viventem dicere mundum. In the beginning of the 7th Book he entreats people either to think deeply, or to go on in full confidence & faith in their senses & natural understanding. Sisque ita contentus paucis tanquam omnia sint ha|ec! Nam satis es dives, quia sensus paupereei Nullus adest, sanus, quia nullaque opinio morbi At the end of the 7th Book he asserts that it is absurd to attribute <1f30>1 all the races of men to one origin--and that if the whole earth were depopulated, the Soul of the Earth would replace them-- Pra|ebebit natura parens perfecta animantum abisque ministerio coitus.--/ 929 21.226 <1f44>1 Da|edalias vacuis plumas nectere humeris Concupiant alii, aut vi suspendi nubium Alis, venterumve appetant remigium, Aut orbita|e flammantis raptari alveo Bellerophontisve alitem: Nos vero illo donati sumus Genio ( Ut fatum intrepidi objectasque umbras cernimus) Ne ca|eci ad lumen Solis, ad perspicuas Natura|e voces surdi, ad Divum munera Ingrato adsimus pectore. Non curamus stultorum quid opinio De nobis ferat, aut queis dignetur sedibus. Alis ascendimus sursum melioribus! Quid nubes ultra, ventorum ultra est semita Vidimus quantum satis est. Illuc conscendent plurimi nobis ducibus Per scalam proprio erectam et firmam in pectore Quam Deus et vegeti Sors dabit Ingeni, Non manes, pluma, ignis, ventus, nubes, Spiritus, Divinantum phantasmata. Non sensus Vegetans, non me ratio arguet, Non indoles exculti clara Ingenii; Sed perfidi Sycophanta|e supercilium Absque Lance, Statera2, Trutina2, Oculo, Miraclu2m armati segete. Versificantis Grammatista|e encomium Buglossa|e Gra|ecissantum, et Epistolia <1f44v>1 Lectorem libri salutantum a limine, Latrantum adversum Zoilos, Momos, Mastiges, Hinc absint Testimonia. APRIL-<2NOVEMBER>2 1801 (937B Procedat nudus quem non ornant Nebula|e Sol! Non conveniunt Quadrupedum Phalera|e Humano Dorso! Porro Veri species Qua|esita, inventa, et patefacta me efferat! Etsi nullus intelligat, Si cum Natura2 sapio et sub numine Id vere plusquam satis est. 930 21.227 To translate Engel's VI Stu%ck as introduction to my Essay on Locke. 931 6.15 With pretty baby wreaths of smoke like vapors <1fl2v>1 round the whole-- 932 6.16 Mind, shipwrecked by storms of doubt, now mast- less, rudderless, shattered,--pulling in the dead swell of a dark & windless Sea. 933 6.17 Hauterive's State of the French Nation at the end of the year 8-- 934 6.18 Harrington. Sir R. Musgrave. Spencer. State of Ireland--History of Bonaparte's Campaigns--Preliminary Dis- <1f13>1 course to the French Code. 935 6.19 He is always doing something else 936 6.2o Quos tarde disco, disco tamen abjicioque-- 937 6.21 Pars erat illa mea|e multo dulcissima vita|e Et nunc sa|epe mihi somnia grata facit. Hobbesii vita de seipso 937A 22.151 I. Burrill Esq. N.9. Holborn Court Grey's Inn, <1f94>1 London. 937B 22.152 heart-thrill'd. 937C] APRlL-NOVEMBER 18o1 937C 22.153 Qua|e ego vel explicabo, vel certe explicandi cau- sam incitamentumque dabo eruditioribus. L. Vives. in Annot. ad Cap. VIII. Lib. VI. August de Civit. Deo. <1f94v>1 937D 22.154 Quin ipsa philosophia nostris e disputationibus non nisi beneficium recipit. Nam si vera proponimus, nova ad eum accessio fiet: sin falsa, refutatione eorum priores tanto magis stabi- lientur. Galila|ei. Syst. Cosm. p.42. <1f94>1 937E 22-155 --aliisque viris, propter eruditionem et vim in ra- tiocinando celeberrimis (non enim dico Philosophis, quia nomen illud a plurimis nebulonibus jamdiu gestatum, inquinatum, nunc infame est. Vita Tho. Hobbes P.6. ecclesia|e anglicana|e Hyperaspistes <1f93v>1 Thomas Hobbes born April 5th 1588--sent to Oxford in his 14th year--published his 1. Transl. of Thuc. 1628. 2. de cive 1646. 5. Leviathan 1651 3. de natura2 humana2 1650 4. de corpore pol. 1650 6. de corpore 1655 7. de homini 1658 All his works under his own correction printed by Blauvius at Amsterdam--1668. 937F 22.156 Hobbes's definition of Space--& Time in his Phil. prima (1655) Spatium est Phantasma rei existentis quatenus exis- tentis--id est, nullo alio ejus rei accidente considerato pra|eterquam quod apparet extra imaginantem. Sicut corpus sua|e magnitudinis, ita quoque corpus motum motus <1f93>1 sui phantasma in animo relinquit, nimirum ideam corporis, nunc per hoc, nunc per illud spatium continua2 successione transeuntis. Est autem talis Idea sive Phantasma, id quod neque a communi homi- num sermone neque multum a definitione discedens Aristotelis, appello, <1Tempus.>1 Nam quum confiteantur Annum, esse Tempus, APRlL-<2NOVEMBER>2 18O1 [937f et tamen Annum alicujus corporis accidens aut affectum aut modum esse non putent, necesse est, ut confiteantur esse eum non in rebus ipsis sed in animi cogitatione reperiendum.--&c &c--Est igitur Tempus Phantasma, sed Phantasma Motu2s-- Nec tamen si dicamus, Tempus esse Phantasma Motu2s, sufficiet hoc ad definitionem: nam hoc voce "Tempus" notamus prius et pos- terius, sive successionem corporis moti, quatenus existentis, primo <1hic,>1 deinde illic. Tota ergo definitio Temporis talis est--<1Tempus>1 <1est Phantasma motus quatenus in motu imaginamur prius et pos->1 <1terius, sive successionem;>1 qua|e convenit cum definitione Aristotelica2, <1f92>1 <1Tempus est numerus Motu2s secundum prius et posterius.>1 Est autem ea numeratio actus animi, ideoque idem est dicere, Tempus est nu- merus motus secundum prius et posterius--et--<1Tempus est Phan->1 <1tasma motu2s numerati-->1illud autem <1Tempus est mensura motu2s>1 non ita recte dicitur, nam Tempus per motum non autem motum per tempus mensuramus.-- The first of Hobbes's works, in which association of ideas is spoken of--is--Cap. xxv. pars 4. Elementorum Philosophia|e &c.-- first published 1665--& this a very lame account too of it, & merely deduced from materialism-- Quod autem in varietate hac phantasmatum alia ex aliis nascan- tur, et ex iisdem modo similia, modo dissimillima in mentem <1f92>1 veniant, non sine causa2 nec tam fortuito fit, ut multi fortasse arbi- trantur. <1Nam in motu partiam corporis continui pars partem sequi->1 <1tur per cohasionem.>1 Dum igitur oculos aliorumque sensuum organa ad plura objecta successive obvertimis, manente qui ab unoquoque eorum factus erat motus, renascuntur phantasmata quoties quilibet eorum motuum ca|eteris pra|edominatur: pra|edominantur autem eo- dem ordine, quo in aliquo tempore jam pra|eterito per sensionem generata erant. Ita ut postquam valde multa per a|etatem senserimus, qua|elibet. Cogitatio ex qua2libet fere oriri possit, et propterea qua|e quam sequutura sit fortuitum videri potest. Minus autem plerum- que vigilantibus incertum est hoc. Quoniam cogitatio sive Phan- <1f9lv>1 tasma cupiti finis, inducit phantasmata mediorum ad illum finem conducentium, idque ordine analytico a mediorum ultimo ad pri- mum, et rursus a principio ad finem. Sed hoc supponit et appetitum et mediorum ad finem Judicationem, quas fert experientia. Expe- rientia autem est phantasmatum copia orta ex multarum rerum sensionibus. <1f91>1 937G 22.157 In the Six Lessons to the Professors of the Mathe- matiques &c--Of which the Epistle dedic. is dated June 10, 1656-- <1f90>1 in p.58. Lesson 6.--occurs this passage. But* you see the nere cut, by wh. vain Glory joyned with Ignorance passeth quickly over to Envy & Contumely. Thus it seems by your own Confession I was used by <1Vindex.>1 He comes with some of my Acquaintance in a Visit. What he said I know not, but if he discoursed then, as in his Philosophicall Essay he writeth, I will be bold to say of myself, I was so far from morosity, or (to use his Phrase) from being tetri- call as I may very well have a good opinion of my own patience. And if there passed between us the discourse you mention in your Elenchus page 116. it was an incivility in him so great, that without great civility I could not have abstained from bidding him be gone. That which passed between us, you say was this, I <1complained that>1 <1whereas I made Sense nothing but a perception of motion in the>1 <1Organ, nevertheless the Philosophy Schools through all Europe led>1 <1by the Text of>1 Aristotle, <1teach another Doctrine, namely that Sensa->1 <1f90v tion is performed by>1 Species. This is a little mistaken. For I do glory, not complain that whereas all the Universities of <1Europe>1 hold Sensation to proceed from <1Species>1 I hold it to be a perception of motion in the Organ. The answer of <1Vindex,>1 you say was, <1That the>1 <1other Hypothesis, whereby Sense was explicated by the Principles>1 <1of motion, was commonly admitted here before my Book came out,>1 as having been <1sufficiently delivered by>1 Des Cartes, Gassendus <1and>1 <1Sir>1 Kenelme Digby <1before I had published any thing in this kinde.>1 This then, it seems, was it that made me angry. Truly I remember not any angry word that ever I uttered in all my Life to any man that came to see me, though some of them have troubled me with very impertinent discourse; and with those that argued with me how impertinently soever, I always thought it more civility to be somewhat earnest in the defence of my opinion, than by obstinate <1f90>1 and affected Silence to let them see I contemned them, or heark- ened not to what they said. If I were earnest in making good, that the manner of Sensation by such motion as I had explicated in my Leviathan, is in none of the Authors by him named, it was not an- ger, but a care of not offending him, with any signe of the contempt which his discourse deserved. But it was incivility in him to make use of a Visit, which all men take for a profession of Friendship, to tell me that that which I had already published for my own, was found before by <1Des Cartes, Gassendus>1 and <1Sir Kenelme Digby.>1 But let any Man read <1Des Cartes,>1 he shall finde, that he attributeth no <1Motion>1 at all to the object of Sense, but an <1Inclination>1 to action, which <1inclination>1 no man can imagine what it meaneth. And for <1Gassendus>1 and <1S. Kenelme Digby,>1 it is manifest by thier writings <1f89v>1 that thier opinions are not different from that of Epicurus, which is very different from mine. Or if those two, or any of those I con- versed with at <1Paris>1 had prevented me in publishing my own Doc- trine, yet since it was there known, & declared for mine, by <1Mersen>1 <1nus>1 in the Preface to his <1Ballistica>1 (of which the three first leaves are imployed wholly in the setting forth of my opinion concerning Sense, & the rest of the faculties of the Soul) they ought not there- fore to be said to have found it out before me. 937H 22.159 Angli (Thom) Dialogues de Mundo. <1f89>1 9371 22.161 God created Time as an imitation of eternity <1f88v>1 --<2kironos de oun met, ouranou ge'gonen, ina ama gennhthentes,>2 <2~ma kai luthwsin, ~n pote lusis tis autwn genhtai kai kata>2 tO <2par~deigma t~s aiwniou ph~sews-->2 1051-1052 <2Un te kai kiwran kai genesin einai, tria trikih, kai prin ~uranon>2 <2genesthai->2 Arist. Phys. Lib. lv.-- De Ca|elo Lib. 1. Cap. lx. ; 938 6.22 N.B. Dr H. More's antidote against Atheism-- <1f13>1 Chap. v. of Innate Ideas &c-- 939 6.23 The flower of the Cinnamon Tree sends forth a smell of human Excrement--a good writer of bad [?verses] 940 6.24 <1fl3v >1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 find gain mind pain miles schools, vain 8 syllables all vine own incline throne pleasure treasure rejoice choice voice--all 8, but voice--that 12. ^^-^^, ^^-^^, ^^ ^^-, ^^ ^^- flur azur - ^^, ^^ - ^^, - ^^ ^^, - ^^ kleide ^^, - ^^ ^^, - ^^ Weide Two Couplets (i.e. 4 lines) in sixes, & then a triplet of 8s. Most dear, & most worthy to be most dear. 941 6.25 Unsoul the soul. 942 6.26 A set of Poems out of More's Antidote--of <1f14>1 witches--professing to be written by a Methodist Parson--all of witches &c studia error: arguments that Modern Chemists are all Witches--ex. gr. burning of alcohol &c--for the purpose of intro- ducing atheism &c-- 943 6.27 Pomponatius de Immort. Anima|e:--says of ab- stract Ideas--universale in particulari speculatur--which is the philosophy of Poetry. 944 6.28 A dull kind of Being not yet privileged with Life. 945 6.29 N.B. A Man who had such bad coals that he re- ceived more warmth from the exercise of blowing with Bellows. <1f3o>1 946 21.129 Valuable Works of Cudworth & Jeremy Taylor still extant in manuscript--what a disgrace to the Prelacy & the two Universities. 947 21.130 It is a matter of comparative indifference & in- finite difficulty to determine what a man's <1motives>1 are for this or that particular action. Know his <1objects>1--what does he habitually wish? habitually pursue?--Did Mackintosh change his opinions, with a cold clear predetermination, formed at one moment, to make 5000%% a year by that change? I neither know nor care. Probably not. But this I know, that to be thought a man of consequence by his con<3sequence>3temporaries, to exercise power, to excite admira- tion, & to make a fortune are his habitual <1objects>1 of wish & pur- suit--. A flash of Lightning has turned at once the polarity of the <1f3ov>1 Compass Needle--& so perhaps now & then, but as rarely, a violent motive may revolutionize a man's <3sentiments>3 professions--but more frequently his honesty dies away from evening into twilight & from twilight to night--he turns hypocrite so <3slowly>3, <3by>3 gradu- ally & by such little tiny atoms, that by the time he has arrived at a given he forgets his own hypocrisy in his <1conversion.>1 The difference between such a man, & a bolder Liar, is merely that be- tween the Hour Hand, & the Hand that tells <3the>3 seconds, on a Watch. Of the one you can see only the Motion, of the other both the motion & the moving.--yet there is more hope of the latter Rogue--he has only lied to mankind, & not to himself--he is a Gnostic--his intellectual Being has preserved its <1eyes!>1--but in truth perhaps there is no Rogue, completely of the latter descrip- tion--all are of the Mackintosh Tribe, in different gradations of self-delusion. 948 4.73 Scenes in Easedale, rocks & woods, & trees starting <1f22v>1 up around Rocks & out of Rocks--where under the boughs & through the Boughs you have the glimmering Lake, & Church Tower--places wherein To wander & wander for ever & ever-- 949 4.74 A Hollow place in the Rock like a Coffin--a Syca- more Bush at the head, enough to give a shadow for my Face, & just at the Foot one tall Foxglove--exactly my own Length--there <1f23>1 I lay & slept--<3The>3 It was quite soft. June 18. 1801. Thursday. 950 4.75 <3From>3 Into a <1discoverer>1 I have sunk from an <1inventor.>1 951 4.76 Prince Prettyman govern P.P. This a sophism because one person, therefore one moment. 952 4.77 <1Stamboul,>1 the Site of the ancient Byzantium, a corruption from the Greek Direction Post <2Eis thn polin>2 <1f23v>1 953 4.78 Instance of a Prudential man Mr Robert Graves, wished to marry Miss W.--but would not till she was past child- bearing--She hearing of this refused him altogether. 954 4.79 Fuseli [. . .]--a Brusher up of Convulsia & Teta- nus upon innocent Canvas. 955 4.8o The half knit Stocking in the Kitchen-table Drawer-- 956 4.81 Sir G.B's Tutor's absence. Black smith shoeing horse/--the Church clock behind him which he can see looking under thro' his Thigh. Tutor supposes he sees what o'clock it is in the hoof of the Horse. Gives him 1/2 a crown, & is quizzed. <1f24>1 957 4.82 Sympathy the Poet alone can excite/any Dabbler in stories may excite Pity.--The more I think, the more I am con- vinced that Admiration is an <1essential>1 element of poetical Delight-- 958 4.83 Revolutions bring forward the conscious distinct attention to <1Power>1 by change in power/Hence weaken the sense of Right-- 959 4.84 Ants having dim notions of the architecture of the whole System of the world, & imitating it, according to their notion <1f24v>1 in their ant-heaps--& even these little Ant-heaps no uncomely parts of that great architecture--Hartley's intense wish to have Ant- heaps near [?a/our] house/his <1Brahman>1 love & awe of Life/N.B. to commence his Education with natural History-- 960 4.135 Exceeding Expressiveness of the motion of the <1f3lv>1 Tongue of Toothless Infants, July, 1801. 961 4.136 Citharexylon--Fidele--thence <1fiddle>1 wood--its <1f31>1 present English name--a durable wood to be relied on/Mem. Boc- cage--into Bend-Age--/&c-- 962 4.137 Foetus in a bottle of Sp.--<1a young Pickle-->1 963 4.138 [?archimetrian/archimetria] Greifswalder 964 4.139 Sir Harry Featherstone in Brothel comes down with the Rheumatism -- <1Damp>1 Whore -- No--slept in every night. 965 4.140 Horne Tooke--London Tavern, Laws of Eng- <1f30v>1 land open to rich & poor O'Bryan--on the Hustings i.e. Blackguards--happy to have it on so good authority. 966 4.141 Come to town to get a wife! With all my heart-- Whose? 967 4.142 Smart-- Tell me, thou Son of great Cadwallader [ ? Hast/Senst] thou the Hare, or hast thou swallow'd her-- 968 4.143 The loose <& easily opened> as the connections be- tween the Jokes round a large Table of eager Joke-tellers. 969 4.144 Lord Chesterfield--a younger Son, steward to the Elder Brother, & keep the Estate in the Family. 970 6.1 Arrived at Middleham, July 16 17th 1801. Went <1f2v>1 into Durham 24th--set off on Horse back leaving Stockton with an intention of reaching Gallow Hill on the <327>3 29--arrived there July 31.-- 971 6.2 Gallow Hill--Aug 2nd Story of the Sailor in the Post Chaise, at Sneinton he grew tired of being aboard, & would be glad to ride alongside the Postilion, if it would cost the same. 972 6.3 Military tictacs--the Watchmakers [. . . .] <1f3v>1 973 6.4 From Suarez, Metaphysicarum Disputationum Tom. 1. # 2. <1f2>1 973A 22.1 Causa autem reminiscendi est ordo motuum qui reliquuntur in anima ex prima impressione eius, quod primo appre- hendimus. Hanc ergo causam primo proponens dicit quod remi- niscentia[e] contingunt, per hoc quod unus motus natus est, post alium nobis occurrere: re quod quidem contingit dupliciter. Uno modo, quando secundus motus [modus?] consequitur post primum motum ex necessitate, sicut ad apprehensionem [hominis sequitur apprehensio] animalis ex necessitate, ex sic manifestum est quod quando anima mouetur primo motu, mouebitur <3apprehensio>3 etiam secundo. Alio vero modo contingit, quia secundus motus sequitur post primum non ex necessitate, sed ex consuetudine, quia, scilicet aliquis consueuit post hoc cogitare vel dicere vel facere, & tunc se- cundus motus sequitur post primum non semper, sed vt ad multum, i.e. vt in pluribus sicut etiam effectus naturales, vt in pluribus ex suis causis sequuntur, non semper. Dicta autem consuetudo non firmatur a|equaliter in omnibus hominibus, sed accidit quod quidem semel cogitando, velocius firment in se consuetudinem, quam alii, si multotiens cogitent hoc post illud, quod potest contingere vel prop- ter maiorem attentionem & profundiorem cognitionem, vel propter naturam qua|e est melius receptiua & retentiua impressionis. Et inde etiam contingit quod nos semel videntes qua|edam, magis memora- mur eorum, quam alia multotiens visa. Quia ea, quibus vehementius intendimus, magis in memoria manent. Ea vero qua|e superficialiter & leuiter videmus aut cogitamus cito a memoria labuntur. <1f2v>1 Primo igitur concludit ex pra|emissis, quod [ex] quo vnus motus sequitur post alterum vel ex necessitate vel ex consuetudine, opor- tet, quod quando reminiscimur, moueamur secundum aliquem ho- rum motuum, quousque veniamus ad hoc quod moueamur appre- hendendo illo motu, qui consueuit esse post primum, quem scilicet motum intendimus reinuenire reminiscendo quia reminiscentia nil est aliud quam inquisitio alicujus quod a\ memoria excidit. Et ideo reminiscendo venamur, i.e. inquirimus id, quod consequenter est ab aliquo priori, quod in memoria tenemus. Sicut enim ille, qui in- quirit per demonstrationem, procedit ex aliquo priori quod est notum, ex quo venatur aliquid posterius quod est ignotum, ita etiam reminiscens ex aliquo priori, quod in memoria habetur procedit ad reinueniendum id, quod ex memoria excidit. Hoc autem primum, a\ quo reminiscens suam inquisitionem incipit quandoque quidem est tempus aliquod notum quandoque autem aliqua res nota. Secundum tempus qui dem incipit quandoque a nunc, idest a\ pra|esenti tempore, procedende in pra|eteritum, cuius qua|erit memoriam: puta si qua|erit memorari id quod fecit ante quatuor dies, meditatur sic hodie feci hoc, heri illud, tertia die aliud, & sic secundum consequentiam mo- <1f3>1 tuum assuetorum peruenit resoluendo in id quod fecit quarta die. Quandoque vero incipit ab aliquo alio tempore, puta si quis in memoria habeat quid fecerit octauo die ante, & oblitus sit quid fe- cerit quarta die, procedet descend[end]o ad septimam, & sic inde quo[u]sque veniat ad quartam diem, vel etiam ab octaua die ascendet in quintam decimam diem, aut in aliquod aliud tempus pra|eteritum. Similiter etiam quandoque reminiscitur aliquis inci- piens ab aliqua re, cuius memoratur, a\ qua procedit ad aliam triplici ratione. [Quandoque quidem ratione] similitudinis, sicut quando aliquid aliquis memoratur de Socrate & per hoc occurrit ei plato, qui est similis ei in Sapientia; quandoque vero ratione contrarietatis, sicut si aliquis memoretur Hectoris, & per hoc occurrit ei Achilles. Quandoque vera ratione propinquitatis cuiuscumque, sicut cum ali- quis memor est patris, & per hoc occurrit ei [et?] filius. Et eadem ratio est de quacumque alia propinquitate vel societatis, vel loci vel <1f3v>1 temporis, & propter hoc fit reminiscentia, quia motus horum se inui- cem consequuntur. Quorundam enim pra|emissorum motus sunt idem, sicut pra|ecipe similium, quorundam, autem simul, scilicet con- trariorum quia cognito vno contrariorum, simul cognoscitur aliud, quandoque vero quidam motus habent partem aliorum, sicut contin- git in quibuscumque propinquis, quia in vnoquoque propinquorum consideratur aliquid, quod pertinet ad alterum & ideo illud resi- duum, quod deest apprehensioni cum sit paruum, consequitur motum prioris, vt apprehenso primo, consequenter occurrat apprehensioni secundum. Est autem considerandum ulterius, quod quandoque peruenitur ad motum posteriorem ex aliquo priori secu\ndum pra|e- dictum modum ab his, qui qua|erunt inuenire motum conseque[n]- tem perditum, & hoc proprie est reminisci, quando, scilicet aliquis ex intentione inquirit alicuius rei memoriam. Contingit autem quan- doque quod, etiam illi, qui non qua|erunt memorari, propterea quod sic procedentes ex priori motu in posteriorem, ut dictum est, deue- <1f4>1 niunt in memoriam alic[u]ius rei cum ille motus rei oblita|e fiat in anima post alium, & hoc quidem erat pra|eter intentionem (sed vt secundum multa) idest in pluribus factis aliis motibus quales dixi- mus, scilicet similibus vel contrariis vel propinquis, insurgebat ille motus qui occurrit, sed hoc abusiue dicitur reminisci. Est autem casualiter memorari secundum similitudinem quandam reminiscen- tiae [reminiscentiam?]. Deinde cum dicit. Soluit ex pra|emissis quandam dubitationem. Posset enim alicui venire in dubium, quare frequenter memoramur ea qua|e procul sunt, puta ea, qua|e ante multos annos conti[n]gerunt, & non memo- ramur ea qua|e sunt prope, puta qua|e fuerunt ante paucos dies. Sed ipse dicit, quod circa hoc non oportet intendere, idest, dubita[n]do sollicitari, quia manifestum est, quod aliqualiter eodem modo hoc accidit, qui in pra|emissis positus est. Et exponit resumens quod dic- tum est, scilicet quod contingit quandoque quod anima dicat appre- hendendo id, quod consequenter est, cuius erat oblita, [absque] hoc quod pra|einquirat, vel ex intentione reminiscatur, quia propter con- suetudinem, unus motus sequitur ad alium. Unde insurgente primo motu, sequitur secundus, etiam si homo non intendat. Et sicut con- <1f4v>1 tingit hoc ex consuetudine pra|eter intentionem, ita etiam hoc fa- ci[e]t aliquis cum ex intentione voluerit reminisci, qua|eret enim accipere primum motum, ad quem consequatur motus posterior. Et quia quandoque contingit, quod motus eorum qua|e sunt procul magis per consuetudinem [sunt] firmati, propter hoc eorum interdum magis memoramur, vel ex inquisitione vel sine inquisitione. Deinde cum dicit. Manefestat pra|emissum modum per duo signa. Quorum primum ponet dicens quod quia ex priori motu propter consuetudinem veni- tur in sequentem vel inquirendo [vel non inquirendo], inde est quod citissime & optime fiunt reminiscentia|e quando incipit aliquis meditari a\ principio totius negocii, quia secundum ordinem quo res sunt sibi inuicem consecuta|e, secundum hunc ordinem facti sunt motus eorum in anima, sicut quando qua|erimus aliquem ver- [s]um, prius incipimus a capite. Secundum signum ponit ibi. Et dicit quod illa sunt magis reminiscibilia, qua|ecunque sunt bene ordinata, sicut mathematica & Theoremata Mathematicorum, quo- rum secundum concluditur ex primo, & sic deinceps. Illa autem, <1f5>1 qua|e sunt male ordinata, difficulter [reminiscuntur. Sic ergo ad bene memorandum vel] reminiscendum, ex praemissis quatuor docu- menta utilia addiscere possumus. Quorum primum est vt studeat qua|e vult retinere in aliquem ordinem deducere. Secundo vt pro- funde & intente eis mentem apponat; tertio vt frequenter meditetur secundum ordinem, quarto vt incipiat reminisci a\ principio. 974 6.5 Quitted Gallow Hill, August 9--at Ingleby <1f2v f3>1 Aug. 10--N.B. Peacocks Feather, round the bright Pewter & Fox's Tail in the plates.--in the Parlour. A new map of the Promised Land, half Map, half pictures, on the chim- ney piece two Glasses, & a Sailor in Plaister--and King George in Basso Relievo. A Manuscript prodigious adorned & framed in black <1f3v>1 frames. The landlord's Caution to his Customers--Wit & Folly in a Maze--& a True Lover Knot--the 2 latter very puzzling indeed, but with no space of Green, Red, & Gamboge. From the thatch hangs a large buttock of hung Beef, & a Bell close beside it fastened in the thatch. The string is gone in--3 little pictures, such as are <1f4>1 sold by the Italians--probably bought at the same time with Ben the Sailor, or Cap Crimper-- 975 6.6 Descartes & Berkley's opinion of ideas representa- tive stated & reasoned against by Suarez: Disputationes Meta- physica|e, p.47. 976 6.7 Church clock striking eleven--this quiet village <1f4v>1 Looking up at the moon in the pane of a window I see its shadow dance on the top of it, like a figure 8--the upper part dim & dancing--Bowes, Aug. 23, 1801.-- 977 6.8 Tungstic Acid--applied to Lamb stammer'd Sarhaha. 978 6.9 A thousand clouds in the sky, & not one which the Moon did not bless in its fringes--I could have with ease <1f5>1 counted all the stars, had not mine eye been too lazy to roll round the heaven, & my mood too placid. <1f30v>1 979 21.131 Xd [[Sara's . . . . . . . . . . interesting to trace it from its source in . . .]]. coldness perhaps & paralysis in all <1tangible>1 ideas & sensations--all that forms <1real Self-->1hence the <3Slave of her>3 she creates her own self in a field of Vision & Hearing, at a distance, by her own ears & eyes--& hence becomes the willing Slave of the Ears & Eyes of <1f31>1 others.--Nothing affects her with pain <3&>3 or pleasure as it is but only as other people will <1say it is-->1nay by an habitual absence of <1reality>1 in her affections I have had an hundred instances that the being beloved, or the not being beloved, is a thing indifferent; but the <1notion>1 of not being beloved--that wounds her pride deeply. [[I have dressed perhaps washed]] with her, & no one with us--all as cold & calm as a deep Frost-- <1f3lv>1 [. . . . . . . . . .] : [[1 gown>]] When we feel much <1within,>1 & <1deeply,>1 anger is exerted in a mo- mentary spasm by interruptions from without, creating pain by the sudden breaking of the trains of pleasurable Thought--But this is far more <1effort of Pain>1 than Anger--that is to say--its rela- tion to, & perception of, the external object causing the Pain is dim & makes up but a small part of the mixt Idea & Sensation-- hence its transiency--but that genuine Anger, which is made up of <1Fear>1 & <1animal Courage,>1 will be found in those most, who most hang upon the opinions of others, & to whom these opinions are of the most importance--<1Sailors>1 are very often angry--so Verse- makers who are not Poets, are angered, irritable--Le Grice, a Wit almost a genius, was a very angry Man--. George Hutchinson/The cant phrase, tangible sensation which ought to be tactual--is not a mere moment of sensation--but it is the blending & unifying of the <1f32>1 sensations that inhere in the manifold goings on of the Life of the whole man. <3Sara>3 is uncommonly <1cold>1 in her feelings of animal Love--G.H. is lustful--yet both are equally deficient in tangible Ideas & sensation.--but G.H. I have not seen enough of to <1under->1 <1stand>1 his character. All appetites that <3are>3 do not diffuse themselves & evidence their existence in all diversities of gradation & combina- tion, have no effect on the <1Tactual-->1Why? they are always <1local>1 in the body itself--an object of sight or visual idea--not to men- tion the immediateness of their application to some distinct sepa- rate, vis<3ual>3ible part of some other Body external to theirs. 980 21.132 The spring with the little tiny cone of loose sand ever rising & sinking at the bottom, but its surface without a wrin- kle.--W.W. M.H. D.W. S.H. 981 21.133 Item--Murmur of a --stream--Item--<1well with>1 Shadows. Item--Why aren't you here?-- ##. images & realities in the eye & memory--fantasticaly, soul going into the heart of the survivor, & abiding there with its Image. 982 21. 134 Monday, Sept. 14. 1801. Northern Lights re- markably fine--chiefly a purple blue/in shooting pyramids--moved from over Bassenthwaite behind Skiddaw.--Derwent's Birthday-- one year old.-- 983 21.135 Sept. 15. Observed the great half moon setting <1f 2v>1 behind the mountain Ridge, & watched the shapes its various seg- ments presented as it slowly sunk--first, the foot of a Boot, all but the Heel--then, a little pyramid [D] --then a star of the first mag- nitude indeed it was not distinguishable from the evening Star at its largest--then rapidly a smaller, a small, a very small star-- and as it diminished in size, so it grew paler in tint--and now where is it? Unseen; but a little fleecy cloud hangs above the mountain Ridge, & is rich--with an amber Light. 984 21.136 Endeavoring to make the infinitely beloved Dar- ling understand all my knowlege I learn the art of making the abstrusest Truths intelligible; & interesting even to the unlearned. 985 21.137 Prest to my bosom & felt there--it was quite dark. I looked intensely toward her face--& sometimes I <1saw>1 it--so vivid was the spectrum, that it had almost all its natural sense of <1distance>1 <1f33>1 & <1outness-->1except indeed that, feeling & all, I felt her as <1part>1 of my being--twas all spectral--But when I could not absolutely <1see>1 her, no effort of fancy could bring out even the least resemblance of her face.--<3sopha>3 Lazy Bed--Green [?marone/marine] --the fits of L & D from the Candle going out in the Socket.--Power of association--that last Image how lovely to me now-- 986 21.138 By thinking of different parts of her Dress I can at times recall her face--but not so vividly as when it comes of itself--& therefore I have ceased to try it. 987 21.139 Talk to a blind man--& he knows, he wants the sense of sight--but has some certain internal senses which a man [may] want & believe he has them/it is unpleasant to be much in conversation with such men. There is no <1reasoning,>1 of course, with them/nothing is possible but naked Dissent which implies a sort of contempt--or what I am afraid a kindness is very likely to fall into, a sort of acquiescence very like duplicity-- Australis 988 21.140 In Campbell's Lectures on ecclesiastical History the printing of mutilated Editions so beautiful as gradually to pro- duce an utter oblivion of the entire ones--& in scarce ecclesiastical <1f33v>1 books deceived even the Protestants. If this could be done in Print- ing times, what might not have been done in manuscript--apply this to the Canon.-- Lecture 24. Vol. 2. Rome has obstructed the progress of Knowlege not only by suppressing altogether Books not calculated to favor her views, but by reprinting Works, which had too great a currency for them to suppress mutilated & grossly adulterated. Those Editions when they came abroad being for the most part neatly, many of them elegantly, printed & well executed, were ignorantly copied by the Printers of other Countries who knew not their Defects.--The con- sequence of the Freedom above related which has been taken by the court of Rome with Christian Writers of the early Ages (for it luckily did not answer their purpose to meddle with the works of pagans) has rendered it, at this day, almost impossible to know the real sentiments of many old Authors of great name, both ec- clesiastics & historians. there being of several of them scarcely any Edition extant at present, except those which have been so miser- ably garbled by the Court of Rome, or, which amounts to the same Thing, editions copied from those which they had vitiated by their interpolations & corrections.--a decree of Pope Clement VIII. In libris catholicorum recentiorum, qui post annum christiana|e salutis 1515 conscripti sint, si id quod corrigendum occurrit, paucis demp- tis <1aut additis>1 emendari posse videatur, id correctores faciendum curant; sin minus, omnino deleatur-- 989 21.141 I do not wish you to act from these truths--no! <1f34>1 still & always act from your <1feelings.-->1but only meditate often on these Truths, that some time or other they may become your Feel- ings. 990 21.142 Laudanum, Friday, Septem. 18. 1801. Poem, dream from Dor.--both dead--feelings after death-- seeking the children./ 991 21.143 The Northern Lights in a poem 992 21.144 Half an ounce of vitriol of Iron mixed with two drachms of strong nitrous acid till all the orange fumes have disap- peared--then add an ounce of water, & take from 6 to 24 of these drops in water three or four times a day. 993 21.145 Power of enduring fatigue &c.--Jealousy & Van- ity frantic Passions--Cowardliness to those whom he fears--cruelty when he is feared--/ 994 21.146 Costiveness. Emetic Tartar as a vomit--& an Ounce of distilled Vinegar, once a day. 995 21 . 147 Ira ex levi occasione--occuli cavi--capability of remaining long in one position--proneness to Boasting--shy looks --Error in laughing at, & thereby encouraging, his violent gestures &c-- <1f34v>1 996 21.148 October 19, 1801.--On the Greta over the Bridge by Mr Edmondson's Father in law, the Ashes, their leaves of that light yellow which Autumn gives them, cast a reflection on the River like a painter's sun shine. 997 21.149 Oct. 20, 1801. My Birthday. The Snow fell on Skiddaw, & Grysdale Pike &c for the first time. 998 21.150 Irish Trans. Vol. 7. Arthur Brown on Greek Ac- cents as controlling quantity. 999 21.151 Thursday Evening, 1/2 past 6. Oct. 22, 1801. All the mountains black & tremendously obscure, except Swinside-- which looks great a light green wood growing on the other moun- tains--At this time I saw one after the other, nearly in the same place, two perfect Moon Rainbows--the one foot in the field below my garden, the other in the field nearest but two to the Church-- It was grey-moonlight-mist-color. 1000 21.152 Account of the climate of Madeira by Adams-- from Longman <1f5>1 1000A 22.2 Near Elton, a Village half a mile distant from Embrica in the Dukedom of Cleve, there was a Thing had its haunt, they called it Eckerken; there appeared never more than the Shape of a Hand, but it would beat Travellers, pull them off their Horses, &c--p. 100. Wierus de pra|estig. Da|em.* Bodin. Mag. Da|em. And it seems strange to me, that Wierus should doubt this power, when he gives him a greater; for what is transporting of <1f5v>1 vapours or driving them together, to the carrying of Men or Cattel in the Aire, (of which he is a confident asserter) unless it require <1larger Devills,>1 or greater <1numbers.>1 And that there are sufficient <1numbers>1 of such <1Spirits>1 will seem to any body as credible as that there are any at all. But now for the truth of this, that certain <1Words>1 or <1Ceremonies>1 do seem at least to cause an alteration in the <1Aire,>1 and to raise Tempests, <1Remigius>1 writes that he had it witnessed to him by the free confession of near two hundred men which he examined: Morere ** he adds a story or two, in which there being neither <1Fraud>1 nor <1Melancholy>1 to be suspected, I think them worth the mentioning. 3. The one is of a <1Witch,>1 who, to satisfy the curiosity of them that had power to punish her, was set free that she might give a proof of that power she professed she had to raise <1Tempests.>1 She therefore being let goe, presently betakes herself to a place thick set with Trees, scrapes a <1Hole>1 with her Hands, <1fills it>1 with <1Urine, fl,>1 r; & <1stirs it about>1 so long, that she caused at last a thick dark <1Cloud>1 charged with <1Thunder>1 & <1Lightning,>1 to the Terror and affright- ment of the beholders. But she bade them be of good Courage, for she would command the Cloud to discharge upon what place they would appoint her; which she made good in the sight of the Specta- tors. The other story is of a <1young Girle,>1 who, to pleasure her Father complaining of a Drought, by the guidance & help of that ill master her Mother had devoted & consecrated her unto, raised a <1Cloud,>1 and <1water'd>1 her Father's ground onely, all the rest continuing dry as before. 4. Let us add to these that of <1Cuinus>1 & Margaret Warine. While this Cuinus was busie at his Hay-making, there arose sud- <1fl0v>1 denly great <1Thunder>1 and <1Lightning>1 which made him run home- ward & forsake his work, for he saw six <1Oaks>1 hard by him over- turned from the very <1roots,>1 & a seventh also shatter'd & torn apieces: he was fain to lose his hat, & leave his fork or rake for haste; <3upon w>3 which was not***so fast, but another crack overtakes him and rattles about his ears: upon which Thunder-clap he pres- ently ** espied this <1Margaret Warine,>1 a reputed Witch, upon the Top of an Oak, whom he began to chide. She desired his Secrecy & she would promise that never any Injury or Harm should come to him from her at any time. This <1Cuinus>1 deposed upon Oath before the Magistrate, & <1Mar->1 <1garet Warine>1 acknowledged the Truth of it, without any force done unto her, several times before her death, & at her death. <1Remigius>1 concieves she was discharged upon the Top of the Oak at that last <1Thunder-clap,>1 & there hung amongst the boughs; which he is in- <1fll>1 duced to believe from two Stories he tells afterwards. 5. The one is of a <1Tempest>1 of <1Thunder>1 & <1Lightning>1 that the Herdsmen tending their Cattel on the brow of the Hill <1Alman>1 in the field of Guicuria were frighted with, who running into the Woods for Shelter, suddenly saw two Countrymen on the Top of the Trees which were next them, so dirty, & in such a Pickle, & so out of breath, as if they had been dragg'd up & down through thorns & miry places; but when they had well eyed them, they were gone in a moment out of their sight they knew not how nor whither. These herdsmen talked of the business, but the certainty of it came out not long after. For the free confessions of those two men they then saw, being so exactly agreeing with what the Herds- man had related, made the whole matter clear & undoubted. <1f6>1 1000B 22-3 And first wee will beginne with Master Fryth, who suffered in the year 1533 who in his declaration of Baptism, thus himselfe. "Our forefathers (saith hee) which were in the beginning of the Church, did abrogate the Sabbath, to the intent that Men might have an ensample of <1Christian Liberty;>1 &c. Howbeit because it was <1necessary>1 that <1a day>1 should be reserved in which the people should come together, to heare the word of God, they ordayned insteed of the <1Sabbath>1 which was <1Saturday,>1 the next day following which is <1Sunday.>1 And although they might have kept the <1Saturday>1 with the Jew as a thing indifferent; yet they did much better. Some three yeeres after him, anno 1536 being the 28 of Henry the eight suffered Master Tyndall, who in his answer to Sir Thomas More hath resolved it thus. "As for the <1Sabbath>1 we be <1Lords over the Sabbath,>1 and may yet <1change it into Munday,>1 or <1any other day,>1 as we see need; or may make every <1tenth day holy>1 <1day onley,>1 If we see cause why. Neither was there any cause <1to>1 <1change it from the Saturday,>1 but to put a difference between us and the Jewes; neither need wee any <1holy day>1 at all, if the people might <1f6v>1 bee taught without it." 1000C 22.4 Sat enim vero in hac vita|e brevitate et naturale obscuritate rerum est, quibus cognoscendis tempus impendatur, ut obscuris sermonibus intelligendis illud consumere non opus est. Et proinde recte dictum putamus a Platone in Gorgia--<2Os an ta>2 <2onomata eidei, isetai kai ta pragmata-->2et ab Epicteto--<2arkih>2 <2paideusews h twn onomatwn episkepsis.-->2Et prudentissime Galenus (3 de simpl. med. facult. c. 12) scribit: <2h twn onomatwn>2 <2kirhsis parakitheisa kai thn twn pragmatwn epitarattei gnwsin>2 Et de Puls. differe[n]t c.6. Si nomina propria suppetant, his <3vi>3 uti nos par est, si non, definitione prestat res singulas explicare, quam am metaphora nomina mutuari, siquide[m] docere instituas, non obtundere. Et egregie I.C. Scaliger, in lib. 1. de plantis. Est pri- mum, inquit, Sapientis officium, bene sentire, vt sibi vivat: proxi- mum, bene loqui, vit [vt] patriae viuat. Quippe quo\d animal sit iure sociabile, nutiquam suos aget conuentus impulsu natura|e sim- plici, formicarum, apu/mve, aut etiam locustarum more, sed ratione f7 adductus, induet sese in commune ius, patietu/rque ipse, patique alterum iubebit simul. 1000D 22.5 Robert White (in Latin Robertus Pullen) Au- thor of a book Sentences, is believed to have died about 1150-- but Peter Lombard is [. . .] the author of <1the>1 Book of Sentences. Waddingus's Edition of Duns Scotus in 12 Volumes Folio printed at Lyons 1639. Leland, Bale, Pits, Cave, & Tanner the writers of our literary History. Whites dialogues de Mundo. Telesio--& Berigardus. 1000E 22.6 Behmen's opinion--That all is God's self--that a man's self is God if he live holily--that the Waters of this World are mad--/likewise endeavor to get Paracelsus de Meteoris, his Scientia Astronom. & his de natura rerum. 1000F 22.7 <1f7v>1 Sieh, die Ta%nze, sieh, die Fu%sse Tanzen, wie die schnellen To%ne Sieh, wie frohlich tanzt der Haufe Sieh, es trennet sich der Haufen-- Sieh, das Ma%dchen tanzt ein Solo-- Sieh, wie reizend wirfts die Fu%sse-- Sieh, wie schnell kann es sich drehen-- Sieh, sieh, sieh, wie hoch es springet-- Sieh, nun schleicht es mit den To%nen, Sieh, nun hu%pft es mit den Saiten-- Sieh, nun dreht es sich im Zirkel! Sieh, nun dreht sichs wieder langsam, Sieh, nun schleicht & springt es wieder, Sahst du, wie es unterm springen, Schwebend mit den Fussen spielte? 1000G 22.8 This is not to be imputed to any vain credulity of mine, or that I take a pleasure in telling strange stories; but that I thought fit to fortify the strength of others as much as I could-- being well assured that a contemptuous misbelief of such like nar- rations concerning <1Spirits,>1 & an endeavour of making them all ri- <1f8>1 diculous & incredible, is a dangerous prelude to atheism itself, or else a more close & crafty profession & insinuation of it. For as- suredly that Saying is not more true in Politics, <1No Bishop, no>1 <1king;>1 than this is in Metaphysics, <1No Spirit, no God.>1 antidote against ath. p. 142. 1000H 22.9 Archa|eologia|e philosoph. p. 68. Facile credo, plures esse naturas invisibiles quam visibiles in rerum universitate--sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enar- rabit? Et gradus, et cognationes, et discrimina, et singulorum mu- nera? Quid agunt? qua|e loca habitant? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum numquam attigit. Juvat, in- terea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in Tabula2, ma- joris & melioris mundi. Imaginem contemplari: ne Mens assue- fecta hodiernale vitale minutiis, se se contrahat nimis, & tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea\ invigilandum est, mo- dusque servandus, ut certa ab incertas, diem a\ nocte, distinguamus. 1000I 22.1o Paracels. de Meteoris--That the absence of the <1f8v>1 Sun is not the cause of Night, forasmuch as his light is so great that it may illuminate the earth all over at once; but that Night is brought on by the influence of <1dark>1 Stars that ray out darkness & obscurity upon the Earth, as the Sun does light.-- That Stars are Plants, & that the Lightnings without Thunder are as it were the deciduous Flowers of the A|Estival Stars-- A man illiterate but of good parts by constant reading of the Bible will naturally contract a more winning and commanding Rhetoric than those that are learned, the intermixture of Tongues & of arti- ficial phrases debasing their style. Dr. Henry More's Enthus. Tri- umph. Sect. xxxv. Whence it is a strong Temptation with a Melancholist when he feels a storm of devotion or zeal come upon him like a mighty <1f15>1 wind, his heart being full of affection, his head pregnant with clear & sensible representations, & his mouth flowing & streaming with fit & powerful expressions, such as would astonish an ordinary audi- tory to hear, it is, I say, a shrewd temptation to him to think that it is the very Spirit of God &c--Id. Sect. xvl.-- Id. Sect. Lvl. Enthusiasts have spoken very <1raisedly>1 & <1divinely,>1 which has most certainly happened to sundry Persons a little before they have grown stark mad--for the unquiet & tumultuous spirit of Melancholy is like an earthquake to one in a dungeon, which for a small moment makes the very walls gape & cleave, and so lets in light for a while at those chinks; but all closes up again suddenly, & leaves the Prisoner to his wonted Darkness. <1f9v>1 Those that despise Reason because it is not <1Spirit-->1compared to Men travelling at Night with links & torches & lanthorns, per- suaded by some mad orator haranguing them into misconceit by rapturoug promises of the sun to extinguish all [?light]. The unreasonableness of Wierus <3his>3 doubting of the Devil's power <3of>3 over the Meteors of the air.--H. More's Antidote against Atheism--p. 91 <1f34v>1 1001 21.153 Sunday, November 1. 1801. Hartley breeched-- <1f35>1 dancing to the jingling of the money--but eager & solemn Joy, not his usual whirl-about gladness--but solemn to & fro eager looks, as befitted the importance of the a|era. 1002 21-154 <2psukihs phusin axiws logoi katanohsai oiei>2 <2dunaton einai, aneu ths tou olou phusews;>2 Plato in Pha|edr. Do you suppose the nature of the soul can be sufficiently under- stood without the knowledge of the whole of nature? 100321-155 Est meum, et est tuum; amice! at si amborum nequit esse, Sit meum, amice, precor: quia certe sum mage pauper. Tis mine, & it is likewise yours; But if this will not do, Let it be mine, because that I'<3m>3 Am the poorer of the Two. 1004 21.156 He that seeeth not by his own light, must in this dangerous Ocean steer by the Lanthorn, which another Vessel hangeth out to him.--Sir K. Digby. . . . . 1005 21.157 Every passion, say the Physicians, hath an dis- tinct Pulse. 1006 21.158 For a list of Duns Scotus's Works, see Cave's His- toria Literaria, & Fuller's English Worthies. 1007 21.159 The sea brooked not me--nor I it; an unquiet element made only for wonder and use not for pleasure 1008 21.160 I pitied his ill bestowed zeal and rather wished than durst teach him more wisdom. 1009 21.161 Fear gives sudden instincts of skill <1f35>1 1010 21.162 Miracles must be <2confirm>2 judged by the doc- trine which they confirm not the doctrine by the miracle The Romanists argue preposterously while they would prove the truth by miracles, whereas they should prove the miracles by the truth. 1011 21.163 Vix ea nostra voco. 1012 21.164 A Pippin on a Pippin grafted makes a Renate-- ; now spelt Rennet. 1013 21.165 The state should be to the Religion under its Protection as a well-drawn Picture, equally eyeing all in the Room. 1014 21.166 The ready way to make the mind grow awry is to lace it too tight. 1015 21.167 Non-resident from Truth--<2PHilopfilippos.>2 101 6 21.168 Whether or no the too great definiteness of Terms in any language may not consume too much of the vital & idea-creating force in distinct, clear, full made Images & so prevent originality--<1original>1 thought as distinguished from positive thought --Germans in general-- 1017 21.169 The thing that causes instability in another state --of itself causes stability--as for instance wet soap slips off the <1f36>1 ledge, detain it till it dries a little & it <1sticks.>1 1018 21-170 Health in his cheeks & the Light of honorable Thought in his Eyes-- 1019 21.171 Is there any thing in the Idea that Citizens are fonder of good eating & Rustics of strong Drink--the one from-- the rarity of all such things--the other from the uniformity of his Life? <1fl4v>1 1020 6.30 Friday Morning, November 13, 1801--left Euse- mere 1/2 past 6--Penrith at 9--in the heavy Coach--new Horse put in, which fell in at Emont Bridge--Taken out--the Coach drawn by the 3 over the Bridge, and the new Horse put in as a Leader-- plunged &c &c & tore all the Harness--& another Horse sent for.-- Bella, & an Irish Lady, hurt & as horridly frightened. 1021 6.31 A certain quantity of water in which Lime has <1f15>1 been dissolved, & whitened by the fine particles of that substance, be mixed with ley of ashes or with soapy water that has been even been used for washing, it will destroy the offensive smell. Thus a tub with 5 or 6 pounds of quick Lime, a small quantity of ashes, & 2 buckets of water, with a seat, makes an admirable & healthy Close Stool. <1f36>1 1022 21.172 The art in a <1great>1 man--& of evidently superior faculties to be often <1obliged>1 to people, often their inferiors--in the way the enthusiasm of affection may be exerted. Pity where we can help & our help is accepted with gratitude, conjoined with ad- miration breeds an enthusiastic affection--the same Pity conjoined with admiration, where <3we>3 neither our Help is accepted, nor effi- cient, breeds dyspathy & fear--<1T.W.>1 1023 21.173 Oft kan, wil der Sclave selbst nicht frei seyn. Er ist also <1obbrutes>1cirit; aber diese Apathie ist Wirkung der Sklaverei, kein Grund fu%r dieselbe. Die Carolinger liessen die Merovinger wie Tiere aufwachsen; und bewiesen sodann, dass sie enthro%nt wer- <1f36v>1 den mussten.--Leichter entwo%nt man sich des Befelens, als des Gehorchens. Der Sklave hat seine Seele verloren, wenn er seinen Herrn verliert: so wie der Hund, der sich in den Strassen verloren, heult, bis er das Haus wieder findet, wo er schlecht gefu%ttert und stark gepru%gelt wird.--As however we in our ancestors brought into this madness, it is our duty to cure them--they are not vol- bu%rtige but may be made so. 1024 6.32 The Two Candles on the Table--Reflections in <1f15>1 the Looking Glass, over each cone of Light a compact Brush of Misty Light ejaculated--& a broader & somewhat less compact & somewhat differently coloured Beam of Light running over athwart <1f15r>1 high across the flames of the 2 cones--Transition--Dimness--why then, the Proportion being the same? Nov. 18. 1801, Southey's Lodging--Nov. 25, 1801. 1025 6.113 <1f47v>1 5 4 Waistcoat 1 4 2 Stockings 2 9 6 Neckloths 2 9 7 Breeches 1 Handkerchiefs 1 Breast <1f47>1 1 Flannel Waistcoat 2 Linen Dv 2 Shirts 2 Handkerchiefs 5 Neckcloths 1 Night cap 5 Pair of Stockings Nov. 25. 1026 6.33 But in the last Judgment by Fire how can the <1fl5v>1 Salamander die? This & Drayton's Noah's ark a fine elucidation of an idea <1spectrally>1 & at once given--Grand-awful! analysed-devil- ized-rational--Most exquisitely ludicrous on Salamanders idealy/ Third Hour--9th Stanza. 1027 6.34 If you dream of an egg hanging at your bed's <1f16>1 Head by a string <3it>3 signifies finding hidden Treasure. 1028 6.35 Peacock--rolls in a circle his starry tail-- That seems at once to walk, to fly, to sail. 1029 6.36 The Pines of Idus fall without an arm-- 1030 6.37 The only time I ever saw S angry with Edith was on occasion of her sportfully putting a little milk in his mash which (a drop or two) fell on his jacket & he feared would stain it. "Twas <1fl6v wrong">1 with a frown (unnoticed--as a beggar's Fiddle on a crowded crossing--as a pompous Funeral in Cheapside at noon, noticed chiefly by those who curse it for <3not>3 going so slow--) 1031 6.38 Looking down upon the sky--stars--Lamps-- Lambs 1032 6.39 As I have been falling to sleep, the Thought of you has come upon so strongly, that I have opened my eyes as if to look at you-- <1f17>1 1033 6.40 Few Tragedies die game. 1034 6.41 Beddoes hunting a Pig with a buttered Tail--His whole Life an outcry of <2Eurhkas>2 and all eureekas Lies-- 1035 6.42 Laeti bibamus sobriam Ebrietatem Spiritus. 1036 6.43 When in the strong & regular wind the Snow keeps weaving its strong Warp--and darting its white Threads down its inclined Plane. 1037 6.44 Such a proposal that were I the Devil himself & <1f17v>1 a man should make it to me I would rip up his guts with one of my Horns. 1038 6.45 An absolute Diabetes of Alarm 1039 6.46 Mem. In spectra, the luminous Fringes inclosing a space some imperfectly circular some parallelograms-- Item/motion communicated to the object by any motion in any part of the body. ex.gr. of the hand moving to & fro the flesh of the Leg.--This important. Vide page # 1040 6.47 Lord Brook union of the Soul & of Truth-- 1 041 6.48 Men turn Teachers, as the River Nile breeds <1f18>1 Frogs, when one half moveth before the other is made, while it is yet but plain mud. 1042 6.49 Three Welshmen--Moon in the water/Hold fast below while I spit on my hands.--Three [?noses]--a cow-herd. Fellow sawing himself off a branch. 1043 6.5o Mr I. Leslie at Mr Carstairs' Abchurch Lane London 1044 6.51 Vers. uber die humane Sympathie von Hrn. <1f18v>1 Reche. Betrachtungen u%ber Wohlwollen, Sympathie, &c von Hrn Hun- ger. Nizolius de veris Principiis et vera2 ratione philosophandi, con- tra pseudo-philosophos--edited by Leibnitz 1670 4to-- 1045 6.114 A handful of red sulfate of Iron & a handful of <1f47>1 Lamp black and a pint of water--Lord Pisport 1046 6.115 Pere Labat 1047 6.116 20 Grains = a Dram <1f46v>1 3 Drams = a Scruple 8 Scruples = an Ounce 12 Ounces = a Pound 43560 square feet = an English Acre. 150 (43560) 290,,6 <1f46>1 1048 6.117 Cove's Essay on the Revenues of the Church of England/Do, Inquiry into the Necessity &c of the Commutation of Tithes.-- 1049 6.118 did not "die guilty of much" wealth, <1f36v>1 1050 21.174 Feel a pimple, and measure it in <1feeling-->1& then look at it--how very small it is compared with what you expected it to be. So measure one of your teeth at its edge with your finger, what a breadth--Explain this diversity of <1feeling>1 & sight. Decemb. 2. 1801. 1051 21.175 The tender sensibility with which the proprietor of Aromatic Steel Lozenges enters into the concerns of Gentlemen who are anxious respecting Matrimony. Ross's Mary Queen of Scots-- 1052 21. 176 Hooker was an early Questionist, quietly in- quisitive. 1053 21.177 "Let us adore the bounty of God, who placed Death at the end of Life, that we might have time for Repentance." 1054 21.178 The Irishman's heroic cunning--in getting an accomplice hung, lest he should betray.--&c-- <1f37>1 1055 21.179 O for a Lodge in some vast wilderness--similar Passage in Greg. Nazianz. Apol.. 1056 21.180 N.B. to make a detailed comparison in the man- ner of Jerome Taylor between the searching for the first Cause of a Thing & the seeking the fountains of the Nile--so many streams each with their junction &c--&c--at last, it all comes to a name-- 1057 21.181 If men will impartially & not a'squint look to- ward the offices & function of a Poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being the good Poet without being first a good man. Ben Johnson's Dedic. to Volpone-- <+ <2oti monos poihths o basileus>>2 Herennius ad Gallienum ++Strabo. lib.primo. <2Ouk oion agathon genesthai poihthn, mh>2 <2pro/teron genhthenta andra agathon.>2 1058 21.182 Brothelry & Blasphemy, able to violate the ear of a Pagan-- 1059 21.183 Milton's address to the Sun--Ben Jonson's first Lines of the Poetaster-- Light, I salute thee, but with wounded nerves-- Wishing thy golden splendor pitchy Darkness-- 106021.184 Whose music striketh on <1my>1 heart, and with bewitching Tones steals forth my spirit-- 106121.185 Let us not blame him: for against such chances <1f37v>1 The heartiest Strife of Virtue is scarce proof We may read constancy & fortitude To other souls; but had ourselves been struck, Even in the Height and Heat of our best days, T'had made our very heart-strings jarr, like his. 1062 21.186 The soul a Mummy embalmed by Hope in the Catacomb-- 106321.187 [a] <1Hast>1 du etwas, so theile mir's mit und ich Zahle was recht ist; <1Bist>1 du etwas, o dann tauschen die Seelen wir aus. 21.188 An die Muse-- [b] Was ich ohne dich wa%re, ich weiss es nicht aber Mir grauet, Seh ich was ohne dich Hundert & Tausende sind. [c] Warum kann der Lebendige Geist dem Geist nicht erscheinen? SPRIGHT die Seele, so spricht ach! schon die SEELE nicht mehr. [d] Lass die Sprache dir seyn, was der Ko%rper den Lebenden <1[Liebenden]>1 Er nur Ist! der die Wesen trennt und der die Wesen vereint. 1064 21.189 To write a <1series>1 of Love Poems--truly Sap- phic, save that they shall have a large Interfusion of moral Senti- ment & calm Imagery on Love in all the moods of the mind-- Philosophic, fantastic, in moods of high enthusiasm, of simple <1f38>1 Feeling, of mysticism, of Religion--/comprize in it all the practice, & all the philosophy of Love-- 1065 21.190 A lively picture of a man, disappointed in mar- riage, & endeavoring to make a compensation to himself by virtuous & tender & brotherly friendship with an amiable Woman--the ob- stacles--the jealousies--the impossibility of it.--Best advice that he should as much as possible withdraw himself from pursuits of morals &c--& devote himself to abstract sciences-- 1066 21.191 NAMES do not always meet with LOVE, And LOVE wants courage without a <1name.>1 1067 21.192 Homer sailing from Thebes to the Island <1Ion;>1 being landed and set down on the shore, certain Fishermen passed by him--What have you taken? What they had taken they had left behind them--& what they had not taken they had with them! --Homer pines away & dies, unable to understand this Epigram --his Ghost appears to the Fishermen because they each take no fish, they had gone & hanged themselves--&c-- 1068 21.193 Movent mihi stomachum Grammatista|e quidam, qui cum duas tenuerint Vocabulorum origines ita se ostentant, ita venditant, ita circumferunt jactabundi, ut pra|e ipsis pro nihilo ha- bendos Philosophos arbitrentur. Pic. Mirand. in Ep. ad Hermol. Barb.-- 1069 21.194 Collection of Revelations & Visions-- 1070 21.195 O <2murionous-->2hyperbole from Naucratius's <1f38v>1 Panegyric of Theodorus Studites--Shakespeare? <1Item-->1<2O pollostos kai polueidhs th poikilo->2 <2strophw sophia.>2 <2O megalophwnotatos ths alhtheias khruz-->2 Lord Bacon. 1071 21.196 ##-. Bede.--died 701--began to flourish-- Theodorus, Abucara dictus--Edit. a Jacobo Gretsero, Ingolstad 1606. 4o.-- Michael Psellus Johannes, his Scholar. 1080. Heloisa & Abelard. 1120.--Amboesius's Edition--Paris, 1616. 4o-- Petrus Lombard, 1141--His Sentences must needs be a common Book-- Robertus Pulleynus (1144) Sententiarum de Trinitate libros 8. --Paris. 1655.-- Becket's Epistola|e, libri 6--Lupus, Bruxellis, 1682. 4o--/1162. 1172. Johannis Sarisburiensis--Polycraticus, & Metalogici. 1199--Galfrid de nova Poetria--exist in the Arundel, Baliol, & Cotton Libraries--. 1230 Alexander de Hales--Summa Universa|e Theologia|e--4 Editions, Basil. 1502. Norimberg. 1482.--Venet. 1576--Colon. 1622. Qua|estiones, seu Commentaria. in quatuor Libros Sententia- rum. Lugduni, 1515--probably not Hales'. Commentaria in Metap. Arist. et in Arist. de Anima--Ha|ec Oxonii--illa Venet.-- Vincenti's speculum quadruplex-- <1f39>1 ## Opera Beda|e Paris. 1545. 3. Tom.--Basil. 1563. 8 Tom.-- Colon. 1612--This last a vile edition.) 1072 21.197 Something inherently mean in action. Even the Creation of the Universe disturbs my Idea of the Almighty's great- ness--would do so, but that I conceive that Thought with him Creates. 1073 21.198 The great federal Republic of the Universe 1074 21.199 Und ein Gott ist, ein heiliger Wille lebt, Wie auch der menschliche wanke, Hoch uber der Zeit und dem Raume webt Lebendig der ho%chste Gedanke; Und ob alles in ewigem Wechsel kreist, Es beharret im Wechsel ein ruhiger Geist 1075 21.200 So many earles & viscounts, that it were long to rehearse--it was a great beauty to behold the Banners & Standardes waving in the Wind, & horses barded & squires richly armed.-- 1076 21.201 Strictly one should notice the cases in which Opium <1restores>1 the patient to his powers, of breathing, for instance; <1f39v>1 & those far more numerous in which it only suspends the pain of their Suspension. 1077 21.202 T. Wedgwood's objection to my "Things & Thoughts," because ["]Thought always implies an act or <1nisus>1 of mind," not well founded. A <1Thought>1 and Thoughts are quite dif- ferent words from <1Thought-->1as a Fancy from Fancy, a Work from Work, a Life from Life, a Force & Forces from Force, a Feeling, a Writing &c an <3Urgency &c &c.>3 1078 21.203 To <1fall>1 asleep--is not a real <1event>1 in the body well represented by this phrase--is it in <1excess,>1 when on first <1drop->1 <1ping>1 asleep we <1fall>1 down precipices, or <1sink>1 down, all things <1sinking>1 beneath us, or <1drop down,>1 &c--Is there not a Disease from defi- ciency of this critical sensation/when people imagine, that they have been awake all night/& actually lie dreaming, expecting & wishing for this critical Sensation?-- 1079 21.2o4 Draw out the secrets from men's Hearts, as the Egyptian Enchanters, by particular Strains of Music draw out serpents from their lurking places.-- <1f40>1 1080 21.2o5 Joel, Chronographicus Graecus, claricti 1204-- scripsit <2kironographian ensunopsei>2 ab orbe condito usque ad Alexi-1. Ducae Murzuphli obitum--i.e. annum 1204, quo tempore capta est a Latinis Constantinopolis: unde historiam suam his claudit verbis--<2Feu! kai tauta kiristianoi kiristianous !>2 1081 21.210 Bright Reflections in the Canals of the blue & <1f40v>1 green Vitriol Bottles in the Druggists' shops in London.--Mere plictri-plactri--- 1082 21.211 God.--Wenn ein Gott ist, so ist ein Zweck, so sind unsre Zwecke diesem untergeordnet, so ist ein Zusammenhang, ein Ganzes, in welchem wir handeln; wir richten etwas das mit unserm Tode nicht verlohren geht. 2. Implies the real existence of Truth & Goodness--of course, gives a possibility & thereby a hope of our attaining both. Condorcet --& suffrages. 3. <3A>3 No Being that comprehends the whole!--What a blot in Creation. Am I--& such animalcules as I--the wisest thing of all! --& that there are even such as we, is mere chance!-- 3. The connection of Gratitude with God.--Power in uttermost distress by unexpected means!--The plan & the motive gives grati- tude-- 4. Courage--That courage which the Sold. derives from B--B being God--His general.-- 5. You become an atheist from the content. of evil, & by atheism you would make the evil thousandfold.--## --Evils in the Universe. Spots in the Sun/those very Spots dis- covered by Herschel to be the marks of the Heat & Cold of differ- ent Summers-- ## 6. The unspeakable Comfort to a good man's mind--nay, even to a criminal to be <1understood-->1to have some one that under- stands one--& who does not feel, that on earth no one does. The Hope of this--always more or less disappointed, gives the <1passion>1 to Friendship 1083 21.212 1. Anoydine Balsam/2. The vulnerary Balsam <1f41>1 or Friar's--when taken internally, the dose is from 20 to 60 drops. 3. Lenitive Electuary, a Teaspoonful or more 2 or 3 times a day. 4. Camphorated Emulsion. Camphor, half a drachm; sweet al- monds, half a dozen; white sugar half an ounce; mint water 8 ounces.--Grind the Camphor & almonds well together in a stone mortar, & add by degrees the mint water, then strain the liquor, & dissolve in it the Sugar.--A Table spoonful or two, every 2 or 3 hours. 5. Camphorated Julep. Take of Camphor, one Drachm; rectified Spirit of Wine, ten drops; double refined Sugar, half an ounce; boiling distilled Water, one pint. Rub the Camphor first with the spirit of wine, then with the sugar; lastly add the water by degrees, & strain the liquor. 6. Carminative Powder. Coriande[r] seed, half an ounce; ginger, one drachm; nutmegs, half a drachm; fine sugar, a drachm, & a half. Reduce them into powder for 12 doses. 7. Best Turkey-Rhubarb, cinnamon & fine sugar, each 2 drachms. Let the ingredients be well pounded, & afterwards mixed together.--a tea spoonful or two in flatulent costiveness. 8. Sudorific Powder! Purified nitre & vitriolated Tartar, each half an ounce; opium & ipecacuanha, of each one drachm. Mix the ingredients to a fine powder. From one scruple to 2. 9. Acid Elixir of Vitriol. (For ev 15 grains of Rhubarb in a glass of Chamomile Tea-- <1f45v>1 1084 6.119 From Stowey to B./20, Jan. Turnpike 6 Driver 2,,6 Chaise 11,,3 From B. to Piper's Inn Turnpike 6 Chaise 13, 1 1/2 Driver 2,,6 Ostler 4 From Pipers Inn to Wells Turnpike 6 Ditto 6 Chaise 13, 1 1/2 From Wells to Old down <1f45>1 Turnpike-- 0 0 6 Chaise 8 9 Driver 2 0 Porter 3d From Old Down to Bath Turnpike 0,,0,,6 Do 6 Do 3 Chaise 16,,3 Driver 2,,6 Bath <1f44v>1 Dinner &c 14s From Bath to Devizes. Turnpike 0 0 9 3 Turnpikes 1,,6 s Chaise & Driver--%% 1,,3,,9 + 0,,3,,0 At Devizes s d d Tea & Waiter 4,,3 + 3 Porter 4 From Devizes to Marlboro' 2 Turnpikes-- 0, 1,,0 Chaise & Driver 17,6 + 3s From Marlbro' to Hungerford <1f44>1 Turnpike-- 0 0 6 Chaise & Driver 15,,0 Porter 0,,0,,3 From Hung. to Newb. Turnpike-- 0,,0,,6 Chaise Driver 11 3d/2,6 + 3d Porter-- From Newbury to Reading 2 Turnpikes 0, 0, 6 Chaise & Driver 1,,1,,3 + 3 Porter 0,,0,,4 From Reading to Maidenhead Chaise & Driver 0,,18,,9 Turnpike 2d <1f43v>1 From Maidenhead to Colebrook--N.B. Wheel. 51 yards from there-- Turnpike-- o,,0,,6 Chalse 11,,3 Driver 2,,6 Porter 4 From Colebrook to Brentford Turnpike-- 6 Chaise & Driver 12. 6 + 2/6 Porter 4 <1f43>1 Brentford to London No 8 Chaise--Bernard Stow Driver Oxford Gap-tooth'd <1f18v>1 1085 6.52 <3M>3 Draft--London/--Jan. 25th, 1802--to the or- der of Mr William Jackson. <1f43>1 1086 6.120 No/4, London St Tottenham Court Road 1087 6.121 better to do nothing than nothings-- <1f42v>1 1088 6.122 Sores and Boils 1089 6.123 Sense of <1memory in>1 every tone, look, & eye glit- tering above the rouged cheek, so stupid idle 1090 6.124 Treacherous <1Cough>1 1091 6.125 Some folks sit with their windows & doors shut from morning to night, from morning to night--it may suit some-- but it won't do for me, I say. 3 3 1092 6.126 A little fat Thing trotting along by one's knee- <1f42>1 side. 1093 6.127 6%% 13s CABBAGE 8+9 1094 6.128 Bloody hand had he? School boy made ideot by cruelty of Schoolmaster 1095 6.129 Mad womans apothecary a hole in one cheek, do in the other & poured in the medicine-- <1f4lv>1 1096 6.130 Tuffin--Diarrhoea of Talk--gave him a piece of paper to wipe his mouth 1097 6.131 Spy & his Reverence, Is this the way you take to insult me? 1098 8.1 Zink filings acted on by a diluted sulphuric acid <1f2>1 evolves hydrogen gas. Borax with a porcelain clay good Lute for high degrees of heat--for lower degrees Lime with white of Eggs, but this must be applied fresh. Oxygen Gas discovered by Priestly --easiest procured by the action of black Oxyd of Manganese--& Sulphuric Acid--mix equal quantities in a retort thro' a funnel (to <1f2v>1 prevent the neck of the Retort being dirtied)--take out the funnel & put the glass stopper in the place--& put it over the Lamp, the end of the Retort in the water Trough--(first common air, then fixed air--& then Oxygen Gas) Red oxyds of Lead & Mercury will do nearly as well as Manganese/Sulphuric Acid not absolutely necessary--very great heat will produce the Ox. without it, from <1f3>1 the Manganese alone.--Oxyd of Manganese the cheapest--before this was discovered, nitre was used, but in this the Ox. was seldom pure, mingled more or less with nitrogene Gas--Oxygenated muri- ate of Potash the <1best,>1 & purest; but too costly for common experi- ments--/Ox. has no taste, smell, or color--& in a very small degree <1f3v>1 absorbable by water/a still simpler mode of procuring Oxygen. The leaves of living Vegetables covered with dew & exposed to light-- inclose plants in inverted Glasses, in Water. Exp./of the Taper in Oxygen Gas/how much more brightly it burns--/and if we extinguish the flame in the atmosphere, & leave only the ignited wick, it will be relumed in the Oxygen Gas. <1f4>1 Oxygen Gas is respirable for hours--/but yet finally fatal-- Three Quarts of common air could not be breathed with safety above 2 minutes--/Ox. three times as long--<1/Exper.>1 Quart of Ox. in a bladder breathed by Davy 2 minutes--did not at all hurt the flame of the Candle. He then breathed the same quantity of com- mon [air] in a bladder for the <3same>3 a less length of time--at the <1f4v>1 end of which it immediately extinguished the Candle. N.B. hold the end of the breathing pipe against the flame of the candle. <1Exper.>1 A small copper cup--introduce into it a small quant. of spir. of wine, tinged with cochineal--it burns very feebly with a blue flame, but on being plunged into Oxygen burns most vividly with a white flame, & consumes the Gas very fast. <1f5 Exper.>1 Ether in the same manner, burns bright indeed in the atmosphere, but o! how brightly whitely vividly beautiful in Oxy- gen gas. <1Exper.>1 Iron Wire, curved--if heated in the Atmos. would scarcely burn at all, but burns most <1spark>1lingly <1in the Jar>1 of Oxy- gen--/red color in the Jar after-ward--this owing to the formation <1f5v>1 of nitrous acid. Oxygen Gas separated from Nitrogene by Phos- phorus, which rapidly combines with the Oxygen & forms Phos. Acid. Exper. Solution of green muriate of Iron--introduce it into a jar of Oxygen/which absorbs it. Of this I could <1see>1 nothing. Exper.--Nitrous gas, mingle 2 parts of nitrous gas with one of <1f6>1 Oxygen gas--mingled in that long glass Tube, called the Eudiom- eter Tube/First, introduce 1 part of Ox. gas--then <1in succession>1 two parts of nitrous gas. 1. one part--red fumes are form[ed]--water rises rapidly in the tube--; added the second part of nitrous gas-- now <3ver>3 very little remained--& that nitrogen--/This was the mode of examining the purity of Oxygen. Hydrogen gas discovered truly by Cavendish. <1f6v>1 If steam be passed thro' ignited Zink or Iron thro' a porcelain Tube, hydrogen in <1large>1 quantities, but for common experiment. <1Exper.>1 Zink Filings & diluted Sulphuric acid.--As soon as these two are brought together, a violent effervescence, & gas produced in great quantities. f7 Iron filings/(or even Tin Filings, but in this you must apply heat) will produce the same gas-- <1Exper.>1 Iron filings & dilute Sulphuric Acid--the process goes on much slower--& therefore more safely collected for use-- Experiment on the inflammability of the Hydrogen Gas--Put into a jar Iron filings & sulphuric acid/the Gas escaping thro' a tube <1f7v>1 burns like a weak dying Taper/& makes the small long tube look exactly like a Taper in damp air. The disagreeable smell of Hydrogen from Iron filings depends on the Sulphur &c held in solution--Does not exist else. Tasteless--burns, but like other combustibles, only in conse- quence of the Oxygen-- <1Exper>1.--<3plunge>3 With a taper touch the Hydrogene--it burns-- <1f8>1 plunge the Taper in--twill be extinguished. This is the slow Com- bustion. Exp. a Jar, one part of Hydrogene, 2 parts of common air, & let it out against a Taper--it detonates gently--Still more when 1 part Ox. 2 part Hydrogen--it detonates then with a vengeance. The detonation of Hydrogen led people to think it might be employed <1f8v>1 as Gunpowder, hence the Hydrogen Pistol. Description of this-- filled with half Ox. half Hyd. by means of electric spark detonates./ The Cannon with Hydrogen & common [air]. Hold the Cannon over the Bottle containing Hydrogen Gas--applied a Leyden phial to it--<1bang.>1 Hyd. in its pure form of the least specific gravity--12 times <1f9>1 lighter than common air. Exper.--A Balance with small glass Globe, with 2 stop cocks, filled with atmos. weighs 5 grains more than when <1empty>1 (it con- tains 16 cubic inches) i.e. when exhausted by the air receiver.--He exhausted it--it required 5 Grains to bring it again in equilibrio, in <1f9v>1 the balance--he then filled it with Hydrogen Gas ( 16 cubic Inches) --& that weighed only half a grain/took out the Hydrogen gas, & permitted common air/then the glass became too heavy. Hence Hydrogen Gas employed for Balloons---this illustrated by Soap Bladders, filled with a mixture of Hydrogen & Oxygene Gas. Blow up soap into Bubbles by means of a Bladder furnished with a Pipe, the Blabber filled with mixed gas. Nitrogen--discovered by Dr Rutherford/ Introduce <1Leather>1 into a retort or Muscular fibre &c--pour on them nitric acid weak & heated/it would give out azote or Nitro- <1f10v>1 gene--produces no Change when agitated in water--is incapable of supporting flame--plunge Taper into it--it will immediately ex- tinguish/it burns only in cases of intense Ignition.--Atmosp. 78 Nitr. 22 Oxygen--/No difference of Oxygen in cities, Woods, or Sea shore--The quantity consumed by fires incalculably small com- pared with the sum total-- <1fll>1 Green muriate of Iron impregnated with nitrous gas, <1wch>1 rap- idly absorbes oxygen/consequently a vial of this with a tube makes a Eudiometer. Phosphoric Acid & Powder of Charcoal in red Heat makes Phos- phorus/twice as heavy as water-- fluid at 100--aeriform at 400 densest of all Gases--Ox. <1f11v>1 Sulphur--fluid at 214--aeriform at 600--i.e. the boiling point of Mercury--heated burns blue--in higher heat, white--in Oxygen Gas a most beautiful purple. Carbon. pure in Diamond--Diamond pure chrystallized Carbon/ --The Carbon in charcoal & common Coal burns with much less <1f12>1 degrees of Heat than the Diamond/Charcoal contains Carbon in proportion to its weight & density--Charcoal of <1Wood>1 in Oxygen Gas burns with a steady red flame--the lighter Charcoal, i.e. of Bark, burns sparkling & brighter. The former fit for accurate ex- periments in determining the quantity of charcoal consumed in the <1sparks thrown off>1 the Charcoal. <1f12v>1 Feb. 6. Lecture on Metals. Combustion of Metals by Oxygen/ Of Zinc. Our holder communicates with an hydraulic Glass Bell, bell con- taining Oxygen--by pressing down the Bell a stream of Oxygen passes thro' a curved Tube [D] upon the metal, which is placed upon a piece of ignited charcoal, placed on a small stand. The Zinc <1f13>1 burns with a very bright flame, the lower part white, the conical part purple blue. Tin burns with a flame rather whiter than zinc--and a diffusion of a bright violet color or crimson blue. Lead burns with a flame rather redder & throws out sparks. Copper burns with a blue flame, rather green at the Top. <1fl3v>1 Iron burns, throwing out bright sparks/ Steel gives out sparks still more brilliant than iron/indeed very far more brilliant. Almost all the imperfect metals may be thus burnt; but Gold, Silver, & Platina will not burn thus/they fuse but will not burn. <1f14>1 They are however combustible if a power sufficiently strong be ap- plied; & this power exists in Galvanic Electricity. Gold leaf burns this way--& silver brighter with a greenish flame. <3Methods>3 Metals neither composable, <3&>3 nor decompoundable/to us therefore Ele- ments. Earths, infusible, incombustible, insoluble, non-conductors. Si- <1f14v>1 lex--Alumina--Zircone--Glucine/<1Agustine>1--<1Ittria >1-- Lime, Barytes, Strontian, Magnesia, alcaline earths. Silex--in common flints, quartz, rock crystal, rock crystal, 95 parts in 100, pure silex--potash, flint, & water, siliceous Liquor pour into this muriatic <3slime>3 acid, & the flint will be precipitated in the <1fl5>1 form of a gelatinous mass, with effervescence--The mass may be separated from the water by filtration. The flint is to [be] pow- dered, mixed with caustic Alkali, & placed in a silver Crucible-- One part of pure silex & 1 of potash by <3the>3 fusion makes glass. <1fl5v>1 Alumine, or earth of clay--procured from sulphate of Alumine, i.e. Alum--/Solution of Alum--pour into Caustic potash/a white precipitate is immediately formed--this is pure alumina--insolu- ble in water, but easily diffused thro' it--combinable with all the <1f16>1 acids--contracts in volume in proportion to its heat--hence Wedge- wood's pyrometer, Alumine forms the basis of Porcelain & pottery --combined with flint, magnesia, & other earths. Zircone/insoluble in acids, & with the <3alkalis>3 acids forms peculiar <1fl6v>1 neutral salts. Glucine/1/20th of the Beryl soluble in caustic alkalis-- Fixt alkaline substances--all soluble in water, combinable with acids, & convert vegetable Blues into Green. Potash--always in nature combined with other substances--if <1f17>1 we burn veg. there remains a white powder--This mingled with lime, & exposed to heat, gives common caustic potash (the lime have attracted the Carbonic Acid)--this however is not pure--it must be dissolved in spirits. exceedingly caustic/&c--turns (besides blue into green) brazil wood from red to purple--likewise turmeric from yellow to Brown/ <1fl7v>1 Caustic potash combines with all the acids, & during the combina- tion produces an intense degree of heat, & in a very dark room a degree of Light. Nitrous acid, or sulphuric acid, pour on them a little caustic potash powder. Soda, obtained from the ashes of Sea-weed, obtained like potash, <1f18>1 pure by treatment with Lime & Alcohol--differs from potash by being less soluble, & forms peculiar salts with the acids-- These combined with oil form soaps Strontian, from carbonate of Strontian, which intensely heated in an earthen crucible becomes pure--not nearly so soluble in water <1fl8v>1 as the two former alters colors as they do/but has this peculiar, that it gives a rose color to the flame of Alcohol-- Barytes, from the carbonate of Barytes/carbonate dissolved in nitric acid forms pure barytes--distinguished from Strontian chiefly by its affinities with the acids--makes an acid even boil. <1f19>1 Lime/from common Limestone or marble by means of high degrees of heat--distinguished from the other by possessing a very much smaller affinity with the acids-- Magnesia, from sulphate of Magnesia by mingling caustic pot- <1fl9v>1 ash, which precipitates from the solution of Epsom salt the pure Magnesia/Epsom salt is Sulphate of Magnesia-- possesses the properties before mentioned in a much less degree, except that of <1heat>1 & light on mingling with the acids, <3very>3 even greater than all the others. There is however no evaporation/the Magnesia on the surface preventing it-- Undecompounded Acids--Muriatic Acid, Fluoric Acid, boracic <1f20>1 Acid. from Muriate of ammonia of muriate of Soda, that [is] common salt, by pouring on it sulphuric Acid, Muriatic acid Gas is produced. Under mercury--displaces the Mercury & by letting <3in the>3 in a little water the mercury again rises, the Gas rapidly absorbed-- <1f2ov>1 The solution, a very sour taste/caustic/reddens veget. blues/ ex.gr. tincture of Litmus/by adding muriatic acid becomes red/ combines with all the alkalis/ex.gr. the muriatic acid Gas with the Volatile Alkali--the 2 aeriform substances become a white <1f21>1 solid-- (Volatile Alkali = Ammoniacal Gas) White clouds with heat produced/& Muriate of Ammonium produced-- Destroys contagious effluvia by pouring sulphuric Acid <3by>3 on common Salt. Fluoric Acid, acts on Glass--therefore procured in a retort of <1f2lv>1 Lead/from the Fluor Spar pulverized & sulp. acid poured on it-- & the Gas produced/Solution <3of>3 in Water by applying a leaden Receiver to the Retort-- renders silex aeriform solution therefore employed in etching on Glass, by covering the Glass with wax & then making the lines & pouring the fluoric acid/ <1f22>1 The acid Gas, sent up thro' water in a glass Tube rises up in <1large>1 globules, each globule surrounded with a crust of Flint, which all join at the top-- Boracic Acid, from Alkaline Borate of Soda--solved in water, & <1f22v>1 pour sulp. acid, it will swim on the top of the water in white flakes/ The Boracic acid little taste, no smell-- Possessed of the peculiar quality of giving a <1green>1 flame to the flame of Alcohol-- Binary Compounds <1f23>1 Muriatic Acid + Magnesia give out heat, form a fluid, of differ- ent properties from their former state-- 1. Binary Compounds containing Oxygen. Oxygen + Hydro- gen in common temperature no mixture nay even above boiling water/but if we apply a flaming body, a momentary expansion takes place, & water is produced/Exper. 2 parts Hydrogen, one <1f23v>1 part Oxygen, in a cylinder/& apply an electric spark-- Sulphuric Acid diluted poured on iron filings/then, as it issues from the tube, light it--and hold over the flame a dry glass Vessel/ twill be moist-- H Ox 15 + 85 grains = Water If an electric spark be passed thro' Water by a metallic wire, Ox. & Hyd. will be formed. <1f24>1 A silver wire inclined in a small tube of glass--pass a spark from a common machine thro' it into water, & globules will arise--which globules will <3rise>3 be Ox. & Hyd. Water below 32 Degrees ice--172 steam-- Oxygene with nitrogene in different proportions, & thereby forms different substances-- Nitrous Acid, nitric Gas, & nitrous Oxygen <1f24v>1 Nitric acid from nitrous Gas + Oxygen Gas/introduce by means of stop-cocks into a partially exhausted glass globe nitrous gas, which combining with the oxygen left in the globe forms an elastic orange-colored Gas, i.e. nitrous acid Gas. 10 grains of water with about 90 grains of nitrous acid gas-- <1f25>1 This may be shewn more simply merely letting out nitrous gas into the air. Nitrate of potash in a common retort--& pour on it sulphuric Acid, a low degree of heat produces the gas. Nitrous Acid + oil produce intense heat, & a flame--/ Copper filings + diluted <3/4> nitrous Acid, in a <3dilute>3 retort <1f25v>1 produces the gas/slowly or rapidly according to the degree of dilution/ Nitrous gas colorless, extinguishes all flame but that of phosphorous/which it increases/& phosphoric acid produced. nitrous gas 54 Ox. + 44 nitrogene Nitrous Oxyd/ <1f26>1 Nitrate of Ammonia in a glass retort under a low heat it will give out its Water of christallization, and at 400 it will evolve nitrous Oxyde--introduce a taper in it--it burns with an enlarged & double flame, the exterior white, the interior blue. detonates with Hydrogen. 63 nitrogen + 37 Oxygen = nitrous Oxyde. Weight <1f26>1 At the surface of the Earth 31 grains every 100 cubic Inches of air/Water may be raised 33 feet-- 15 pound weight of air on every square inch of the earth's sur- face-- Bladder partially filled in an exhausted Receiver expands & con- tracts to its former size on the re-admission of the Air--Air ex- <1f27>1 panded by heat/& condensed by cold--/put the mouth of a Retort into a water Trough &c Extinction of a taper in a glass, excluding the outward air/then if the vessel be kept without agitation, relight the Taper, & the air of the vessel will again extinguish Inclose in this cylinder of Glass, in a mercury Trough, a bit of <1f2v>1 phosphorus in the Mercury which rises in the glass/mark the place of the Mercury with a bit of paper--& light the phosphorus by means of heated wire, introduced thro' the Mercury--& the Mer- cury rises very considerably, in consequence of the absorption of one 5th part of the air by the phosphorus/the remainder nitro- <1f28>1 gene-- Item--the mixture of 1 part nitrous gas, slowly, with 2 parts common air, in the eudiometer tube--the water rises in the tube, there is of course an absorption-- Nitrogene Gas, unabsorbable--the oxygen therefore must be absorbed by heated mercury--& then forced out again by heating still higher the Oxyd--The atmosphere a great phial always being <1f28v>1 <1shaken up>1 for constant use-- Diamond + x Oxygen = Charcoal N.B. Cottle's Psalms-- Carbonic Acid from volatile Alkali = Carbonate of Ammoniae, by the first application of Heat. Water by means of compressing Syringe impregnated with Carbonic acid = Selzer Water-- Oxygenated muriatic acid gas, from Oxyd of Manganese & com- <1f29>1 mon mur. acid of Commerce, of a yellow green color--oxydates mercury white--& is absorbed by <3white>3 water speedily/of a pun- gent Taste, hateful smell, & even spasms the epiglottis if attempted to be inhaled. <1f29v>1 does not, like other acids, redden vegetable blues, but either wholly destroys, or makes them yellowish white-- Acts upon all vegetable colors but yellow/green box weed--fruit of the Arbutus--& is thereby decomposed, nothing remaining--the water in which the arbutus &c put, but common muriatic acid. <1f30>1 Oxygenated Muriatic gas very much diluted, with an addition of fixed alkali, or lime, the great agent in muriatic Bleaching Common writing ink easily destroyed by oxygenated muriatic gas. Printing Ink not at all altered by the gas--it is therefore em- ployable in whitening Prints & old Books-- <1f3ov>1 fluid ammoniac dissolved in <3when>3 water dissolves the ox. mur. gas & white Clouds rise--This of service in preventing its disagree- able effects-- decomposes variolus & other matter but inferior to nitrous acid vapor in fumigating putrid rooms. <1f31>1 add to Ox. mur. acid gas nitrous gas, there will be immediately a diminution, & red fumes will be produced. A taper in this gas burns with a compressed red flame, & throws off much smoke; but phosphorus burns in it, & inflames of itself, with considerable brilliance. If all aristocrats here, how easily Davy might poison them all-- 15 parts Ox. 85 muriatic acid gas-- <1f31v>1 Sulphuric acid pour upon hyperoxygenated muriate of Potash. N.B. Be sure to hold your face close to the glass. first reddens, & then destroys, vegetable blues-- <1f18v>1 1099 6.53 Strength of Feeling connected with vividness of <1f19>1 Idea--Davy at the Lectures. Jan. 28, 1802/gave a spark with the Electric machine--I felt nothing--he then gave a very vivid spark with the Leyden Phial--& I distinctly felt the shock. 1100 6.54 More's antidote against Atheism. 1101 6.55 The Snow-patch'd mountain Top seen dimly thro' the cloud. 1102 6.56 Inverted arch forms a bridge in the vale. 1103 6.57 Crug--Jack--Piggin/Spadges of Butter/Spadg- <1f19v>1 ing Skulk--Faz--Pun/Flux--<1Pazzy>1--Ditto Wig--<1Tub-boy>1/Jack- boy--Grecian/Deputy Grecian/Little & Great Erasmus, First & second Merchants & 8 first/Monitors & Markers/Jolly first order/ 11046.58 My namesake sprung from Jewish Breeder Knew from the Hyssop to the Cedar-- <1f2o>1 But I, unlike the Jewish Leader, Scarce know the Hyssop from the Cedar-- 11056.59 a playful Tenderness ; Touching the Heart, as with an infant's finger 1106 6.6o Gardener's Bill in Temple Garden/Poison for the <3Spirits>3 Sparrows-- 1107 6.61 Singing in my ear/Mrs. Billington singing by my ear/not my [. . .] 1108 6.62 Feb. 14. 1802. Drank at Bellows a glass of wine <1f20v>1 & 2 pretty large Beakers of Punch--in high spirits--went to bed. A luminous cloud interposed between my Limbs & the sheet-- wherever I drew a figure with my nail on my leg or thigh, the same <1appeared>1 on my limb & all, the path of the nail a luminous white, like phosphorus in oxygen, or the falls which we made in the water in Wales. When I press my thigh a great luminous Mist <1f21>1 of White burst out of the spectrum Thigh. 1109 6.63 Webster, & Sir John Hippesley/hat struck of/ Cant name, Sir Godfrey/--the lie that rose out of it/that Sir God- frey Webster had shot himself from mortified Pride/ 1110 6.64 My being in the Bristol Newgate-- <1f21v>1 1111 6.65 The sublimest effort of her Being, a little peevish- ness/Thin small Beer, all that the Thunder of Heaven can do in her is to turn her a little Sour. 1112 6.66 Fenwick (Feb. 17, 1802, at Lamb's) Went off at the last Touch of Nature. 1113 6.67 Jews 40%% bad Bank Notes for 20%% bad-- <1f22>1 1114 6.68 Kinnaire's Story of the forged Bond evaded by a forged Receipt-- 1115 6.69 Craich's bigamy disproved by his having had 3 wives-- 1116 6.70 D'israeli's Story of Twiss's Brandy Cherries-- engrafted a Rhubarb Plant on his Cherry Tree = putting a little Rhubarb into his Cherry Brandy 11176-71 Gap+--=+ 1118 6.72 Snuffers mistaken for a Snuff-holder--fingers [?burnt] <1f22>1 1119 6.73 Toussant & Bonaparte Clarkson To be described uno ductu, sine duplicatione-- 1120 6.74 Major Cooper--hint to Gentleman of one Shirt --Laundry at Fire/Miss Sara Hutcheson's new gospel--alias-- Honesty-- 1121 6.75 The Grandfather with the Diarrho|ea-- 1122 6.76 Christ--satis. for our Sins by perfect obedience & Sacrifice of himself on the Cross or i.e./<1Ideal>1 redeems mankind-- 1123 6.77 The strongest argument for Xstianity the weak Argument that do yet persuade so many to believe--i.e. it fits the human heart-- 1124 6.132 A River so translucent as not to be seen--and <1f41v>1 yet murmuring--shadowy world--& these a Dream/Inchanted River-- 1125 6.133 Non est igitur locus, exterioris Corporis ambiens <1f41>1 superficies: sed id quod intra eam superficiem continetur. Est autem quodammodo ens, et quodammodo non ens. Est enim non ens, quia ens continetur ibi, quia est aliquid alicujus: nempe Cavum intra corpus-- Scalig. De Subt. p.15. 1126 6.134 Alii enim dicunt liberum Arbitrium neque esse. <1f40v>1 Intellectum neque voluntatem, sed potentiam quandam universa- lem, complectentem sub se Intellectum, Voluntatem et reliquas Potentias anima|e tum intelligentis tum sentientis/his enim putant neque solum Voluntatem neque solum Intellectum, sed etiam Po- tentias Anima|e sensitiva|e habere actiones liberas, vel elicitas, vel <1f4o>1 imperatus. Baronii Met. Gen. 325. 1127 6.135 Time threefold/slow & loitering the Future, ar- row swift the Present, ewig still steht die Vergangenheit-- No impatience will quicken the Loiterer/ No Terror, no Delight will rein in the Flyer-- No Regret, no Charm will set the stationary in motion/ <1f39v>1 Wouldst be happy, take the Delayer for thy Counsellor, Do not choose the Flyer for thy Friend, Nor the ever-remainer for thy enemy-- 11286.136 Nimmer das glaubt mir Erscheinen die Go%tter Nimmer allein Kaum das[s] ich Bacchus den lustigen habe Kommt auch schon Amor der lachelnde <1[la%chelnde]>1 Knabe <1f39>1 Phoebus der herrliche findet sich ein/ Sie nahen, sie kommen Die Him[m]lischen alle, Mit Go%ttern erfu%llt sich Die irdische Halle-- Another metre, same as Alonzo, only Heroic, instead of am- phibrachs. und bringen blumen mit und fruchte <1[Fru%chte]>1 Gereift in einer andern Flur. In einem andern Sonnenlichte In einer glu%cklichen Natur-- <1f38v>1 1 129 6.137 Where are the Poets now? Ask/where are the hearers, the Hearer's Feelings kindled at the Song, the Singer nourished the sacred flame at the hearer's feel. 1130 6.138 [Cunegun . . .] Thrown in her face-- 1131 6.139 The Manchew Tartar Language--a laugh at Dr Johnson-- 1132 6.140 For Lenore--comic Poem/New Boots wanting to <2sit>2 house occupied by the Lady; run to the other side of the Hedge, surprized-- [. . . ] <1f31v>1 1133 8.2 Word of mouth--exp. for a kiss in a Letter-- 1134 8.3 No one can leap over his Shadow/Poets leap over Death. 1135 8.4 A new year--the old wanes The new from God, the old our own/ <1f32>1 1136 8-5 Truth oil, Lies Water/pour on as much as you will, it floats atop. 1137 8.6 The origin of the Bees-- 1138 8.7 Time--3 fold--Future slow--Present swift-- Past immoveable--No impatience will quicken the Loiterer--no Terror, no delight rein in the Flyer--No Regret set in motion the stationary--Would'st be happy, take the Delayer for thy counselor, do not choose the Flyer for thy Friend, nor the ever-remainer for thy Enemy-- 1139 8.8 Jove <1&>1 the Poet-- 1140 6.78 March 7, 1802. Calfskin Coat--Ward's promise, <1f23>1 item. Moleskin Sara Mary cut hers open more wraps. 1141 6.79 N.B. 3 Cats, Black, White: & Black & White/i.e. <1f23v>1 Hell, Heaven, & this Life. March 8, 1802. Gallow Hill--S.H. 1 142 6.8o The Larches in spring push out their separate bundles of Leaves first into green Brushes or Pencils, <3then into>3 which soon then are only small tassels [. . .]. 1143 6.81 The current in the river like another river = Genius amongst his fellow-men-- 1144 6.82 Wordsworth & [? M]--S & Coler.--Little Boy seeking me--N.B. poems-- 1145 6.83 -^^' -^^ ^^' -^^ ^^, -^^ ^^ <1f24>1 -^^' -^^ ^^' -^^ ^^' - -^^'-^^^^'-^^^^'-^^^^ ^^-^^'-^^^^'-^^^^'- -^^^^'-^^ ^^-^^^^'-^^ ^^-^^,-^^ -^^^^,- -^^^^,-^^ ^^-^^^^,-^^ ^^-^^,-^^ -^^^^,- Songs of Shepherds, & rustical Roundelays Forms of Fancies, & whistled on Reeds Songs to solace young Nymphs upon Holidays Are too unworthy for wonderful Deeds-- Round about horned Lucina they swarmed And her they informed <1f24v>1 How minded they were, Each God & Goddess To take human Bodies As Lords & Ladies to follow the Hair-- 1146 6.84 Interea tenuitatis nostrae memores nihil perti- naciter affirmemus, sed in re futura2 et suo modo prodigiosa2, qui optime conjicit, optimus et Vates et philosophus esto/ 1147 6.85 Ray, Durham, Reimarus &c--All put together. 1148 6.86 ^^^^-,^^^^- <1f25>1 ^^^^-,^^^^- ^^- ^^^^-,^^^^-,^^^^- ^^^^-,^^^^-,^^^^- ^^- ^^^^ ^^^^ When thy Beauty appears In its graces & airs All bright as an Angel new dropt from the Sky, At distance I gaze & am aw'd by my fears, So strangely you dazzle my eye. 1149 6.87 Borborocates Craugasides Physignathus Hypsiboas 1150 6.141 Gallow Hill, Thursday, March 11th, 1802 <1f38>1 S. T. Coleridge Sara SarHa 1151 6.142 Friday March 12th/"& wept aloud."--you made me feel uncomfortable/Saturday, March 13th, left Gallow Hill on the Mail, in a violent storm of snow & Wind--Sunday slept at <1f37v>1 Scotch Corner/Arrived at Gallow Hill, March 2nd, Tuesday, 1802-- 1152 6. 143 Can see nothing extraordinary in her--a Poem noting all the virtues of the mild & retired kind. 1153 6.144 A Poem on the endeavor to emancipate the soul from day-dreams & note the different attempts & the vain ones-- 1154 6.145 Quiet stream, with all its eddies, & the moonlight <1f37>1 playing on them, quiet as if they were Ideas in the divine mind anterior to the Creation-- 1155 6.146 Milton, a Monody in the metres of Samson's Choruses--only with more rhymes/--poetical influences--political --moral--Dr Johnson/ 1156 6.147 Poem on this night on Helvellin/William & Dorothy & Mary/--Sara & I-- 1157 6.148 Poem on the length of our acquaintance/all the <1f36v>1 hours that I have been thinking of her &c. 1158 6.149 Waterfall--tiny--& Leaf--still attracted still re- pelled 1159 6.88 Great Mars making a circle under the Moon, on <1f2v>1 a white cloud. Good Friday--April 16, 1802. 1160 6.15o From the summit above Walla Crag Skiddaw & <1f6v>1 Saddleback form one beautiful Ellipse--the vales of Threlkeld & Hutton [. . .] become one with Keswick--the islands in the Lake <1f36>1 more dishy than ever--the mountains from Borrodale inclusive to Grysdale Pike more than any where a rude Jumble--After I had written this, I descended from the Man of Stones--& came all un- awares on Walla Crag--tremendous indeed/there is nothing on Helvellin so terrible it is absolutely & strictly perpendicular on all Side--& in its outline forms an aweful Forehead & Aquiline <1f35v>1 Nose--on the saddle of the Nose a Tree & a [. . .] Bunch of <1Juniper,>1 I believe-- Come in a few yards to a noble ravine/one side rough & treeless rock--the other mossy, & shrubby green/in a 100 yards more to a grand slope, and one <1leaning Tower>1--on its Top a green shorn <1Poll>1 or crown of Head/railed off with wooden rails--& above the <1f35>1 ravine another small Precipice--and here too is one of the noblest Ravines ever seen/Rock on both sides, grey with white Lichens The long Bracken, unreapt, wet, & rotting, lying, strait dangling, from the mossy stone-hillocks like an unkempt red brown Hair-- Good Friday-- 1161 6.89 <1f25v>1 Smile in the eye An Incarnation of the Soul in Light-- A Light, a living Light, that is at once Language, & Thought, & Feeling-- <1f26>1 1162 6.9o John that unperforming observer 1163 6.91 April 20, 1802 Tuesday Evening, 1/2 after 7/Cut out my name & Dorothy's over the S.H. at Sara's Rock-- 1164 6.92 Friday, April 23rd 1802. discovered the <1Double->1 <1bower>1 among Rydale Rocks--Ivy, Oak, Hawthorn, Mountain Ash, <1f26v>1 Common ash--Holly, Yews--/Fern & Wild Sage, Juniper, &c. Carpet of Moss--& Rocks/ 1165 6.93 Final correction/the last Touches, the ultima Basia, of your Muse-- 1166 6.94 A <1Throne>1 the <2Dos pou stw>2 of Archimedes-- Poet Bonaparte--Layer out of a World-garden-- 1167 6.95 To believe that Trees were made by a great mag- got worm of the same kind with that which eats out the rude shapes of Trees in the <3old>3 wood of old gates &c <1f27>1 1168 6.96 The yellow Hammer sings like one working on steel, or the file in a brazier's Shop. 1169 6.97 The old Woman on a hot evening gone out to walk, but could not get warmth in her, so came in & spread her poor arms out to the sticks flaming under the Teakettles in the Inn Kitchen/ 1170 6.98 The Abderites & their Fountain in the market- place/[?Amphitheatre]/[. . .] & [?Triton] The Statue of Venus <1f27v>1 in Ivory by Praxiteles, put on an Obelisk 80 feet high/applied to Mr Addington/ 1171 6.99 The Frogs--quit the city for them/then came the Cranes 1172 6.loo From the Cedar of Lebanon to the Mould of a Chesshire Cheese. 1173 6.101 Great Injury to the Constitution from negotiating Laws with Individuals instead of applying to the City &c/City then a part of the English Constitution, now a mass of Houses-- 1174 6.1o2 It is a problem of difficult solution/What is the <1f28>1 History of the <1Morals>1 of the people of England?-- 1175 6.103 A square like circle, in this shape--B : A quite open, [d] looking boldly open. The Third of Skid- daw, on the upper part of the Lake (with its passing boats). My house & Latterig, Keswick & Latterig, & Saddleback behind Lat- terig & aside of it--Then the ground rising, cuts off the Lake, & <1f28v>1 you see Castle Crag & Walla Crag & the Common between them, the circular part of the square 300<(365 in a poem)> yards in diameter; woody Hills, of a playful outline & close behind & high above them bare bold Mountains, peaked & topped in the most daring outline Brandel-how, Hind Scarth Great Robinson, Causeway Pike, Swineside, & Barrow behind it, & Grysdale Pike behind that--then an open space, & then Skiddaw/in one corner <1f29>1 the woods sink so, that passing the higher part of the area you peep into Newlands-- <1f35>1 1176 6.151 N.B. The great importance of breeding up chil- <1f34v>1 dren <1happy>1 to at least 15 or 16 illustrated in my always dreaming of Christ Hospital and when not quite well having all those uneasy feelings which I had at School/feelings of Easter Monday &c-- 1177 6.152 Gap-tooth'd/ 1178 6.153 The Thrush Gurgling, quavering, shooting forth long notes. Then with short emissions as of pushing up against a stream/ 1179 6.1 54 Obscure indeed, but certainly profound. Nec caret umbra Deo. Stat. Theb. Lib. IV. <1f34>1 1180 6.155 Parl. after Restoration-- And therefore this must needs be a happy Parl. This is a healing Parl., a reconciling peace-making Parl. a blessed Parl., a Parl. that propter excellentiam may be truly called Parliamentissimum, Par- liamentum/No man can say that hath made the most curious re- search into Books or records, that there ever was such a Parliament as this/and tis our unspeakable joy & comfort, that no man can say, so long as your Majesty lives, but that we may have just such an- other/-- Lenthall. <1f33v>1 1181 6.156 1. On Popery. 2. Luther & Lutheranism, Calvin & Calvinism (with Zwinglius). 3. Presbyterians & Baxterians in the time of Charles 1 & 2nd--George Fox--& Quakerism/Socinians & Modern Unitarians. 1182 6.157 Sea Celandine (Chelidonium Glaucium) the highest winds do not affect its petals, and yet it is difficult to pluck the Flowers without some of them falling off. Nature & Man! 1183 6.158 Miles Peter Andrews story of L. Lyttleton: iron Ball passed charging thro Earth/little room 20 feet square/Mrs Brownrig 1184 6.159 Unintelligible? As well call a Fart unintelligible/ <1f33>1 it tells you at what it is--it is nonsense--enigmata quia non Sphinx, sed Sphincter anus. 1185 6.160 Indignation prompting desire of inflicting Evil; & <1f311>1 even to an honesty Calumny <1feeling>1 more appropriate than Truth/ because, perhaps, we feel that in the inmost mind there would be some comfort in Truth/Day-dreams &c 1186 6.161 Talk not with scorn of Authors--it was the chat- tering of the Geese that saved the Capitol. 1187 6.162 Divine Right not fairly stated by Paley & the Pseudo-rationalists. 1188 21.206 Mrs. C. told me, Monday Night, May 9th, that <1f40>1 since she had had the Influenza, & her Skin had been evidently affected by the State of her stomach, that the Baby lying on her arm seemed two Babies--she not asleep--both on the same side--& that she often seemed to have two Breasts on the same side.-- 1189 21.207 The rocks and Stones <3seemed to live>3 put on a vital semblance; and Life itself thereby seemed to forego its rest- lessness, to anticipate in its own nature an infinite repose, and to become, as it were, compatible with Immoveability. Kirkstone/ 1190 21.208 Characters for farce, the Lucianic narrator by Syl- logisms--and the Synonime-user. 1191 21-209 Greece flattered itself with the hopes of a uni- versal monarchy under Alexander-- <2mias tugkianon politeias>2 Aris. 1. 7. c.7. polit.--France under Bonaparte. <1v>1. <1f31v>1 1192 6.163 Derwent extends the idea of Door so far that he <1f32>1 not only calls the Lids of Boxes Doors, but even the Covers of Books/a year & 8 months/ 1193 6.164 Moon, Owl a Ventriloquist--What should we think?--That the man in the moon had a Tooth ache-- <1f30v>1 1194 6.165 N.B. to try understand Villains 1195 6.166 What are the Likenesses & what the Differences between France under Bonaparte & Rome under Augustus. 1196 6.167 Antithetical poignancy & balanced measure of Pope--Brit. Crit. Feb. 1801. <1f31>1 1197 6.168 The proportion of Cow Calfs & Bull calfs, very extraordinary in different years--Mr Clarkson, June 8, 1802--all most all Bull Calfs this year. 1198 6.169 Never any Fell <3Ye Ewes>3 (or <1very>1 seldom) yean 2 Lambs/in Norfolk seldom <1f30>1 1199 6.17o A Light Breeze upon the <1smooth>1 of the River & the Shadows of the Tree turn into two-edged Cherubs' Swords. 1200 6.171 The trout leaping in the Sunshine spreads on the bottom of the River concentric Circles of Light. <1f29v>1 1201 6.172 Birds that "build" their Love-holds among Leaves & Blossoms 1202 6.173 A history of the real Government of G. Britain, according to the State of Property/Lord Lonsdale-- 1203 6.174 Half tipsy, all the Objects become more inter- fused by & diffused by Difference perceived & [?destroyed] at the same time-- 1204 6.175 Thursday, June 8, 1802--. Grysdale Tarn, roll- <1f29>1 ing towards its outlet like a sea/the Gust on the broad Beck snatch- ing up Water made the smooth & level water as full of small break- ers, & white waves, as the rough & steep part/The Spray fell upon me, <1lownded>1 in the Rock, like rain/The Sun setting behind the Hill behind me made a rainbow in the Spray across the Beck (20 <1f28v>1 yards from the Tairn) every time the Gust came 1205 2.1 Irt from Wastwater, falls into the Bleng, which <1f1>1 comes from between the Blaing & Ponsonby Fells, & the Bolton wood, having four Becks for feeders, one from Seat-allian near Bolton wood, the second from Seat-allian near the Hay-Cock--the third out of the Steeple running out between the Hay-cock & Blaing & Ponsonby fells--/<3these join>3 the two latter join first, then are joined by the first mentioned--then all running in one stream for somewhat more than a mile receive a fourth Beck, from Blaing Tongue, on the Blaing & Ponsonby Fells--/--The River now curves, like an [D] --rudely made by a tremulous Hand, as far [as] Drigg, then runs <1straight>1 south into Ravenglass Bay--at King Camp in the middle of the [D] it is joined by the Irt--The Mite, called Nite by Drayton, comes out of Burnmoor Tairn, between Sca Fell & the Screes, & unfed (except by two small Becks which run into just after its emersion from the Tarn, from Scafell, & the other, almost exactly opposite, from the Screes) it runs straight West, & falls into the Bay. [D] The Esk, the third & lowest Prong of this Vergivian Trident rises from Stye-head, flows between Sca fell & Bowfell, from <1f1v>1 which last it receives a feeder, from two fountains--passes Hard Knott, from whence it receives a feeder, from three fountains/a mile or more onward it receives another Beck from the South West side of Hardknot, two from Harter Fell, and again one from Devock/and on the other side, one from a small Tarn or Dub, by Gill-bank & Christ-left--and another from Burnmoor Tarn/with all these the Esk runs South West, & joins the third Prong of the Trident/ Enquire in Eskdale for Buck Crag, Doe Crag & Earn Crag-- Close by Long moor two Becks, from En- nerdale running different sides of the Dent & joining at Egremont make a compleat Island/the Upper Stream receives a considerable accession from <3Cleaw>3 Kekell Beck--from off Whilley Moor/it has another source south of Whilley, close to Dubhal Mosses--& very <1f2>1 near the source of the River Marron, that falls into the Derwent at Ridton Hall, not far east of Camerton--/the higher Beck of the Enna or Eyne is called the Eyre (to see whether this Eyre comes out of Ennerdale/or joins with it/or whether (as seems with the map) it comes from Crowsdale, runs close by & almost touches the Enna/but does not join.) And bi-cleft Skiddaw, massive, smooth, & high, Green with Grass & Fern, with Hether Brown Go down Ulpha Park, down as far as Duddon Bridge, then cross over, & come out on Coniston/go up it, & then <3mount>3 get into the road to Kendal--return thro' Eskdale, go up Burnmoor Tarn, over into Wast-water or not as shall seem best--perhaps keep it on my left & go to Styhead--/ N.B. When in Miterdale, try by all means to command a view of Ravenglass--Why not turn out of the road to the Sea and mount Muncaster Fell--to the right of Bank House <1f2v>1 Saturday to Ennerdale--at St Bees, till <3Friday>3 Wednesday after. --Wednesday, from St Bees, to King Camp, and sleep at some place between King Camp & Wastdale Foot--going up the Irt-- return into the Road on the South of Melthwaite Side by Burnt Ho, Gill Ho, Green Gate, & London wall--and arrive at Devock, at noon/--from Devock to Duddon Bridge, & sleep, if possible at the foot of Coniston/--on Thursday Night. Friday ascend Coniston, return thro' Eskdale, by Burnmoor Tarn to Styehead, & sleep in Borrodale. Saturday return to Keswick-- On the west side of Hardknot Hill 120 yards to the left of the Kendal Road/ Enquire at Muncaster for the Children's Ditty on New Year's Eve, craving the Bounty they were wont to have in good King Edward's Days-- From <3Gosforth Egr>3 Egremont to Wastdale Foot; 14 miles From Wastdale Foot to Coniston 18 From Coniston up thro' Eskdale 20 From Eskdale to Borrodale 12 From Styhead to Keswick 12 76 1206 2.2 <1[Map on next page]>1 1207 2.3 Quitted My house on Sunday morning, August 1. <1f4v>1 1802 over the bridge by the Hops/Skiddaw to my right, upper halves of Borrodale mountains behind me, Newlands Arch & the 3 M. within it, to my left--/Second Inclosure, view of Vicarage-- 2 views of the Bridge/when you come into the Road Carsleddam lying flat upon Skiddaw, like a Painting/the Bridge/view at the shoemakers in Portinscale/the Birch & Oak. The pretty view over the Tent--the grand view on the Top of the Hill-- Swinside, the grand views to the Right & to the left at the Lake/. <3Newland>3 Stony Croft Bridge/Newlands, general character/houses below the road, liveliness of the Vale/wildness of the Fells--yet even their stoniest parts softened down by the semicircular Lines & bason-like concavities--Akern <1Eich-hayn>1./cataract is fine no doubt in a storm but extravagantly exaggerated by West & Gilpin/Butter- mere, the mere in what a singular Embracement of naked Rock/ exactly an enormous Stone Bason, of which one half is gone/ascend by Scale force/gain a level--mossy soft ground, every man his own path-maker--skip & jump--where rushes grow, a man may go-- Red Pike peeps in on you upon your left/on the right <3Heredhouse>3 <3with Flatern Tarn>3 Melbreak <3which you do not see, but>3 you cross the pretty Beck that goes to Loweswater--you again ascend & reach <1f3>1 a ruined sheep fold--here I write these lines/a wild green view, bleating of Sheep & noise of waters/right opposite the upper Halves of Grasmere/& the huge mountains, his Equals, with Skid- daw far behind/Two fields peep, the highest cultivated Land on the Newland side of Buttermere--and the Trees on these are the only Trees to be seen/I write this, the sun with a soft & watery gleam setting behind the hill which I am now to ascend/I am to pass with a bulging green Hill to my left--to the left of it a frightful craggy precipice with shivers, & all wrinkled--& a chasm between the Hill & it--I ascend/straight before a high round-headed Hill, (the Dodd) evidently the highest point be- tween Buttermere & Ennerdale, <3parts>3 bisects the ridge/I take it on my right hand/get above the bulging green hill on my left--and am now just above it--on its Top is a small Tarn, about a 100 yards in length, & not above 7 or 8 in breadth/but what a noble Precipice it has for its left Bank--the farther part black with green velvet moss cushions on the ledges/towards <1f3>1 Buttermere, the half is a pale pink/--and divided from the black by a stream of Screes--. I never beheld a more glorious view of its kind--I turn & look behind me/what a wonderful group of moun- tains--what a scene for Salvator Rosa/and before the glorious Sea with the opposite high shores & mountains/not a single minute ob- ject to break the oneness of the view, save those two green fields of Buttermere Wha Head Dodd Herdhouse, Bowness Knot Bannerfield Dodd Gavel Fell, behind, in the same line with it the red Scar is sharp knot--Broom/Knop murton Heck-barley Grike to the right hand Ravelyn going up to the Lake Salter Wood 1208 2.4 Melbreak Heck-comb Lowswater Fell <1f5>1 Next to Ravelyn Angling Stone/Barter Crag--above Angling Stone/ under Barter Crag the famous Bield of Foxes, 5 cubs--80 Lambs, Geese, Hares, Mice, Moles, Frogs, dogs--/Iron Crag--back of this the wild Cat fell into the water, four Hounds & a Terrier with it-- when they came up, they were all of a mat, each hold of the Cat-- the Cat of all of them/5 minutes under the water/Next to Iron Crag, Silver Cove/--next to that the Hollow is called Birk Ness Cove:--The next ridge is the Steeple--next to Steeple Wynyat Cove, then Pillar. Whynyat Cove a fine [D] and Birkness Cove the same but smaller/--The next to the Pillar is Kirkfell of which <1f5v>1 the other side faces Wasdale Head. Next to Kirk fell, & at the very Dale head is Great Gavel, which likewise faces Wasdale on the other side/ Great Gavell, High Fell, Wha Head, Dodd, Herdhouse-- Out at Silver Cove Head a remarkable stony Top, called Gow- derdale or Colter Crag--the boundary between Kinniside & Enner- dale-- 38 hours without food by the Fox's Bield--because the 2 Foxes would have taken away their young Tod, a Fox New house built by Mr. [?Jennison] for his Boatman, with a nice ground, now whins, <3lan>3 enclosed for his garden, just at the foot of the Lake. The Old Hall, New Hall, Just above it. In shortest winter Day the Sun rises from Silver Cove--and the <1f6>1 House just below the foot of the Lake, close under the Hill, & a little way up it, from Martinmas (Nov. 11.) to Candlemas, (Feb. 2) sunless--on Feb. 2. if a clear day the Sun touches its chimney. Red Deer (Germany Mem) cruel oppression hedges with old Scythes/hounds tether'd to frighten them off at Harvest time/-- Skins used to make Warts (or Korbs) of-- Fox (last killed) just in Bowness tumbled off the Crags, & broke his hind back--Old Man, in the house, bedrid, heard the hounds--& got up & out--fox trail- ing his back, & fighting--old man got him before the hunters-- 30%% a year--found the childer milk & bread/ <1f6v>1 1209 2.5 Bowness higher & lower/High Bowness with Herdhouse forms a delightful [D] angle of sheltered Land/ Bowness the finest piece of savage rock-work, I ever saw/great bulging bullsheads of Crag with streams of Shiver (called Shilly) between the ravins in these Nesses, & between one fell & the ad- joining one called raiks--Sheep clinging like Flies to a Grass.-- The Drunkenness of the Ennerdale Priest--item of the Wasdale Priest/it. Borrodale. Item. Grasmere--Sick at heart,--& desperate --poor creatures!--The difference of a man in company meeting you on the road, insulting &c--& meeting you alone/it is then your good esteem only that he can gain/how much milder & more civil. Ennerdale Noted compleatly fiddle shaped-- 1210 2.6 Motion of objects present & not present, in a half f7 drunken mood, when we would be glad to go to sleep, represents, in the clouds, rapid motion simply presence, & the feeling of the absence & the presence-- 1211 2.7 View, from Egremont Castle, of Houses & River [D], & Hill. Fields beyond River, as impossible to describe to an other as a Dream/The Arch, the buildings before the Church, the Church, the Hills with the gap-- [D] Country People <1love>1 & admire the Beauties--&c--not so hardy-- rheumatism/a hard-hearted Error/ The fine noble Ash Tree in the Road between the Castle Hill & <1f7v>1 the Buildings--the Buildings, Wall, Garden with its various beds --so slovenly in its tyrannically strait parallelogram inclosures, the Marygolds, yellow Lillies, lofti<1est>1 Peas in Blossom, Beans, Onions, Cabbages--then the Houses--in such various outlines, all formal, yet the formality neutralized by the variety of the formal & their incursions on each other/some thatched, some slated, some meeting the eye with their broad fronts, some with their corner Gavels-- some spank new, some in ruins--Houses &c in the River & dark Trees by their backs over the River various Linen, blue, crocus, <1f8>1 & white, on the formal Hedges/here the Hills & fields peeping over the Town, here the higher Houses intercepting the Hills & Fields. The Country itself banks above banks in harmonious Ir- regularity--Egremont Castle, August 3. 1802. Left Egremont <3Thursday>3 Wednesday morning/and went to Calder Abbey--on my left sweet Views of the sea, where the low Hills dipped down in inverted arches/on my right a fine view of Seat Allian & Sca fell, fronting each other, with a mighty gap be- tween/they rising high behind the nearer fells-- <1f8v>1 Calder Abbey, just within the line of circumference of a circle of perhaps a half a mile in diameter/Ponsonby Hall & Calder Bridge Village & romantic Mill just on the line at the opposite end --Steep Hills all around, low & completely cloathed & hid with woods--save just behind the Abbey & House, where the Hills are far other, & consist almost to the top of green inclosed fields Ponsonby Hall that looked so beautiful from the road between 2 & 3 miles from Egremont, looks remarkably well from Calder Abbey, rising out of the wood, far above the other Building 1212 2.8 Arrived at Bonewood, <3Thurs>3 Wednesday 12 o'clock--a neat little public House kept by one Manson--on the top <1f9>1 of the Hill--a nice view of the Sea with the Isle of Man on one side/on the other all the Ennerdale & Wast dale Fells, Seat Allian, Scafell, Steeple, &c--Blaing & Ponsonby Fells are only an upland Green Common/ Lost her son, last new year's day 7 year, in Bassenthwaite, at- tempting to save Dr. Head of Cockermouth & another Gentleman/ they saved, & he lost/consoled the old Mother by contrasting his Fate with a Soldier's dying in attempting to kill his fellow crea- tures.// Pass thro' Gosforth, <3ever>3 turn Eastward, cross the Blaing, by cot- tages under the shelter of a little grove of Sycamore, leave the Great road & go up by the Irt, thro' a stony Road, behind me a <1f9v>1 beautiful View of the Sea and the low-lands on the Shore seen in that most impressive of all ways, viz thro' an inverted arch formed by the rough Fells before me, the huge enormous mountains of Wast dale all bare & iron-red--and on them <1a forest>1 of cloud- shadows, all motionless/a low Ridge intercepts the Lake from the eye--to my right & to my left rough stony Common with great <3Green>3 nots, raggedly cloathed with underwood/No view of River /unless it be Sea ward/Mem. beautiful shadow of the Fern upon the lichened Stone which it overcanopied. The Seaward view very nicely wooded/3 Ships in view--4 one horse carts in a file on the top of the Fell to my Left, 3 boys, each one on his Horse, one Girl in her cart--picturesque 1213 2.9 The walk from the Inn exceedingly pleasing-- thro' a Lane <3with>3 of green Hazel Trees, with Hay-fields & Hay- makers to your right, beyond them the River with a beautiful single <1f10>1 Stone arch thrown over it, & shadowed with Trees, & beyond the River Irton Fell, with a deep perpendicular Ravin, with a curious fretted Pillar, crosier-shaped, standing up in it/but you can look at another but the Screes, which are directly before you, on the right Hand/to the left a rough coppy head Hill, covered with Hazels/the Lake is wholly hidden, & to a stranger the Burst would be very striking/for you come upon it without the least warning/ O what a Lake/I am sitting at the foot almost--for three miles the Screes form its right bank/a facing of naked Rock of enormous height, & two thirds of its height downward absolutely perpendicu- lar, & then slanting off in Screes, steep as the meal out of the Miller's grinding Trough or Spout--but in the middle of the Lake the Screes commence far higher up, & occupy two thirds of the height in the shape of the apron of a sheet of falling water, 1 pointed Decanter, or tumbler turned upside down> or rather an outspread Fan [D]--it is of a fine red streaking in broad streaks thro' stone Colour/and when I first came, the Lake was like a mirror, & conceive what the reflections must have been, of this huge facing of rock, more than half a mile of direct height, with deep perpendicular Ravins, from the Top two thirds down/other Ravins slanting athwart down them/the whole wrinkled & torrent-worn and barely patched with Moss--and all this reflected, turned in Pillars, & a whole new-world of Images, in the water/ The top of the Lake two huge Fells face each other, Scafell on right, Yeabarrow on the left--and between these Great Gavel in- tervenes, the head & Center-point of the Vale/but it is impossible <1f11>1 to conceive it without a Drawing/the Lake itself is inclosed in strait lines, exactly like the Sheet of paper, on which I am writing-- 3 miles in length, & scarcely more than half in breadth/if the Lake were broader, and of a more various outline, more Bays &c, I do not hesitate to think it would be the grandest object in the Coun- try.-- Wastdale a woody pleasant rough vale, till within half a mile of the Foot the Lake/when it is divided for a mile & more by a rough hilly Strip, green & haselly & rocky, & of unequal heights--on the one side sweet inclosures, half a mile perhaps in breadth/on the other side the Lake./at the foot of the lake is a very low green hill, like a bank in a Park, running in a strait line. <1f11v>1 The Lake-part of Wastdale [D] Sca Fell Ridge Sca fell Cove, Hollow Stones Sca Fell Pyramid. It is right/only as I am look- ing up the Lake & Screes must be put on the other side The road serpentining by the side of the Lake Conceive three Mountain Pyramids, two nearly opposite to each other, yet so as that <3ye>3 Ewebarrow Ness runs in upon the Lake, and Sca Fell Ness runs in behind Ewebarrow Ness--while great Gavel Ness is still further back, & instead of running athwart the vale di- rectly fronts it, it & Scafell Ness forming this [D] angle between this Ness & the Lake are the Inclosure of upper Was- <1f12>1 dale/Sca'fell, Styehead Fells, Great Gavell, Kirk Fell, & part of Ewebarrow forming the Cove, in which they lie.--The rocky ground between the Lake and Long barrow Pike called Moor- hows. Melfell consists of great Steps, decreasing regularly as they approach the Lake/the hindermost a huge stony mountain, the next a high stony Hill, then a <3huge>3 large stony Hillock, then the road, then small hillocks still stony, decreasing down to the Lake/ between Melfell & Ewebarrow a sort of stony vale with other Moun- tains peeping in/Scafell Pyramid called Ling mel, Kirk Fell by <1f12v>1 Great Gavel, then a recess with bare precipices green Crag/next Keppel Crag part of Yewbarrow-- 1214 2.10 Thursday Morning, August 5, 1802 left T. Ty- son's at Wastdale Head where I had been most hospitably enter- tained, & had an excellent Bed, moved down the vale almost to the Lake Head, and ascended in the low reach between the Screes & Sca fell, and in about a mile came in sight of Burnmoor Tairn, a pretty piece of water flounder-shaped/lying just under the back of the Screes, a gap & inverted arch at its head, with Black Comb & a peep of the Sea/its Tail towards Scafell which I am now ascending, & wrote this on the side of the Hill, down which two Becks fall over stones & precipices and [D] join when they reach the level <1f13>1 ; --I am sitting by the Eskdale side--/--O for wealth to <1wood>1 these Tarns--Weeping Birches with Mountain Ash & Laburnum/with Hollies for underwood/ A gentle Madman that would wander still over the Mountains by the lonely Tairns --the like never seen since the crazy Shepherd, who having lost almost all his sheep in a long hard snow was repulsed or thought himself treated coldly by his Sweet-heart --& so went a wanderer seeking his Sheep for ever/in storm & snow especially. Now the Glead Mews over my head/. Miss Williams--and her Alps outdone in her own way by a Traveller from Cotshurst he interrupted by the Conjurer--my <1f13v>1 Peter Pounce who had just come from the Moon/8 miles high/ volcanos--people wear asbestos, & wash themselves in liquid Storax/ Have their fire conducted into their houses by great stone pipes, as we have water/exactly like the people of this world in every thing else except indeed that they eat with their Backsides, & <1stool>1 at their mouths/in consequence they are all sans-culottes, but then they are all cowled or veiled, a whole Planet of Nuns & Friars-- their Breath not very sweet--but they do not kiss much & custom reconciles one to every thing/ Bear witness for me, what thoughts I wandered about with--if <1f14>1 ever I imagined myself a conqueror, it was always to bring peace-- but mostly turned away from these thoughts to more humane & peaceable Dreams.-- The plan for one book the Genius of some place appearing in a Dream & upbraiding me for omitting <1him/>1 1215 2.11 Second Resting Place, two thirds up the Fell--a part of Wastdale Lake on my right, then the back of the Screes, with Burmoor Tairn, and the two Moorfells, on its other side, Screes & Irton Fells run in a ridge down to the level Plain seaward on one side the Tairn--Moor Fells, I know not their names, on the other side/Miterdale lies between, & is full in sight--/On the other side of these Fells Eskdale, partly in sight--on the other side of Eskdale, from the Sea upward, Black Comb, Stones Fell, Corney Fell & others unknown to me at present--/Close on the <1f15v>1 screes & on the same line with the Moor Fells a ridge called Mul- caster Fell./ 1216 2.12(a) Ascend, stooping, & looking at my shadow, <3wan>3 stooping down to my shadow, a little shorter than myself-- Dial plate Flower, & wild Thyme roam up the Fells in company --with them the Fox's Tail--Fern, Rushes, &c <1f33>1 1217 2.24 [s]tand facing the Sea/behind me a little, & to my right, Bow fell--to the right of that Great Gavell, & close to my right Kirk Fell, T. Tyson's at the foot of it--then a noble Bason two thirds of a compleat Round, its Walls formed by Kirk Fell, Green Fell & Keppel Fell--before me & to my right, Keppel Fell & Yewbarrow Crag, with a Tarn on the Top of it--behind Green Crag & Kirk Fell the <3Steeple>3 Pillar, the Steeple, & the Hay Cock/ all before is the dying away of all the Fells/apparently in an elev- enfold ridge, running down West-ward/<3like a>3 only Black Comb the furthest South Ridge rises high, and all the ridges within it sink down, like steps in a Theatre/ To the Right & Left & behind all the Fells as far as Carrock one <1f33v>1 way & the Ulverstone Fells, before you three Vales with three Rivers from their very sources falling into Sea, & forming [D] trident-- 12182.12(b) I descended from Sca fell and went backward from Wastdale to <1f15v>1 another Point, a great mountain of Stones, from a pound to 20 Ton/climbed up them, and am now lownded on the other side with <1Hollow Stones>1 beneath me, the frightfullest Cove, with huge Precipice Walls--caps Helvellin hollow/that Gap I saw in the Air was the Steeple, and one of the Ennerd[ale] Fells--from the spot, that lownds me, I see Derwentwater plainly O for a better & less <1hazy>1 day--the Castle Crag, & the River had the weather been toler- ably I could have seen my own House/I saw the spot where it was. <1f17>1 --The clouds came on fast--& yet I long to ascend Bowfell--I pass along Scafell Precipices; & came to one place where I thought could descend, & get upon the low Ridge that runs between Sca Fell & Bowfell, & look down into the wild <1savage, savage>1 Head of Esk- dale/Good heavens! what a climb! dropping from Precipices and at last should have been crag fast but for the chasm-- At last got on the ridge, but the Clouds came on lower & thicker, & I thought it best to defer Bowfell, so came down walking over hollow ground, with the fountain Streams of the Esk rumbling & gurgling under my feet--when these come out, it is a tolerable sized Beck, & divides into two. I creep down beside that nearest Scafell--it runs at a huge chasm, its sides perpendicular of solid <1fl7v>1 rock, in many places 50 high/the breadth never more than 15/in a storm this would be a famous Scene indeed/but O Scafell, thy enormous Precipices/--Just by the hollow Stones are two enormous Columns/I am no measurer--they were vaster than any that I have ever seen, & were each a stone Mountain/they could not be less than 250 yards high/for they reached half way, or more down into the vale/The whole Head of Scafell, & its Bowfell & Eskdale Head & Side bare Stone, in many places more than perpendicular/Hel- vellin is not to be compared with it/Came to a waterfall, down a <1f18>1 slope of Rock just 80 yards steep/not far from perpendicular/be- low this is a succession of Falls, some more sloping than other, to the number of 8--nearly at the bottom of the Hill, you may stand so as to command 5 of them of which the first of 80 yards fall, & the fourth, about 50, but more perpendicular, are the most noticeable/but in a storm and thro' & out of Clouds the whole must be the grandest thing in the country/ --Just lying before as I write this, there 1, 2, 3, 4, objects, I cannot distinguish whether Hovels, or Hovel-shaped Stones/I have, cross- ing three becks, & recrossing, reached them/they are all stones/the one nearest the Beck covered with weed & tree-bushes, looked so very like a Hovel at a distance, that I had made up my mind that the others might be Stones, but that this would be a Peat Hovel-- I am resting my book on one of its ledges, & it has really the shape of a Hovel--it is a rival of Bowder. <1f18v>1 1219 2.13, 14 Bread Crag,--what I thought Bowfell, is III Crags--How Beck/and Bread Crag & Doe Crag--I went down the How/-- Where the Esk winds up like a road, is Esk Course Bottom/Esk Course, Tongue &c. Where you look into Borrodale is called Esk- Course,--close to Esk Course is <1Great End,>1 which lies as the Bank of Sparkling Tarn/ <1f19>1 First Scafell, then I went to Bread Crag, then it dropped down to the How, across is Doe Crag--next is Ill Crag, then Great End--then Esk Course-- Above the Sheep fold is Spout Crag--Scale Gill Force--& Scale gill Bridge--Toes--John Vicars Towers'/Esk Course, Hanging Knot, Bowfell, then to Adam a' Crag, then Yewbank, then Hard- knot, then Low-fell-- Recommended to Joseph Tavner's, a Public House in Brough- ton/ Long Crag, just above Esk mock-roa[d] behind that Green Hall, a great hollow Dell, and then Bowfell/over Bowfell into Langdale-- 1220 2.15 Friday Morning, August 6, left <1Toes>1 with Vic. <1f19v>1 Towers, & went again up the vale, by a higher road, over a heathy upland, & crossed the higher part of Scale Gill, & came out upon Moddoch How, where the large Peat-road makes such a wind-- came in sight of the wild crags, under which Scale Gill flows-- called Cat Crag, on the left hand of the Gill as you ascended--as- cended & went into the Heart of the Fells Northward, as if I were going strait into Seathwaite in Borrodale, on my right hand are 6 triangle Crags in a file/the first Broad How, 2. Round Scar/the intermediate ones nameless, the sixth Dinny How/Just beyond is Brock Crag. Past on farther a little higher up, yet still inward to the vale, & came to the four-foot Stone/on which there are the clear <1f20>1 marks of 4 feet, the first a beast's foot, so wide, the next a boy's shoe in the mire, the 3rd notch in my stick/ the third a dog's Foot of the natural size, the fourth a child's Shoe, marked with the first notch/the beast's foot with the second notch/The last notch in my stick is the utmost breadth of the whole stone/the 3rd notch, the breadth of that part, higher than the rest, which contains the marks. The raw notch is the length of the Stone/it is exactly under Buck Crag, which is, as I now sit, to <1f20v>1 my Back--before me Broad Crag, & his <3six>3 5 in a Line/immediately behind these, & of course directly before me, is Ewe bank (or Yew- bank, for there are still Yew-Trees, & a tradition that it was covered with them) <1Brock Crag,>1 that on which I stood & ran up to after I had quitted the 4-foot Stone--Earn Crag to my right/& Scafell just above it/-- the place where I descended just above that/the vale behind me to my left. Eskdale runs from East to West, perhaps with a small inclination <1f21>1 to the South/ [D] Child Shoe, first notch, 4 Inches Beast's Foot, second notch, 5 3/4 Boy's Shoe in the mire third notch 9 1/2 The Breadth of the whole Stone 3 Feet The Breadth of the <3Stone>3 at part which contains the marks is 1' 8 1/2 The length is 2' 8 1/2 <1f2lv>1 1221 2.16 John Gledrie at Mr Withrington's, Whitehaven/ L.B. & my poems Dined at Towers'--& quitted him at 1/2 past one. 1222 2.17 Eskdale, more descriptively Eskerdales, for it is a dale by the reluctant Mercy of the mountains, and the Hills, their children/some but Babes, others striplings, who <3reach>3 stand breast- high to their Fathers--it is mainly however two Dales, like Stan- AUGUST 1802 [1222 ley's in St Johns/only that the intervening ridge of Hills, is higher than those of Leathes' water & lower than the Naddle Fell--The Esk runs down the left hand of the ridge (as you go down)--both vales are in their course of very unequal breadths, often little more than the River Channel in the one, and as much space as would serve for the bed of a good river in the other/--Now then the Hill- ridge intermits and the vales become one/but never sure were lovelyer human Dwellings than these nested in Trees at the foot of <1f22>1 the Fells, & in among the intervening Hills/--After you have left Sca'Fell & his Progeny behind you, the Fells on each side are low, rough, & ragged with Bushwood; but low-- Inclosures made on the Screes partly for saving the Sheep from falling down, partly to reserve the Grass for the <1Hogs>1 After the Junction & re-disjunction of the vales came to a Beck, with a Bridge which I crossed--a pretty Beck with well wooded Banks, chiefly Oak, Ash, Alder, & Birch, not without Thorns, Hazels, & Hollies/2 or 3 houses very pleasantly situated on the Esk side of the Bridge, & on the other side a grand picture view of the Ridge & Top of Sca Fell seen thro' a [D] with a road at the bottom/. This Beck (from Harter Fell?) <3runs>3 slants from the Bridge di- rectly into the Esk, & in a few hundred yards after, the vale nar- <1f22v>1 rows, unites, & you walk by the side of the Esk, now as broad as the Greta/the front side of the last Hill a pretty regular farm- house with a noble <1Back>1 of Wood/situated just as the House by the Brig at Great How/only the Hill is not a quarter as high/ I walk however not a furlong, before the Esk <3winds>3 slants away from me to the left again, but presents a beautiful reach/--Harter Fell is next to Lowfell, & that Beck which I crossed the Bridge over, is Whillah Beck, comes from Burnmoor Tairn/on my right I have low Fells, Eskdale Moors, exceedingly rocky & woody, huge perpend. smooth stones, now hidden, & encircled by young wood, now starting out. The <1regular house>1 is a shooting seat of Mr Stan- ley's--I come again to a view of the river over some Hayfields and an Islet in the River/the opposite fells Birker Fells--- <1f23>1 Remember the large Scotch Fir in Ennerdale-- 1223 2.18 Come to the Public House, with a beautiful Hill of wood & Rock close behind, cross the Esk Bridge, & pass at the end of Birker Moor, a piece of wooded Rock--grander, ex- actly like the other side of Grasmere, opposite Tail End front- windows, except that it rises & falls in full large obtuse Triangles, & not so much in small Nipple-work--at the end of this Eskdale becomes a broad spacious Vale, completely land-locked, tho' the Fells at the end are low--indeed only green cultivated Hills--the vale now seems to consist of very large Fields, with corn & potatoes & grass Land growing, all in one field, in broad stripes.--To the right hand Muncaster Fell, to the left Easterfield Common, over which I ascended by a Peat Road. It seems I have gone 2 miles <1f23v>1 round about & ought to have crossed over at Dalegarth Hall (from Stanley's Shooting Box)--sate & wrote this <3at>3 near the top of Easterfield Common (Fern, Heath, & Moss)--a pretty view of the Sea thro' a <3spy>3 sink in Mulcaster a small Dip in the shape of an inverted Triangle--the Sea, & a triangle of Green Coast. 1224 2.19 Descended on the other side of Easterfield Com- mon, crossed a moss, and ascended another & came out upon Dev- ock/a good large Tairn with naked Banks, & a tiny Island covered with Sea fowl, two of which, & afterwards four, flew round about above me, wailing & [?barking/baiting], then dipped down low, & made a dead <1dart>1 along over my head, so that I could hear the clang of the wings, & altering its Note to a noise of anger & menace/I stand in the ruins of the city of Barnscar/fill 5 pages; but neverthe- less I found nothing, after most patient search, that I could distin- <1f24>1 guish from any part of the Fell--two heaps of Stones, on each of which some Boys had built up a Shelter in the Shape of a large Chimney, wanting the one side fronting the Lake--it is a flat-round Hill--Albinus omnino nihil.--However the view is very fine-- Sauce better than the fish--behind to my left a noble sea-view--to my right a break in the Fells, & a bold view of the huge Mountains at the head of Wastdale directly across the Lake & in front of me. Corney Fell, Stones' Head Fell, Black Comb, of a very wild, <3&>3 various, & angular outline, running in ridges, rising in triangles, sinking in inverting arches, or darting down in Nesses--mountain seen behind mountain, either the backward overtopping the hither- ward,--or the nearer mountain dipping down in an inverted arch or triangle/--at the bottom of Devock, i.e. between the mountain view & the water, & forming its immediate is a small Hill with a curious round large stoney Head/I shall ascend to my right, gain <1f2 v>1 a still more extensive view of the Sea, & go round to it. The angry clapper of the Bird's Bill, as it passed over my head.-- 1225 2.20 I was not in the City of Bardscar, it is half a mile from the Foot of the Lake, toward Mulcaster//but however it dif- fers from what I did see/--Devock Lake is prettily shaped, & runs from South to North/at the Bottom, just under <1Wadness How>1, or <1Seat How>1 by the Boat-house, standing/the Bank to my left is strait, but the other, but head [D] left & the whole of the left is pretty in bays, & the Island close on its left Bank is pretty with some Trees & Bushes on it/and if the whole of its right Bank, which is an ascent of 120 yards perhaps, were compleatly cloathed with wood, & the other Banks judiciously plant[ed], it would cap 'em <1f25>1 a/sea views/& fell views!--Saw the pith of a Sieve two feet long, with a small strip of the Green suffered to remain, & keep the pith firm/dipped in hot fat/--A Candle-stick/with a back formed of half a cylinder of Iron, with holes in it, & a solid Cylinder of Iron with a bent hook at the End to put in to those Holes, so as to lengthen or shorten <3it>3 the stick as occasion/its whole length when the hook in its last hole, is nearly a yard/one of these long sieves will burn an Hour-- Passed over a common, wild, & dreary, and descending a hill came down upon Ulpha <3Park>3 Kirk, with a sweet view up the River, with a mirror over a rapid/Ulpha Kirk is a most romantic vale, the mountains that embosom it, low & of a remarkably wild <1f26>1 outline/and higher mountains looking in from behind. The view from the Bridge, consisting of a reach of the River, the Road & the Kirk to the left at the end of the Reach. The Kirk standing on the low rough Hill up which the Road climbs, the fields level and high, beyond that; & then the different flights of mountains in the back ground, with wild ridges from the right & the left, running like Arms & confining the <3view>3 middle view to these level fields on high ground is eminently picturesque--A little step (50 or 60 yards) beyond the Bridge, you gain a compleatly different picture--the Houses & the Kirk forming more important parts, & the view bounded at once by a high wooded rock, shaped as an obtuse- triangle/or segments of a circle forming an angle at their point of junction, now compleat in a Mirror & equally delightful as a view/ <1f26v>1 I pass along for a furlong or so upon the road, the river winding thro' the narrow vale, & then turn off to my left athwart a Cove on Donnerdale Fell--a very rocky Fell, yew-trees on the Rocks/(each crag a lownding-place for sheep) the outer line running in the seg- ment of a circle so as to form the cove athwart which I went--this outline most wildly saw-toothed/and sheep-tracks every where--O lovely lovely Vale!-- Here it was seated on this Mount, on Saturday, August 7, that I resolved to write under the name of The Soother of Absence, the topographical poem which I had long mummel'd about in my mind, & the day before thought of under the name of the Bards of Helvellin or the Stone Hovels/--The public House at Ulpha a very nice one/& the Landlord, a very intelligent man [?Danny/Dumny] Bloomfield/--I climb over the Fell, taking to my left a little, wind around <3by>3 crags, & come to two Dubs in the shape of an 8, the hither one with 30 or 40 little Islets, of a <1f27>1 yard or so of breadth/& now suddenly burst upon me a blunt- angled triangle Hill, a Peak of great height & singularity, rocky, & hetherey, with patches of yellow Green Pasture intermixed/behind me, right over the Dubbs, a fine water view, of rivers & flat land, & the Sea/--It must have been here that I lost my way, for I now went on till I found myself coming down upon Ulpha again, about a mile above the House & Kirk which I had just quitted/however I was not sorry, to have another view of that lovely Place, and it brought me full in sight of a fine water fall on the opposite Hill on the other side of the Duddon, seemingly a short mile above the Kirk/I saw Houses to my right, & an Man with his Daughter, a sweet Girl, burning Bracken--went up to him & talked with him & the lovely Girl in the of the huge Volumes of Smoke, & found I had gone two miles wrong--which yet I could scarcely <1f27v>1 believe/however he sent me to the Road, which which [ran] hard by, & winded down thro' Donnerdale Halse, a sloping vale <3in>3 between the Donnerdale Common & Donnerdale Fell/a most lovely narrow vale with several Houses, and on my <3left>3 Right the sound of a Beck, deep hidden & with a woody bank between me & it, & its other bank a Hill with a ravin bisecting it, but all covered with fine wood, & completely hidden, ravin & all--and now, being a short mile from Broughton Mills, this wood-covered Hill & sounding Beck to my right, there burst on me a lovely Prospect--about a quarter of mile on before me the woody Hill ran down a very gentle descent in a long Ness, and the Hilly Ridge, directly in front of me, cultivated & inclosed to the top, ran down in a Ness far on behind the Ness of the woody Hill, & so as to form an inverted obtuse-angled triangle with the upper Half of the woody Nose, & thro' this the sea, & an <1f28>1 Island in the distance/two or three Houses immediately upon the Sea Ness, & just where the Wood-ness reached the ground, a beau- tiful Road came in sight leading up the cultivated Hill, with houses & trees & hedges directly on to the little village upon the Ness--As I proceed a few yards, the view is completely altered, and a round smooth rises up beyond the Sea-Ness, & bisects the distance/and on the other side of the round Hill is the high lands on the Coast/and now I descend, & cross the Wood-beck, which preserves its character to the last, running all under Alders, into a beck of a similar char- acter from the Woods on Donnerdale Fell--& now come into a lovely vale, & a Bridge covered with Ivy, its wall 20 yards in length /the vale is completely land-locked by segments of circles folding <1f28v>1 in behind each other/before me a ridge slants across, the Hill on my right folds in in a long <1Ellipse>1 behind, while the Hill on my left in more of a segment of a circle folds in before it/so is it, with my back to the sea, & my face looking up the Stream that runs be- tween alders & birch elms--the name of the Beck Little Beck, that springs out of Coe Moss/--Turning round & looking sea-ward the Hill that is now to my left & makes an elliptical line to my back, curves in a circle-segment, while the Hill to my right <3closes>3 folds round about it/./The place Broughton Mills/Corn Hills/--the Hill that [I] came upon when I lost my way Stickle Knot/--/ 1226 2.21 <1f25v>1 Mr. Thomas Robinson's Black Bull, Conistone-- <1f28v>1 1227 2.22 Dined on <3bread>3 Oatcake & Cheese, with a pint of Ale, & 2 glasses of Rum & water sweetened with preserved Goose- berries at the Ale house--Cassons'--the son, William Casson, got a pleurisy & abscess in his side by overheating himself & then starving <1f29>1 himself in breaking up the Ice for the Mill--but being a Scholar, he gets his cloathes & a little money besides by teaching a lile lock of Bairns/his Father & Mother that keep the Public House, give him his meat.--The road turns off at the Inn/ the views on your left hand exceedingly interesting/a few hundred yards from the one Inn one eminently picturesque--a Cottage among the Hill[s] with 9 main features of Sight having their point of unity in it/but all the way for a mile by our Left is a great bulg- ing rocky Hill covered with wood, with two or three deep wooded Ravines in it, and the unseen ever-heard Brook winding at its feet-- between the road & the brook inclosed fields, of steep descent, and near to the head of the woody Hill-bank a House & outhouses with 10 tall Firs at its Back/The Roads upon <& between> the Hills from here a very interesting part of the Picture & 1 of> open fields, steep ascending/Beyond the House with the Firs, the [D] or rather [D], the Brook becomes visible sloping down a descent/and I still ascend, ferny Common to my right, to my left woods with fields & inclosures intermixed, & above the woods--and now nearly in the bottom you see a House with 2 outhouses, the House itself ivied all over its sea-ward Gavel/--and from this House the Beck runs almost straight up to its Fountain head/and a beautiful Road serpentizes over the Hill just above its head, and for a small space down along its <3right>3 hither Bank/it rises or seems to rise between 2 round stony Hills, <3ever>3 each of which the Mountain-ridges now rise over, now sink under, in a jagged saw-toothed outline/I am sitting <3just>3 in the road, with the ivied House beneath me, and right opposite to me, thro' an inverted arch in the Fells, a very singular pike looks in [D] --N.B.--one effect of the magnitude of surrounding objects--it <1f30>1 gives to shapes a narrowness of width, exceedingly favorable to boldness, an approximating to a sharp point, which being compara- tive loses its effect upon paper--because you can scarcely give the real shape, preserving its true relative dimensions, besides in a picture you only take a part of the view; but in nature the whole, perhaps 20 fold more than you draw, appears to you, each part modified by all the rest-- --at this ivied house another Beck comes from the Fells, close by my road/& joins the former/& now a ridge rises gradually like a fish, increasing from the Tail up to the head, rises be- tween <3me>3 my road & the source of the former Beck--& <3a quarter of>3 <3a mile or so>3 about a furlong higher up, a bridge crosses the latter Beck, & the road which I before observed serpentizing at the head of the main beck runs down in a sweet Curve upon the Bridge; & goes by the Beck side down to the Ivied House in a strait Line/all before me, <3for a half mile which is>3 as far as I can see, which indeed is not more than 1/4 mile, a gentle ascent, ferny Common--Steep on my right, the wider view on my left a descending Fell with green stony bulging Hills on either side, which unite at its head in <1f30v>1 a shelving ridge, over behind which a higher ridge shelves in the same Direction/I now pass on, <3from>3 beyond the source of the hither Beck, to the top of the Hill along which & up which my road had been ever winding, & see behind me to my right a grand Seaview & the flat lands upon the Sea, with 3 Hills, the largest of which looks like a Paradise in the wild, the fields so sweetly shaped & so green, the smaller is not unlike it, the hither one is bleak/I go on, descend a little & to my right a <3valley>3 low cultivated Dell, with stony Fells above it; to my left a bleak Common, & stony Fells over which the Clouds are sweeping, and on my right far onward long ridges of fells, all running with long arms sea-ward, & seen either by the <3sinking of>3 dips & gaps in the the hithermost ridges, or by the superior height of the furthermost--but all alike-- grey & stoney--it is a day of sun & Clouds, with a thousand Shadows on the Hills-- <1f31>1 1228 2.23 Coniston/Yewdale Crag is that noblest Ness, the main feature of the Head of the Lake/the next to it Yewdale Fells-- The water fall I saw is Levers' Water Force--and a Tarn to the south of it, behind two compleat Negro <1Breasts>1--a full Bosom/ called Scrow & Bell. The Tairn behind Scrow/The Old Man is just above/next to that Seathwaite Fells--then Cockley Beck Fells-- then Wrey Nose, &c &c Coniston Lake a fine mixture of the aweful & the pleasing Simple --of one-colored dark Rocks, & pastoral Hills below. Coniston is doubtless a worthy Compeer of the Stateliest/an equal Coheir of Nature with Keswick, Wyndermere, & Ulswater/ Its distinguishing character I think is its perfect & easy compre- hensibility. At its foot the Hills are <3not>3 low, but of a various out- <1f3lv>1 line/from the Foot to within a mile of the Head, the Hills on either side are of no great permanent Interest, tho' susceptible no doubt of a very high one from the accidents of Nature, that must be so fre- quent here, of broken Sunlights, Clouds, & Storm/The Head of the Lake is an admirable junction of awful & of pleasing Simplicity./ it is beyond all the other lakes perfectly intelligible--Conceive a crescent of Hills, or rather a crescent hill, enfolding the first mile of water/this hill of various height & various outline, but no where high/above this hill at the head of the Lake, but <3chiefly>3 somewhat to the Left of it (as you ascend the Lake) high mountain[s] of a re- markable sternness & simplicity, one-colored, as seen at a distance, & dark-colored/its boldest parts are first, the Bell & the Scrow, two black Peaks, perfectly breast-shaped & lying abreast of each other, the whole Bosom of a Brobdignag Negress, & on one side of them <1f32>1 the Lever's water-fall/2--the very bold Ness called Yewdale Crag, its ridge line rounded/--and about 150 yards from Gateskarth's, the house close upon the Lake, at its very head, the simple, most unfantastic, Yewdale Crag seen thro' a Dip in the woody pastoral Crescent below, this Dip a very gentle curve, the under half of an ellipse [D] /The Houses, Gardens, fields, & woodland upon this crescent Hill are all in admirable <1keeping,>1 various as heart can wish, yet all sweet Brothers & Sisters--so various that when to- gether you see small likeness/so like that when separate, you might AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1802 [1235 mistake one for the other--I pass by Gateskarth, & go for Skelleth/ --Add Coniston Hall as the first bold feature, with its four Round Chimneys, two cloathed so warmly cap a pie with ivy & down on the wall far below/ observe from Torva thro' Coniston the force of imitation in <1f32v>1 the Gardens & sweet Porches, & every where clipped yews, in obelisks, & fine arches/about 2 miles from Coniston just where Hawkshead & Esthwaite with Priest-pot and its floating Isle with Trees, then at the farther end (nearest Esthwaite) 15 yards long/--there there is on your left, belonging to one John Swain- son, with a compleate colonnade of clipped yews--an old man with his wife--had small else to do--was a Tanner, but long given over/ has children, his they are grown up & married off--[?for] some time before this I came upon the view of Wyndermere/-- 1229 2.25 Love to all the Passions & Faculties, as Music to <1f16>1 all the varieties of Sound/ 1230 21.243 Transcripts from my Velvet-writing-paper Pocket <1f48>1 Books. Regular Post, its influence on the general Literature of the coun- try--turns two thirds of the Nation into Writers. 1231 21.244 Parodies on new Poems are a Ridicule, on old ones a Compliment.-- 1232 21.245 Tribes of Negroes who take for the Deity of the Day the first thing they meet of a morning--sublime conception possible--& a ludicrous one of a Narcissus, himself his Fetisch. 1233 21.246 Socinianism moonlight--Methodism a Stove! O for some Sun to unite heat & <3warm>3 Light! 1234 21.247 Musk in the rooms of putrid Patients! Unde- served Praise! a dead Dog at a distance smells like Musk!-- 1235 21.248 Defences & proofs <1ab extra>1 of personal Identity well ridiculed in the song of the little old woman & her little dog-- 1236] SEPTEMBER 1802 If it is not me, he'll bark & he'll rail--But if it is me, he will wag his little Tail. 1236 21.249 Of the harm done by bad Poets in trivializing beautiful expressions & images, & associating Disgust & indifference with the technical forms of Poetry. 1237 21.250 Lady's Diary--Rebuses answered by M.M. "in an elegy on my Father's Death!"-- 1238 21.251 Characters--Permit me to doubt! 2. Advice-asker. 3. Give no Trouble. 4. Journalist--/Parry. 5. <1Wr.>1 6. Hoblin-- Prints--Dead--Cat--Ivy.-- 1239 21.252 Advantage of public schools--content with school praise where others publish. Applied to Cottle & J. Jennings. 1240 21.253 Religious Slang operates better on Women than on men. N.B. Why?--I will give over--it is not Tanti! <1f48v>1 1241 21.253 Poems.--Ghost of a mountain/the forms seizing my body, as I passed, became realities--I, a Ghost, till I had re- conquered my Substance/. 1242 21.255 The Sopha of Sods.--Lack-wit, & the Clock--find him at last in the Yorkshire Cave where the waterfall is-- 1243 21.26o A Rosemary Tree, large as a Timber Tree, a sweet sign of the antiquity & antique manners of the House, against which it groweth.--Rosmary (says Parkinson, Th. Bot. 76) is a herb of as great use with us in these days as any other whatsoever, not only for physical, but civil purposes--the civil uses as all know, are at Weddings, Funerals &c, to bestow on Friends &c-- <1f49>1 1244 21.261 Mother listening for the <1sound>1 of a still-born child--blind Arab list'ning in the wilderness. SEPTEMBER 18O2 [1245 1245 21.262 [a] Custom of the Leucadians to hurl yearly, as a sacrifice to Apollo a condemned Prisoner from the white rock, stuck with all sorts of feathers made into light wings, & many large Birds tied about him, to break his fall--& boats placed below, to carry him out of the dominions if he survived--/--[b] A Tree overshadowing the little Lake in the Peloponnesus, & the leaves of the same rise up in a fountain of one of the Strophades where no Trees go.--[c] Jam medio apparet fluctu <1nemorosa>1 Zachynthus/ [d] now not a Tree on the Island/so Madeira--so Iceland/<1nemo->1 <1rosa>1 an hazardous Epithet--White Peacock's Tail expanded behind a green little Hillock, a rising Sun, <1half up.>1--a Rainbow coming & going with the Storm/. The Shadow of the man colouring the Camelia, he was examining the colour of.--The old stump of the Tree, with briar-roses & bramble leaves, wreathed round & round/ a bramble arch--a Fox glove in the centre. --[e]Figs with the wild fig that the worm hath pierced/the young worms pierce the culti- vated figs & make them ripen.--[f]p.75. Sandys' Travels.--The whole procession of the Sultan to the Mosck of S. Sophia.--[g]But what most deserveth admiration amongst so great a concourse of People is their silence in so much as had you but only <1eares,>1 you might suppose, except when they salute him with a short & soft murmur, that men were then folded in Sleep, & the World in Midnight.-- [h] Athos (700 furlongs distant) celat latera Lemnia|e Bovis.-- [i] Pharos, with its many Lights atop, did at a distance appear but as a one--& that a polar Star/so as often to occasion wrecks in- stead of preventing. Applied to the eloquent Dissuasion of a beauti- ful Woman.-- -- Sostratus of Gnydos--in marble--over it the King's name on Plaster. On the Pharos--Sost of Gny Son of Dexeteles, to the Gods. Protectors of Sailors.--[j] Alexandria with neither tillage nor pasturage. save wheat lieth on the Lake; that little & unhusbanded; <1f49v>1 yet keep they good store of goats, with ears hanging down to the ground, which feed among the Ruins.-- [k] The Turkish Janisaries did nightly guard them, ever & anon one crying Was-hed is answered Elough by the other--i.e. one only --God, which passing thro' the Caravan signifies Safety. Amongst 1246] SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 18O2 us divers Jewish Women in the extremity of old age pilgriming the Desert to die at Jerusalem, with them the Bones of their Parents, Husbands, Children, & Kinsfolk [l] The Palm still faithful to forsaken Deserts, an emblem of Hope. [m] At Tunis some Jews have taken places aboard a Vessel for Salonica, the wind coming fair on the Sabbath, & the master hoist- ing his Sails, they loth to infringe their law & as loth to lose the benefit of the passage, in order to play bo-peep with their Con- science, paid some Janisaries to force them aboard, who took their moneys, & coming down with a Janisary for each Jew made an excellent sport by scourging them on board in good <1earnest>1 1246 21.263 The stedfast rainbow in the fast-moving, hurry- ing, hail-mist! What a congregation of Images & Feelings, of fan- tastic Permanence amidst the rapid Change of Tempest--quietness the Daughter of Storm.-- 1247 21.264 Meditate on Trans substantiation! What a con- ception of <1a miracle!>1 Were <3the>3 one a Catholic, what a sublime ora- tion might not one make of it! --Perpetual, <2pa>2ntopical--yet offer- ing no violence to the Sense, exercising no domination over the free will--a miracle always existing, yet perceived only by an act of the free will--the beautiful Fuel of the Fire of Faith/the fire must be <1f50>1 pre-existent, or it is not fuel--yet it feeds & supports, & is necessary to feed & support, the fire that converts it into its own nature. 1248 21.265 I lay too many Eggs with Ostrich Carelessness & Ostrich Ob- livion. The greater <3number>3 part, I trust, are trod underfoot, & smashed; but yet no small number crawl forth into Life, some to furnish Feathers for the Caps of others, & still more to plume the Shafts in the Quivers of my Enemies, of them that lie in wait against my Soul. <1f4lv>1 1249 21.213 Colnett's Voyage to the South Atlantic, 1798./a passage concerning two fireballs that appears to throw great Light OCTOBER 18O2 [1252 on the shooting Stars. vide Monthly review, for May 1799. p.28.-- Probability that in violent storm, the electric fluid has some means of attracting iron particles from the objects it passes over.-- 1250 21.214 October 3--Night--My Dreams uncommonly il- lustrative of the non-existence of Surprize in sleep--I dreamt that I was asleep in the Cloyster at Christs Hospital & awoken with a pain in my hand from some corrosion/boys & nurses daughters peeping at me/On their implying that I was not in the School, I answered yes I am/I am only twenty--I then recollected that I was thirty, & of course could not be in the School--& was perplexed --but not the least surprize that I could fall into such an error/So I dreamt of Dorothy, William & Mary--& that Dorothy was altered in every feature, a fat, thick-limbed & rather red-haired--in short, no resemblance to her at all--and I said, if I did not <1know>1 you to be Dorothy, I never should <1suppose>1 it/<3Now>3 Why, says she--I have not a feature the same/& yet I was not surprized-- I was followed up & down by a frightful pale woman who, I thought, wanted to kiss me, & had the property of giving a shame- ful Disease by breathing in the face/ & again I dreamt that a figure of a woman of a gigantic Height dim & indefinite & smokelike appeared--& that I was forced to run up toward it--& then it changed to a stool--& then appeared again in another place--& again I went up in great fright--& it changed to some other common thing--yet I felt no surprize. 1251 21.215 Oct. 19. 1802.--midnight. Sitting up in my bed, <1f42>1 which I had drawn alongside the fire, with my head to the great Window, & the foot to the Bookcase, my candle on the green table close by me--& I was reading--a flash of Lightning came so vivid as for the moment to extinguish in appearance both the Candle & the bright Fire/it was followed by a Clap of Thunder, that made the window belly in <3and>3 as in a violent Gust of wind--the window that looks out on Newlands, thro' which the lightning came. 1252 21.216 Oct. 20th--1802. My 30th Birthday--a windy, showery Day--with great columns of misty Sunshine travelling 1253] OCTOBER 1802 along the lake toward Borrodale, the <3Sky>3 Heavens, a confusion of white Clouds in masses, & bright blue Sky--Sunshine on the Bas- senthwaite Window, while Rain & Hail was scourging the New- lands window--the whole vale shadow & sunshine, in broad masses. No clouds on the tops of the mountains--I meditating on Switzer- land, & writing the Letters to Mr Fox--Eleven in the morning-- 1/2 past one--the whole of Newlands full of a shower-mist drunk & dazzling with Sunshine in one part transparent, & Great Robin- son, & the Green Ridge & hollow below or seen thro' it. It passed <1f42v>1 off--& floated across the Lake toward Lodore in flossy silk. The Birches, auburn & gold, shew themselves among the Oak grove-- the white flossy Sun-mist floats along, & now Borrodale looks thro' it. The upper segment of the arch of the Sky is all blue, bright blue --and the descent on all sides white massy clouds, thrusting their heads into the blue, in mountain shapes. 1253 21.217 October, 1802. Hartley at Mr. Clarkson's sent for a Candle--the <1Seems>1 made him miserable--what do you mean, my Love! --The Seems--the Seems--what seems to be & is not-- <3Figures>3 Men & faces & I do not [know] what, ugly, & sometimes pretty & then turn ugly, & they seem when my eyes are <3shut>3 open, & worse when they are shut--& the Candle cures the SEEMS. 1254 21.218 Oct. 25.--began to look thro' Swift's Works--first Volume containing the Tale of Tub--wanting. Second Volume the Sermon on the <3Truth>3 Trinity rank Socinianism--<1purus putus>1 Socin- ianism, while the Author rails against Socinians for Monsters! 1255 21.219 Great Injury that has resulted from the supposed Incompatibility of one talent with another/Judgment with Imagi- nation, & Taste--Good sense with strong feeling &c-- if it be false, as assuredly it is, the opinion has deprived us of a test which every man might apply--Locke's opinions of Blackmore, Hume of Milton & Shakespere/&c OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1802 [1262 1256 21.220 The first sight of green fields with the numberless nodding gold cups, & the winding River with alder on its bank af- fected me, coming out of a city confinement, with the sweetness & power of a sudden Strain of Music.--. 1257 21.221 Thursday, Oct. 28. 1802.--The Sun set directly <1f43>1 opposite, in a straight line to our door/behind the edgy ridge be- tween Sale & Causey Pike. Of course, after its departure Newlands is in a blaze of Light.--And a great Beam runs athwart Borrodale, above & behind the Castle, & behind the Grange Fells--a <1sandy->1 <3colored>3 pink--a pillar lying lengthways, just below the mountain Tops, & parallel with the Gaps. Fine lights on Skiddaw after the Sunset. [D] 1258 21.222 Burke s 80000 Jacobins in England parallelled by Mercennus's assertion of 50,000 incorrigible Atheists in the City of Paris alone/under Lewis 13th/ Compare Cowper's description of a newspaper with Burton's pages 3 & 4.-- 1259 21.223 end my preface--with--in short, speaking to the Poets of the age--"Primus vestru2m non sum, neque imus"--I am none of the best, I am none of the meanest of you. Burton. 1260 8.9 Vastum, incultum, solitudo mera et incrinitissima <1f32>1 Nuditas-- 1261 8.10 Nov. 4th 3/4 past 4 oclock, on the Thursday Morn- <1f32v>1 ing, left Keswick--went to Penrith, could not get a place in the Mail--passed the Day with Sara at Miss Monkhouse's. 1262 8.11 A large round of Beef Sirloin of Beef--a Ham 4 Geese--4 Fowls--a Hare--2 Giblet Pies, 1 Veal Pye--12 Puddings --Vegetables of all sorts/1s,,6d a head, at an annual Hunt-Feat at 1263] NOVEMBER 1802 Culthwaite, 7 miles from Penrith/<3close>3 on the Thursday before Martinmas, 28 persons present-- [?Ale/All] inc <1f33>1 1263 8.12 Llanspadach, between Brecon & Trecastle, a large number of prodigious fine Yews in the Church Yard--Sunday, Nov. 14, 1802. 1264 8.13 Gustavus Vasa's Life by himself-- <1f33v>1 1265 8.14 Arrived at St Clear, Nov. 15, 1802/Monday-- Fire in the Kitchen never out for 9 years/24 miles from coals-- Balls, or rather great wasp-maggots, or large Kidney Potatoes, or penny Rolls, 6 inches from head to Tail/of Clay & Coal, two piers vaulted/ <1f34>1 1266 8.15 Wedn. Nov. 17. walked from St Clear to Larn (or Laugern) the vale on each side of me deep, the Hills high, not unwooded, or uncottaged, yet on the whole little impressive/the first view of Larn with its fine richly ivied Castle close upon the sea, & its <1white & all white>1 Houses, interesting--unfortunately at low Tide--or I should have seen the Castle washed by the sea--The Bay is a great river of Greenish Water taking one Bend among <1f34v>1 fieldy Hills--the outline sufficiently various, & the whole Breast- work of the Hills sinking & swelling very playfully being low Tide, many Tongues & many Islands of mud-sand 4, 5 or 6 promontories, like Boars' Heads, some of them with pretty Cot- tages on the slope. Take Castles in Wales not as Curiosities but as the stans quanti- tas, the Lay Brother of the Church, & you will find them very interesting. Sand Brooks &c opposite the Promontory--then flat saltmarshes <1f35>1 at the back of the Hill on which I stand. Long jagged line of low Clay Cliffs fenced off from the main Sea/High Land to my Right, seemingly three Hands [D] Mallows --Furze--Lychens/Cottage with its dunghill of Cockle shells, & Sea worn wood pushing up among it-- The murmur of the main Sea/& the Barking, yelping, whining, wailing of the various Sea fowls. 1/3rd of the Furze in plentiful Blossom/Daisies, & Tansy with the white petals fallen off & only lingering a few on the yellow Head--Periwinkle by the Cockleshell Dunghill--the recesses & little Gills of the Promontories [. . . .] The Ivy on the Castle I observed to be a beautiful yellow green <1f35v>1 when it faced the sea/but a deep dark green on the sheltered sides, & even in the sheltered recesses of the seaward side/ A number of handsome <1glassy>1 Houses in Larn/never saw such a profusion of tall broad Windows, except in Hamburg--before one of the doors two large Cages with two fine Parrots screaming away --Hen & two or 3 large chicks perching upon one Cage, but un- scared/& a handsome Cock on the other with its bold brave old <1f36>1 England face. I waited for him to crow, but he did not-- Cottages favorable only to vegetable Life--Hot bed of wild weeds on their roofs & ivy on their walls--but the shrivelled Shrimps of cold & Hunger--swarthied Tenants/ White Church with grey Steeple a furlong or so from the Town near the bottom <3of>3 on a Hillside-- 1267 8.16 Here <1f36v>1 lieth the Body of Marg. Bevan, who departed this Life the 9th day of June 1727, Aged 19 years Here lie 2 Sisters side by side They sleep & take their rest, Till Christ shall raise them up again To live among the Blest-- At the foot of a grave a lower Stone, nearly the same shape, only with Here lyeth the Body of Elizabeth Bevan who died the 3rd of June, 1725, aged 22 years. At the last day I am sure <1f37>1 I shall appear to meet with Jesus Christ, my saviour dear Where I do hope to live with him in bliss. O what a Joy at my last hour was this! -- While I took the copy, the Groundsel showered its white Beard on me/Groundsel & Fern on the grave, & the Thorns growing that had been bound over it-- On a square Tomb as high as half up my Thigh, where the Tom Tits with their black velvet Caps showered down the lovely yew- berries on me. Here lyeth the Body of Sara & Hannah Jones the Daughters of Evan Jones & Jane his Wife. Sara Jones died Janu- <1f37v>1 ary the 19th, aged 2 years & 3 months/Hannah Jones departed this Life the 8th day of September, 1746, aged 15 years/ What Christ said once he said to all. Come unto me, ye children small None shall do you any wrong For to my Kingdom you belong. Also the Body of the above Jane Jones who died Feb. 13. 1753, aged 49 years. She long in pain & sickness lay Till Death did carry her away Her Rest gives me a restless Life Because she was my dear full Wife Yet her in time I hope to see With Christ in blest Eternity. Also the Body of the above Evan Jones who departed this Life March 22, 1794, aged 96 years--the Tomb stone 6 spans & an inch long--no room even for one couplet on the old man/ <1f38>1 1268 8.17 Propagation of motion & force in the waves of a Rope plucked back, as it lies on the ground/ p p 1269 8.18 lo, gli. il, i & li, La makes le. 1270 8.19 Sunday, Nov. 21. at Crescelly--returned to St Clear's, on Monday left it on Tuesday for Narborth Mem.--the various Noises of the House, & Mem! the great sheep dog that burst crash and the pane of the window, the upper pane/while I <1f38v>1 was writing to <1Luff>1 for T. Wedgewood. Felix sit!--<1/Crash!>1 & down fell the Dog into the Room, just on my Back--the bottom of this large sash window level with a back street, & the window splashed with mud like a London Cellar Window-- 1271 8.2o Devil at the icy end of Hell warming himself at the reflection of the fires in the Ice. - 1272 8.21 Men & women, Servants, Drivers, Waiters, Mas- ter & Mistress--all talking at once, very loud--& one or two Laughs always, when it was not scolding--Women scolding the children--children trampling, laughing, screaming in play, yowl- <1f39>1 ing in earnest-- Bells ringing--Dogs Barking-- The above sounds imitated in its own natural scream by a Parrot --& some one talking to the Parrot in a low voice/Finis--Window crash, & mad dog fall--all duly performed at the White-hart with- out interspace the whole evening of <3Jul>3 Tuesday, Novemb. 23--& morning of Wed. 24th 1273 8.22 N.B. Have two Lasts made exactly the shape of my natural foot--the Boots to have a sole less on the hollow of the <1f39v>1 foot--Mutton suet 1. Hog's Lard 2. Venice Turpentine 1/2--all mixed & melted--always put on warm, Shoe or boot being held to the fire, while it is being rubbed in--The middle sole of the Boot covered with Cobbler's wax--or still better, steeped thoroughly in the above Composition/the Leather of the Boot should be stout Horse leather--if none to be had, Cow-leather/a piece of oil Silk 6 inches above the Heel, 2 inches wide with a back strap to the Boots. 1 274 8.23 Makes on merrily & carelessly for goes on-- Barrow <1f40>1 1275 8.24 Nov. 25--Examine minutely the nature, cause, birth & growth of the <1verbal>1 Imagination of which Barrow is almost the Ideal/ 1276 8.25 Arrived at Crescelly again the 24th/ 1277 8.26 <1irksome>1--a <1freakish>1 Friendship--<1Lamb/>1 1278 8.27 The Sun, eclipsed & clouded still maintained the Day--misfortunes illustrious clouds cloud the moon--a Thought unwieldy or strutting 1279 8.28 In treating of [?optimism/optimistic] state espe- cially the melioration--of climates by cultivation. All moral pro- ceeds from physical evil-- 1280 8.29 Puppet-shew--crowned Heads--which the Pope? which a [? Lion] and which one pleases Gentlemen, which the Masses please <1f40v>1 1281 8.30 Kublaikhan ordered letters to be invented for his people-- 1 282 8.3 1 Alexander/talkative & fond of Flattery--obsti- nate-- 1283 8.32 O vetus integer sodalis, Nostri Delicia|e, Lepor Venustas Quem tot jam misere tuli per annos Absentem tanta silere charta2 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1802 [l288 Si tibi igniculus vetusti amoris Forte inter cineres adhuc superstes Manet, nec perii omnis excedique/ 1284 8.33 Male pereant qui ante nos &c Two Clocks, one half an Hour later than the other-- 1285 8.34 Nov. 30th/visited St Gowen's Rocks & dined at <1f41>1 Pembroke/the half moon, the Cavern, a thoroughfare of the High Tide, & the Gull heaving on the waves-- 1286 8.35 undique totis Vix adeo turbatur agris En! ipse capellas Protenus a|eger ago: hanc etiam vix, Tityre, duco applied to the present state of England. 1287 8.36 Clergyman at a bye Inn, frightened by fellows round the Fire/woman tall with the long Knife--Candles at the top of his bed--Taylors' 1288 8.37 1 to the Left, 4 1/3 Strides from the window to the <1f4lv>1 Stairs Door--4 Strides across from the fire place.--16 Shoes--by 14--Three doors Room within that which looks into the Garden, 16 Shoes by 12 Two Doors. Room within that, 2 doors, 1 to the stairs--19 Shoes by 10/& 11 1/2 including the window recess-- The Passage with a door into the field--& stairs--13 Shoes--utmost breadth from Door to field Door 12-- The Stone Passage--18 Shoes by 3 1/2 Closet to the Left of the Stone Passage, without a fire place 11 Shoes by 6 1/2 To the Right of the Stone passage Kitchen with two Ovens--17 <1f42>1 by 10--2 doors-- Opposite the front Door a Pantry with grating at the top-- locked l289] DECEMBER 1802 17 Stairs, with a very tall Window/ To the Left a Room, a tiny & windowless Room where a Boy might sleep--12 Shoes by 4 1/2--One part under slope 9 in <3long>3 breadth--& 7 in length Floored Passage 10 Shoes--9 in extreme Breadth where it goes to two Bedrooms--3 the other half of its breadth-- <1f42v>1 Bedroom opposite Boy's Room, a window, & a good lumber room, 12 by nine Two Bedrooms with windows to the Road/that to the Right 16 by 10--that to the left 15 (16 1/2 in the window recess) by 10--both these have fire places--Dec. 6th, Monday, 1802. A long Stable [? 12/42] Strides by 3 Memorandum of our agreement-- <1Water,>1 Land included in the 25 %%?--<1Pump>1--<1Necessary?>1--Prem- <1f43>1 ises made wind & waterproof--Land enough for a couple of Horses & a couple of Cows. Additional Garden, how much?--Five con- stantly in Family--Enter upon the Premises in a month from the Notice of the engagement/i.e. on January 8th/--Furniture from Tenby--will he be so good as to store it safely in some outhouse--/ Furnace & boiler in the under kitchen/Take the Height of the Rooms.--Chimney pieces want pointing/Mem. see about the Glass to windows, doors, & cupboards. Dry Pool--will it hold water? Apprehend that the <3North>3 west wall of the North Parlour so thin, that it must be battened with Lath, or canvassed & papered--What is the name of the Cottage? <1f43v>1 The Lease to be had, in the course of the year, on the same Termg. power of it./ 1289 8.38 Philip Hamley for offering 2000%% to Mr Adding- ton, for the place of Landing Surveyor of the Customs of the Port of Plymouth. What is Addington's nomination of his own Son to the Clerkship of the Pells--is it not taking 5000%% a year, as a Bribe ? -- 1290 8.39 25,,15,,0-- + 25%% 1291 8.40 PROMISE to Miss Wedgewood concerning Adam & Eve-- DECEMBER 1802 [1300 1292 8.41 dag & dagger/Dod & Dodder 1293 8.42 eat--hate -- essen--hassen -- odio--edi -- eme<2w>2 -- <2misos>2 dicht--nicht -- nacht--Licht -- <1bight>1 (sea word for bottom)-- <1f44>1 height/ 1294 8.43 In the mountains between the city of Laguna & Point Naga 1295 8.44 All animals have a sense of <1joke>1--Calfs with their Horns--Dogs biting--Women abusing their infants. 1296 8.45 A Harmony so divine that a crash of discordant sound by accident did not at all affect the <1aloofened>1 mind. 1297 8.46 Dimness in sight to the eye, mist &c gives magni- <1f44v>1 tude/so does <1numness>1 to the Touch, a num limb seems twice its size. Compare this with a <1felt>1 pimple 1298 8.47 Gavel end of the House covered with <1fern,>1 all waving in the wind--beautifully. 1299 8.48 Gay Xmas Look of the Haw Thorn Bush with a back ground of Ivy--the berries wet & the Sun shining on them. 1300 8.49 One half of the white of an egg--a cup of tepid water after the egg has been beat up--Water enough to make the Coffee moist whatever it be/--Then put in the ground <1Coffee, f45>1 <1(one heaped Coffee>1 Cup to <1six>1 cups of boiling water to be after put in) mix up the Coffee with the beat up egg & tepid water/then put it into the Coffee Boiler, & add boiling water in the proportion of 6 to 1--put it on a quick fire--& let it boil up, two or three times. Then throw it into the China or Silver Coffee pot thro' a Strainer/ After boil & decant the Coffee grains & use the Decantia instead of hot water the next time. <1f45v>1 1301] DECEMBER 1802 1301 8.50 For the next Fortnight no Butter--& not to exceed a teaspoonful of cream 1302 8.51 Every season Nature converts me from some un- loving Heresy--& will make a <1Catholic>1 of me at last/the <1Pear->1 Trees in the lovely Vale of Teme/Sunday, Dec. 19. 1303 8.52 Wild duck's Egg with a tame one's.---<3When>3 but hatched under a tame one/the wild one will fly away-- <1f46>1 1304 8.53 Body & soul, an utterly absolute Mawwallop-- 1305 8.54 Two laughing chimney Sweeps on a white horse-- spur--rod--sneezing fine brown soot--Monday, Dec. 20--Lecky 1306 8.55 A Man melancholy mad with the Ideal--his con- templation of human faces, all warped, & all detestably ugly 1307 8.56 Take away from sounds &c the sense of outness-- what a horrid disease every moment would become/the driving over a pavement &c--apply this to sympathy--& disclosure of Feeling-- <1f46v>1 1308 8.57 Thursday, Dec. 23. Between Garstang & Lancas- ter--Himself & his Idea of himself forms a compleat circle, like a one arched Bridge over a smooth clear stream-- 1309 8.58 Poor Greathead translated & sung a German Song --of which this was one line, the burthen of the whole, & sole dis- tinctly Audible--Surrounded by a Friend or two-- 1310 8.59 Sara Coleridge, born 1/2 past six, Dec. 23. 1802 on Thursday--I returned to Keswick on Friday 24th--arriving 1/2 past 2 P.M. <1f47>1 131 1 8.60 Conductor & <1thunder-rod>1 of my whole Hatred--/ DECEMBER 1802 [1320 1312 8.61 Outline/imprisons the mind of the Artist within the first conception/ 1313 8.62 Metaphysics make all one's thoughts equally cor- rosive on the Body by the habit of making momently & common thought the subjects of uncommon interest & intellectual energy. 1314 8.63 Ill effect of a fine & apposite Quotation in <1damp->1 <1ing>1 easy commerce of sensible Chit Chat.--So a good Story-- 1315 8.64 We imagine ourselves discoverers & that we have struck a Light, when in reality at most we have only snuffed a Candle 1316 8.65 A thief in the Candle, consuming in a blaz<3ing>3e the <1f47v>1 Tallow belonging to <3a>3 the wick out of sight--/Plagiary from past authors &c-- 1317 8.66 but end of a Candle--Wrong end of an illustra- tion-- 1318 8.67 An author with a new play compared in detail to a boy launching a small Ship of his own making with sails &c on a pond/& then proving to his Schoolfellows, that it <1ought>1 to have sailed-- 1319 8.68 Dec. 31, 1802--from Luffs to Wordsworth by Brothers' Water over Kirkstone--having gained the height of the Hill, merciful God! What a vision of yellow-green cultivated <1f48>1 Land, with two Lakes. 1320 8.111 the <1f58>1 How far from a tolerable inn What time of a year No woods, or only furze & fern If a great many shooters If other game, as snipes, near by the same place portable barometer 1321] NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1802 <1f57v>1 1321 8.112 Mr Mrs & Miss George. 1322 8.113 good fruit, such Tree a shy Beaver!-- 1323 8.1 15 [. . . .]--Take a soft broom [. . . . .] even [. . . . .] Trees, in order to take off any Leaves as [. . .] without hurting Buds. Remember [. . . .] to <1brush upwards>1 for if you brush downwards you will be liable to break the Buds. [- - - - - - - - - -] <1f57>1 & Air, & ripen & harden the young woods--leaving the old strong Branches naked to keep the Trees fast-- Old netting better than Mats--Branches of yew & fir-- Take some sifted Quicklime & lay it under the Bushes--but do not at first let any of it touch the Branches or Leaves, then shake each Bush <1suddenly>1 & <1smartly,>1 & the caterpillars will fall into the Lime/Then sift some of the Lime over the Bushes, this will drive down those who have lodged on the Branches. The Caterpillars ought to be swept up next day & the Bushes well washed with clear <1f56v>1 lime water mixed with Urine. Watering pot of soapsuds & <2piss>2 sprinkled on the Insects with a rose-- Urine & soapsuds made into the consistence of Paint with Cow dung & layed on the yew Trees-- Take one Bushel of fresh Cow-dung, half a Bushel of lime Rub- bish of old Buildings (that from the ceiling of Room is best) half a Bushel of wood ashes, and 1/16th of a Bushel of pit or river sand/ <1f56>1 the three last articles are to be sifted [. . . . .] mixed, then work them together with a spade, & afterwards with a wooden Beater, until the Stuff is very smooth, like fine Plaister used for the ceiling of Room. Cut away from the Tree all the dead part till you reach the sound wood, smoothing the wood/& lay on the Plaister about one eighth of an Inch thick/Shake on it wood ashes with 1/6th of the ashes of burnt Bones-- <1f55v>1 1324 8.116 blunging/Saggar, i.e. Safeguard AUGUST l801-fAUGUST 1803 [1332 1325 8.108 Mr Meux, Tuesday 5 oclock. <1f58>1 1326 8.109 Davies Giddy Esq. Tredrea near Falmouth 1327 6.104 [?Carmine] Legendara [. . . . .] [?Renati] Cartesiis Epistola <1f50>1 [- - - -] 1328 6.105 Defoe 1329 6.106 Runs <1&>1 crams mouth-- Yan belks when yan's [ ? full] & when yan's empty/Girl, 4 years old. 1330 6.107 Tyroatagorematically infinibus id est non [- - - .] <1f49v>1 plus a [. . .] 1331 6.108 Lazy-bed--Sublimity 13 inches without the Castors-- Breadth forty Inches Length 76 Inches-- Back-height 14 Inches [- - - - - - . . . . -] 1332 6.1o9 Huts partly clay & partly brick. <1f49>1 a little child in a|e gown of green--cow salting corn-distraction-- Scare crow--oblong fields--mounds of earth--furze dead & living --poor hawthorn hedges--a wide road--wide spaces on each side of it barefoot women. Women washing Linen basket in Eden <1f 8v>1 1333] JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1803 1333 8.69 Jan. 1. 1803--at Grasmere William, Mary, Sara; but not dear Dorothy. William Wordsworth Mary Wordsworth Sara Hutchinson Dorothy Wordsworth no <1f48v>1 1334 8.70 Fear of Parting gives a yearning so like Absence, as at moments to turn your presence into absence. <1f43>1 1335 21.224 Man in the common apprehension ad imperium in Imperio--of nature-- Sara Coleridge Jany. 17--1803 <1f48v>1 1336 8.71 A plain & simple English Maiden, Rome, Alps, & Appennines, Etna & Vesuvius--names & visions--& now he, who <1f49>1 loves her, whom her soul loves is among them. Monday Night, Jan. 17. 1803-- Repose after agitation Pool under waterfalls, made by the water- fall. Thurs Jan. 20. left Keswick. 1337 8.72 A vision of this World, moral & physical, being pulled down, to build up a new one--/<3&>3 with such of the materials as are useable & good for any thing--Heaven made of one sort, Hell of another/ <1f49v>1 1338 8.73 Two nations, contiguous [?tripe] thrown over the Treaty wall--which after 100 years falls down/pot-bellies--&c &c --Jan. 21. 1803. Preston/ 1339 8.74 The natural silence of old age/the effect of prop- erty in reversing this--& making old age hateful/Old Allen/Mrs Willett, Wedgewood's Cousin/&c &c 1340 8.75 Remember Poole's Honey-- 1341 8.76 Bayonne 3 days' travel from Bourdeaux. JANUARY-MARCH 1803 [1350 1342 8.77 Land at Dieppe & follow the Seine to Paris, then take the great road to Moulins, & thence, quit it for Auvergne, & pass to Viviers on the Rhone, & so by Aix to Italy 1343 8.78 Basle & Zurich, & Schaffhausen--Constance <1f50>1 St Gall. Trogen Gais--Appenzel Wiesbad--/Ebenalp--vide Ebe- lin in two volumes-- / Hoherkasten, Werdenberg--Sargans-- WallenStadt--Glarus--Schweiz--Rigi--Lucern-- Stanz--Sarnent --Brienz--Meyringen over the Fells to Grindelwald--Lauterbrun- nen by the Fells then to Unterseen/Thun/Bern by the Aar--/ Shirts rolled round the Umbrella Stick/ 1344 8.79 From one to two Drachms of super-carbonated Kali (alkali saturated with carbonic acid) in a pint of Milk/ or other pap-- 1345 8.80 <2oion akouomen, oude ti idmen>2 <1f50v>1 1346 8.81 The ode on Music/Magician calling back the Spirits of the Departed--their voices the music/& the other moral turns to this Thought-- 1347 8.82 Left Stowey, Friday, Feb. 17, 1803, & arrived at Gunville, Sunday, Feb. 19. and on Sat. 25, began to put the ma- terials in order for the Life of Mr Wedgwood. 1348 8.83 A man who <1hypochond.>1 fancied himself to have been a lonely Savage; & poisoned by Civilization/--Savage of Aveyron. 1349 8.84 Places for a Summer Residence in Switzerland/ Langnau in Emmenthal, Meyringen, Schweite; Weissenberg, Zweysmmen, & An der Lenk, in Semmenthal, Locle & La Chaux- de-fond. 1350 8.85 Perfect Symmetry, diminishes the sense of magni- tude. St Peter's Church & the Apollo Belvedere in perfect sym- metry? l351] FEBRUARY-MARCH 1803 <1f51>1 1351 8.86 I have several times seen the Stiletto & the Rosary come out of the same pocket. 1352 8.87 Under Michael Angelo's unfinished Bust of Bru- tus in Florence is written a Distich/-- Dum Bruti effigiem sculptor de marmore finxit, In mentem sceleris venit et abstinuit-- An English Gentleman wrote under it Brutum effinxisset sculptor sed menti recursat Multa viri virtus; si stit et obstupuit 1353 8.88 Bad for the Rider, Good for th'Abider 1354 8.89 Every free State travels thro' a Campagna/& should have an elbow--[?nudger] perpetually crying Si dormis, moveris. <1f5lv>1 1355 8.90 Unwholesome occupation/Pointing of needles-- pin manufactory. Hygeia, n.2 workmen in plaister of Paris & Mar- ble--Flax dressers--Silk-spinners, fresh as roses from the Cevennes --Carpet manufacturers, Taylors, Lace weavers--Paper-makers, Gilders. 1356 8.91 In looking at Knorr's Shells felt the impulse of <1doing>1 something--pleasures of gazing not sufficient--if I can <1do>1 nothing else with the beauty, I can <1show>1 it to somebody. Sympathy itself perhaps may have some connection with this impulse to em- body Feeling in action. The accumulation of these eye-given pleas- ure-yearnings may impel to energetic action/but if a woman be near, will probably kindle or increase the passion of sexual Love. <1f52>1 1357 8.92 Ichneumon laying its eggs in the body of the Caterpillar of the Purple Emperor, hatching the young ones feed on the flesh of the Caterpillar till they arrive at their full size; when they eat their way out thro' the Skin, leaving the Caterpillar shrunk & dying, and in about 10 days small flies appear in the like- ness of the Parent-- 1358 8.93 Shoes, soles at least 1/2 inch thick, the upper leather 3 quarter galocked. Nails of tempered Steel must be provided, the points screws, their heads near 1/2 an inch diameter, must be cut into the form of a square pyramid, wch will have 2 points in consequence of the notch cut into each for the Screw-driver to fix them into the Shoes. 12 of these nails must be put into each sole, 7 round the fore- part, & 5 round the Heel as near the edge of the Sole, as possible <1f52v>1 without endangering the bursting of the Leather. The interval be- tween these nails ought to be filled up with common large-headed nails, so close that their heads may touch each other. 1359 8.94 Long Poem, on the World of Rationals, after long Struggles all but man entreat Nature to take them to herself --Monkeys &c Trimmers.-- 1360 8.95 Am to leave Gunville with T. & J. Wedgwood for London, Monday, morning, 4 oclock, March 14, 1803.--Sunday Night, March 13. 1361 8.96 Arrived in London Monday evening, March 15th/ T.W. left London for Paris with Underwood March 24th, 1803, without me--Curry's Oyster ships-- 1362 8.97 Hydrocarbonate + oxyg. muriatic acid gas = an <1f53>1 oily matter by agitation. 1363 8.98 I threw <3my>3 a youth up on the Bank, Whom seeking after the retreat I found Dead & twas a Woman, The pretty Daughter of the Forester/ Lucilia Brennoralt A sad experiment! Woman's the cowardly'st & coldest Thing The World brings forth; yet Love, as Fire works water, Makes it boil o'er 1364] FEBRUARY-MARCH 1803 And do things contrary to its proper nature <1I should shed a Tear>1 <1Could I tell how--Ah poor>1 Lucilia! Thou didst for me what did as ill become thee/ Pray, see her gently buried. Suckling's Brennor. 1364 8.99 <1f53v>1 Her face is like the milky way in the Sky, A meeting of 10,000 gentle Lights, And all without a name/ 1365 8.100 Your favors come too late/like Sunbeams on a blasted Blossom/ 1366 8.101 No.61, Baldwins Gardens, Gray's Inn Lane/Dar- vell, Breeches maker-- 1367 8.102 Of the Usteropotmoi--or Posthumous-resurrec- tionists--who <3went>3 re-entered their houses by an Ascension to the Roof--see Plutarch's Roman Questions, 5-- 1368 21.593 <1fl35v>1 When maidens such as Hester die, Their loss ye may not well supply Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavor. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride & joy no common rate That flush'd her spirit FEBRUARY-JULY 1803 [1369 I know not by what name beside I shall it call; if twas not pride, It was a joy to <1that>1 allied She did inherit. Her parents held the Quaker rule, <1f135>1 Which <3dost>3 doth the human feeling cool; But she was train'd in Nature's school, Nature had blest her.-- A waking eye, a prying mind, A heart that stirs, is hard to bind, A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester's! My spritely neighbor! gone before To that unknown & silent shore, Shall we not meet? as heretofore, Some summer morning, When from thy chearful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet forewarning! -- 1369 21.228 Non enim essentia divina Deus solum modo dici- <1f44v>1 tur, sed et modus quo se quodammodo intellectuali & rationali creatura|e, prout est capacitas unius cujusque/ostendit, Deus sa|epe a Sancta2 Creatura2 vocitatur. Jo. Scot. Erig. De divis. Nat. 1.3.-- Id.p.2. Ipse omnium essentia est, qui solus vere est, ut ait Dyonisium Areopagita. Esse, inquit, omnium, est superesse Divinitatis: Gre- gorius etiam Theologus multis rationibus nullam substantiam, sive visibilis sive invisibilis creatura|e, intellectu vel ratione comprehendi posse confirmat, quid sit. Nam sicut ipse Deus in Seipso ultra crea- turam omnem nullo intellectu comprehenditur: ita etiam in secretis- simis finibus creatura|e ab eo facta|e, et in eo consistentis, considerata 1370] MARCH-JULY 1803 <2ousia>2 incomprehensibilis est.--qua|e aut per qualitatem, aut locum, aut tempus agnoscitur: non quid est, sed quia est. 1370 21.229 <1f45>1 Her Looks like Empire shew'd, great above Pride. Her speech, like Lovers watch'd, was kind & low-- 1371 21.230 Horses long-breath'd as winter winds. Cannon mouth'd. 1372 21.231 Tell Adam, the day after Abel's Death, in 4 square leagues 700,000 men shall be assembled. Possible?--and to murder each other! 1373 21.232 Et pour moi, le Bonheur n'a commence1 que lors- que je l'ai en perdue. Je mettrais volontiers sur la porte du Paradis le vers, que le Dante a mis sur celle de l'Enfer. Lasciate ogni Speranza, voi ch'entrate. 1374 21.233 Were I Achilles, I would have had my leg cut off to have got rid of my vulnerable Heel.-- 1375 21.234 Pleasure, itself Delusion, may be born of Delusion/Pleasure herself a Sorceress may pitch her Tent on en- chanted ground. Happiness <3must>3 can be built on Virtue Truth for its foundation. 1376 21.235 In Natural Objects we feel ourselves, or think of ourselves, <1only by Likenesses>1--among men too often by <1Differ->1 <1ences.>1 Hence the soothing love-kindling effect of rural Nature/the bad passions of human societies.--And why is Difference linked with Hatred? 1377 21.236 Admirable account of Eternity, p.70, 71. in Dr Jackson's Treatise &c from Plotinus. Enn. 2 lib. 7. cap.4. p.329. <1f43v>1 1378 21.237 From an egg to a maggot or caterpillar: having fed to their full growth chrysalis or aurelia, & inactive then some a long, some a shorter time, come out in their perfect fly shape, MARCH-JULY 1803 [1378 either moth or butterfly. Caterpillars, that have not less than 10, nor more than 16, legs, produce moths or butterflies/those that have more produce Ichneumons, those that have less Beetles or Chafers.--The Caterpillars generally <1shift>1 skins, once a week--they are about 7 weeks in the Caterpillar state/at the end of which time they find out a safe hiding place, where they lie 2 or 3 days, <1during>1 <1which time they shrink & grow shorter,>1 losing the use of their feet entirely, and appear as in great Agony: at length behind the Head, on the 2 first joints, which at this time appear very much swelled, the Skin bursts or rather splits, and opens some way down the Back, & cross the Head, that in some you would at first sight suppose the Head itself was divid<3ing>3ed. During this time the Caterpillar strives to throw off its Skin, which however he facilitates, wrig- gling off the Skin joint by joint, till it arrives quite to the Tail--nor does it cease twisting and turning, till quite disengaged from it.-- It is then very soft & tender & it is generally a Day before the Shell of the Chrysalis becomes hard, during which time of hardening it very frequently turns itself, that the side on which it lies may not be flattened or deformed: yet when the Shell has compleatly hard- ened, it lies motionless unless disturbed by some accident, till the expiration of a certain time, & at length breaks forth into the winged state, but during the Time of its being in the chrysalis state, tho' sometimes it be two years, it receives no nourishment. A Butterfly always sleeps or rests with its wings erect over its Back, the underwings being broad & without Folds. The Moth commonly rests with its upper wings covering its Tail & Underwings--& the underwings of all moths fold themselves up half way in the man- ner of Fans. B. fly mostly in the morning--never at night.--moths some in day, others after sunset, some in the Dark of the night.-- When the Fly is perfectly formed within the Chrysalis, the chrys- alis then appears much darker, & if it be a Butterfly, the markings of the wings are plainly seen thro' the transparent Chrysalis: at this time the Hull or Shell of the Chrysalis is separated from the Fly, every part of which begins to dry, whereby the separation is made easier. Thus being as it were unbound, & capable of moeing, it makes a strong Effort at once with that part which I shall call its Shoulders, and at the same time pushing forward with its legs, it 1379] MARCH-JULY 1803 splits the head-part of the Shell in 3 divisions, one in the front, which covers its legs and face, the other two one on each side, cover- ing the wings. It then bends itself forward, and the front division or mask yielding, it lays hold on the lower or jointed part of the Shell, and draws itself entirely out. Being disengaged from the Chrysalis, its next Business is to find a place where it can hang by its legs, with its wings downward, and where they may stretch & grow without Obstruction. For the wings of the largest Flies, when they first come out of the Chrysalis, are not much bigger than a silver penny. It seems very careful in the management of its wings, while they are growing, often shaking its body lest by their damp- ness they should stick together; then by a gentle rocking of its Body to try if it can feel with its wings any thing that may obstruct their growing: and if so, will directly creep higher, or move at a greater distance--As the wings grow, they rumple and pucker in rude fashion, and after a short time they nicely expand themselves, hanging very flat, and exactly even with each other. They now ap- pear like rotten damp paper; but they are much less time in drying than in growing to the full size. When he thinks his wings are <1f46>1 ready, he suddenly opens them a little way, and if he finds them too heavy, or that they yield, bend, or give way in striking the air, he very cautiously closes them again: at length he begins to open & shut them softly, as it were fanning them lightly, till they be quite dry, then suddenly starts into the air & flies away.--a Butter- fly is ready for Flight in less than half an hour after it comes from the chrysalis, & those of the largest moths seldom exceed an hour.-- The Hens of some moths do not feed at all, nor have any dis- coverable organ for food--the rest feed on honey & honey dew.-- 1379 21.238 If Spinoza had left the doctrine of Miracles un- touched, & had not written so powerfully in support of universal Toleration, his Ethics would never, could never, have brought on him the charge of <1Atheism.>1 His doctrine in this respect is truly & severely orthodox, in the reformed Church/neither do I know that the Church of Rome has authoritatively decided between the Thomists & Scotists in their great controversy on the nature of the MARCH-JULY 18o3 [1381 Being which Creatures possess.--Of our own Doctors quote the whole 3rd Chap.--p.20 to 31, of a Treatise on the divine Essence & Attributes by Thomas Jackson, D.D. Chaplain to his Majesty in Ordinary & Vicar of St Nicholas Church in the Town of Newcastle upon Tyne--1628. The Ded. Nov. 20. 1627. Plato in Tima|eo says Ideas numquam fieri, semper esse: corporea autem omnia numquam esse, semper fieri.--But above all <1vide>1 Cusan. Dialog. de Genesi, quomodo idem identificando pluralitatem producit.-- 1380 21.239 Trichoma, a good name for a woman with matted greasy hair. = Plica Polonica. 1381 21.240 On the loss of the Royal George-- <1f46v>1 Toll for the Brave! The Brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore. Eight hundred of the Brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A Land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all Her Crew complete. Toll for the Brave, Brave Kempenfelt is gone, His last sea fight is fought, His work of glory done. 1382] MARCH-JULY 1803 It was not in the battle No tempest gave the shock, She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock-- <1f47>1 His <3fin>3 sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down, With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up, Once dreaded by our foes, And mingle with the cup The tear which England owes. Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again, Charg'd with England's thunder Across the distant main. But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories are oer, And he, and his eight hundred, Shall plow the wave no more. W. Cowper-- 31 March 1803 C L-- <1f47v>1 1382 21.241 Creation explained by Jo. Scot. Erig. as only a manifestation of the unity of God in forms--et fit et facit, et creat et creatur. Lim.1. p.7.-- p.8. a curious & highly philosophical account of the Trinity, & compleatly Unitarian--God <3exists>3 is, is wise, & is living. The Es- sence we call Father, the Wisdom Son, the Life the Holy Spirit.-- and he positively affirms that these three exist only as distinguish- able <1Relations>1--habitudines--and he states the whole Doctrine as an invention & condescension of The[o]logy to the Intellect of man, which must <1define>1 & conseq. <1personify>1 in order to understand/ & must have some phantom of Understanding in order to keep alive in the heart the substantial Faith. They are <1Fuel>1 to the sacred Fire --in the Empyra|ean it may burn without Fuel/& they who do so, are Seraphs.-- p.10 & 11. a curious confession, that we cannot affirm any thing of God, but as a pia fraus to make our Intellect instrumental to Faith by a rule of false--nudam omnique propria significatione relictam, divinam essentiam talibus vocabulis <1vestit>1--scil[icet] boni- tate, sapientia2, essentia2 &c &c--and adds that Theology is affirma- tive in superficie, & for the purpose of exciting pious affection; in pronunciatione formam affirmativa|e obtinet, in intellectu vero\ virtutem abnegativa|e/-- 1383 21.242 Inopem me copia fecit. London Clocks. Are you in their preservation Maam?--Shaw. 1384 8.103 The two men at St Dunstan's appeard to ensure <1f53v>1 my Life Wednesday April 1st/took place for the Mail for Penrith April 6th/poor dear Miss Lamb! 1385 8.104 Arrived safely at Penrith, Good friday April 8, <1f54>1 1803. 1386 8.105 The particular Laws & Const of Great Britain are subord. to the general Law of Nations which supercedes those of every individual State 1387 8.106 Language & all <1symbols>1 give <1outness>1 to Thoughts /& this the philosophical essence & purpose of Language/ 1388 8.107 Memory carried on by the <1fear>1 of forgetting/thus <1writing a thing down rids>1 the mind of it.-- 1389 8.117 Nero kept 5,000 youths of equestrian order in pay <1f55v>1 on purpose to learn various kinds of applause, bombi, imbrices, & 1390] APRIL-JUNE 1803 testa|e, which they were to practice in his favor, whenever he per- formed on the Harp--The leaders of these Bands had salaries of 40,000 Sesterces allowed them/ 1390 8.118 A man who marries for Love a Frog who leaps into a well--he has plenty of water, but he cannot get out again/-- Get <1Chamfort>1 1391 8.119 Mahometans, Brahmans, Christians, worship the fainter image of their reason in a fountain or muddy river, as a divinity separate from itself-- <1f55>1 1392 8.120 A kindhearted man obliged to give a refusal, or the like, that will give great pain, finds relief in doing it roughly & fiercely--explain this, & use it in Christabel/ 1393 8.121 Cheap living--Milhaud & Roder in Renvenge-- now [. . .] 1394 8.122 Why we two made to be a Joy to each other, should for so many years constitute each other's melancholy--O! but the melancholy is Joy-- 1395 8.123 Hatfield--Cruickshanks--<2Phneloph>2 characters in my novel-- 1396 8.124 Messrs Wasman & Berghauer to be forwarded to Messrs Losh, Lubbren & Co. Newcastle upon Tyne. S.T.C. Lub- bren <1f43>1 1397 21.225 Took a last leave at Mr. Clarkson's, Eusemere, Sunday, May 8th, 1803--evening, Seven o'clock. <1f30>1 1398 4.145 Becker--the drawing Master, & Bagnal Harvey-- 1399 4.146 Attention/from greater to a lesser, explained by the Taste & Touch--i.e. fruition, so small in surface of Space, com- pared with the eye & ear. JUNE 1803 [1406 1400 4.147 Derwent (July 6th/1803) to whom I was explain- ing what his senses were for--he had never once thought of con- necting sight with his eyes, &c--I asked him what his Tongue was for & I told him/& to convince, held his Tongue/he was not at all affected--having been used to have his voluntary power controlled <1f29v>1 by others. Sometime after I asked him again/he had forgotten--I bade him hold his Tongue and try to say, Papa--he did, & finding that he could not speak, he turned pale as death and in the reaction from fear flushed red, & gave me a blow in the face/2 years & 10 months old, within 8 days. 1401 4.148 Sunday, July 10 --Derwent fever-hot. The Day before he ran round & round in the kitchen so long that for the first time in his consciousness he became giddy--he turned pale with fright, & repeatedly cried--"the kissen is walking away from Der- <1f29>1 went"--pawing out his hands as if stopping it. 1402 4.149 What is the <1Detail>1 of the Causes in consequence of which Ill-health weakens the Understanding; in cases, where the faculties themselves are not apparently or suddenly attacked? 1403 4.150 "He who cannot <1wait>1 for his Reward has in reality not earned it."--These words I said in a Dream, in which a Lecture I was giving, a very profound one according to my fancy, was not listened to/but I was quizzed off. Friday Night, June 8. 1803. 1404 8.125 <3Sunday>3 Sat Morning--25 minutes past six, June <1f54v>1 18th 1803 William & Mary Wordsworth's first child born, a large Boy. Sat. June 18-- 1405 4.106 Wednesday, June 29th,1803. The Sun setting red over Wythop Fells, as I looked steadily at it, then glanced up above it, below on the water/ [?over] that a number of black Orbs all as in a mirror--when the Sun dipped they followed the Shape, now [D] now semicircles, now [D], and now almost to points.-- 1406 4.107 Note of Seward's on Loyal Subject--come in sor- row--this is <1sense,>1 but as it is <1flat,>1 proposes "drown'd"-- 1407] JUNE-JULY 1803 <1f48v>1 1407 4.105 A row of crisp curly Oaks, reflected in Grasmere Lake with the field at the end of which they stood, looked lank & smooth, like Sea weed Tresses from a green sea rock. <1f54v>1 1408 8.126 of a Dwarf--a young <3man>3 gemen about the size [of] a short man's Shadow on a midsummer noon/ 1409 8.127 The heat of fermentation from the warmth of Life/the bustling Dotage of Composition & the calm long-subse- quent admiration/ 1410 8.128 The feeling of positiveness from the sense of Certainty. 1411 8.129 Swarming in the brightness & the Breeze-- <1f28v>1 1412 4.151 Saturday, June [*] 16--1/2 of a mile from John Stanley's toward Grasmere, whither I was going to stand Godfather to Wm Wordsworth's first Child--put the colored Glasses to my eyes as a pair of Spectacles, the red to the left, the yellow Glass to the right eye--saw only thro' the yellow--closed my right eye with my finger, without in the least altering the position of the left eye-- & then I instantly saw thro' the red Glass. The right eye manifestly the stronger, tho what is curious, & to be explained by the greater Light of the yellow Glass, when I altered the Glasses, namely the yellow to the left eye, the red to the right, then I saw the Land- scape as thro' the yellow--perhaps a very little reddish, while the clouds & skies were now as thro' the red./. These experiments must be tried over again & varied-- 1413 4.152 <1f28>1 And every Leaf of every Tree Thro' all the woody Vale, Transparent in the Light, all yellow Green, Shot thro' with level Sunshine 1414 4.153 Contact--the womb--the amnion liquor--warmth + touch/--air cold + touch + sensation & action of breathing-- JULY-AUGUST 1803 [1418 contact of the mother's knees + all those contacts of the Breast + taste & wet & sense of swallowing-- Sense of diminished Contact explains the falling asleep--/this <1is>1 Fear, [? not/and] this produces Fear-- Eye contact, pressure infinitely diminished, organic Connness (con to ken) proportionately increased. 1415 4.154 Pretty incident/an old man resting in the Shade in a hot noon. I accost him/sit beside him/talk to him/he to me/ become interested/we leave our resting place/& he walks 100 yards <1f27v>1 or more, & then discovers, that <1he has left his Staff at the resting>1 <1place/>1 1416 4.155 Tuesday Night, July 19, 1803--Intensely hot day --left off a waistcoat, & for yarn wore silk stockings--about 9 oclock had unpleasant chillinesses--heard a noise which I thought Der- went's in sleep--listened anxiously, found it was a Calf bellowing-- instantly came on my mind that night, I slept out at Ottery--& the Calf in the Field across the river whose lowing had so deeply im- pressed me--Chill + Child + Calf-lowing probably the rivers Greta and Otter. 1417 4.156 Defence of Aristotle & the Ancients as to their <1f27>1 logical metaphysical physics/two ways of giving importance to phys- ics, <1magic,>1 & <1psychology/>1to <1reason>1 on them necessary before experi- ments & yet justify Bacon for his <1angry>1 attacks/anger more practi- cal than Love/God by <1Anger>1 drove out Polytheism/This very important/ 1418 4.157 The pain I suffer & have suffered, in differing so from such men, such true men of England, as [. . . .], & their affectionate love of Locke/Left no room in my heart for any pain from Scotch Reviewers-- JULY-AUGUST 1803 [1421 1421 4.108 Is not <1Habit>1 the Desire of a Desire?--As Desire <1f47v>1 to Fruition, may not the faint, to the consciousness <1erased,>1 Pencil- mark-<1memorials>1 <3of>3 or relicts of Desire be to Desire itself in its full prominence?--How far is Habit congenerous with Instinct?--/-- If this were so, Why does Habit give facility? In order to under- stand this, I must first have understood the being of Difficulty--? May not the Desirelet, a, so correspond to the Desire, A, that the <1f47>1 latter being excited may revert wholly or in great part to its exciting cause, <2a>2, instead of sallying out of itself toward an external Object, B?--May not the latter case by coming into the Domain and under the laws of vision or imagination impress the comparing power, and thus as the comparatives pass over the soul, each transiently & slightly at least a new exciting power, often of other instruments or directions of motion, thus distract and weaken the energy--intro- <1f46v>1 duce the predicaments of Time & full Consciousness. Qua|ere?--Whether the marvellous velocity of Thought & Image in certain full Trances may not be explained from the same cause? --N.B.--to connect with this the state after Death, Death being taken as the removal of outward excitements of Desire--Must not the Soul then work eternally inwards, Godward, or Hell-ward-- will it not be all Habit? and what the Law of its Increase?-- There is one thing wholly out of my Power. I cannot look for- <1f46>1 ward even with the faintest pleasure of Hope, to the Death of any human Being, tho' it were, as it seems to be, the only condition of the greatest imaginable Happiness to me, and the emancipation of all my noblest faculties that must remain fettered during that Be- ing's Life.--I dare not, for I can not: I cannot, for I dare not. The very effort to look onward to it with a stedfast wish would be a <1f45v>1 suicide, far beyond what the dagger or pistol could realize--abso- lutely suicide, co|elicide, not mere viticide.-- But if I could secure you full Independence, if I could give too all my original Self healed & renovated from all infirm Habits; & if by all the forms in my power I could bind myself more effec- tively even in relation to Law, than the Form out of my power <1f45>1 would effect--then, <1then,>1 would you be the remover of my Loneli- ness, my perpetual Companion? 1422 4.109 <1f42>1 Who wrote that part, could so have wrote a Play, But that he knew this was the better way-- For to present all Custard or all Tart And have no other meats, to bear a part, Or to want bread & salt were but coarse Art/ Prol. to the Silent Woman/ 1423 4.110 Peltier's Father & Brother died (during his prose- cution) <1heart-broken.>1 N.B.--the one of the Scarlet Fever, the other of an old Pox. <1fl>1 1424 16.2 The Horse & cart 1,2 & 12, the Car %%10. 1425 16.3 A 15th/18,, 10d. T. 3d/16th/T. 2d. Bill for Dinner & waiter 0,,5,,6. Ostler & Horse, 2s,0/. Bonnet, 4,,7 1/2/Gingerbread 0,0,7. [. . .] Turnpikes 2d/Shaving 0,,1,,3 [. . . .]--16,,0. <1f2>1 1426 16.7 Monday, Morning, 20 minutes after 11, Au- gust 15, 1803, W. and D. Wordsworth, and S. T. Coleridge left Keswick, in the Jaunting Car, for Scotland, up the steep Hill to Threlkeld--turned off at the White Horse, under Saddleback to Grisdale [. . . .] road/so on to Carrock, and Heskett Newmarket. Dined [. . . . .] Eggs, Chicken [. . . .], &c Arrived about half past 4. After tea we walked to Caldbeck to the Hough or fairy Breaks/--In addition to my former remarks on this place note that the upper waterfall within a yard of it [. . . .] parted into two by <1f2v>1 a great black Block of Rock covered with [. . . . . . .] angles & concave Scollops, is that of a Pulpit, & Reading Desk, only suppose them solid instead of hollow/The Pulpit's Front is bare of water, which pours down on each side of it in two streams of unequal legs --<3the>3 both whirl, but the short Leg more <3particular my>3 copiously, falling--the reading Desk cloathes it with a thin surplice of white water. Close by the rock which helps to form the recess [D] on the left as you look up the Brook is a little quiet Spout//What a self-same Thing a Waterfall if you like/if you look at it stedfastly, what fits & starts & convulsive Twitches of Motion// <1AUGUST>1 1803 [1427 The Ash hanging in an inclined Plane, like a sloping Plank Bridge, across the Brook half a stone throw from the waterfall// the Hayfield close on my right, on the Hill above me, its limestone wall by my right hand/ Seat of limestone, in the limestone Bank of the Dell Brook, com- <1f3>1 ing out from the rock, like a thick Slate, or London Flag Stone/-- above it some 4 or 5 feet a low ruined Garden wall, overgrown with gooseberry Trees, which formed a thick bushy <1Shed>1 over the seat-- & above these a double-blossomed Cherry Tree in its barren Pomp, stretching out beyond the Shed, & dropping its [? flashing/glinting] Blossoms into the River/--at Hesket we stayed at Young Hus- band's, The Sign of the Queen's Head where I was before--a strik- ing & noble-looking Girl, with a flat face, but yet with large features & large eyes a noble one. Out of the little parlour window looking across the market place & over the market House, a group of Ashes, of which the hithermost hath its topmost Twig exactly like a Rook or Magpie perching on the topmost Twig. N.B. The manifest mag- nitude which this Twig attained by its assimilation to a familiar Form, the size of which had been exempted by its old aquaintance, Queen Imagination, from all changes of perspective. The sanded stone floor with the spitting Pot full of Sand Dust, two Pictures of young Master & Miss with their round Birds' Eyes & parlour Dress, he with a paroquet on his hand,horizontal, the other hand pushed forward just below it--she with a rose in her uplifted perpend. hand, the other hand grasping it to support it in that Posture. The whole Room struck me as Cleanliness quarreling with Tobacco Ghosts-- 1427 16.8 Tuesday Morning, Aug. 16. left Heskett at 9 <1f4>1 oclock/our whole Expence 0,,18,,10.--a fine view behind us from the first Hill--and a pleasant country of Hills & Woods and Dells, & valleys--in the manner of the Yorkshire Dales--/Rose Castle & the valley thro' which the road leads delightful with richly wooded Hills & a peep of the Caldew, rich fields--the whole rich & green, & bounded on the South by the Carrock & its Brethren--N.B. Be- tween Heskett &Rose Castle two Bridges infamously perilous--& no Guide Posts on a road that unusually needs them. Lay stress on 1428] AUGUST 1803 this.--We come to the Bridge over the Caldew by Rose Castle, look S.W. up the bed of the River, glittering down a gentle Slope about 400 yards--thinly wooded with low woods single Trees--on <1f4v>1 its Banks--then a large Bank of Wood, & Carrock over beyond it/ but 30 yards from the Bridge to my left hand as I look up the river, the most glorious Tree a Beech Elm, I believe, that I have seen this many a year. It is on a green platform, a small nook formed by the river, the high woody Bank, & the Bridge, all which are a har- mony of shade & Coolness.-- We are delighted with Rose Castle, the thickset green Fence to the garden, the two walls, the lower making a terrace/the House, the Orchard crowding round it--The Chesnuts--the masses of Ivy over the gateway, from one great root. This stands on the other side of the wall to my left as I face the gateway--Go in, the ivy over the Coach House, belonging the same mass--the horns of the dark old mulberry Tree among it--the Swallows & their Shadows on the Castle-House walls--the green shaven Bank, like the roof <1f5>1 of a House between the main Building & the Castle, properly so called/the great [?30'/90'] Nets on this Castle, to cover the fruit Trees/--all, all perfect--Cottage Comfort & ancestral Dignity!-- Come to Hawksdale Bridge--all above the Bridge very pretty, but all below it a plain of ugliest desolation, flooded with stones & sand by the winter Torrents/in the bed of the River, great Hogs- heads of Stones, for what purpose I did not learn/on the other side of the River a Sodom & Gomorrah Cotton Manufactory--so on to Dalston/nothing very impressive in the first View of Carlisle. 1428 16.9 Butterfly let loose, how very high, how madly, how purposeless/it pushes the air under it & runs up the Stairs of Air./2 Butterflies, an Image of the restless Fondness of two young Lovers. Goose--/would be a noble Bird if it did not remind us of the Swan = Wyndham : : Burke <1f48v>1 1429 6.110 Longtown--a neat town of Brick--Graham arms, reason contents me--cross street pillar in the middle. 1430 6.111 Stockings 4 pair AUGUST 1803 [1433 Breeches Waistcoat 1 Shirt 1 Neckloths 3 Cravats 1431 6.112 Glasgow [- - - - - - - -] <1f48>1 Dunbarton 15 Luss 12 Ballockferry 7 Drumond 9 Kippen 8 Sterling 13 Falkirk 11 36 from F to B 15 Dunbarton <1f47v>1 Luss 12 Ballockferry 7 Drumond-- 9 Luss back again 12 15 1432 16.10 At Carlisle, dined--at 1/2 past 8 in the evening ar- <1f5v>1 rived at Longtown, Graham Arms--left it, Wednesday 9 oclock, 17. At Carlisle I alarmed the whole Court, Judges, Counsellors, Tip- staves, Jurymen, Witnesses, & Spectators by hallooing to Words- worth who was in a window on the other side of the Hall--<1Dinner!>1 Walked on the wall--the divine pearly Whiteness of those rich fleecy Clouds, so deliciously shaded toward the top of thelr com- ponent fleecy parts--Think of this often Then visited Hatfield, impelled by Miss Wordsworth--<1vain,>1 a hypocrite/It is not by mere Thought, I can understand this man/ 1433 16.11 Enter Scotland, on foot--over a Bridge of the <1f6>1 scanty River Sark, that winds like the edge of a crescent of sand/then rolls dark over its red brown Stones, a peat-moss River with a 1000 leisurely circles & ellipses of foam/--flows by a Hill, of a red clay Bank/the lines of the <1Hillage>1 playful & like the ramparts at Hamburgh/so mounting a Hill come to the Village of <3Brown>3 Springfield, 12 years old/then there was but one clay house. <1f6v>1 Sir William Maxwell, of Spring. [. . . .] ground, a penny a foot to build on, , & to every House four Acres/some at 20, some 30 s. the acre/most of them weavers/o what dreary melancholy Things are Villages built by great men/cast-iron Hov- els/how ill does the Dirt & Misery combine with the formal regular shapes. Are they cells of Prisons? It is the feeling of a Jail. Here at the public House the marriage Ceremony is performed/Gretna Green about half a mile a handsome nice-looking "New Inn" on your Right Hand down a Treeey Lane where the new married <1f7>1 Elopers consummate/The Chapel & Burial Ground crowded with flat grave Stones, as high as from one's knee to one's Hip, com- mands a view of Solway Firth, & the flat land between/& the moun- tains beyond/-- On the Road from Gretna Green, immediately, & close in & about the Village a good number of Trees--but yet all so dreary/A public House with a gaudy Daub of <1hope>1 "to crown returning Hope"--no Beer! --What then? Whisky, Gin, & Rum--cries a pale squalid Girl at the Door, a true Offspring of Whiskey-Gin-&-Rum- drinking Parents. At Springfield I was led into reflections on the contrast between the Providence of God & the <1Providence>1 of man/ <1f7v>1 the latter while it gives is sure to <1prevent;>1 man's providence pro- vides <1Moulds,>1 hard iron moulds; but God's gives the growing Principle/we arrived at Dumfries, in the evening, having pre- viously baited the Horse, and dined at Annan-- 1434 16.12 Thursday Morning, August 18, 1/2 past 11 we left Dumfries, W. and Dorothy Wordsworth having spent the morning in visiting Burns's House & Grave--and W. having called <1to>1 & <1on>1 Rogers--A hot ride up the pleasant Valley of Nith, which strongly reminded me of Gallow Hill/every feature greatly magnified--to a single public House, called Brown Hill/at which our Dinner & apartments gave me the first specimen of the Difference between English and Scotch Inns. We have had a great difficulty started about beds, & I cut the knot, by offering, if any body came, to sleep AUGUST 1803 [1439 on the chairs in the Parlour--We must expect many of these In- conveniences during the Tour, we wanting three beds for 3 persons. <1f8>1 1435 16.13 <1Feckless>1 in an Inn, & wants dignity & courage/ and with no want of Courage wants kindness & stateliness & gentle- manly Dignity. 1436 16.14 I went to sleep, after dinner, Aug. 18th, & reflected how little there was in this World that could compensate for the loss or diminishment of the Love of such as truly love us/and what bad Calculators Vanity & Selfishness prove to be in the long Run-- 1437 16.15 The Groundsel every where in the Hedges, in- stead of the Fox Glove, Lychnis, & 50 other <1Englishmen.>1--Say what you will, "the naked feet" is disgusting more so in Scotland than in Germany, from the <1tawdry>1 or <1squalid>1 appearance of the bare-footed//In Germany there is a uniform Dress in the Class that go bare-footed & they always have their Shoes in their Hands or on their Heads/In Scotland Cabin Gowns, white Petticoat, all tawdry fine, & naked Legs, & naked Splaid-feet, & gouty ancles. 1438 16.16 Friday, August 19. left Brownhill & along by the Nith, this an interesting Valley, the Nith a rough rocky stream, the <1f8v>1 rocks like those on a low but savage sea coast/the Hills now thickly, now thinly wooded, now with single Trees, & now bare/here & there a Cottage on them, but all single storied.--We come to Drumlanrigg, thro' a village, long, & all of thickset short single storied Cottages, to contrast with the huge monster crowned with pepper castors, straight before us.--Here I entered into a long re- flection on the Duke of Queensburies Character/The bank of the Nith continues very interesting--/we proceed to Meinek Turnpike, then up the Coomb, in 9 long winding reaches, , of Meinek/so to Wanlock head, & to Lead Hills. Enchanting Coomb, its living smoothness & simplicity for the first 4 reaches, the purple heather on one side gives it a character of gay <1fineness>1/D.W. f9>1 1439 16. 17 Left Leadhill, Saturd Aug. 20. We leave the good Inn, having had the particulars of the Library, & move on on 1440] AUGUST 1803 a llke Road thro' a like Country, now not differing from the inside of moorish mountains in general, where the Hills [D] and the bottom is now just large enough for the road & the stream, running side by side--now admitting a little green boggy valley for the Stream/& now the road climbs on the side of the Hill a 100 yards leaving the stream on one's right beneath it in its green ellipse of grassiness--a cottage at the end of this [D] A a gavel end wall upstanding, in ruin, the other part inhabited, 7 trees, three of them blighted and one thin thing among Potatoes--green turf fence [----------] [----------] <1f9v>1 moor/to a village called Crawford John, still over moorland till we reach the Turnpike, & [. . . .] came to Douglas [Mill] [- -- - - - -] Dined, & passed on, 9 miles, to Lanark . . .] with the River Clyde to [. . .] Left for the greater part [. . . . . .] way/the grounsel Probably. Crossed over into [. . . . . . . . . .]. <1f5>1 1440 6.10 Clear tints upon the edge of the fell Moss scraps of land in the down/corn--children weeping--turnips--bit of grass land--Solway Firth on the left dull plantation of firs-- [. . .] or [. . .] the Wind. <1f5v>1 1441 6.11 I see thee daily weaker grow Thy spirits take a fainter flow Twas my distress that brought thee low My Mary! 1442 6.12 Imperfection of Drawings in the tricks of Height & Magnitude when there are proportions in the same picture. From my Window Sketch/The high mountains [. . . . . .] <1f6>1 1443 6.13 River Sark a single arch'd brid[g]e into Scotland a green open half common field with Cattle. Springfield upon the hill in front Bosworth a rod farther. Here was light flowered field with tufts of furze beyond G G. miserable thatch'd clay huts bare fells behind. Prospect in forward still dreary St. Patricks Kirk on <1f6v>1 the left no steeple but built in the shape of a cross with something like a small cupola with a bell--with a porch to the North West-- red Window shutters-- Village gone to decay in [. . . . .] [. . .]--low cottage in front <1f7>1 naked--narrow winding Valley--One--with gate--Woman--de- scent a small hut to the left/2 huge stacks on very small square mound enclosure--thatched hut--pair horses--cows--hay taken from moor mown--lower down--farm turnips from six corn fields thatch'd barn one bare hut potatoes are [. . .] sources of <1f7v>1 Clyde. above the farm--Yevon Water 11 mile of new roads Yevon vale--alders rocky stream--hut with five enclosures/<3Spent>3 We pay 1/[. . .]--[. .-.] chose the ferry [. . .]--cross the Clyde--tiny stream. Dor. [?slow/Flow] on--Tweed our Annon Poor Clyde <1f8>1 fell & broke his neck. Annon first River on Solway Firth--falls at Lanark--break neck. Tweed longest river. Tweed/Annon/Clyde for our [...]--[...] town--Leadhills--Crawford Many corn fields one or two stunted ashes near house/no enclosures dog/cows go home to dine--little haystacks or large cocks, sheaves of ripe corn [. . . . . . . . . .] but the one plain of smooth ap- pearance Sheep dog next something like Exmoor--Huts of [. . .] <1f9>1 low newer & thatch'd when [. . . .] leave Clyde turning to the left wind of the river of amber or less green green grasses--some brown with scanty heath patches of corn as before. River Day realm of David Ogilvy, Airley, being desirous to <1f9v>1 preserve the game on his estates in Feof in Perthshire hopes no person will shoot there this season and begs that none of his friends will ask leave to do so-- To be let by public roup the farm, &c within the house of Mr <1f10>1 Dow upon Tuesday--the articles of the roup will be seen in the hands of James Hay and the Shepherd upon the premises will shew the marches To let by private bargain and entered to at the term of <1f10v>1 Martinmas next--lands let are not on a lease--for the particulars enquire at the Proprietor--then two [?porths/porns] for the two-- consisting of 16 Scots acres or thereby--for thereabouts--peculiarly <1fll>1 adapted for setting down villas on lands at 49 %% mony 16 bowls of wheat 11 bowls barley. 1444 16.18 <1f10>1 A Man Happily made, but most unhappily thwarted, And oft there came on him--&c And sudden Thoughts that riv'd his heart asunder By the road-side, the while he gaz'd at flowers. 1445 16. 19 They knew that Jesus was a great man, but guessed not that he was God. That it was a mountain, nor could be ignorant, but they dwelt too near to behold its Summit. 1446 16.20 Mere Flash!--B. (knocks him down) do you not know, that the Flash always is seen before the Bullet is felt? 1447 16.21 Welshman who thought the Dancing Master must be Bagnel Harvey--Now this being Bagnel Harvey, & B. H. being a bloody, desperate fellow, we had better <1shoot>1 him first. This for my Book of Logic--Petitio Principii. 1448 16.22 The Rocks in the middle of the Torrent protect- ing two beautiful Ash Trees, safe tho' unquiet in the Blast of the Torrent-- <1f2>1 1449 7.2 Huge Cotton Mills, 1000 with Rocky River, the Hills that form its banks, finely wooded deeply and variously ra- vined, and gullied, perpendicular, transverse, horizontal, no in- closures consequently no Styles--the Men & women in their Sunday finery straggle like Cattle, each in his own path/Thus as you move on you behold the grand red precipices glooming thro' the Trees-- <1f2v>1 a clump of Trees at the end of a wood on my left had a fine effect/ this precipice is part of that round theatrical wall of rock which embraces the pool at the foot of the Cora Lynn on the left/The general colour of this wall a dim white with patches of green, & patches & streaks of red & yellow/The half farthest from the Falls pushes out young Elms from its clefts, & a little Coppice of young elms grow at its <1Feet>1--/The Pool ample & almost round har- <1f3>1 monizes very well with the broad <1flight-of-stairs>1 fall/the water runs in a slant direction, & the <1Screen>1 of rock close beside it on the right is beautifully fringed with trees, which shade & <1lattice>1 the third part of the lower fall, & half of the higher/between the lower & higher fall (the higher <1seeming>1 here about 1/3 as large as the lower) is a smooth slope of rock <3over>3 30 yards in length perhaps, over which the water spreads itself thin & black, rocks just white enough from some unevennesses on this Slope to be a bond of con- <1f3v>1 nection between the two masses of white above it and below it/On the left of the fall, right above this Slope, is a red path, which has a good effect, & about a 100 yards from this path, the whole inter- space filled with Trees, overhanging the Wall-rock are three firs which had a very fine effect/first they made a new feature, and a striking one, secondly their straightness & tallness gave perhaps <1f4>1 some dim association of the human form, at least, they did certainly impress on my mind a distinct breezelet of Fear/& lastly, the Trees with which this whole semicircle of wall-rock is crowned, are so various, that this variety acted upon you without acting so obtru- sively as to offend/--O that I had seen this in the evening a thumbsbreadth from Sunset, the solemn motions of the Trees, is on such nights harmonious with the dimmer shape & deeper col- our.-- As I write this, I turn my head, & close by me I see a Birch, so <1f4v>1 placed as among a number of Trees it alone is in full sunshine, & the Shadows of its Leaves playing on its silber Bark, an image that delighted my Boyhood, when I had no waterfalls to see/Moving higher <3reach>3 & winding till we climb up directly over the place where I first sate, we see the whole fall, the higher, the lower & the interslope, with only a fragment of the wall-rock & the pool--the whole at once, with the white conical Rock, with a cloak of Mosses, <1f5>1 and bushes & fir Trees, growing out of them/& the old round Tower on the Top of all/The little Girl sent to <1dog>1 & guide us, yawning with stretching Limbs a droll dissonance with Dorothy's Raptures./So we go to the top of all, & look down on both a noble precipitation, its [D] still observed--the rocks & the breadth in <1f5v>1 the Water/the lower fall has two Wheels, the first grey-green, the lower, & larger, white & loose with the delicate shade as of diluted Black, among it & upon it. The path of the River above the fall, still thro' the unroofed Antichamber or Passage of rock, sometimes naked & sometimes bushy/--so we come to the Moss House exactly like a Hay-stack scooped out/lath & the moss apparently beaten into it/for it is smooth bruised not cut smooth--a curious table of <1f6>1 moss, like an Axis on a Tripod/or rather stem with 3 branches grows out of the ground/--Then the round bason, a little hole at the bottom where it rises, & a little hole on the Marge where it escapes. Close Half a mile from Cora Lynn is another Fall/the course of the river between the two thro' a Passage of Rocks, with occasional Bays & [?Rocks/Coves]--till we reach & overhang the Fall--a strait Line to a curve [D] but the long Fall below <1f6v>1 it is awful indeed/O for evening & solitude/such Cathedral Stee- ples, broken Arches/so overboughed/such sounds, such shapes, such motions above the Fall, the banks of the river fall at once into mild & cultivated green Hills/& fields/--Sunday Morning, Aug. 21. 1450 7.3 See the shapes below me, in 3 yards of water/ smooth water in a vault, smooth water close to the smooth rock-- <1f7>1 a hollow, unquiet, & changeful between the waters/water with glassy wrinkles, water with a thousand wrinkles all lengthways, water all puckered & all over dimples, over smooth rock rough with tiny roughnesses, the boiling foam below this fall. 1451 7.4 Carland Crags--[O Asra] wherever I am, & am impressed, my heart akes for you, & I know a deal of the heart of man, that I otherwise should not know. 1452 7.5 Reaches, short & quite land-locked, the rocks of <1f7v>1 each from 460 to 500 feet high, as high as any possible Effect could require: now one green Drapery of flowing woods from the sum- mit to the very water; now blank, naked, and staring; now half clad, now in patches:--the Rocks now retiring in Bays &c; &now bulging out in Buttresses;--now in Giant Stairs, now in needle points, now in huge Towers with Chimneys on the Top.--The <1f8>1 single Trees on the very Edge of the Top, Birch and Ash, O how lovely!--Pity there is any water or that it is not clear/--now the lower Half wood and the higher bare; now the higher wooded & the lower bare/and sometimes one great huge Spreading Tree, all branches, and no Trunk, starts out of a starting Rock, & over- canopies half the Stream; sometimes top & bottom thick wooded & the middle bare; sometimes the nakedness running transverse or <1f8v>1 curvingly or [D] a whole Reach together/& once a huge bulging ragged 1000-angled Crag on whose endless <1<(surface?)>>1 one might read hieroglyphics, whole naked but greeted at the edge of its summit by branching Trees, Ashes, & Birches & Hazels & one great Oak in a center all shooting out their branches far far over the Bulge of the Crag; but the Oak seeming to canopy the stream in the <1f9>1 Bottom and at the foot of this great semicircular Convexity of naked Rock one tall slender Ash Tree with no branches save only at its very Top. Larches & Firs a Repetition of units in time rather than an Assemblage in Space/units without union consequently without Greatness no character of relationship, no neighbourhood which Fir trees would gain, no motion/nor all this till tamed down by exceed- ing number & the exclusion of all things to be compared with. The Country by the Clyde tossing, playful, surface patchy with <1f9v>1 an odd mixture of fertility & barrenness--the Hills often delved with Gullies/--but the last hour of the ride to Hamilton changed into large square Corn fields upon Hills of more ordinary outline./ 1453 7.6 Arrived at Hamilton, Sunday Night, 9 oclock/ walked next morning to Barrancluch/a wild Terrace Garden over the <1Avon,>1 Terrace above Terrace, 5 Terraces--the opposlte <1f10>1 Bank of the River clothed richly with Trees--/--Observed here the Dragon Scales of the Bark of old Sycamores--Yew Trees cut out into all Shapes contrasted with the wild Beauty of the opposite Bank, Monday Morning, Aug. 22 1803 N.B. The mirror of Steel placed/at the Top of the Room op- posite the window that looks out on that vast waterfall with all its Rocks & Trees-- <1f10v>1 1454 7 Monday Noon Aug. 22 left Hamiltoun for Glas- gow, where we arrived at 4 oclock, having seen Douglas Castle on the way--The Castle of massive red Freestone, surrounded with Rose beds, Shrubs & Climbers indigenous & planted/over the Clyde the more perfectly impressive Abbey of Ballantyre/ At Glasgow, the hurry & Crowd of People & of Carts, marking a populous trading City, but no Coaches or Carriages!-- <1f11>1 Here I stood beside an asthmatic Town-Cryer, a ludicrous Com- bination // a woman-Shaver, & a man with his lathered Chin Ogling her as she had him by the Nose. At Glasgow I was most pleased by the great Washing- Houses & Drying Grounds/--Four Square Cloysters, with an open Square, & the Cauldron in the Middle/each Woman pays a 1/2ny for her Tub & 1/2, sometimes in scarce times 1d for a Tub of hot water/a <1fllv>1 penny to the Watcher--so that the poorest person who can get Cloathes to wash may earn their living, whereas in other cities those only can do it who can pay for Lodgings with Fire & Washing utensils &c--I suppose there might be 120 women in each House/-- 1455 7.8 A perpetual repetition of Suspensions of the Ha- beas Corpus Act compared to a man who <1always>1 kept an oil Skin Cover over his new Hat./ <1f12>1 1456 7.9 The still rising Desire still baffling the bitter Ex- perience [D] the bitter Experience still following the gratified Desire. 1457 7.10 From Glasgow which we left Tuesday Afternoon Aug. 23, thro' a country not partic. interesting till we came to the Top of the Hill 5 miles from Dunbarton where is a Prospect which every Traveller must remember/on the left Lord Ballantyre's House & Plantations the <3Town of Dun>3 Village & ruin of Bowling <1fl2v>1 End on the opposite Bank with a curve of wild Mountain land behind it/and on beyond, in the centre of the view, a majestic single Rock, between a [D] and a [D] in shape/the Clyde now almost Sea, & Sloops thick upon it. 1458 7.11 Shadows over Corn & Woods like the motion of the Air in Sails/ 1459 7.12 Enormous Rock--one Patch of lank weeds mov- ing in the mass-- 1460 7.13 First view in a field of Loch Lomond--Wednes- <1f13>1 day 24 --most like the view from Mr Clarkson's, but inferior--but about a short mile onward you see it as you mount a little ascent of the road <3thro>3 under the boughs of Trees that stretch all across the road as under the Arch of a Bridge, the water, the Island as a low Ridge of Mountain, & then Lomond towering be- hind that! most lovely & most simple-- The Lake ceased to interest me till within 2 mile of Luss a <1fl3v>1 wooded Cliff all green rises up, & bare Ben Lomond in a like Ridge rises up behind it/--Here too I saw for the first Time a Larch wound round with Ivy, from the Top of the Stem to the Bottom/ Another curious Larch by the side of a farm House bending like an Arbor across the whole Road. Yet another right opposite to the first Inn at Luss [D] close by a Shed, & having for its neighbour a gigantic Sycamore/This Larch <1f14>1 is spread into an Arbour perfectly round, like the Expansion of an Oak, with its limbs twisted in among this round Spread of Boughs in the wildest Shapes, Knees, & Elbows, & Crosses, & Loops, & figures of 8. 1461 7.14 We arrived at Luss, Wedn. Aug. 24--Afternoon from Dunbarton/at Dunbarton Tuesday Afternoon from Glasgow --A glorious view at High Tide & under interesting Accidents from <1fl4v>1 Dunbarton Rock--[D]--of the mouth of the Clyde & the Mountains beside it & beyond it & of the Towns, Greenock, Port Glasgow &c on its Bank, Shipping &c &c/--the Governor's <1new>1 <1genteel>1 House between the two Heads of the Rock/Wallace's Sword, & the Trout in the Well 36 years of age/black, & 18 inches long--we walked at the bottom round the Rock, one side a most <1f15>1 noble precipice indeed with two huge Rocks detached from it, one of them larger assuredly than Bowder Stone, & very like it/ 1462 7.15 Thursday Morning, 25th--side of the Loch Lo- mond--Observed the Fern-roofed Cottages, the fern stalk of glossy Polish ending in 1/2 an inch of Black lie like Tiles on the bedde Form beneath/the round Chimneys or <1stool>1--shaped of 4 sticks--on them <1fl5v>1 a Slate and on the Slate a Stone--Ben Lomond from the Lake rises up, & goes <1bounding>1 down, its outline divided into six great Segments, scolloped like many Leaves, with 5 or 6 small Scollops in each great Segment, of the same Shape-- Mount Inchdevannoch, by a Path most judiciously winding up this Mountain-Isle & everywhere shewing to our right the delicious Islands/one close by us in contrasted & perfect Flatness, another <1so>1 <1f16>1 close to us, a hilly Isle, that the water in two points disappears & the Intermediate Water forms a compleat little Lake/the endless variety of Shapes, of Bays, of Tongues--the varying Lights/on the various shores, some sandy, some rocky, some green with Grass, some dark-green with forest Trees/The most striking, & a frequent, Form of Bay, is the Hook [D] / Look at that black-green Isle <1fl6v>1 in shape like the Sword-fish inclosed within a circular Island of melted-silver-white Sunshine/--. The broad low Hills at the bot- tom of the Lake are in fine keeping with the Island Character, & where they sink in a long gentle under curve of an Ellipse you see the two points of Dunbarton Rocks--/On the point of the Hook of the flat Island a Hut most delightfully placed--The last <1f17>1 Island, which I see (there are four running across the Lake in one line)--the second & third small & fish Shape--the <3second>3 third, sword fish, the second Dolphin-shaped--the first & fourth, very large--you look over the first to Dunbarton Rock, & the fourth vaults in those plunging Lines, [D] & connects itself with the mountain, whose Tongue of Land almost meets it, <1fl7v>1 of the same bounding, plunging, vaulting Line of Descent.-- 1463 7.16 What? tho' the World praise me, I have no dear Heart that loves my Verses--I never hear them in snatches from a beloved Voice, fitted to some sweet occasion, of natural Prospect, in Winds at Night-- 1464 7.17 Landed on the Island, where the Bark Hut is-- <1(not>1 the Hut Island) went into the Hut where the Woodmen sleep--Straw beds inclosed by thick Sticks, one raised off the ground <1f18>1 like a Bed-stock--and in the middle the Fire place-- with the crooked Stick to hang the Pot on--the smutty wooden Crock-- The Woodman's roof-shaped Hut, with <2> straight gavel ends, & slanting Door/Clay, sods, & Brush wood/one gavel end supported by two silver Birches--the wooden ++ Hammer on the ground by the Straw Beds/ ++ for ripping--/Note the Bark Rick, the deep Orange with the <1fl8v>1 tarnished Silver, with masses of Sunshine & Shade on it. 1465 7.18 A solid Cube of Stone on the Gavel Top of a Cot- tage, with two Dials on the two sides that were visible. The same Cottage Roof with the Roof of the outside that joined it overgrown with Brambles, Grass, & weeds, resembled even to identity the side of a Hill. 1466 7.19 The Head of the Lake as seen from Luss & a mile <1f19>1 or more above it, is very simple--Point----& Ben Vorlich run down [D] & Ben Lomond runs down between them--/& beyond all Ben Loy runs like a broken wall, closing the Prospect-- 1467 7.20 Upon a rock beneath a Tree Its shadow on the sandy shore <3Our>3 Its Image in the glassy Lake/ 1468 7.21 As we ascend, the Lake becomes very like Ulswa- <1fl9v>1 ter, with a character of Crommock/Benlomond is indeed a Thing betwixt Melbreak, & Place fell--higher still the Lake gains a char- acter of its own, Nesses running down into the Lake on each side, at certain distance appearing to run in behind each other, at other distances to meet & close up the Lake/--& now they seem opposite, & the Lake runs up endlessly between them/the road & the moun- <1f20>1 tains close by my left hand--wild, & steep, but not particularly in- teresting & every where we want the 'Statesmen's' Houses, & sweet spots of Cumberland Cultivation/but every where there is a distressing Sense of local unrememberableness. On the Descent of the Hill close upon Tarbet, we had to our left a view of the wild <1f20v>1 broken Cliff, called the Cobler, looking in over a smooth Ridge.-- I knew it instantly, from recollection of Mr Wilkinson's Drawing/ Two Children, in the rain, under one cloak, their arms round each other, their two faces, a pair! --the drapery, &c, very pic- turesque.--A Fisherman's Hut/the Oar, the one end on the ground, leaning on the Cottage, the broad end rising a few Inches above the little Chimney--an image for a poet--The view from the parlor <1f21>1 Window at E. Tarbet--& all the walk for more than 2 miles above so deludingly like Ulswater by Patterdale & Glenridden. (alas! too few Houses, too little motion)--the most striking feature an ascending Terrace of cultivated Fields with frequent interruption of wooded bushy rocks, a steep Mountain above, a perpendicular Precipice below it/--both the Mountain & precipice bushy-- In a nook formed by the Turn of a Brook a stone's Throw from <1f2lv>1 a Cottage a whole forest of Raspberries--only old people in the Cottage-- 1469 7.22 Friday, August 26th--Took a couple of Fowls from our Inn, our hospitable Inn, at E. Tarbet, went with the Jacobin Traitor of a Boatman to Rob Roy's Cave. Such Caves as are always & of necessity where huge masses of Stone in great num- bers have fallen down on one another; but the Masses, the Bushes & Trees, & the half-wooded Precipice above, all all most impressive/ We returned half a mile to the Ferry a cottage with a few Fields <1f22>1 among Trees by a wild Waterfall--so we ascended into moorland, with strong Views behind us of the three pyramidal Mountains of the opposite Coast of Benlomond these when all becomes Moorland Desolation, combine <3with>3 awfully with two lofty Houses, each with a smaller one attached to it--which we wondered how came there, but afterwards, found they were a Garrison/we move on <1f22v>1 about 3 miles to a little Lake, like Burnmoor Tarn, & in about two miles to a sheepfold at the edge of Loch Ketterin/a fine body of water in an elbow bend, but the mountains were all too dreary and not very impressive in their Forms or Combinations--There was wood on them, but a total want of cultivated Land & happy Cot- tages/. We wound along over a Hill into a very interesting moor- land till we came in sight of what I may call the Haft or Handle of the Lake, with two Farm Houses--here called Gentlemen's <1f23>1 Houses/--This first reach of the Lake, 2 miles perhaps in length, has four Islands, sweet Bays, & Island-like Promontories, one shaped like a Dolphin, another like a Sea-lion/& still as we moved along, there formed new pictures, sometimes shutting out, some- times admitting a Peep, sometimes pouring in a full view of the large mass of water./But our Road, our wild moorland Path thro' the most luxuriant Heaths, the purple, the white, the pale purple, <1f23v>1 the deep crimson, or rose-color Purple/thro' a mountain Pass, like a Giant Gate-way--while on each side the <3Hills>3 Mountain Sides were cloathed wildly with willow Trees, in ravines or around bulging Rocks--& the Edges of the Mountains wildly broken/ [D] The Rocks, by which we passed, under the brow of one of which I sate, beside an old blasted Tree, seemed the very link by which Nature connected Wood & Stone/The Rock Substance was not distinguishable in grain, cracks, <1f24>1 & colors from old scathed Trees, Age- or Lightning-burnt/Right opposite to me the willowy Mountains with the broken wild craggy summits, & half way up one very large blasted Tree, white & leafless/--Here too I heard with a deep feeling the swelling unequal noise of mountain Water from the streams in the Ravines/ We now found that our Expedition to the Trossacks was rashly <1f24v>1 undertaken/we were at least 9 miles from the Trossacks, no Public House there or here/it was almost too late to return, & if we did, the Loch Lomond Ferry Boat uncertain. We proceeded to the first House in the first Reach, & threw ourselves upon the Hospitality of the Gentleman, who after some Demur with Words- worth did offer us a Bed/& his Wife, a sweet & matronly Woman, made Tea for us most hospitably. Best possible Butter, white Cheese, Tea, & Barley Bannocks-- 1470 7.23 Saturday Morning Aug 27th <1f25>1 Mr James McAlpin, Mr Andrew McFarlan, Glengyle-- left the House--a little before we reached the second White House, a perfect <1Picture>1 from the two Hooks, one of a promontory, & another of an Island, seeming a <1promontory,>1 within another larger Hook/and in the foreground a fisherman's Hut with the Oars--/ <1f25v>1 so we went on, the <3Gentlem>3 white House <1"green to the very door">1 --Here Rob Roy died, we passed by <1his Burial Ground>1/(each House has a square inclosure for Burying)-- the path now lead up then along the breast of the mountain. Hazels, Ashes, Birches, above us to the Height, with starting Cliffs, of the <1wood-fibre>1 Stone--below the eye made its way thro' tangles & little <1f26>1 openings down a steep of Hazels & wood down upon the Summit of a flat wood in upon the ever-sounding Lake/the Mountain from many distances looking in upon my right Hand/Benlomond--& behind those 3 pyramidal mountains in mist--opposite the ferry on Loch Lomond/ N.B. Gregor MacGregor the Ferryman--3 1/2 miles from the head of the Lake/ <1f26v>1 1471 7.24 Sat. 27. Sund. 28. Mond. 29. Sat. 27. We came to the Ferry House, where W. & D. took boat --I declined it--lost my road, clambered among woods almost to the top of the Fells--but regained it in about a mile/--the road a most delightful one, all along by the Side of the Lake, now open, now inclosed, now a broad road, now a brown pathway thro' a green Lane./About 2 miles from the Ferry, the views of the Foot of the Loch begin to be highly interesting & the Lake itself always highly so from the multitude & fine Shape of its Bays--But here as I leaned against an ash Tree, I saw such a visionary Scene!--One <1f27>1 promontory from the Right ran down into <3along>3 the Lake like a stretched out Arm bent downwards with a <1bend>1 as if to support something, then a long Island midway the Lake/then from the <3right>3 left another promontory much resembling the former, but varying in the Steepness of its Segments/Again from the Right a high Headland falling down steep & high as far as the Tower/& in the far distance & exact Center of the View a small Sugar Loaf Hill <1f27v>1 --all these in exquisite Harmony, every ridge branch out, every intervening Distance softened by the rainy Air/--Still as I went on, the view varied & improved in distinctness/Promontories that could not be distinguished from Islands/Island mistaken for Prom- ontory/--till I arrived at the Foot in the Heart of the Trossacks/ I exclaimed Galila|ee vicisti--If the Lake of Keswick were to push up a mile into Borrodale, and interweave itself among the Moun- tains--& if those mountains were built up still more detachedly in <1f28>1 a universal harmonious <1Dislocation>1 of all its component Cliffs-- those Cliffs all wooded--variously wooded/young wood chiefly from <1stumps>1 of huge Trees/<3willows>3 weeping Birches surmounting steep Precipices, as large as the largest weeping Willows/But I must see it again!--I returned to the Ferryman's House--& soon after my Friends--& an Artist [?Wilson], of Edinburgh./We had a merry meal in the Hovel black & varnished & glistering with peat <1f28v>1 smoak, the Fowls roosting in the Chimney amid the cloud of Smoke/ we slept in the Barn upon the Hay/My Friend & the Artist had a sort of Hay Bed with Blankets spread on the Ground/but I pre- ferred the Hay Rick, & was right/the Brook ran as if running under my Hay pillow!--Next morning we went in the Boat to the End of the Lake./& so on by the old Path by the Garrison to the Ferry <1f29>1 House by Loch Lomond/where now the Fall was in all <1its fury>1-- & formed with the Ferry Cottage, & the sweet Highland Lass a nice picture/the Boat gone to the Preaching, & we stayed all day in the comfortless Hovel, comfortless, but the two little Lasses did every thing with <1such>1 Sweetness, and one of them, 14, with such native Elegance/O she was a divine Creature! The Sight of the Boat full of Highland Men & Women and Children, from the Preaching, exquisitely fine/--we soon reached <1f2 v>1 E. Tarbet--all the while had Rain./Never, never let me forget that small Herd boy, in his Tartan Plaid, dim-seen on the hilly field, & long heard ere seen, a melancholy <1Voice,>1 calling to his Cattle!/--nor the beautiful Harmony of the Heath, the dancing Fern, & the ever-moving Birches--/--That of itself enough to make Scotland visitable, its fields of Heath 1 yearly Burning> giving a sort of feeling of Shot silk and ribbon <1Finery>1 1 of Finery>. On Monday we went to Ar- rochar, formerly a Gentleman's House on Lake Long/the view of the Cobler interesting no doubt but I was disappointed with the place!--Here I left W & D <1>1 returned myself to E. Tarbet--slept there--& now <(alas! <1now>1 it is June 5, 1812)> Tuesday, Aug. 30, 1803--am to make my own way alone to Edingburgh-- 1 way & <1alone!>>1 <1f30v>1 1472 7.25 The Rain drops on the Lake to an army of Spirits, or Faeries, on a wilderness of white Sand/Multitude + Joyance, motion or a moving/ 1473 7.26 My words & actions imaged on his mind, distorted & snaky as the Boatman's Oar reflected in the Lake/-- 1474 7.27 The Cross--the Butter Hill--Ben Bean--and Benvaloch/the 4 mountains opposite the Inverslade Ferry. <1f32>1 1475 7.28 Tuesday Morn. Aug. 30--Walked to the Shore opposite to the Ferry, & having waited & shouted & made signals for near an hour in vain, I wandered on--/& seeing a Boat on the Shore, went to the Cottage--which I found to be a small Slaughter House, engaged the Men to go with me--went & obtained my watch--returned--I gave the man 2s & he said I must drink a glass of Whisky with him, & carried me up the mouth of a River called <1f32v>1 Inveydougle & there I found a Distillery which with its Hogs &c sufficient picturesque--tho' as of- fensive to my sense of smelling, is perhaps melancholy in its moral relation--/--Passed on--the Mountain close by my side, high & green with ferns, Grasses, & young Trees--Trees scattered here & there, and often a handsome full grown Birch on the Edge of the Top of a naked Precipice//Crossed little Bridges, where streams <1f33>1 came down over black Rocks--with many Views of that species of Scenery which is always interesting--where Naked Rocks stand above each other some perpendicular & smooth & grey from a yard high to 20 fathom with green <1Ledges>1 interspersed, some so narrow that a single sheep goes cautiously, some so broad that a small flock might graze there, or an industrious Chinese raise a crop of Corn/ --Holly Trees wedging the solid Rock/Large Birch Tree filling up the hollow of the Arch of the Bridge--/ passed by Bays & <1f33v>1 Promontories, some wooded, some craggy & heath-rich, some culti- vated, often a Boat heaving in the secure Bay, <& now the road> ascending a Hill led me to the last Reach of Loch Lomond, which resembles a majestic River, distinguished from it by the Ledger- like Lines of Foams, & its own lakish <1Sound>1 of Water,--the head is crowned by 3 ridges of Mountains, the highest not very high, but bare & black & of very various outline; and such as in rainy or <1f34>1 misty weather would be sublime--in this reach too is one of those <1Terraces>1 before described--& there is another between this & the Ferry--the road up & down another Hill, on my descent I see to the Left a large single Rock, far away from the foot of the Moun- tain, in a green plot by itself--a little stream winds almost around it, overhung with Alder Bushes--it is cowl'd with Heath--all its sides Bare/the amplest side, viz, that facing the road, is 25 Strides <1f34v>1 in length, & I suppose at least 40 feet high/it is 60 Strides round/ in shape it ++ resembles the Gavel End of a House ++ rudely [D] This is called, I find, the Bull Stone/"<3Call the>3 "Cry to the Guid Man to come up, the Gentleman wants to <1crack>1 wi' 'im."/Two Bulls fighting said to have thrown down the Stone/-- The river is a fine one/and one side of it an O shaped Pond of 200 yards or so, in length, & one <3green>3 all <1f35>1 wooded hill; <3which>3 standing by itself close by its Bank, which I mention because half a mile on it forms a beautiful feature in a fine river view, as you look backward down toward Loch Lomond, upon Ben Lomond & the ridges of Hills intervening--I stop at a farm House, & meet the kindest reception/From E. Tarbet 7 + 9 miles up the Lake & up Glenfalloch but 3 Farms--One Farmer has <1f35v>1 within a very trifle one whole Parish, a farm of 1100 %% per annum in this <1wild>1 Country--/Preaching four times a year at the great = Bull Stone, by the desire of the Inhabitants/this is one among the many proofs that natural Objects do <1impress>1 the minds of the In- habitants who are familiarized to them, tho' they do not use epithets of Delight or Admiration/--A Cloud broke on the Hill a little above Garbel, the name of the Dram house where I stopt/broke in <1f36>1 the day time, & swept away two whole Villages, all but one strong Slate House, which however it filled with stones & gutted of its furniture/the Houses came floating down, standing upright, & the poultry, & Cats on the House tops, mewing, clucking, crowing--& Beds floated by with Dogs yowling on them/the people all away-- Here I determined to go to Glen Coe/. My Landlord asked me 8 s for Pony & Lad for 12 miles!--Good people nevertheless. Com- ment on this--Had a wretched Night--& with an aching head, eye, <1f36v>1 face, ear, tooth, left Garbel Wednesday Morning, 1/4 past 9, August 31, 1801--& pursued my way up Glenfalloch toward Tyndrum, the Glen narrowing, the river becoming more & more wild & rocky, running & roaming among Alders & coppice Woods, the Hills landlocking the Glen with less than half a mile interspace, the Hills not very high, but much broken, & their wildness a ragged wildness. --I now passed over a Bridge with a stream dashing down over <1f37>1 rocks, & under table Rock on which the foam of Monday's Storm was lying yet--this I learnt was Fiona glen or the Glen of Fingal/ met with three good Highlanders, two understood & talked Gaelic, the third, an intelligent man, spoke low Scottish only--I went with him into a field to my right, & visited a noble waterfall--during rain it must be a most noble one/the Trees are old, & <1army,>1 one on each side/it is one great <1Apron>1 with an oval Pool at the Bottom, <1f37v>1 but above it you look up thro' a rocky Stream with trees & bushes, & the Fall itself is marked by two <1great Cauldrons>1 delved out in the black rock, down which it falls--into which cauldrons it boils & rebounds/this is on the River of <1Glenfalloch,>1 which word signi- fies the <1Hidden Glen>1--I talked much with the Scotchman--the op- pressions of the Landlord--& he used these beautiful words--"It kills one's affections for one's Country, the Hardships of Life, <1f38>1 coming by change, & wi' injustice."--The Hills on each side of me are low, for I myself am on very high Ground--they are almost cragless, an intermixture of beds of purple Heath, slumbring in its Beauty, & beds of green fern, always alive & fluttering--but to AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1803 [1479 my right the Hill breaks, & lets in upon the view a triangular Mountain of fine outline. [D] And in the break a little Stream with glimmering Waterbreaks & cowering Alders/wild Sheep-folds in the Hills but before me Ben More or the Huge Mountain/One of the highest in the highlands, shaped like a hay- <1f38v>1 stack, which dallies with the Clouds, that now touch, now hide, now leave it/ 1476 7.29 Among the Beauties of the Highlands in Aug. & Sept. let me not forget the Fumitory with its white flower on the Hovels & Barns/& the Potatoe fields with white Blossoms--appear- ing to my eye the loveliest & richest flower of Gardens-- 1477 7.3o About two miles from the Glen of Fingal Glen- falloch--how altered its character altogether--I had been lost in reverie--and on awaking found myself with low Hilly Ridges to <1f39>1 my Left, for the road itself was now very high indeed/but behind me, before me, & close by my right (just over a narrow Bottom in which were a cluster'd <3of>3 Cottage, & near it one slate House) high, separating mountains, pyramids, Cones, ridges, which one might stride across, some running straight on, some curving into arcs of circles, & forming Basons & hollows--a Break of an inverted Tri- angle shape, & a naked Sugar loaf looks in from a distant country-- Ben Lomond behind me in that shape-- [D] a vast multi- <1f39v>1 tude of Sheep, alas! the very first time, I ever looked at Sheep, with melancholy & indignant feelings! -- 1478 7.31 Waited an hour & a half for a dish of Tea/the most civil promises all the while/at Inverooran/this a fair specimen of Highland Manners. 1479 7.49 Took shelter under a bridge in a tremendous <1f74v>1 storm on a rock by the side of the stream that overflowed it--till this I expect swoln by the Rains, forced him once again into the Storm/ 1480 7.50 A character of complete <1Ingratitude>1--Stephano in Benyowsky--/Likewise [. . .] you not [ ?known/drawn] a char- acter whose tender mind was so <1haunted>1 by the causeless hatred un- <1f74>1 justly B [. . . . . .]. [A] did a real injury & a very great one to B. in order to make his Hatred more natural, less da|emonish, whereon B. ceases to hate him/soothed by the power of <1forgiving>1 A. & of feeling himself the superior--E. of Kinneal. 1481 7.52 Glencoe to Balahuhlish/--to Fort William, my Ferry then at Mr Munro's--The Rev. Dr Hay Drummond six miles up Glen Nevish/on way on Loch Lochy to Loch Oich/to <1f73v>1 Fort Augustus to the Fall of Foyers--pass the Falls & go to a House called the General's Hut--on the Banks of Lochness./From Fort Augustus, 7 miles, ascend to a Black Moor, to a Hut called Noch Lomoch/apply for a guide for the Falls & Cavern of Foyers/ --the same guide that Dr D. had, exquisite Alpin scenery from Falls to Inverness thro' Birch & Oak Woods--When I come within view of Inverness, stop--take the view of the River--the Town of <1f73>1 Inverness & Fort St George--From Inverness to Fort George/by the Bridge of Dulse--Grantown, Aviemore/Pitmaine/Dalwhinny [D] /Dalnacardach/Blair/<3Dunkeld>3 across the Tummel by Fascaly to Taymouth/to Dunkeld/Dunkeld to Perth/ --5 miles from Perth to Dupplin Castle/Dr H. D. Hadleigh, Suf- folk <1f39v>1 1482 7.32 I come to a Double Road, one to Shirley--the other to Tyndrum/And for about a mile the moors & hills are less <1f40>1 interesting but soon regain their former size--dined at Tyndrum/ walked a brisk pace under the inspiration of a Bottle of Burton Ale, from Tyndrum to Inverooran/a fine Road tho' a perfectly house- less Moorland, the mountains on each side, behind, before, most noble--tho' green/& I seemed to think that these high green moun- tains, so furrowed, delved, & wrinkled with Torrents are still wilder than craggy Mountains/the Mountains were all detached, a great Beauty! --One I shall never forget/in shape resembling a <1f40v>1 Schoolboy's Top, or rather presenting to the eye two sides of a spherical Triangle/as I looked back, on my left, at the extremity of SEPTEMBER 1803 [1485 this side of the Triangle, a curving wall of green Highland, & over it from the distance a [D] mountain. At the extremity of the other side another mountain from the distance, but of wild & fantastic outline/but the Mountain itself, the spheric Triangle, so very vast, so high, so worn & marked/--The same road to Inverooran, the <1f41>1 same to Kingshouse, 18 miles of beautiful Road, such as you may see in Noblemen's pleasure Grounds, thro' a wide wide Moor, with rocky rivers--mountains of all shapes, scarr'd & lay'd open, but none Craggy--the rain all the way, except now & then a Blow off that discovered all the forms of the mountains & that I had lost nothing else/add to these large moorland Pools with bushy Islets --and <1one goat>1--& you have the whole, I saw from Tyndrum & <1f4lv>1 Inverooran/--<1The whole Road from E. Tarbet>1 <1to Ballachulish!>1-- 1483 7.33 Septem. 1. 1803--I have walked from Inverooran to Kingshouse--nothing, they tell me, will <1grow here/>1it is so high. They have tried it--they burn Peat & Turf here/but have no Bel- lows. The weather so Misty & rainy that I have small heart to visit Glencoe this Afternoon. 1484 7.34 This Kingshouse from the rancid Moorland Peat smells like a dirty Macquerel with Bilge-water/9 miles every way <1f42>1 from all Dwelling, vile Troop of Drovers, with fiddle & dancing, & drinking, kept it up all night, one clamour like a crew of Pirates that "House on the wild Sea with wild usages." When they broke up, one of the Household had the modesty to open my bedroom Door, & bring me in a Drover for a Bedfellow/and I might have been forced to get up, if the Drover had not had some sense & good manners-- 1485 7.35 Sept. 2. 1803. Friday Morning Am--when at length I shall have procured a bit of Breakfast, to go to Glencoe and <1f42v>1 thence whither?--84 miles to Inverness.--1/2 past 9 left that devoted Kingshouse, & in less than a mile entered Glencoe, the white mists (white with interspaces of diluted Black) floating away from the Mountains, & thinning off along their Breasts--gathering again-- again thinning--all in motion--giving phantoms of motion even to the Hills--the first Hill, the Helm Crag & Centry of the Glen, on my right' rises up into a naked sharp [D] --craggy in the rude <1f43>1 shape a Church & steeple--then flows down in a green curve to the Moorland Stream at its feet O the green shining Spots on the Hills thro' the openings & rents of the Mist--O those other rich white mists seen thro' the thinning of the nearer mist! & blue Sky, here & there, in the <1low>1 Heaven!/--Near the Top of this Centry Hill one figure of a Saint kneeling, very wild & distinct-- 1486 7.36 In my road from Tayndrum of a large number of young Trees in the valley below me, by the Burn--but they seemed <1f43v>1 as if they had no Business there/no abiding place at least, as if they were met there, on a Moorland <1Fair-Day>1--so too in Glencoe, on the mountain walls, for so they are, brown-green with moss, bright green with stream-hiding Grass, & pinky in streaks where the Rain- rills flowed or are flowing--here too I glimpsed Trees here & there/ but they looked like Apparitions-- 1487 7.37 The first six miles of Glencoe a winding glen, on my right a bulgy rifted continuous mountain, but the mists lay heavy & thick on its Top, but the rifts & Caverns were dark as Dark- ness--to my left the lower & grassy Half of the Mountains was <1f44>1 continuous, save only that they were rifted, often to the foundation, but the rifts in general were narrow--tho' a few wide enough to contain furious Waterfalls--the higher & craggy Half rose up into separate Mountains, Turrets, Steeples, Sugarloaves, & often Bulls' Brows, Brows savager than those of Urus or Byson/one <1cone,>1 of great Height, was connected with a rude triangle-shaped Mountain, of equal Height, by a semicircular Bason, or wall of rock in behind <1f44v>1 [D]--after two hours walk I came in sight of a Cottage, two or three green enclosures, so green within stone walls, & a lake/& about a furlong before I reached it, an enormous <1Facing>1 of Moun- tain [D] -- the highest--almost 1/3rd of the whole height of the mountain--a perfectly perpendicular smooth precipice with a huge Cavity in a cylinder [D] --This whole Mountain more like Grasmere or Crummock than any thing I have hitherto seen, tis the noblest too that I have seen/it is ledge & precipice as I have else- <1f45>1 where described--only no bushes or Trees--and only that the preci- pices are separate from each other seemingly not by their own protrusion but by channels of delving Storms--some traversing the Mountain, but by far the greater number running straight down/-- At its feet are two sets of Housage with their inclosures, & a small Tairn out of which rushes a madcap of a River/the next Mountain to it, with a Torrent between, is green & ragged with Trees--but at the summit of the interspace, somewhat retiring <1f45v>1 is a most remarkable naked rock [D] --resembling a house with two gavel ends fronting you, the one nearest ++ <1Grasmere>1 [D], the other next the green mountain, round and resembling a Porch--& now straight before me within a slingthrow, the Vale is closed by a green mountain--& I am to commence a new reach of the Glen.-- This new reach brought in view another Lake at its termination/it pleased me much--the surface of the Mountain close by my right hand is playful, & its craggy half is bulgy & brown with moss & <1f46>1 pinky with Screes/close by my left hand the arch of the vale is crowded with 9 sugar-loaf green Hills, <3one>3 2 only quite <3a>3 Hills by <3itself>3 themselves/say 3 Hills, one with 7 heads--over these Mountain, 1 was green, & presented its whole side to us/the other was craggier & pinkier, & stood edgeways--> an ocean of mist be- <1f46>1 hind the Grasmere & its greener neighbor with her 10 rain channels floating down it (tho' now no water--I speak only of the imaginary motion of its curvatures) like 10 pink Ribbons As now I stand, something more than half <3way>3 of the green Pyra- <1f 6v>1 mid's side past, the road ascending, I stood, turned round, & the view that had been <1upon>1 my Back, as it were--so finely do the moun- tains on my left--as I <1now>1 stand--& Grasmere close up the reach, so tight, so narrow/for Grasmere seems now to run across the vale/it & its pink-ribbon'd neighbour of equal height--a descent & retirement of various outline, with an enormous Notch, then the <1f47>1 Pyramid Edgways--& two houses at its feet/--the 3 Hills, 1 with 8 Tops, now cuddle in close at the feet of <1Grasmere's Sister>1-- The <1green>1 Pyramid <3opposite to>3 whose broadside I am almost bisecting, sinks softly then rises again into another pyramidal, but far far lower where it deeps, there starts up a bare mountain--I <1f47v>1 might touch it with my stick if I were on that green ridge/of a rich red brown--quite bare/in shape resembling the Doric Portal of St Paul's in Covent Garden [D] an obtuse triangle!--In this reach Oats, Potatoes (O that one tiny strange Hovel of Boughs of Trees, & its tiny Plantation of Potatoes) and Alder Bushes innu- merable! it is a sweet Reach, no doubt. So the country growing more and more cultivated, I came down on Loch Leven, a Sea Lake, with a green Hill at its head, & a House under it/with <1Mr. Olives' very own garden walls>1 on the side of the Hill/--on the side of the Lake what seemed many houses after the solitude of the last 30 miles--the Hills woody-- <1f48>1 at the foot of the Lake or what seems so, high mountains with one deep gap or valley, thro' which, I guess, the road goes. The road is here a fine one again/in Glencoe the Torrents had torn it up. Three peat Islands, in file, near the opposite shore of the Lake, an uninteresting ruin of a Chapel on the largest--the Smell of the Sea water refreshing to me & the long rul<3ers>3'd lines of Foam al- ways a thing to look on--Pass a slate Quarry, with a brig close un- der it & in about a quarter of a mile (or a half a mile) turn round, & look back on 3 Slate Buildings --/--a green Ascent--the Quarries, with rich metallic silvery Blue/ a green ascent & climbing Ridge above the Quarry--& looking over this ridge a Mountain, bare or only dark brown with moss, of <1f48v>1 a very shape--more like Brandel How, as seen at Portinscale/ [D]--Dined at the Ferry House at Ballychulish' and-- crossed the Ferry--& that <1Pitadonish>1 mountain with the obscene name/O horrid! the blessed Sun full on it, above the green Hill, with the slate Quarries now appearing at its feet/between that green Hill & another huge mountain this Maiden of Glencoe ap- pears behind between them bleak, & sunny with scattered Clouds-- After having crossed the Ferry walked on, on a delightful road, high Hills on my right most richly wooded, all wood save where huge Rocks with Heath flowers, burst out of the Hill,--Trees too <1f49>1 on my Left, with the Sea dashing its Spray among their Leaves-- so for a mile & a half, or more, when I turned, looked back, & saw Passed a Cottage, not only the roof but all the other elements of the cottage like a hill with weeds & grass--;why not a crop of peas on the its banks ben nevish wall of mountain not actually toucjimg O what a sight!--the 2 Mountains running in & forming an obtuse [D] and they, & the mountains in between & behind them cov- ered with illumined Clouds, & so very yellowly & richly lighted up by the Sunbeams stealing down from under the Clouds.--O this does indeed surpass Porlock--O that the Hovels looked comforta- ble. Sea truly, the roar & the waves & Feeling are of the Sea but <1f49v>1 far as my eye can reach, it is all embosomed--& all the mountains separate, how various in their forms. (The curiosity attributed to the Americans incident to all rude & thin-scattered People)--Glen running up by my right, a furlong in length.--& the red cloudlike Edging in one straight Line on the distant Shore/--& here just as I came in sight of a nice House, sheltered from the Sea by Trees, which I thought I should pass--my road turns off, & O Sorrow! I quit it!--My Blessing go with it--& all its deep murmurs!--In a Dell with Hills on each side, & in a mile regained the sight of the <1f50>1 Sea, crossing the Bridge of a River creeping under alder Bushes on both Banks-- The road again by the Sea--a narrow Lake--the Mountains its other Bank, have their Tops in one even Line of lead-color'd Cloud, they are deeply gullied, straight down & aslant--Here I saw a field of Potatoes, within an inclosure of Turf, waving like Fern, a stone wall seaward, the Sea not a foot from the Stone Wall./ The road now continues by the Sea lake side--Mountains on the opposite Shore, rocks & woods, or woody rocks, by my right hand <1f50v>1 & sometimes over my head/now Darkness came on and I saw only that I was in the same scenery--so on <1briskly>1 till within a mile & 1/2 of Fort William, when I unfortunately drank/instant Fatigue-- pains in my Thigh/arrive at Fort William--Mr Monro's--to Mr Livingstone's--hysterical weeping-- 1488 7.38 Spent Saturday, Sept. 3rd--having my stockings & shirt washed, & writing--on Saturday night threatened with an- other Attack of Gout in my Stomach, & frightened into diverting by a violent Stimulus, which kept me half-awake the whole Night-- 1489 7.39 Sunday Morning, Sept. 4, a little after 8, after a <1f51>1 hearty breakfast, my whole charges only 5,,10--for six meals & 2 gills of whisky, & my bed--I walk off, first for Glen Nevish, then to return all the way, & begin anew my road to Fort Augustus--/ It is a lovely morning, but will it continue?--I pass a Church yard close by the road, fended from the Sea by a natural Wall of rock--went <1up>1 two of my steps, & sate down on a flat grave-stone, & wrote this.--Peace & Blessing be with us all!--With thee, my Sara! -- Passed a Cottage, not only the Roof but all the walls overgrown like a Hill with weeds & grass--Why not a Crop of Peas on the Roof--& Sallad on the walls.--The Day continues glorious--enter <1f51v>1 Glen Nevish, a broadish Valley with a broad Shallow River, single Trees, Alders, & Sycamores, planted thick without interspace along its Banks--Ben Nevish to my Left, its height entirely lost to me, but its sides are nobly torrent-rifted--a belt of ragged Wood athwart it, half way, the <1>1 ascent--above the woods grey craggs stained with yellow green--8 great rifts, each no doubt form- ing tremendous Precipices to look down into--the mountain at the head of this Reach of the Glen shoots out ridges from a lower wall of mountain turning into gavel ends, & roof-shaped ridges/ two narrow Coombes with steep Sides, & a steep wall not so high as the sides/at the end of the <1f52>1 Coomb a low curve from Ben Nevish slides softly down into the Glen, and incloses the river, and its stony Bed now too big for it & trees or rather tall Bushes/this curve runs slant across the second Gavel where the second reach of the Vale begins--In twilight or mist SEPTEMBER 1803 [1489<1f53v>1 and Storm I could fancy it a huge Elephant, the four larger Rifts its legs & its proboscis curving round/[D] Here thro' the whole Glen, the road most, very, or damn'd bad/ Adam Smith? Pray, would the Regiment have been better em- ployed drinking at their Quarters than in substituting those fine Roads for such as these? -- I had not well described the head <1f52v>1 of the first Reach/from a lower ridge of mountain, of wild & con- cave outline [D] there shoots a roof-shaped mountain with a noble gavel end, say rather the front of a Tent--two thirds from the Top downward finely wooded--on each side of it a twisting Gully of water, over <3which>3 each gully a rude mass of mountain, that in the first reach of the Glen lower, that on the second far higher than the Tent/this resembling more than aught else two sides of an unequal Triangle, but rounded at the Top--the surface rough & shelvy, tho' green--ragged too with Trees. The river of Nevish is a poor Likeness of our Greta. I had scarcely written the words when the River improved most surprisingly huge masses of pinky Rock forming its side & narrow- ing its Channel & lo! as I turn with its Turn an enormous single <1f53>1 Rock, higher than the high Banks, in the very middle of the River, filling up one half of the whole channel, leaving 1/4th on each side/ (the River is on my left hand)--on the 1/4th under the <3opposite>3 fur- ther Bank it flows deep & as calm as the pool of a waterfall can do, for two or 3 yards beyond the Rock on that side, seen under Boughs of Trees, arching from the Bank to the Birch Bushes & Heath on the Rock a fine fall/on the other side close under me as I shall pass it the River flows rough & shallow over stones, the Bank naked, but fine young Birch Trees on the Rock; on its side, 2 yards from the Top, all along its whole side.--So it <1appeared/but>1 as I <1f53v>1 moved on ten or 20 yards, I found that there were but 3 Trees, <2> growing out of the cleft & as it seemed one root/& here too I found a break in the Bank, where another stream flows into the Nevish/a large Stream, and the Break <1so exactly>1 corresponds in size to the rock, that one cannot help thinking, that some dread Torrent at the first bursting forth of this Stream must have shouldered away the opposing Bank, & pushed it in its madness just up the Stream/ I cross this Stream by a Bridge half of rock, half of an Alder <1f54>1 Tree, whose one bough curves over-- the rock over which the clear water, so clear its very foam seems scarce to lose its transparency, resembles undrest Lights so exactly in color <& curva- ture> that the likeness must excuse the ungainness--/--I come to the great Rock/Now I could easily get on it, by the Trees that grow on this Bank & bend over to it, so that the end of their Boughs hang over it--There are 3 Trees on the rock all Birches, & then just where these leave off, three on the Bank, two Birches & one Ash/ this occasioned the Delusion/but the Ash is farther from the Stone, a Thing for itself, hangs over a pool of water, in a bason of its own, <1f54v>1 from rain or flood/Divided by a great Stone from the grand fall of Water, its root and and bason in the same Line with the Head of the Fall/for there are 2 falls, one on each side the Rock/the further broad, this narrow & higher/the huge Stones above this fall, one adhering to the Bank, a middle Stone, & the prolongation of the rock, & the Water of this fall runs in two gutters one each side this middle ridge of Stone/I get from one to the other, & so on the Rock to see the other waterfall, & the black jagged precipitous Wall of its Pool; but lo! behind me a part of a naked serrated Cone of Rock behind that green wooded Gavel or Tent/smaller far & lower shewing all one side, its apex, & no more, the rest inter- <1f55>1 cepted by the Gavel. The broader fall among the sublimest I have ever seen/it divides itself, I might say, it distinguishes itself into 3 falls, the one nearest the Great rock shoots out & leaves a large Cavern underneath where a man might stand & but for the <1dashing>1 <1in under>1 of the other part of the Fall shelter himself from a Storm under the ceiling of Foam--the 2 other parts only at the very head by a tall pink rock, <3from my>3 the one nearest the Shoot drives aslant the third which falls down in an opposite direc- tion, and tho' they touch, preserve their Individuality/the Slanter covering all but the higher part of the third [D] --the pink rocks <1f55v>1 seen every now & then at the bottom thro' the white Foam most <1lovely!>1--The Cone behind the Gavel, I saw it all/it was only a Jag of a noble rock rising up into a perfect acute Angled behind the Gavel/or rather it is one of two cones in file rising up behind this, [D] & yet another rises behind that Triangle & that Gavel/ --first the Green Gavel, then, far lower than, but exactly like it in shape, a slender rocky Gavel, then higher perhaps even than the green Gavel this sharper & more perfect Gavel, then behind that a ridge having 2 sister Cones! This is to my right--to my left the <1f56>1 river, & the <1ledge-precipicy>1 side of the Proboscis of the Elephant/ with savage Trees, all straight, & by that extreme straightness har- monizing with the perpendicularity of the little precipices, of which the great precipice is made up/before me 2 huts, & beyond them two ridges of savage mountain, tho' not without Trees-- The Head of Glen Nevish how simple for a Painter/& in how many words & how laboriously, in what dim similitudes & slow & dragging Circumlocutions must I give it--so give it that they who knew the place best would least recognize it in my description/the whole reach forms an Oval/but a huge rocky Hill rising up from the river to the breast of the Mountain chokes it up at the Top/ <1f56v>1 above & beyond this the great wall of this segment of the oval makes 2 very deep segments, 2 inverted arches, and between one solid upright <3Arch>3 bridge of mountain/in the further Inverted Arch, appears from behind, almost about to fill up the arch a bleak Bridge of mountain, shorter, thicker, less a striding ridge than that which intervenes between the 2 Segments/the mountain at my back, 1 then> shoots off, like a Fall that meets a rock half way, into a steep but not precipitous Hill, rough with loose stones & overgrown with Birches--So having mounted a little & seen that there was not probably anything more to be noticed, I turned back--& now my mind being as it were leisurely and of[f] <1f57>1 the stretch with what delight did I look at a floatage of Shadows on the water, made by the wavelets of the Stream, with what delight that most exquisite net at the bottom/sandy + pebbly river, all whose loops are wires of sunshine, gold finer than silk, beside yon Stone the Breeze seems to have blown them into a Heap, a rich mass of light, light spreading from the loop holes into the inter- stices/--O we turn from novelties & rarities to old Delights & simple Beauty! -- On the whole I can scarcely say that Glen Nevish is worth all the fatigue of travelling thro' it--As you must return the same way every step/the Mountains, both Ben Nevish & those Helvellin- <1f57v>1 shaped ones by and near the Green gavel are far better & more impressively seen on the Road to Fort Augustus/in the Glen itself, from its narrowness, the mountains <1needs>1 look very low--. --On the main Road again, passed the Black Castle, to my Left--a huge patch of Snow low down on the baldness of Ben Nevish--/Dreary Moorlands, with distant mountains, but nought impressive except those close to my right, Ben Nevish to wit. Highbridge--refused Tea--Highland Inhospitality explained-- the desolation dreamlike of the fine Road, of the ghost-like "High Bridge" & its 2 arches, & 1/2--the Mountain ridges so backlike, odd & void of connection or harmonizing Principle. The mountains in perhaps 8 main lines, all pushing toward the Bridge Bank but each so savage, & broken, 4 ridges, the next 7 or 8, semicircle Basons or <1f58>1 Coves [D] O it is indeed a High Bridge. What can Sappho's Leap have been beyond this?--The building of the Bridge mixes so indistinguishably with the schistous slanting Strata, that form the Banks of the River. The Sunshine half on the Bank/the lower Half shadow/with so marked a Line/& the noise of the Rapid above--for under the Bridge & for 200 yards above the River is calm, wrinkly indeed, in watery puckers & folds, with detachments of broken foam between the <1so already split Slate/>1 O for words to explain how Slate & Limestone lie! Verily it is a savage dreamlike, unlively Place, & the River on the Left hand of the <1f58v>1 Bridge after it has passed its savage black & grey Slate Banks--wild & mean, where a man falling would break his neck without Dignity --then it is fine to see the moorland River melt away in metallic Scoria--much as I have been among mountains--still this is new/ A moorland with <3one>3 2 mute flocks of Sheep in sight, & one or more in <1sound, guarded round>1 by M. not walled, the M. are too separate & individual--before me, on my road to F. Aug. it is indeed more of <1one mass,>1 delved, rifted, channel'd, wrinkled, & with a dipping, leaping, tipsy outline/but behind me, & to my left as I turn to look behind, I count 29 great lines of motion or direction, the 14, 15, 16 so semicircled & hollowed, that I might have made 30 out of the 3/a11 indeed subdivisible enough!--Up to my right--as I now stand toward F. William that distant [D] <1f59>1 & their long ridge so <3miserably>3 variously segmented/Silly words I am vexed with you--a File of Sheep among Heath, perfect Ribboning--It is an <1intuition.>1 The Moor now tossed up & about into Hills, & these Hills inclosed, with Corn, or Potatoes in Blossom. All this to my Left--& a Lake beyond, & a peep of another, & 5 heads of mountains/with a con- tinuous ridge before them, close in the whole/--But what a joyous Sight of Cows & Calves, a lowing browsing Multitude, with milk- ing Lasses chattering Erse/church & 20 or more scattered Hovels on the Cultivated Hill, that climbs half way up the black Moun- tain Brays of Lochaber. Between the Lake & the Peep of the Lake <1f59v>1 a mountain of very various, but all superficial & gentle segments, runs down in between almost as gently as a man would <3rest>3 lie on a bed, so imperceptibly declining from an Horizontal Line into a Slope/--Those who hold it undignified to illustrate Nature by Art --how little would the truly dignified say so--how else can we bring the forms of Nature within our voluntary memory!--The first Business is to subjugate them to our Intellect & voluntary memory--then comes their Dignity by Sensation of Magnitude, Forms & Passions connected therewith. Come to a Devon <1Cleve>1--a Bridge, a deep down River play- ful, rifted, Hills--ramparts over them--/ Brays of Lochaber-- <1f60>1 1490 7.40 Arrived at Letir Finlay, IX oclock/all in bed-- they got up---scarce any fire in; however made me a dish of Tea & I went to <1bed.>1--Two blankets & a little fern & yet many Fleas!-- 3 Slept however till 10 next morning/no more Tea in the House--3 Eggs beat up, 2 glasses of Whisky, sugar, & 2/3rds of a Pint of boiling water I found an excellent Substitute/Left this house of Poverty (the Apartments large & sufficiently commodious) Monday, 11 oclock, Sept. 5--for Fort Augustus. Loch Lochay very like the narrowest, & barest parts of Ulswater/a Lake, in short, among bleak Hills. The first two miles from Leter Finlay the Road torn up & covered by flood torrents of stones from the stream. Hill that hangs above the road seldom indeed more than 40 yards together & always corresponding with some Torrent or water course on the Hill above--In making these fine Roads this should have been fore-seen & (if possible) obviated. Nature has in 2 or 3 places obviated it by a Bank/Road still be- tween Mountains lower than those of Loch Lochy till I come to <1f60v>1 Loch Oich, a more chearful Lake with some comfortable-looking Mansions on it, & opposite a tongue of Land on the Left Bank of the Lake (suppose you sailing up to Fort Augustus) a very fine Ruin of a Castle among Trees, upon a precipitous Rock-bank, but the Mountains, now mere Hills/& scurfy with Trees & Bushes.-- Went into a Hovel at the foot of Loch Oich, & drank a cup of Whisky & hot water, the Gout rising--4 stout men purely lazy! the Women at work/in about a mile from this, on a savage piece of uncultivated ground on the other side of the wall on the left hand of the Road (to wit, as I face Fort Aug.), 8 miserable Huts, a neighbourhood! The best of which would have disgraced a Beaver, or republic of Termites. & out of their low slanting Door <1come with>1 <1a [?dip/chief/clip] five>1 tall men, wearing on their backs & limbs cloathes-masks of the present Century!--a little way on, another Cluster of Turf Huts with Peat Roofs, wretched as the former, on the right hand of the Road--4 Huts. Do not forget the little black Dancing Master at Highbridge. <1f61>1 Fort Augustus/4 oclock, afternoon, Sept. 5th--very well & could eat only the Broth at Dinner/a most interesting View from the back door of the Inn/to the left the River, & beyond it a cluster of Wood, the Bridge, <3and>3 or ridge of Rock intercepting the Lake, heads of high Mountains behind each other seen over the ridge/On my right orchard gardens with one Cottage in one of them, a smooth large Field/the Fort Augustus, an ample & handsome mass of Building, the lake, and its noble mountain right-hand Bank-- Height 3 pencils & 1/2--breadth 3 penc./opens before & behind, with bottle-notches in the shutters--/higher half large Bottle--lower Half Drawers--the same at Back/-- 1491 7.41 Tuesday Morning, Sept. 6. 11 oclock, Left Fort Augustus, having breakfasted with the Governor, ascended a very steep, high Hill, found myself in thwarting Coombes with brook & birch woods--on a second ascent found a sixpence, the first in my <1f6lv>1 Life. Pass a Tairn, almost surrounded by 5 bare-knobby Hills, with 4 Islands in it, covered with Bushes & Heather--continue ascending, the road on the breast, & above the breast, & on the summit of the Heathland Hill, a wild Tarn under bulgy Grey rocks in the bottom on my right--Over the Hill a most extensive area of Heath & Moorland crowded to the right & left & not empty in the middle, of grey Stony Hills with purple Patches, two Tairns in sight. Loch Nochy--Loch Garth/<3Straghkenic>3 Strathheric/Easterbor- lan nigh Fort Augustus, let for 80--woman offered 76 %%, 80 souls maintained on it/Glendamaer & Tom Vort, all 3 given to one Man. Having passed thro Strathherick, a broken country, granite rock, & birch Trees in among them & in one place a beautiful round Is- land of Heath in a circle of granite Rocks--this to my right hand & <1f62>1 as the road leaves it, it climbs a small height thro' fine Birch Trees, the lower halves of the Stems split longitudinally in thick rough scales, & now a deep Bason of fine cultivated Land is below me as I descend/I look down in & upon it thro' a grove of Birch Trees, one large Corn-field walled by a mountain of Granite carpeted with moss & heath on the ledges only of its precipices. The road turns down into like a winding Staircase, & I face what was before at my back--& see at the head of this Bottom a most lovely Hill of Birches, a rich wood!--overhanging a brook, the bare points of granite mountain towering over the rich wood.--The road turns thus [D] ## the wooded hill the stream The road passes thro' the bottom, climbs again--still Birches amid Granite Rocks, and on the summit of this ascent I regain Loch Ness & its mountain wall, a stream brawling thro' a <1convulsed>1 channel on my left in a deep Cleft of the Hill--on which my road is--the deep wide Cleft dividing from the birch and granite moun- <1f62v>1 tain that forms a part of the left Bank of Lochness--In this deep wide Cleft, I suppose, I am to find the fall of Foyers-- fifty yards on the descent of the Hill I come to a part of the wall built higher and the higher interspace bounded by 2 Gate Heads--& from thence look down, a prodigious Depth! and see a fine narrow fall at the bottom, a volume of smoke the Foam seems, or like the softest plumage of the Eagle or Ostrich. Determined not to go without a guide, for I sadly fear, that I shall be disappointed--so went down thro' woods to a River side, beautifully gliding smooth & broad into Lochness, to a House which I supposed the General's Hut, but which was indeed the house of a Gentleman--of a vera great Gentleman, as a child told me, yan Mr Fraser, and I wound up thro' a wood to the General's Hut where I was received with sufficient & increasing Civility-- 1492 7.42 Dined on lean mutton, & good Tea, & supt on <1f63>1 Sewens & roasted Potatoes, had a miserable screamy night, & after breakfast Wednesday, Morning, Sept. 7, walked back about a mile, & entering by the two pillars wound down to the green beak of a slender Promontory & afterwards still lower/& tho' the feeling of Disappointment lingered awhile, the Fall at length grew into sub- limity & its own dimensions/on my first calculation I made it not exceed 110 feet, and the whole height of the chasm 220--but it grew upon me, & my feelings at least coincided at length with Stod- dart's account/the plumage of the fall, the puffs of Smoke in every <1f63v>1 direction from the bed of plumy foam at the bottom, the restless network of Waves on its Pool/ [D] The vase-like Shape of the fracture out of which it comes, as if one side of a huge vase had been chipped out, & this stream flowed out at the rim/you see up into the vase, and its rim is wreathed with delicate Birches/the water atoms driving away the myriads of midges, now driven away by a puff of wind/--the fall & pool in a noble inverted Chamber of 300 feet high, with a long winding antichamber/only a very few Trees in the Chamber itself, one Oak Tree, where [D] is on the Vase/ --The enormous walls mossed or bare, but [. . .] larches are ad- <1f64>1 mirable tho' a few Oaks, Ashes, & Mountain Ashes, more Hazels, by far the most were Birches. Four Trees I shall never forget, the Hazel bent down & half uprooted with its broad Canopying head over a flock of mossy Stones--under this I sate/two Birch Trees, one not very far below the summit of the Precipice, bent like a Bow, with its slender stem, over the channel of the stream/above this a straight fir, noble & lovely in its singleness--another Birch [D] and a Scotch fir above the Pool thrust out straight like an arm from the oak a strange perplexity & twisting of head & boughs/ <1f64v>1 Then the Stones, & Trees, & uprooted Trees, & half uprooted & roots of Trees,--one set of these formed half a Cavern, and a huge root an arched Doorway to it/--Altogether it is no doubt a glorious Scene/ 1493 7.51 [. . .] Hen, nervously blown forwards tumbling <1f74v>1 topsy Turvy, in the strong Wind. General's Hut. 1494 7.43 A room, a wooden Bureau locked up, a Sea board <1f6 v>1 on it under shelter of Birchen Boughs, 3 Tables, 11 Chairs. The surrender of the Island of Malta to General Pigot, published by Thomson--the Farm House on Fire, just over the Fire Place, an ex- act Draught of the City of Jerusalem, by C. Thomson (these three fill up nearly the fire-place side of the wall). On the other side, under birch boughs, the Storming of Seringpatam/& on the side opposite the fire a large Map of Europe, a stuffed Roebuck, a week old, lying over Tartary, the Dominions of Russia in Asia, & the Caspian/& close by them on the same side a wild Duck, & a Sargeant's Cap, <1Scarf>1 & Cartouch Bag--the Birchen Boughs with their moveless Twigs & leaves hanging down in between the Raft- ers--& the wind moaning above them/ <1f65>1 1495 7.44 Over the lower wall of the Chasm you see the lake, its high mountain Bank, the [D] between/Pleasing <1f65v>1 sort of Terrace walk with an enormous descent below it--That descent, so covered with wood as still to see the red soil, & yet no where not to see the woods--and the climbing up along its Breast even to the summit of the cultivated Hills, into which this mountain bank descends--fields of lovely cultivation are seen crowning as with a bald friars Top the Woody descent to the Lake/ the road from the General's Huts goes between Birch Trees-- That sweet delicate birch with its tri-prong Root--& the other twisty little creature near it. O Christ, it maddens me that I am not a painter or that Painters are not I!--The <1chapped Bark>1 of the <1f66>1 lower part of the Trunk, the Bark like a Rhinoceros rolled in mud & exposed to the tropic Heat/the second Fall to Sheep forced thro' water, & vaulting over each other throwing off the pearly streams from their heavy fleeces. About 3/4 of a mile from the General's Hut, divided from the Lake by a Birch Coppice & a cornfield two burnt down Huts bear- ing every mark as if the owners had burnt them in heart's-spite-Joy before their Emigration-- a Horse, two Birchen Poles with 5 cross rafters with twists of Hazel & Rope--inclosing a few Sheaves of Oats, the poles dragging along the ground, their ends merely flattened.--This I stopped & examined by the Burial Ground of Stratherich, 40 strides long, 35 <1f66v>1 broad--a grave dugged, 2 spades in it, the bank of Earth, Thigh- bone & shin by it/tis a wild burial place--contrast it with St Clement's in the Strand/twice I walked round it, & stripped the seeds from a large Dock which I will plant at home in its memory. Still goes the straight Road, birches, & the ascending Hill on my Right, Birches & the descending Hill & Lake on my Left. O never, never let me forget the beautiful birch stems, like silver tarnished, rising out of the <1chapped "Elephantiasis">1 bark of the 6 lowermost feet of the Trunk/O the endless endless lines of motion of the Trees here/ & now to my right Hand over a thin coppice of Birch is a wall, a <1f67>1 rampart-wall, of Granite, Birches growing along its Ledges or Terraces--& a rampart, more ++ bulgy before me, & over the lake on my left the segment of a rainbow on the Hills--So on to a bridge high over a rocky stream overhung with Birch & one other large Tree unknown to me, where the road turns touchingly close to the ++ bulgy rampart; & here over a field of rocks & over the Stream a huge Mountain like a Castle wall, the lower Half Birch, the higher bare Grey Precipice with a thwart smear of reddish Clay--here I do not see the Lake, but the road ascends to it--Let me not forget the Ode to my Shadow. The left hand the Lake & its now half copsy half cultivated <1f67v>1 bank/the right, birchen Hills, more or less thick, now straight, now bulging, now concave, an Embracement, Heath, Fern, stones white with lichens, Birches of all shapes & Twisture, & white Clouds of many Shapes in the blue Sky above/S. Rosa had the conifers & chesnut/I would study the Birch/it should be my only Tree. A Break in the Mountain Bank of the Loch Ness, the Interspace green & yellow, but mostly, yellow, with cultivated Ground--& at its foot washed by the Loch, on a rock-ground of its own a mass of Building, Tower, Castle, I know not what/beyond this the Bank of the Lake loses its cultivation, bulgy, & Knobby rocks, with patches of wood/the other Bank, on wch my right hand rests as [?rutty] rocks as before, & Trees, O in what wild Twistures starting out of the rocks, which their roots split as with a wedge--After this my <1f68>1 road, maintaining its character in all other respects, loses its Birches & has Hazels instead, with ash Trees intermixed,--Let me not, in the intense <1vividness of the Remembrance, forget to note>1 down the bridging Rock, cut off alas! from the great fall by the beaked promontory, on which were 4 Cauldrons, & a small one to boot-- one at the <1head>1 of a second Fall, the depth of my Stick, reflected all the scene in a Mirror--Gracious God/--the 4th on the side of the Fall, larger & deeper than all the others together, its low water in unceasing waves & agitation from the Fall <1vibrating>1 its rocky sides --All 4 had the appearance of the Tooth-Sockets of some Mam- moth among Mammoths, Fox + Mammoth/Now approaching the end of the Loch, many Juniper Trees on each side of my Road-- The mountain across the Lake--one single Farm excepted, naked, <1f68v>1 clay Scars--with grey-blue Slate Screes, then a Break & a Dip, just like the former, all cultivated Land & the mountain rising again loses its Slate & is all clay Scar & Patch/in several places from Top to Bottom, a wooded Hill-ridge runs across the Lake, & I suppose, terminates it/--a pleasant 100 yards--a fir grove on my right, the Lake, a mass of molten silver, on my left--its own lacustrial Sounds & the fir grove its own! Long may they thus sound together! 1496 7.45 Left Inverness in a return post Chaise Thursd. Sept. 8. with a mad drunk Post Boy whom I was soon obliged to quit/tho' the mad Blackguard was not so well disposed to quit me/ --I was every way unfortunate--Dancing with Indian Yells to a late Hour at the new Inn in Inverness--however owing perhaps to the Camphor + Ether what sleep I did get was quiet--O anything <1f69>1 for quiet Sleep--6 miles from Inverness, the Country rude Moor- land, after this the wildest of all wild moorlands--cloven and tossed up into Hills of all shapes & sizes, all of sharp Lines/the greater number having whole sides stripped of their Heath/bare Screes of White Clay & rubbishy Pebbles--/--after this dreariness itself with 1 patch of cultivation, & across the Road a village of strange Peat Hovels--the Road ascending on my left a high Hill, the white clay staring thro' the purple Heath, & ever so straight before me/but to my right in a wide & distant semi- circle, a glorious circumvallation of Mountains, ridges smooth and billowy, sugar loaves/triangles, Pyramids, & whatever other misted Shapes these mountain Masses put on to the distant eye--. The 9th mile Stone locks me in compleatly with high Heath-hills, a few <1f69v>1 Scotch Firs--the hills often black--and the whole Surface tossed about, rising, dipping, bulging & sinking-- 11th milestone, a water & handsome House, Moy Hall, to my left--/both under a Hill scurvily planted with mineral-green Scotch Firs. Hovel on my right & enclosed Field, in one field Potatoes, Barley, Oats, & a square Plot of Wheat/& a Copse of Birches on the other side of the road-- Bridges with turf & sod rims, 2 or more every mile, over half view- less streams or none--/--a good deal of low cowring Juniper with its fruit of various years, purple & green/beyond the 12 mile stone a Square Furlong of perfect level, thro' which the road runs/Oats on each side/no inclosures, but it is inclosed naturally by low Hill- <1banks/>1 A public House here/a bell outside of the window ringing in the wind, its Shadow on the Glass quarries-- A Stone throw before the 16th mile Stone a village of Hovels of Turf--some quite green/one a spinning Wheel reaching above the Eaves, but the roof as high again as the Eaves. 17th milestone past half a mile, my eyes at least get out of their long Prison of Heath- f70 land moor, & I gain a view of distant Mountains/after the 18th Milestone the high Hill to the Left of the Road is cleft--a rent to the Ground, even as Foyers, only not so high/but what a difference, even from the <1materials/--<1Dirt & dusty Grass--! & rocks &>1 <1Trees!>1--Both above & below me the largest quantity of Junipers growing together, that I ever saw/the whole Hillside from Top to the very bottom, save where the road runs, covered with it, as thick as ever Somersetshire Hills with Furze--/ From the 20th the country changed, mountain & more cultivation/ observed a lazy boy pasturing a miserable rope-legged Horse! Cross a high Bridge over the River [? Slugan]/a pretty wooded bank/long field & then a Hill-Bank of Birches--seen till my road comes among Firs, & at last thro' a <1noble>1 Firwood--Remember that bough caught up by the wind, forced over the fork of the Tree, & <1f70v>1 there growing, its elbows on the side split & naked!--O what work the winds make with these Branches! & yet what noble Creatures! compare them with the stifled ones The Darkness came on/I walked thro' a birch grove/& so on to Aviemore--Left it, Friday morning, Sept. 8. 10 oclock, a dreary Country, seeming drearier for Cultivation--at length gain a view of mountains before me/once more imprisoned, a little before the 37th mile, a very pleasant Bottom, Bridge shouldering a woody Hill, stream winding away prettily under a woody Bank/--regain a view of mountains with a noble outline [D]--they seem bare from their Bases--the whole Country is very wild--the meagre Oat-harvest, I thought <1they were weeding>1--low Oats, so meagre!--& the Harvesters so lazy & joyless!--the fields all com- mon/and the only mock inclosure bleak walls of rocks. 39th mile, a huge house to my Right [D] Mr Macpherson's--40th a new or new- making Village, Kingussie--& a fine Ruin of a Castle to the Left-- & so to Pitmaine--the first place where <1whisky>1 was not--& Rum commenced--41 miles from Inverness at Glentruim/Craig. girls <1f71>1 shiv'ring, 2 under a Cloak Hay & shearing at the same time/peas, few & hard, but this is the Season-- met a girl carrying a lighted Peat to make a fire in the Hay & Harvest Field--Three miles, at least, from Pitmaine, the <1wildest>1 of all countries (N.B. I might have gone 20 miles nearer, had I been earlier & the Day fine). It is not only that the distant Moun- tains before me, all named "du" black, are of the wildest Shapes, one of them a bridge tumbling topsy Turvy, called mountain Croupean--all dark, of a hundred Shapes, & no shape of Grandeur, none combining--it is not only this, but the whole Land thro' which the Road lies, is cloven & cut into a vast room left by Drunkards-- short tables, & high Tables, & side Tables, & cushions in confusion-- <1f7lv>1 & the hundred Forms that can be brought into no Analogy. In short, I who adore Nature, was kept <1grinning>1 at the Scene--& the Faces of the Highlanders like faces on wooden Sticks. <1f2>1 To be sure, the Gardens at Pitmaine worthy of note/--a bank, a sloping down Bottom, a semi-ellipse of Trees, form the only in- closure; & many Trees in the Garden itself--beyond it a perfect Level, cultivated Land, perhaps a mile broad--& then wild Banks swelling up into Hills, those into Mountains--4 miles from Pit- maine a House--/Arches that form a rainbow, on sundown on the ridge/A cragg behind the rainbow--& a solemn sound in the For- ground that bids "Listen! "-- <1f2v>1 1497 7.46 Croupean beck = lesser [. . .] Croupean muir = a terrace & rocky Stream beneath--a wild & desolate Moorland, with moorfowl, on the Dalwhynny, a good bed, & left it Sat. morn. Sept. 9.--9 oclock--Moors, Streaks & Soils of Green upon the pur- ple Hills. Poles along the roadside as from F. Augustus;--& past the 60 mile Stone, simple Mountains on my right especially--as at Tayndrum/Half a mile of road landlocks me/to my left one Hill, heath & fields of Stones & burnt Heath, and a scald Head of stones <1f3>1 upon black burnt Heaths--behind three mountains Lines, one under the other, the first horizontal as a wall, the other 2 descend- ing in a furious gust. A Hill exactly like Grysdale Pike & Bason, two round Hills, the nearest delved with Fast Torrents, in a line with each other--& just beyond the furthest & roundest the mountain wall runs across & locks me in--. Dalna Cardach/& turned off over the Bridge--/Be- tween the 73 & 74th Stones a Bottom, with a stream, pleasant Fields --& human white Houses. The Bank of the Tummel very beautiful, green & yellow fields. Under the wall-like Hill, purple & pebbly about two miles below the Bank a wood & a blue Lake in a bason, <1f3v>1 the rim of various outline, & the inside variously brown with culti- vation. On ascending the Hill from the Tummel--still Tummel Loch peeping over rocks. I meet my long Absent Friend, the Grundsell/beautiful + wild scene behind the Houses & Hill under the stony ridge, the fields on the other side of the ridge fringes on the little Streams/Then a laborious Ascent of 3 miles, & on the top of the mountain a Tairn, with a ridge of Hill to the right, far over the ridge a high [hill]--/black, of various Outline, not unlike Skiddaw--On the top of this Hill, along wch the road runs, I am landlocked in less than half a mile landlocked by the summits of <1f4>1 Ridges, as by walls--The road thro' Oat & potatoe fields, still rain- bow waters of [?Bointon] on each side--till to my right the ground is very wildly cleft & rifted, birch Trees clothing the perpendicular walls of the Rift, & a sounding River at the Bottom, wch I can sometimes look down upon from the edge of the Terrace-like Road. The variety of outline, Lines parallel, & crossing, of Mountain, Hill, Hillock, & Rift in each outline--a wall of 13 strides built up against the tremendous precipice. It is one of the loveliest Rifts I have ever seen, the sides chasmy. I [?walked/lingered]/between [?it] & 85 milestone, & it goes beyond the 85th for a 1/2--1 mile & <1f4v>1 then opens out on you a cultivated inclosed Hill to the Right, which has a pleasing effect contrasted with the high bleak mountain in front that closes in the scene, & the dreary Hills on the Left of the Road--& on the breast of which the Road rises when we come in sight of these. The walls of the rift are very high & with shelving Cliffs--& Oatfields & Harvesters on the Top of the right Walls-- & here too is the <1Stump>1 of a Castle--and now the Hills on right & left curving enclose the view behind--all is cultivated and it is quite <1f5>1 delicious, Houses, Oatfields, Oatsheaves, Clumps of Trees, the old Castle, the playful Outline & the still more playful Surface. Mem. I am just come from Aviemore &c The Trees on hillocks of their own, or in small Rifts of their own--The darkness came on after I had crossed the Bridge by the Castle/--a fine effect of Larches planted on the summit of a wooded Hill, at right, pointing to the others. 1498 7.47 Left Kenmore, Sunday M. 1/2 twelve, Sept. 10-- for Perth--Taymouth Castle, Park, and Woods. Then a high vast <1f5v>1 wall of mountain, clothed from top to Bottom with Firs; & above & behind this ridge, the vast range of Mountains--Ben Lawer, Schehellan &c--These I leave behind me, & cross the moorland Hill, & so come out upon a little Lake, & vale, very like Grasmere, as seen from the Raise tho' very inferior, & the Lake without an Island/the extreme Levelness of the vale more like Keswick & Bassenthwaite--pass by, the Lake to my Right, sent out of my way to Amalrhee/the Lake Glen Culoch--/cut across the Hill out of the high road leaving a delved, steep mountain rolling to my right <1f6>1 --/on my descent see mountain ridges far before, with 2 remarkable Peaks [D] --the immediate Bottom very prettily tossed about, Oat fields, sheaves, Hay-cocks, Houses, & Stacks. Close to my right one beautiful Spot--a purple mountain sinking down into ragged Burnt-Land, this into inclosures, then all terminating in a deep-rich green Bank--a <1square>1 of cottages at the end, & a rich green path winding up it from the Stream--the sum of the Lines of that green Bank--O how lovely!-- <1f6v>1 Cross the Bridge of the Almond, steep perpendicular Banks of solid rock--Trees wildly starting from them/A fall in the river above the Bridge--over such a "blasted Heath" to Methvan, the delights of an inclosed Country felt 2 miles before Methvan. <1f75>1 1499 7-48 Ben Lawr the westermost Hill G [. . .], over Drummond vales & so on to [. . .] Rocks exactly like stunted old Massive Trees among Burnt Hether--& the Toes of mountains cross from the opposite Gills-- Four Islands in the triangle of the Lake/many promontories/ Dolphin 1500 7.1 [. . . . .] Descartes Proof of Deity discovered <1fl>1 by Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury, CICIX decessit. Spinoza's System rests on his Deism/Subst. ad se subsistet. seorsum His opponents define it "per seorsum subsist." It appears to me, that this Latter was <1invented>1 purely to answer Sp. but "seorsum" clearly involves a mode or accident of sensuous Intellect. 1501 7.53 The weary man's stick often falling & out of his <1f74>1 Hand & wearily taking it up/exhaustion of nervous Power/ 1502 7.54 Men noticed in the History of the Dark Ages, as <1f73>1 single Hovels are in the Map of the North of Scotland. 1503 7.55 Wherever her eye turned, gladness came, like <1f 2v>1 spots of Sunshine on green Moorland Hills, creating a new field in the Waste/--spots of sunshine seen thro' floating mists, or thinning Showers-- 1504 7.56 <3Ode>3 to Solitude, Nature, Liberty--the Solitude free & natural, the Nature unmanacled & solitary, the Liberty natural & solitary--/--I feel here as if I were here to wander on the winds, a blessed Ghost, till my Beloved came to me/go back with her & seek my children 1505 7.57 Ode to Music--the thought I lost was that per- haps Music bringing me back to primary Feelings did really make moral regeneration. 1506 7.58 Such love as mourning Husbands have. To her <1f72>1 whose spirit hath been newly given/To be his guardian Saint in Heaven/whose Beauty lieth in the Grave Unconquered/as if the Soul could find no <1purer>1 Tabernacle, nor place of Sojourn, than the virgin Body it had before dwelt in, & wished to stay there till the Resurrection--Far liker to a Flower now than when alive--Cold to the Touch & blooming to the eye-- 1507 7.59 Removete, centum Rura qui scindunt opulenta bubus: Pauperi surgent animi jacentes. Seneca. Troad. v. 1020 applied to large farms. 1508 7.6o Divide your subject? Why, you <1pulverize>1 it.--To the Schoolmen. <1f71>1 1509 7.61 My Love rested among the Heath, & the purple Heath flowers' Shadows played on her naked feet, between the silken ligatures of her Sandals. 1510 7.62 There have been times when looking up beneath the sheltring Trees, I could Invest every leaf with Awe. 151 1 7.63 I do not think, that as yet the whole of the <1crime,>1 the cause, nature & consequences of <1Sophistry>1 has been developed. Try it dear Coleridge! 1512 7.64 In extreme low Spirits, indeed it was downright despondency, as I was eating my morsel heartlessly, I thought of my Teeth of Teeth in general--the Tongue--& the manifest <1means &>1 <1ends>1 in nature/I cannot express what a manly comfort + religious resolves I derived from it--It was in the last Days of August, 1803. --I wish, I had preserved the very Day & hour. <1fll>1 1513 6.14 Fall of Clyde Stand on a precipice--cavern of some amphitheater to the left of gray bare stone coloured or if steep <1fllv>1 as a wall surmounted with ashes oaks &c and a few firs/--in front the fall prescribed a self obliquely over a large sheet slope--and above with an intermediate space--another part of fall quietly visible. this on the right a woody bank [. . .] a great [?ghost] <1f12>1 promontory of bare rock rising from a Valley below--Holy rood House palace & Abbey in front form an arch up to the Castle for a mile. Castle quite in the sky. Brodig consisting old & new town-- St. Andrews Spire Calton hill/Observatory on the right above Holyrood house/purple O this landscape 1514 4.85 <1Sense of reluctance>1 in applying that great Pocket <1f2 v>1 book which I had destined to my continental Tour, to my Scotch Tour/an instance, as I suppose, of the <1substantiation>1 of <1the future,>1 from substance <1Person,>1 from person Sense of <1right>1--& formed <1f25>1 <1perhaps>1 by a pride of Consistency. This well worthy of Thought-- 1515 4.86 Seem to have made up my mind to write my meta- physical works, as <1my Life,>1 & <1in>1 my Life--intermixed with all the other events/or history of the mind & fortunes of S. T. Coleridge. 1516 4.87 Baptism, & Lord's Supper--& to see all the Mas- sacres attached to these--& other--& what more other/& whether <1any>1 of them are of the <1vital or true>1 parts of Christianity--If not what a [? marked/wicked] Judgment-- 15 17 4.88 Inconsequence of my Character, [ ? <1whence/ f25>1 <1where]>1 Things often repeated/received a Letter which I knew would contain interesting matter--not quite certain whether it would be affectionate or reproachful, mournful or happy--this I have kept in my pocket sometimes half a day, sometimes a whole day--have opened it at length, just looked at the end, seen it was kind or cheerful--then let it lie on my Desk, or put it up once more in my pocket--& have walked about my garden or Study an hour or more, wasting the activity & flutter of feeling excited by the letter in planning compositions, or have sate & read a book of Kant/& last of all read my Letter, my spirits tamed-- 1518 16.23 Windy Brow. Glenduratara. Glenderamacken. <1fl0v>1 Stone raise. Blenkartur. Saddleback Tarn. N.B. The Glendera- macken flows from S. Tarn, receives four becks from Bowscale Fell, winds round Souther Fell, crosses the road, & runs on the other side of Souther Fell, receiving a beck from Restmire, & so on till it meets the Penrith Road, where it receives a Beck from near Dowthwaite Head, just under Great Dod, the Second Beck on the Road to Matterdown, then close by receives another Beck from the other side from Stone raise/& this last Beck rising not 1/4 of a mile from the Glenderamacken, in its first course, making Souther Fell almost an Island.--Bowscale. Mosedale. Bowscale Tarn. Swin- side. & walk half a mile up the Caldew to the Slope--& the second Beck that runs into it on the right/ascend by that Beck to the Top of the Hill, & descend close on White Water Dash--then turn Back, cross Caldbeck Fells, having High Pike to the Left Hand, till we come to a Beck that flows <1strait>1 on to Caldbeck, this crosses a Path--and we must see, whether we must take it, & go to Hesket Newmarket, or whether we can go strait to Caldbeck/. This is the First Day's Rout--Monday--Note. Long after the Conquest Caldbeck all waste & forest, & inhabited by Freebooters, these dangerous as a main road to the W. Coast ran thro' these Forests--In the latter end however of the Conqueror's reign, or at the commencement of the reign of Henry I, Ranulph Engain, <1fll>1 Chief Forester of Inglewood, granted a license to Athelwald, first Prior of Carlisle,--1102--/or Athwold/to build a Hospital there, for the express purpose of relieving such Travellers, as were pre- vented from proceeding on their Journey by storms or banditti. This Hospital stood close to the place where the Church now is/& soon after some Lands were inclosed, the right of soil still remain- ing in the Lord of Allerdale,--& a Church built, dedicated to the tutelar St of the North, St Mungo, or Kentigern--in British, Kyndeyrn--Munghn in Pictish, = one dearly beloved/--was of Royal Blood, Bishop of Glasgow, descended of the Aboriginal Picts [D] /the apostle of the North, died in 601 aged 85. A Spring of water by Bromfield Church called Mongho's Well.--Caldbeck & Cald- beck Fells worth all England else.--Woodhall in the parish of Caldbeck the residence of George Fox, the Apostle. Second Day--Caldbeck, to Thorney Stone all along Warner & Brocklebank Fell to the right of Caldbeck, or the main road on the Left--Uldale, thro' which the Ulne, Alne, Elne or Ellen runs--/ so on to the 9th mile Stone from Cockermouth, where a Road or Lane turns off thro' Fell end, Bewaldeth Mill, Old Park, to Isel, then runs South to Kirk House, the W. to little Heauthwaite, over Hay Hill to Cockermouth/the main road e contra runs S. to the Left, for 2/3 of a mile where it meets the road to B. Chapel--but the right road runs straight W. to Armaththwaite/Ouse Bridge, by or thro' Setmurthey, over How-end, beyond the 3 mile stone crosses a Beck, which we keep to our left Hand/with Stanley Hall/the Bank to Cockermouth/From Cockermouth four miles over the Common to Pardshaw Yate the <1second>1 turning to the Left we <1fllv>1 go straight to Mockerkin, having P. & Pardshaw Crag to our Left <1a little.>1 M. is the blunt apex of a [D] P. Pardshaw Yate/W Water- end/But we should save a great deal by turning off, the second turning to the Left, a little before the 2 mile stone, & so straight (avoiding the turnings on the Left that lead to the Cocker) by Blea & Ake Banks, where a Beck crosses the road in its Journey to- ward the Cocker/& this Beck we have close by our left, then Low & High Mosser, to its source/Just under Asgill Knot, from whence we must force a way 1/4 of a mile to Water end.--On the Lorton Side of the Beck is Whinfield fells, & over Asgil Knot Low Fell--On the other side of Lowes Water Burn--[?drink] at Water end, & Carling Knot & Water yate, Both of them belonging to Blake Fell. --Note. There is a parochial Library, of 500 vol. at Cockermouth --the Free School--Third Day--Cross the Becks at the foot of Crummock, having seen the view at the Foot of the Lake/as you look up, on your Left 1. Whiteside, & 2. Grasmoor with River Gasgale between them/<1a Beck>1/3. Ladhow, another Beck--4. Whiteless Pike, between & behind 5 Buttermere Hose./--then better perhaps follow the Beck up thro' Mosedale between Mell- break & Hencomb, ascend Hencomb, & see Ennerdale, & so descend on Scale Force/climb up to the top of Scale Force to Blebba Tarn between Red Pike & High Steel, & so on to High Crag, & there, or <1f12>1 some place between there & Scarf Gap descend, dine at Buttermere/ or perhaps we may go along the Hay Stacks divided from the Steeple, Pillar, Kirk Fell, and Great Gavel by the upper part of Ennerdale with its Liza/The Steeple, Pillar, & Haycock form a Triangle.--On map, the Steeple the Apex--/& next to the Hay Cock, but nearer Wastwater, Seat Allian./ 1519 16.24 Thursday Morning, 10 oclock, Sept. 29, 1803-- with Southey left Greta Hall, thro' the Turnpike over Calvert's Bridge thro' the Wood, by the sweet Housage of Wesco with its Ivy & outhouse, thro' Threlkeld, up Saddleback, over Blenkarthur having the Horse road a great deal to our Right, to Saddleback Tarn/I had quite forgotten the fearfully sublime Precipice & strid- ing Edge on its farther or Northern [D] Side, and the colours of this little Tarn, blood-crimson, and then Sea Green &c &c--& so go on in Sections, now Calms, now <1fl2v>1 Ruffled Spaces, & no where where more beautiful can you see the breeze-race, blowing a rich blue like the Peacocks neck over the Tairn, till where it comes near the blood-crimson, & then it turns into the most beautiful purple/--Wood despoliated from Bowscale Tarn/--Caldbeck Howk/1. Vista Brook/2. waterfall down the Pulpit/3. covered with Foam-Waves, that beat against the buttress of the natural bridge, 4. the Pool & the natural bridge with two Arches of unequal sizes, with an enormous middle buttress & the bridge finely wooded/5. the Stream thro' the larger Arch falls down after a twist or two in a noble Water fall under a pendent mass of Ivy, itself under a ceiling of Lime Trees--6. thro' the lesser Arch, on the Left Hand as you look <1down>1 the Stream, it pours into & fills up a round cauldron, 20 feet in diameter its wall like the Wall of an open tower/7. close by it the <1two>1 parlours/8. descend to the bed of the River/9. a second pool still more <1f13>1 beautiful & wide & green and deep, and as sweetly oer-canopied by Limes & Ashes, the Limes absolutely <1showering>1 their yellow Leaves/ 1520 16.25 Friday, Sept. 30, 1803/10. on a ledge on the Side of the rock on the <1right>1 of this Second pool, as you look <1up>1 the Stream, & directly above the pool--in high water it would scarcely leave your Soles unwetted, the best view of the whole under part of this Scenery//On the left-most of the ivy--Swinging a mass of rock, the water gushing out from under, like a furious Gush of blood from a plethoric Artery fighting with the mossy <1middle>1 buttress of this Sub-bridge, another Stream rushing in the same manner thro' the <1lefter>1 arch & one quiet fillet falling adown, with- out contact, the mossy rock/often intercepted by the <1Shooting>1 of this & of that Waterfall/--in the center a round Tower of Rock, 50 feet high from the bed of the river, with an Indian Chief's lofty <1fl3v>1 dancing Coronet of Limes, & Hazels--/to the right of this/a beau- tiful opening, with the round faery Cauldron below it whose wall forms the connection between this Turret, & the second Turret, equal in height, & much larger in diameter, & so wreathed as the other/& under this on the right-most the parlours--/& above my head where I stand the Cathedral Seats/The water was so low that I saw the whole Anatomy of the Place, especially those <1gushing>1 waterfalls, which in full water are hidden by the fall of water over <1their>1 bridge or cavern roof--/nothing can be conceived more beau- tiful than the left-most of these gushes, the higher Half far within in a [D] of cavern, & then rushing over on the right of its little cavern flooring--/--The foot & the bone-cup/--/the <1f14>1 Deluge of Stones from Carrock, on the road from Mossdale to Hesket/ /no stones immediately under the mountain, & but few on the left of the Road/but on the right several acres wholly cov- ered with stones of hugest size/ On our return from Caldbeck it seemed to threaten rain, one shower came, Southey was weary & already homesick/so we turned off at the 5th milestone, passed by the bald Overwater, that might be made so lovely, dined at a Quaker Statesmans where for the first time I eat Sugar-sop, a composition of Flour, Cream, Butter, & Sugar/o what a clean happy house, & the good folks how soli- citously hospitable!--The servant maid, a fine Lass who talked & looked on in equality, went out & shewed us the way & positively & obstinately refused all money--Her Master & Mistress were <1fl4v>1 Quakers, but she, she said, & most of the people thereabout were Protestants.--So too at Isaac Tod's, at Grysdale, where we stopped at 1/4 past 3 to get a dish of Tea/both Master & Mistress were out, but the old servant, a poor crazy matterless body, bestirred herself to do what she could/but a neighbour Woman, well-drest & well spoken, came in, bustled about, made the Tea for us, brought a bot- tle of Spirits from her own House, where she had left a visitor/& warmly pressed us to go home with her, & take beds at her House, which was 1/4 of a mile off/. In short, it is a universal Virtue/one house may be more comfortable, more neat than another, but the hospitality & cheerful eagerness to entertain Strangers, without the 1521] SEPTEMBER-OCT 8 least thought of remuneration, or endurance of it when offered is universal.--The view of the Vale on the Skiddaw side of Bas- senthwaite is so divine, that one wonders how it can be equalled, & yet equalled it is by the other side of the Lake, in the lovely vale displayed to you by the Break of the Hartop & Withop fells & Hay Hill with those two sweet little Hills on the edge of the water--/We returned about 5 oclock in the afternoon <1fl5>1 1521 16.26 Inoculation--might it not begin in an attempt to <1poison>1 by this new Plague/? & be continued from Superstition, as putting Children under God's protection?--That it should have its rise in a country of suicidal Predestinatrians makes this probable. 1522 16.27 Emmet = mad Raphael painting Ideals of Beauty on the walls of a cell with human Excrement <1fl5v>1 1523 16.28 Packwood's wife complimented on her Husband's Verses--"Marry come up!--I'd have you to know, Sir! that vee always keeps a Poet." 1524 16.29 In Ireland you must always leave open the Door of the Privy/a famous Pistol-mark.--Gentlemen & Dancing Mas- ter/Chicken--would not let him go till he had Delivered it up on the Hearth Stone. 1525 16.30 Of Sir Edward Littleton's when he came to the Pig Stie--The Lord deliver me! the Lord have mercy upon! The Pig Stie!--It beats our Parlour hollow. 1526 16.31 A Legerdemain Fellow at a place where there was a large quantity of Gunpowder which blew up & threw a Sailor into a Potatoe Garden unhurt--'Od darn the Fellow! cries Jack scratch- ing his Ear!--I wonder what he'll do next. 1527 16.32 Mr Overlin sends for Southey on particular Busi- <1f16>1 ness at particular Time/the meeting--& what the Business? Mr Overlin had noticed that there were a multitude of hard words which Gentlemen would be glad to introduce into conversation if they but knew the meaning--proposed therefore to S. to make a glossary of the same/he, Mr O. would exert himself to procure Subscribers--& modestly expected in return half the Profits-- 1 528 16.33 Ay! them's the Chaps for I! --a young Rider, long silent, making a dart at the Jellies on their first appearance. 1529 16.34 Did it rain tomorrow?--It vas!--A Dialogue be- tween 2 Frenchmen, exercising each other in the English Lan- guage-- 1530 16.35 The Air-gun. I do understand it perfectly, Sir!-- but where is the Touch-hole. 1531 16.36 Barry's Story of the Woman at Rome who mur- <1fl6v>1 dered her Lover/put his corse in the Sack, hoisted it on the Porter's back, & sewed it on/he hoisting it backward fell of course into the River/--the Treachery of this Woman's Confession, who had a Brother in the Gallies, detected by the young Lawyer-- 1532 16.37 Oct. 12. General Peche\'s Story of the Dela Lina-- 1533 16.38 Laughter of Parents & Grandames at little chil- dren's motions, is Laughter in its original state--a little convulsive motion to get rid of a pleasure rising into pain/--this worthy of further Thought/--Love--<1Desire.>1 1534 16.39 Walking Stuart dissertation on Benevolence illus- trated by one instance that occurred to himself that same morning, a sharp frosty morning--a Drunken man in the Ditch--Benevo- lence prompted to take him out--he held up his Hand, St discov- ered that he had the Itch/a Struggle & audible Soliloquy--at last, in indignation at his own Folly to hesitate concerning the Perishing of a worthless Drunkard, & the incalculable mischief to the Uni- <1f17>1 verse by a Philosopher, like him, getting the Itch, he walked off-- 1535] OCTOBER 1803 1535 16.40 Valley of Stones--& the three Ships in the Sun, the broad Sun/--Remember at Linton the Pilchard Merchant from Cornwall, who agreed that all the rest of the Catholic Religion would be abandoned/but they never would give up their Fast & Lent Days/No! Never give up Cornish Pilchards! 1536 16.41 <1The Reading>1 Fly + the lethargic Dutchman who had just visited the Learned Pig. Try the utmost of art to tell this Story so as not to be anticipated--putting a mumbling soliloquy in his mouth/-- Anselm & his Coachman/O excellent. 1537 16.42 Mary Hutchinson & Cottle--What, pray, do you think of Mr Coleridge's first appearance?--This made me laugh; but immediately after it made me melancholy-- <1fl7v>1 1538 16.43 Jew and the Officer--the Turned Coat/will it turn?--Excellently.--Jew returned in great Ire/it is turned al- ready--Yes! to be sure/--how could I have, else, spoken so posi- tively to its character in that respect. 1539 16.44 Taylor at Exeter, & Southey's & my Garters--Upon the honor, Sir! of a Soldier I charge not a Farthing less to my Brother Officers. 1 540 16.45 Kestell's whole Character/my Son's Brother, Lord Teignmouth/i.e. who had married the Sister of his Daugh- ter's Husband/Bonaparte comparable act to Alexander's Crossing the Rubicon, immediately after his defeat of Xerxes on the banks of the Ganges, close by Marathon.--His get- ting drunk, & at Supper relating of himself, with all the circum- stances most ingeniously adapted to himself when Surgeon to the Army in Germany, a long Tale which my Brother, Colonel Cole- ridge, had told that same afternoon to the very same Party-- 1541 16.46 Mix up Truth & Imagination, so that the Imag. may spread its own indefiniteness over that which really happened, & Reality its sense of substance & distinctness to Imagination/ For the Soother of Absence-- 1542 16.47 The wild rose the lightest bright yellow, next to <1f18>1 that, one shade deeper, the common Ash/3. The Birch, which is golden/4. the Mountain Ash, a shade deeper than the Birch.-- St John's Vale, o the Lights, the watry white Sun-sections, like a moonlight/indeed the whole walk is enchantment/ 1543 16.48 Spread of perniscious Doctrines among a class be- low literary, such as, especially, the Duty of Persecution for reli- gious Opinions, in consequence of literary men & enlightened men being all <1agreed>1 among themselves, & neglecting to combat these Errors; far nobler subjects for yearly Bampton Lectures might be found, than the Trinity that none but an Ideot can believe, & the Existence of God which none but a madman can disbelieve. 1544 16.49 The man with one coat. Does it rain this morning? Yes, Sir.--Give me my blue coat then.--Is it fine this morning?-- Give me my blue coat then! 1 545 16.5o The mitre Shaped rock, exact mitre/almost on <1fl8v>1 the Top of the Mountain from Borrodale to Watendlath, just op- posite the Castle Crag. 1546 21.266 I am sincerely glad, that he has bidden farewell <1f50>1 to all small Poems--& is devoting himself to his great work-- grandly imprisoning while it deifies his Attention & Feelings within the sacred Circle & Temple Walls of great Objects & elevated Con- ceptions.--In these little poems his own corrections, coming <1of ne->1 <1cessity>1 so often, at the end of every 14, or 20 lines--or whatever the poem might chance to be--wore him out--difference of opinion with his best friends irritated him/& he wrote at times too much with a sectarian Spirit, in a sort of Bravado.--But now he is at the Helm of a noble Bark; now he sails right onward--it is all open Ocean, & a steady Breeze; and he drives before it, unfretted by short Tacks, reefing & unreefing the Sails, hawling & disentangling the ropes.--His only Disease is the having been out of his Element --his return to it is food to Famine, it is both the specific Remedy, & the condition of Health. 1547 21.267 Jalap instead of breakfast, Ipecacuanha for one's Dinner, Glauber's Salts in hot water for Tea, & the whole together in their several metempsychoses, after having passed back again thro' the Mouth, or onwards thro' the Bowels, in a grand Maw- wallop for one's Supper. 1548 21.268 A smile as foreign, as alien to--as detached from, the gloom of <3her>3 Countenance, as I have seen a small spot of Light travel slowly & sadly along the mountain's breast, when all beside has been dark with the Storm. <1f50v>1 1549 21.269 Aromatic Smell of the Poplar, especially in the Fall of the Leaf.-- 1550 21.270 The 2 Letters on Ching's Worm Medicine in the 3rd Leaf of Black Pocket-book No 1 -- 1551 21.271 Never to lose an opportunity of reasoning against the head-dimming, heart-damping Principle of Judging a work by its Defects, not its Beauties. <1Every>1 work must have the former-- we know it a priori--but every work has not the Latter/& he there- fore, who discovers them, tells you something that you could not with certainty or even with probability have anticipated.-- 1552 21.272 The vices of tyrannical great men very closely connected with their vices as Striplings, at Schools & Universities.-- Tiberius. Lord Lonsdale. P--x. Impotence.--Painful Sensation and Loss of Hope = castration of the self-generating Organ of the Soul/--Continuousness a true Foliation.-- 1553 21.273 A curious & more than curious Fact that when the country does not benefit, it depraves. Hence the violent vindictive passions--& the outrageous & dark & wild cruelties--of many coun- try folks.--Continual Sight of Human Faces & human Houses, as in China, emasculates & dwarfs.-- 1554 21.274 Without Drawing I feel myself but half invested with Language--Music too is wanting to me.--But yet tho' one should unite Poetry, Draftsman's-ship & Music--the greater & perhaps nobler certainly all the subtler parts of one's nature, must be solitary--Man exists herein to himself & to God alone/--Yea, in how much only to God--how much lies <1below>1 his own Conscious- ness. 1555 21.275 Worm in motion flattens its Tail so as to make it an exact resemblance of the Head of the venomous Serpent.-- 1556 21.276 The <1Tree,>1 or Sea-weed like, appearance on the <1f5l>1 side of the mountain all white with Snow/made by little Bits of Snow loosened--introduce that & the Stones leaping, rabbit-like, down in my Sopha of Sods. 1557 21.277 Russia, a poem: addressed to Emperor Nic. 1558 21.278 The sunny mist, the luminous Gloom, of Plato.-- 1559 21.279 Mist steaming up from the deep chasms or inter- vals of the mountains, as from a huge Caldron.--Waterfall, I gaz- ing long & stedfastly, rolled like the segment of a wheel, the black rock gleaming thro' it--amid the roar a noise as of innumerable Grashoppers, or manufactory of spinning wheels. Distance abstract- ing motion <1painted>1 the Waterfall. 1560 21.280 7th Leaf of No. 1. valuable Instance from Stuart's view of Society of decorous manners & most filthy morals--charac- teristic of the present age.--The next Leaf a legible Transcript of that most exquisite Passage from Watts's Logic--& a reference to an equal Inanity in a different Style from Creech.-- 1561 21.281 Poem on Spirit--or on Spinoza--I would make a pilgrimage to the Deserts of Arabia to find the man who could make understand how the <1one can be many1>1 Eternal universal mystery! It seems as if it were impossible; yet it <1is>1--& it is every where! --It is indeed a contradiction <1in Terms:>1 and only in Terms! --It is the co presence of Feeling & Life, limitless by their very es- sence, with Form, by its very essence limited--determinate--defi- nite.-- 1562 21.282 11th Leaf of No 1. an amusing Quack Puff of Dr Brodum's. 1563 21.283 Godwin to trace at each sentence, all the thought & associations leading to it--O folly. little reflected he, how much of Eternity there is in each moment of Time!-- <1f5lv>1 1564 21.284 Cut out from the Kingston Mercantile Advertiser From Sat. Aug. 15. to Tuesd. Aug. 18. 1801.--This <1one>1 Paper (for it is, as appears, a twice or 3 times a week paper), I found by acci- dent among the package papers of Southey's Books, brought over by Lieutenant Southey who was on the W. India Station. 1565 21.285 Errors beget opposite Errors: for it is our imper- fect Nature to run into extremes--But this trite because ever-recur- ring Truth is not the whole--Alas!--those are endangered who have avoided the Extremes--as if among the Tartars in opposition to a Faction, one that had unnaturally lengthened their noses into monstrosity, there should arise another who cut off theirs flat to the Face, Socinians in physiognomy--the few, who retained their Noses as Nature made them & Reason dictated, would assuredly be persecuted by the noseless Party, as Adherents of the Rhinocerot- ists, or Monster-nosed Men. 2 of the English Church, called, Evangelical--Excess of Calvinism produced Arminianism, and those not in excess <1must>1 therefore be Calvinists!> - 1566 21.286 What a History!--Horses & Negros, Negros & Horses!--O God! it makes me tremble for my Country.--Do, let me remember to write out Spedding's Story of that Heroic Negro, whom he met at Demarara! -- 1567 21.287 English Slavery on English--Sir Edward Black- ett & his secret proposals!--John Mowbray, of Appleton, 9 miles from N. Allerton, more than 30 years on the Farm, & had reared up a large Family which had always kept him poor--within 4 pounds of the offer, & turned off!-- 1568 21.289 Wed. Nov. 20. 1799. Scotch Corner--my left <1f52v>1 Foot swoln/plunged it in very hot [water] which felt the same as very cold, in the first moment/so Frost vice versa "performs the effect of Fire." 1569 21.29o Partridges towering a certain proof that they have been mortally wounded. 1570 21.291 Truth still more than Justice blind & needs Wis- dom for her Guide. 1571 21.292 A blind man, perfectly blind, of Temple Sowerby, named Fowell, goes a-fishing on the River Eden. He has an inti- mate Friend, likewise stone blind, who plays cards--knows every stile & gate far & near/These two often course together. The people fond of the Marvellous here as every where, affirm that they are the best Beaters up of Game in the whole Country.-- 1572 21.293 Careful to be accurate, I wrote down what was before my eyes while it was before my eyes, and took down the words from the man's mouth/but in the hurry I wrote rather scram- blingly, &c, & 3 years after made unwittingly a great error in the whole account by transcribing it wrong, & mistaking or misreading a word.--This I mean for my Book of Calumny, Cre- dulity, Causes of mistake/--Aim at exhausting all possible modes of Deceit & Error/to teach Charity & Humility. 1573 21.294 Blind men & Barrel Organ Player, among <3Mus>3icians Metaphysicians, Moralists, Poets!-- 1574 21.295 Mr. J. Cairns, Gentleman's Diary, for 1800 sup- poses that the Nazarites who under the Law of Moses had their Heads [shaved] must have used some sort of Wigs. <1f53>1 1575 21.296(a) Print of the Darlington Ox, sprigged with Spots. --Viewed in all moods, consciously, uncons. semiconsc.--with va- cant, with swimming eyes--made a Thing of Nature by the repeated action of the Feelings. O Heaven when I think how perishable Things, how imperishable Thoughts seem to be! --For what is For- getfulness? ++ Renew the state of affection or bodily Feeling, same or similar--sometimes dimly similar/ and instantly the trains of forgotten Thought rise from their living catacombs! --Old men, & Infancy/and Opium, probably by its narcotic effect on the whole seminal organization, in a large Dose, or after long use, produces the same effect on the <1visual, & passive>1 memory/. ++ so far was written in my b.pocket [book] Nov. 25th 1799--Monday Afternoon, the Sun shining in upon the Print, in beautiful Lights--& I just about to take Leave of Mary--& having just before taken leave of Sara.--I did not then know Mary's & William's attachment/ The lingering Bliss, The long entrancement of a True-love Kiss. Nov. 24th--the Sunday--Conundrums & Puns & Stories & Laugh- ter--with Jack Hutchinson--Stood up round the Fire, et Sara|e manum a tergo longum in tempus prensabam, and tunc temporis, tunc primum, amor me levi spiculo, venenato, eheu! & insanabili, &c. Oct. 22. 23. 24th. on the road in a post-chaise with poor Cottle/the modest men in conversation, the vain the envious in their closets, & on their pillows!--Oct. 27th, 1799. Is [. . . . . . . . . .] 1576 21.296(b) Ten Kisses short as one, one long as twenty. <1f53v>1 1577 21.297 Slanting Pillars of Light, like Ladders up to Heaven, their base always a field of vivid green Sunshine/--This is Oct. 19. 1803. Wed. Morn. tomorrow my Birth Day, 31 years of age!--O me! my very heart dies! --This <1year>1 has been one pain- ful Dream/I have done nothing!--O for God's sake, let me whip & spur, so that Christmas may not pass without some thing having been done/--at all events to finish The Men & the Times, & to collect them & all my Newspaper Essays into one Volume/to collect all my poems, finishing the Vision of the Maid of Orleans, the Dark Ladie, & make a second Volume/& to finish Christabel.-- I ought too, in common gratitude, to write out my two Tours, for Sally Wedgwood/ Oct. 19. 1803. The general Fast Day--and all hearts anxious concerning the Invasion.--A grey Day, windy--the vale, like a place in Faery, with the autumnal Colours, the orange, the red- brown, the crimson. the light yellow, the yet lingering Green, Beeches & Birches, as they were blossoming Fire & Gold!--& the Sun in slanting pillars, or illuminated small parcels of mist, or single spots of softest greyish Light, now racing, now slowly gliding, now stationary/--the mountains cloudy--the Lake has been a mirror so very clear, that the water became almost invisible --& now it rolls in white Breakers, like a Sea; & the wind snatches up the water, & drifts it like Snow/--and now the Rain Storm pelts against my Study Window!--[[O <2Sara Sara>2 why am I]] not happy! why have I not an unencumbered Heart! these beloved Books still before me, this noble Room, the very centre to which a whole world of beauty converges, the deep reservoir into which all these streams & currents of lovely Forms flow--my own mind so populous, so active, so full of noble schemes, so capable of real- <1f54>1 izing them/this heart so loving, so filled with noble affections--O [[Asra ]]! wherefore am I not happy! why for years have I not en- joyed one pure & sincere pleasure!--one full Joy!--one genuine Delight, that rings sharp to the Beat of the Finger!--++all cracked, & dull with base Alloy!--Di Boni! mihi vim et virtutem/vel tu, [. . . . . .], eheu! perdite amatio! ++ But still have said to the poetic Feeling when it has awak'd in the Heart--Go! --come tomorrow.-- A day of Storm/at dinner an explosion of Temper from the Sis- ters/a dead Sleep after Dinner/the Rhubarb had its usual en- feebling-narcotic effect/I slept again with dreams of sorrow & pain, tho' not of downright Fright & prostration/I was worsted but not conquered--in sorrows and in sadness & in sore & angry Struggles --but not trampled down/but this will all come again, if I do not take care. Storm all night--the wind scourging & lashing the rain, with the pauses of self-wearying Violence that returns to its wild work as if maddened by the necessity of the Pause/I, half-dozing, list'ning to the same, not without solicitations of the poetic Feeling/for from ++ I have written, Oct. 20. 1803, on Thursday Morning, 40 minutes past 2oclock. <1f54v>1 1578 21 298 In the North every Brook, every Crag, almost every Field has a name/a proof of greater Independence & of a Society truer to Nature. 1579 21.299 All about Sockburn & indeed generally thro' the North Riding of Yorkshire & in Durham, Asses are counted so lucky that they are almost universally kept among Cows in Dairy Farms. If a man should buy a Horse of great Value he immediately purchases an Ass--for Luck! The Ass runs both with the Horse & with the Cows; especially with the Cows, as in calving they are more subject to accidents.-- 1580 21.300 Sept. 11. 1799. I was with Southey at Lesley Cleve, and passed over a Bridge of Rocks, then a Bridge, the low stream running underneath, but in high swells the bed of a Torrent --& still in the Interstices of the Rocks lay the Foam of the Yester- night's Torrent. 1581 21.301 Sept. 12, at Dartmouth/observed the Moon thrusting thro' a thin Slip of white Cloud about half her own Breadth pushed with contracted Point, like the narrower end of the egg, then emerging recovered her shape above, & the under half entering the cloud contracted in the same manner. 1582 21.302 Thousand--from Thou + Sand?--or from Tas- sen, an old Suabian word = acervare.--Sept. 14 at Newton Bushel compared Southey in the Ann. Anthology to a Salmon dressed with Shrimp Sauce. 1/2 a mile from Newton Bushel took this from a Garden Gate/Man Traps and Spring Guns <1till'd>1 in this Garden.-- Till = to prepare--put ready. Till, until--to till--all the same word.--And this is the whole account that I preserved of my inter- esting Tour in Devonshire with Southey--tho' we were at that interesting Bovy Waterfall--thro' that wild Dell of Ashes that leads to Ashburton, most like the approach to Matterdale from Keswick/to Dartington, Totness, Dartmouth/Dartmouth itself so very well worth describing.--N.B. Did I write to Wordsworth any Description--and of the man, near Totness, who took us two miles out of our way on a long Journey--as we thought to shew us a nearer way--but in reality only to shew us a field of 4 acres, for <1f55>1 which a Farmer had given 40 years purchase/the rent being 2 %% per acre!--O how we laughed & cursed!--I have at this moment very distinct visual impressions of this Tour (namely, Oct. 19. 1803) of Torbay--& the village of Paynton with the Castle--and I had the black Pocket-book. 1583 21.303 Oct. 25th. I was with Cottle in a Post Chaise at Easingwold--& suppose I left Bristol. Oct. 22. 1799 for my most <1v>1 important Journey to the North.--Governments <1gouge.>1 Scotchmen returning to Scotland = stream flowing back to its fountain. at Tadcaster saw a most interesting Picture on the road--a flock of sheep, and perhaps 200 yards behind a sick Sheep with its head on the ground, a dog looking up at the little Boy's face--and the poor little sheep boy standing close by the sick Sheep, anxiously looking forward to the Flock--not knowing what to do! I never saw dis- tressful Doubt so strongly painted.--Saw, that Day, some Sheep passing a Bank & leaping off it with their heads turned to the quar- ter from whence they leapt on the Bank, repeatedly came to it again--a true argumentum in circulo!-- 1584 21.3o4 Taste for Paradox in my man of Roads--always preferred cold water in shaving--& turned the glass & looked stead- ily at its Back while shaving, &c &c. 1585 21.3o5 G. Dyer's character & the difference between moral & intellectual Truth--.Growth of the Ludicrous and its In- fluence on Poetry & Morals.--Aspen, Oct. 25th--a lovely light yel- low, by the side of a Tree all poppy-colored.--Two glorious crea- tures. Easingwold opposite the Crown a thatched House, the thatch so weedy with all sorts of weeds as to resemble a Hill-bank. How often I have noticed this, since! This I assuredly shall introduce into Verse. 1586 21.3o6-9 Ridicule the Rage for Quotation by quoting from my Baby's Handkerchief.--Analyse the causes that the Ludicrous weakens the memory--& Laughter mechanically makes it difficult to remember a good story.-- The effect of shattering old Associations illustrated in my ad- venture at Mentfelde, & Wordsworth & the Welshman/-- German Professor's critical Treatise on the amorous Poetry of the English--all the proofs & instances from the Poetry of the New Lady's Magazine.--W. gobbets of Bread & Butter for a fighting Cock--Then I laughed & liked this!--O it is wise seldom to laugh. <1f55v>1 1587 21.310 Few moments in Life so interesting as those of an affectionate Reception from a Stranger, who is the dear Friend of your dear Friend!--How often you have been the subject of con- versation, how affectionately! --Curiosity of true Love/respectful- ness yet eager Look of kindness--& when turned away to do any thing, to fetch any thing, the rapidity of motion, & eagerness--a relief of the strong Feelings, which sitting & vis a vis the respect due to a Stranger made it necessary to repress or chasten.--O dear Mary [. . .] never shall I forget your [. . .] manners. 1588 21.31 1 Mr. Ward, a good man, passionately fond of Nature & of Drawing, has a House on Neesham Bank, the most lovely Scene on the Tees--& now he is almost stone-blind. Yet still he draws, using the eyes of his Brother who lives with him--How affecting! --Here too is a most delicious Ferry, a smooth black glossy water, with a green Hue from the broad branching Trees on each Bank--& the Parish pays so much per annum for all to be ferried over to Church.--Well may one call this noble River the peninsulating Tees--this character continues thro' its whole course, almost to the very Sea--In ascending the Hill on leaving Stockton upon Tees, for Yorkshire &c--I saw a noble Vessel with all its Canvass spread sailing like an Arrow thro' a rich meadow field!-- for there was no suspicion of a River, which flowed beneath you clear & broad--& again in the distance/the place where the Ship you would have sworn must have been half a mile from the course of the River, at least.--Sunday afternoon, Oct. 27. 1799. myself, and Wordsworth on Foot, & Cottle his Legs hugely muffled up, mounted on Lily--down that miry Lane, by Neesham Bank, and so to Herworth, the village where Emerson, the great Mathema- tician lived--& truly I never before or since saw a Village so <1be->1 <1dialled/>1 a Dial on every House.--In the Church yard much He- brew on the Tombs--and here I found a fragment of a Tomb-stone with these words on it--To the Memory of -------. and these were all.--It more than amused--it affected me.--One mile from Her- worth the village of Croft, the beautiful Village, which we ap- proached by the footpath from Herworth on the eastern side of the River--the rest of my Tour fills up the remainder of No 1., & is sufficiently legible.-- <1f56>1 At Croft we discussed the question of Polytheism & Monothe- ism, of Tombs by the Roadside & Tombs in Church yards.-- Thought of translating Schiller's Go%tter des Griechenlandes--& of writing an Antiphony to it.--Better write both myself in the man- ner & metre of Penseroso & Allegro. 1589 21.312-19 Images. Shadow of the Tree in the ruffled water distinguishable from the Breeze on the water only by its stationari- ness.--In clear water over an uneven channel, as in the Greta be- hind my House, a huge <1Boa>1 convolvulus--an enormous Adder/-- at other times, the waving Sword of Fire of the Cherub over Para- dise.-- Star (at Barnard Castle) bright, large, the only one, right over the Tower--now absolutely cresting it--& now as we came nearer, twinkling behind the motionless Fragment, a high wall <1ruined>1 into a rude Obelisk. Shootings of water threads down the Slope of the huge green Stone.--Varieties of this on the Clyde, in my Scotch Tour. The <1white rose>1 of Eddy-foam, where the stream ran into a scooped or scolloped hollow of the Rock in its channel--this shape, an exact white rose, was for ever overpowered by the Stream rush- ing down in upon it, and still obstinate in resurrection it spread up into the Scollop by fits and starts <1blossoming>1 in a moment into full Flower.--Hung over the Bridge, & musing considering how much of this Scene of endless variety in Identity was Nature's --how much the living organ's!--What would it be if I had the eyes of a fly!--what if the blunt eye of a Brobdignag!-- Black round Ink-spots from 5 to 18 in the decaying Leaf of the Sycamore. A circular glade in a forest of Birch Trees, and in the center of the circle, a stone standing upright, twice a tall man's Height-- and by its side a stately Ash Tree umbrellaing it.-- A road on the breast of the mountain, all wooded save at the very Top where the steep naked Crag lorded it--this road seen <1f56v>1 only by a stream of white Cows, gleaming behind the Trees, in the Interspaces. A Host of little winged Flies on the Snow mangled by the Hail Storm, near the Top of Helvellin. Nov. 27th--a most interesting morning. 1799. Awoke from one [of] my painful Coach-Sleeps, in the Coach to London. It was a rich Orange Sky like that of a winter Evening save that the fleecy dark blue Clouds that rippled above it, shewed it to be Morning-- these soon became of a glowing Brass Colour, brassy Fleeces, wool- packs in shape/rising high up into the Sky. The Sun at length rose upon the flat Plain, like a Hill of Fire in the distance, rose wholly, & in the water that flooded part of the Flat a deep column of Light. --But as the Coach went on, a Hill rose and intercepted the Sun --and the Sun in a few minutes <1rose>1 over it a compleat 2nd rising, thro' other clouds and with a different Glory. Soon after this I saw Starlings in vast Flights, borne along like smoke, mist--like a body unindued with voluntary Power/--now it shaped itself into a circular area, inclined--now they formed a Square--now a Globe-- now from complete Orb into an Ellipse--then oblongated into a Balloon with the Car suspended, now a concave Semicircle; still expanding, or contracting, thinning or condensing, now glimmer- ing and shivering, now thickening, deepening, blackening! 1590 21.320 Labrador Earth is Brown Shorl imbedded in Quartz Chrystal. 1591 21.321 Arrived in London, Nov. 27th, 1799. Thursday, Nov. 28 called on Tobin--his Joy at the arrival of a new Cock, with both eyes & spurs in fine condition.-- 1592 21.322 Friday Evening, Nov. 29. The immoveableness of all Things thro' which so many men were moving--harsh con- trast compared with the universal motion, the harmonious System of Motions, in the country & every where in Nature.--In this, dim Light London appeared to me as a huge place of Sepulchres thro' which Hosts of Spirits were gliding.-- 1593 21.323 Sunday, Nov. 30th--Dined with Phillips' & spent <1f57>1 a long Day, supped &c. Droll scene, I haranguing on the utility & merits of a proposed work--Phillips delighted, sure it would an- swer/& singing the <1oddest Duet>1 with me/about the Pocket size-- twelve syllables in a Line/30 lines in the page--&c &c--. Poor Surr, & his young wife--tipsy--now gazing in rapture on me, now in dotage & desire on his wife!--<& ever and anon blundering the look on me which was meant for his new wife--& vice versa2.--> 1594 21.324 Montague owed Azariah Pinny 30 %%--sent him a very long treble Letter on the best mode of educating Females-- which if not worth 30 %%, was certainly worth 25 %%--& he would send the Balance in the course of a few months!--Told me by Tobin, Dec. 5-- 1595 21.325 Tall thin man stooping and bending in the mid- dle, & there tightly buttoned up, like a cracked Stick, bandaged hard round the Fracture--with Rags or Twine.--at the same time two faces by each other, exactly like the same face as seen in the back of a polished Spoon, held upright or horizontally.-- 1596 21.326 N.B. To examine the proofs of the antiquity of Welsh Bardism, as a System of Quakerism; & if it have really ex- isted in its present State anterior to George Fox, to examine what connection the <1Seeking>1 had with Bards, & what G. Fox with the <1Seekers.>1 William Erbury & Walter Cradock, natives of S. Wales, are said to have been his Help-mates.-- <1f67>1 1597 21.357 Nothing affects me much at the moment it hap- pens--it either stupifies me, and I perhaps look at a merry-make & dance the hay of Flies, or listen entirely to the loud Click of the great Clock/or I am simply indifferent, not without some sense of philosophic Self-complacency.--For a Thing at the moment is but a Thing of the moment/it must be taken up into the mind, diffuse itself thro' the whole multitude of Shapes & Thoughts, not one of which it leaves untinged--between wch & it some new Thought is not engendered/this a work of Time/but the Body feels it quicken with me-- 1598 21.358 On St Herbert's Island I saw a large Spider with most beautiful legs floating in the air on his Back by a single Thread which he was spinning out, and still as he spun, heaving in the air, as if the air beneath were a pavement elastic to his Strokes/--from the Top of a very high Tree he had spun his Line, at length reached the Bottom, tied his Thread round a piece of Grass, & re-ascended, to spin another/a net to hang as a fisherman's Sea net hangs in the Sun & Wind, to dry.-- 1599 21.359 One excellent use of communication of Sorrows to a Friend is this: that in relating what ails us we ourselves first know exactly what the real Grief is--& see it for itself, in its own form & limits--Unspoken Grief is a misty medley, of which the real affliction only plays the first fiddle--blows the Horn, to a scattered mob of obscure feelings &c. Perhaps, at certain moments a single almost insignificant Sorrow may, by association, bring to- gether all the little relicts of pain & discomfort, bodily & mental, that we have endured even from Infancy.-- 1600 21.360 One may best judge of men by their Pleasures. Who has not known men who have passed the Day in honorable Toil with Honor, & Ability--& at night sought the vilest pleasures in the vilest Society. This is the Man's Self--the other is a trick learnt by heart--for we may even learn the power of extemporane- ous elocution & instant action, as an automatic Trick/--but a man's Pleasures--children, Books, Friends, Nature, the Muse/--O these deceive not! -- 1601 21.361 Some painful Feeling, bodily or of the mind/ <1f6 v>1 some form or feeling has recalled a past misery to the Feeling & not to the conscious memory--I brood over what has befallen of evil/what is the worst that could befall me? What is that Blessing which is most present & perpetual to my Fancy & Yearnings? Sara! Sara!--The Loss then of this first bodies itself out to me/--& if I have not heard from you very recently, & if the last letter had not happened to be full of explicit Love & Feeling, then I conjure up Shadows into Substances--& am miserable/Misery conjures up other Forms, & binds them into Tales & Events--activity is always Pleasure--the Tale grows pleasanter--& at length you come to me/you are by my bed side, in some lonely Inn, where I lie de- serted--there you have found me--there you are weeping over me! --Dear, dear, Woman! 1602 21.362 Even among good & sensible men how common it is, that one attaches himself scrupulously to the rigid performance <1v=>1 of some minor virtue, or makes a point of carrying some virtue into all its minutia|e, & is just as lax in a similar point, <1professedly>1 lax-- What this is depends seemingly on Temperament. A. makes no conscience of a little Flattery, in cases where he is certain that he is not acting from base or interested motives, in short, where ever his only motives are the amusement, the momentary pleasure given, &c--a medley of good nature, diseased Proneness to Sym- pathy, & a habit of being <1wiser behind>1 the Curtain than his own actions before it.--B. would die rather than deviate from Truth & Sincerity in this instance/but permits himself to utter, nay, publish the harshest censure of men as moralists and as literati, on his simple Ipse dixit--without assigning any reason, & often without having any, save that he himself <1believes>1 it--/and believing it, <1f68>1 because he <1disliked>1 the man--& disliking him probably for his looks--or at best for some one fault without any <1collation>1 of the sum total of the man's Qualities. Yet A. & B.--are both good men, as the world goes--they do not act from conscious Self-love/& are amenable to Principles in their own minds. 1603 21.363 Oct. 21st . 1803. Friday Morning.--A drisling Rain. Heavy masses of shapeless Vapour upon the mountains (O the perpetual Forms of Borrodale! ) yet it is no unbroken Tale of dull Sadness--slanting Pillars travel across the Lake, at long In- tervals--the vaporous mass whitens, in large Stains of Light--on the ridge of that huge arm chair, of Lowdore, fell a gleam of softest Light, that brought out the rich hues of the late Autumn.--The woody Castle Crag between me & Lowdore is a rich Flower-Garden of Colours, the brightest yellows with the deepest Crimsons, and the infinite Shades of Brown & Green, the <1infnite>1 diversity of which blends the whole--so that the brighter colours seem as <1colors>1 upon a ground, not colored Things. Little wool-packs of white bright vapour rest on different sum- mits & declivities--the vale is narrowed by the mist & cloud--yet thro' the wall of mist you can see into a bason of sunny Light in Borrodale--the Birds are singing in the tender Rain, as if it were the Rain of April, & the decaying Foliage were Flowers & Blos- soms. The pillar of Smoke from the Chimney rises up in the Mist, & is just distinguishable from it; & the Mountain Forms in the Gorge of Borrodale consubstantiate with the mist & cloud even as the pillared Smoke/a shade deeper, & a determinate Form.-- 1604 21.364 Image (Oct. 21. 1803) of a Moth restlessly beat- ing against the Glass of my Lanthorn!-- 1605 21.365 Prodigious Efficacy in preventing Quarrels and Interruptions of Friendship among Mankind in general, but espe- cially among young warm-hearted men, would the habitual Reflec- tion be, that the Almighty will judge us not by what we <1do,>1 but by what we <1are;>1 and in forbidding us to judge each other has mani- festly taught us by implication, that we cannot without hazard of grievous error & without hazard of grievous Breach of Charity de- <1f68v>1 duce the latter from the Former.--Apply this now to my former Quarrel with Southey.--On what ground, in the first place, did I form a friendship with him? Because our pursuits were similar, our final aspirations similar; & because I saw plainly, that compared with the mass of men Southey was pure in his <1Habits,>1 habitually indignant at oppression, <1habitually>1 active in behalf of the op- pressed, both by exertion & by self-sacrifice.--Not that he was Per- fection; but because he was a far better man, than the vast majority of the young men, whom I knew. What had I to oppose to all this? --An alteration of any of these <1Habits?>1 Had Southey ceased to be Southey?--No. What then?--Why, one or two <1Actions>1--done under the warping & bedimming Glare of Passion, & in- terpreted by me, my own mind being in that State--Actions which probably the faulty parts of my own <1character>1 had had no small share in producing--actions, to which Southey had been led in some measure by the very same Blunder which I fell into with regard to him/--viz--brooding over some one <1action>1 of mine, 1 of <1words,>>1 such as it had been <1reported>1 to him perhaps--at all events, such as he had <1conceived>1 it to be--at a time when it was quite impossible for us to think with even tolerable calmness & dispassionateness of each other, either for Evil or for Good.--If either of us in some moment when from some accidental association a feeling of old Tenderness had revisited our Hearts, had paused--& asked our selves--Not what C. has <1done?>1 or what has S. <1done?>1--but--Well! in spite of this--a bad business, to be sure--but spite of it--what <1is>1 C. or S. on the whole? If I go to him in Distress, would not all this Resentment vanish? would he not <1f69>1 divide his last Shilling with me!--Will he not make, 19 times out of 20, as many and as great efforts for any worthy person that wants it, as for himself? If he neglects others, is it not a part of his general character, & does he not much oftener neglect himself?-- He said so and so--deviated from Truth--&c?--But was he not in a passion? Did you not always know, that to let his Tongue outrun his Prudence & caricature his serious Meaning, was a part of his general character--faulty no doubt, but closely connected with excellencies both of Head & Heart?--If I could apply this <3[[to Davy and even to Cottle]],>3 I should love then as well as ever/ but to all the Questions of Importance relative to what they <1are>1 I find myself compelled to answer so gloomily, that their actions, base as many of them are base & foul, sink into insignificance.-- May I not be mistaken? --Certainly I may. But as without any faulty passions of my own, of which I am conscious, in my calmest & gentlest moments, I find myself incapable of thinking otherwise, as of thinking that the radii of a Circle are all equal--I am quite justified in shunning such men. They are unfit to be my acquaint- ances.--And if I have any dear Friend, I am certainly justified in stating my reasons for so doing, in private & with proper provisos of our fallibility in these Cases.--But I am not justified in speaking indignantly or contemptuously of these men, in general & promis- cuous Conversation. 1606 21.366 I have had some <1Lights>1 lately respecting Envy. A. thought himself unkindly used by B.--he had exerted himself for B. with what warmth! honoring, praising B. beyond himself.-- &c &c--B. selfish--feeling all Fire respecting every Trifle of his own--quite backward to poor A.--The <1up,>1 askance, pig look, in <1f69v>1 the Boat &c. Soon after this A. felt distinctly little ugly Touchlets of Pain & little Shrinkings Back at the Heart, at the report that B. had written a new Poem/an excellent one!--& he saw the faults of B & all that belonged to B. & detested himself dwelling upon them --&c. What was all this?--Evidently, the instinct of all fine minds to <1totalize>1--to make a <1perfectly congruous whole>1 of every character --& a pain at the being obliged to admit incongruities--This must be <1plus'd>1 + by all the foregoing Pains which were self-referent, & by their combination introduce a selfish Brooding into this latter Pain.--This is a very, very dim Sketch/but the <1Fact>1 is stated.-- Then, A. took himself to Task respecting <1B.>1--It is very true, that B. is not so zealous as he might be, in some things--and overzealous for himself--But what is he on the whole? What compared with the mass of men?--It is astonishing how powerfully this Medicine acted--how instantly it effected a cure/one wakeful Hour's serious Analysis--& the Light thrown upon the former Subject had a great Share in this--for one important part of the Process in the growth of Envy is the Self-degradation (a painful self-referent Feeling) consequent on the first consciousness of the pang--the Obscurity & Darkness of mind from ignorance of the Cause--dim notion that our nature is suddenly altered for the worse. &c &c.--Deeplier than ever do I see the necessity of understanding the whole complex mixed character of our Friend--as well as our own/of frequently, in our kindest moods, reviewing it--intensifying our Love of the Good in it, & making up our mind to the Faulty--it would be a good Exercise to imagine & anticipate some painful Result of the f70 faulty part of our Friend's character--fancy him acting thus & thus to you--when it would most wound you/then to see how much of the wound might not be attributed to some lingering Selfishness in one's self--and at all events to fancy yourself forgiving it, passing it over, turning the attention forcibly to the valuable Parts of the character, & connecting a feeling of Respect & love with the <1Person,>1 the visual Form--even during the manifestation of this unpleasant part of the Character. Question is, whether I have not mistaken for Envy a very differ- ent Feeling. The same sort of Pain I have distinctly felt, at Mr. Pitt's being the Author of the Irish Union, deemed by me a great & wise measure/& introducing a subversion of my <1Theory>1 of Pitt's Contemptibility. Yet it would be strange to say, I envied Mr. Pitt? --This however is a mere Tenant of the Understanding--not con- nected with my Person in any way.--Take this Feeling, namely, as Pain at the excellence of another, and add to it other pains purely personal--will it be Envy then?--But it is not Pain at the excel- lence of another, but pain that the that particular Person whom I had habitually despised, should have that excellence, which if he really have, I must be forced to give him a share of my Esteem & Love--. This seems a Vice of personal Uncharitableness, not Envy.--I am by no means satisfied with the analysis: & yet I think, that Envy might gradually rise out of this primary Pain of Incongruity/tho' it would be only a Sort of Envy--& no doubt different from Envy excited by the possession of Excellence--the more of it, the more Envy--Let me re-ennumerate. A. had been dwelling on the faulty parts of B.'s character = L. These views of A's understanding were <1just>1 on this point, only that they had been <1exclusive:>1 occasioned by A. having been himself deeply wounded by B.'s selfishness. = M.--A. had been long, long idle owing per- haps in part to his Idolatry of B. = N. 4. A. hears of some new Poems of B.--& feels little painful shrinking back at the Heart = O.--&, 5. a disposition to do something to surpass B. = P.--on the whole I suspect the Feeling to have been mere Resentment.-- <1f70v>1 1607 21.367 Sunday, Oct. 23rd. 1803.--To Grasmere yester- day, I returned today. O Thirlmere!--let me some how or other celebrate the world in thy mirror.--Conceive all possible varieties of Form, Fields, & Trees, and naked or ferny Crags--ravines, be- haired with Birches--Cottages, smoking chimneys, dazzling <1wet>1 <1places>1 of small rock-precipices--dazzling castle windows in the re- flection--all these, within a divine outline in a mirror of 3 miles distinct vision!--and the distance closed in by the Reflection of Raven Crag, which at every bemisting of the mirror by gentle mo- tion became a perfect vast Castle Tower, the corners rounded & pillar'd or fluted--/each corner ending in a round pillar, round save that slice off by which it lies flat on <& connects> the two sides. All this in bright lightest yellow, yellow-green, green, crimson, and orange!--The single Birch Trees hung like Tresses of Sea Weed--the Cliffs like organ pipes!--and when a little Breath of Air spread a delicious Network over the Lake, all these colours seemed then to float on, like the reflections of the rising or setting Sun.-- 1608 21.368 On Saturday, Oct. 22nd heard from T. Hutchin- son that he had taken the Farm from Mr. Hasle at Ulswater: & was to enter on it, with Sara, next March.-- 1609 21.369 I write melancholy, always melancholy: You will suspect that it is the fault of my natural Temper. Alas! no.--This is the great Occasion that my Nature is made for Joy--impelling <1f71>1 me to Joyance--& I never, never can yield to it.--I am a genuine <1Tantalus>1-- 1610 21.370 Monday, Oct. 24. 1803. I walked with Southey & Hazlitt thro' Borrodale into Watendlath, & so home to a late dinner. Of course it was to me a mere walk; for I must be alone, if either my Imagination or Heart are to be excited or enriched. Yet even so I worshipped with deep feeling the grand outline & per- petual Forms, that are the guardians of Borrodale, & the presiding Majesty, yea, the very Soul of Keswick--The Birches were in all their Pride of gold & orange--the Lake was very full of Foam, the late great Flood having not yet wholly retired/I thought still more than before that if the Lake had pushed up into Borrodale, as far as the Bowder Stone, & if Borrodale were still better wooded, it would be distinguished from the Trossachs chiefly by its continuity of massiveness--tho' there is one vast Crag to the left, as you go up Borrodale, complete Trossachs, all the dislocation & multitude of outjuttings & precipices--but this had only the <1Tale>1 of Wood, no more!--On the whole, & as a whole, it is superior to the Trossachs, the view of the vale of Keswick being so greatly superior to the Banks of Loch Ketterin, & the lovely round Vale of Borro- dale with its exquisite combination of nigh & distant Mountains so incomparably finer than the vale & Lake Achry.--I ascended in a wrong place, but it led me to some glorious fantastic rocks--the mitre, the huge pyramid, & Peak Fantastic, with a lower Rock to the Right of it, between which two in a narrow defile I went, hav- ing in this Toilsome Climb two most singular & noble views of the Lake & Vale of Keswick.--A whole Flight of small Birds flung themselves down in a gale of wind into Borrodale like a <1shoot>1 of Stones--each Bird seemed to dart onward by projection, & to de- <1f7lv>1 scend by its own lifelessness & weight.--What was the name of that most vivid of all vivid green mosses by the side of the falling water, as we clomb down into Watendlath!--that red moss, too and that blood-red Fungus?--The Lake of Watendlath has hitherto always appeared of inferior impressiveness to me/it is so bare, & pondish, & swampy--the mountains at its head would be better in a picture than they look in Nature--for the Forms & Combinations are fine, but they want something or other in colour, & distance to make them <1Satisfiers>1--neither do the Crags on each side of us as we go by the River Side till we have passed the Bridge, impress me so deeply as they seem to have done many--but from the Bridge, & all the rest of the way down to Baragh House--O what is there <1on>1 Earth that can better deserve the name of Divine?--There should be some mark, some Cross or Heap of Stones to direct the Traveller to turn off on his Left, 15 or 20 yards thro' the Coppice, about a 100 yards or so before he comes to the road-view of the Lake of Keswick/20 yards thro' this open Coppice brings him sud- denly to the Edge of a finely wooded Precipice, with Lodore be- neath him at a small Distance on his Left, & on his Right the Promontory of Birches on the Lake/the House at the Foot of Lodore, the Bridge, the Road seen in 3 different distances, so very <1f72>1 beautiful--the Lake of Keswick--& Bassenthwaite/--the Height from the extreme steepness & direct plumb-down Look in the Lake seems vast--the breezes rush in pencil brushes over it--/you look <1down>1 on every thing, & every thing spreads in consequence, broad & long & vast! --This is/I have no hesitation in saying it--/the best, every way the best & most impressive View in all the Lake Country --why not in all the Island?--Bowder Stone, the Stone under Dumbarton Rock, & the Bull Stone in the foot of Glenfalloch, the 3 great Stones of the Island/of these Bowder is the least, by far. How could Wordsworth think otherwise?--Go & build up a pile of three, by that Coppice--measure the Strides from the Bridge where the water rushes down a rock in no mean cataract if the Rains should have swoln the River--& the Bridge itself hides a small cataract--from this Bridge measure the Strides to the Place, build the Stone heap, & write a Poem, thus beginning--From the Bridge &c repeat such a Song, of Milton, or Homer--so many Lines I must find out, may be distinctly recited during a moderate healthy man's walk from the Bridge thither--or better perhaps from the other Bridge--so to this Heap of Stones--there turn in-- & then describe the Scene.--O surely I might make a noble Poem of all my Youth nay <1of all my Life>1--One section on plants & flow- ers, my passion for them, always deadened by their learned names. --Yet ever to note those that have & may hereafter affect me-- 1611 21.371 Dim eyes that put a glory round the Moon--a false praise erroneously ascribed to a noble Object. 161221.3 <1flv>1 ## <2poiothtes>2 -- <2poious>2 -- <2poiew>2 qualitates -- facies -- facio the better make of folk. [[The best and wisest]] men not always & of logical necessity in the constitution of a State, the men who will act best & most wisely: & this, is the Ideal, and finis cui, of all Governments--Man's intel- lect & even virtue eyes filmy with drowsy empiricism from its limitation akin to certain errors; & that which limits it, viz. his Passions & Instincts often are the natural Correctives & Supplements/& by their folly work out the wisdom of God.-- S.T.C. Oct. 24, nay, 25th 1803.--For it is 4 oclock, Tues. Morn. ## In other words, the best & wisest men are only in a very modi- fied sense, & as it were, by <1courtesy>1 only, good or wise.-- 1613 21.6 <2KIuson anhr eurwn elipe brokion, autar o kiruson.>2 <2On lipen ouk eurwn, hphen on eure brokion.>2 perfection of brief Narration.-- Jack finding Gold left his Rope on the Ground Bill missing his Gold used the Rope which he found. in as few words as the original, if you consider <1the rope>1 as one word = <2brokion,>2 he found = <2elipe,>2 his rope = <2brokion,>2 & his rope = <2brokion.>2 1614 21.372 The moon setting over the <1f72v>1 Mountain pale--the Sky very dim & marbled or water stained as blue Marine Canopy--and in the blue Interspaces the Stars all dim & lustreless <& until I looked steadily at them, <1one>1 only of all the Stars <1twinkled.>>1--the Water between me & it, & the few House- roofs are bright. The water is the only Sound/the Moon is more than a half moon/it sank to a rude [D] --then to a crescent, its bow stiffly & imperfect & still keeping this shape, thinned & thinned & thinned, till <1once>1 it became a star, at its vanishing--but imme- diately after sent up a <1throb>1 of Light in its former Shape & dimen- sion--& so for several Seconds it throbbed & heaved, a soft Boiling up or restlessness of a Fluid in carrying--/and now all is alike thro' the vale, the vast Ellipse of mountain suffused with dim Hoariness, & the Sky where white & where blue, still dim are both/save only that the whole range of mountains behind which the Moon sate, namely from Bonitas under Grisedale Pike to Rowling End under Causey Pike are blacker & more definite than all the rest, the white Clouds stains, or Cloud-Inlays, brighter, the blue more genuinely blue. Tuesday Midnight--it wants 15 minutes of One o'clock. Oct. 25. <1f73>1 1615 21.373 A glorious Conception, in my present mind, that scarce a wave rolls upward in obedience to the Moon, or to the Sun & Moon, that is not calculated upon by British Intellect & <1made>1 <1available>1 by British Enterprize. Is not Britain itself a sort of Moon to the Ocean?-- 1616 21.374 Thursday Morning, 40 minutes past One o'clock --a perfect calm--now & then a breeze shakes the heads of the two Poplars, <& disturbs> the murmur of the moonlight Greta, that in almost a direct Line from the moon to me is all silver--Motion and Wrinkle & Light--& under the arch of the Bridge a wave ever & anon leaps up in Light.--& the evergreens are bright, under my window/.The Moon now hangs midway over Cowdale Halse--in a line, & resting on each of the divergent Legs of its Triangle a fish-head-shaped Cloud--the whole area of the Triangle blue Sky--but above the Cloud, & the interspaces between it and the Moon little cloudlets, scarcely larger than large Stars--Wrin- kles/--long roundish floating Braids of Hair floating & making its single Hairs distinguishable as it wantons on some regular Breeze/ black smooth Space of Shade--silver mirror/gleaming of moon- light Reeds beyond--as the moon sets the water from Silver be- comes a rich yellow.--Sadly do I need to have my Imagination en- riched with appropriate Images for Shapes--/Read Architecture, & Icthyology-- <1f73v>1 The moon sets 15 minutes past 2, just behind the [D] point between Grisdale Pike & Cowdale Halse/As it entered the Fish's Head (--the Body & Tail stretch atop the Mountains down to Bassenthwaite), the Moon was so barred & cross-barred, over its whole face, as I never before saw--and I observed, that it be- came quite a shapeless, or perhaps unshapely, Lump in conse- quence/--the Greta now only a grey Gleamer!--but before the Moon reached the Hill, there was a space of Blue, only half its own length and so it emerged, an half in brightness/and so it sank, in thinner & thinner Slips of Light, till just at the last it had a strong Likeness of a Sheep on the Mountain, head & all! -- No soft Ebullience of Light after its setting; but the space above the Clouds looked bluer & gladder, as before.--The moon will be at its Full Saturday, or Sunday Night--.-- Not yet asleep, three o'clock!--To Hartley in Foster's manner/ the wickedness & miseries of man, therefore I have led him to Na- ture--bred him up in the country--& early fostered his habit of Introition.-- A most unpleasant Dispute with W. & Hazlitt Wednesday Afternoon, Oct. 26. 1803.--I spoke, I fear too contemptuously-- but they spoke so irreverently so malignantly of the Divine Wis- dom, that it overset me. Hazlitt how easily roused to Rage & Hatred, self-projected/but who shall find the Force that can drag <1f74>1 him up out of the Depth into one expression of Kindness, into the shewing of one Gleam of the Light of Love on his Countenance.-- Peace be with <1him!>1--But <1thou,>1 dearest Wordsworth--and what if Ray, Durham, Paley, have carried the observation of the aptitudes of Things too far, too habitually--into Pedantry?--O how many worse Pedantries! how few so harmless with so much efficient Good!--Dear William, pardon Pedantry in others & avoid it in yourself, instead of scoffing & reviling at Pedantry in good men in a good cause, & <1becoming>1 a Pedant yourself in a bad cause--even by that very act becoming one! --But surely always to look at the superficies of Objects for the purpose of taking Delight in their Beauty, & sympathy with their real or imagined Life, is as deleteri- ous to the Health & manhood of Intellect, as always to be peering & unravelling Contrivances may be to the simplicity of the affec- tions, the grandeur & unity of the Imagination.--O dearest Wil- liam! Would Ray, or Durham, have spoken of God as you spoke of Nature? 1617 21.375 This is the Day, quo primum [ ?illam/Saram] vidi! --Let me try for a Song. 1618 21.376 Hazlitt to feelings of Anger & Hatred Phos- phorus--it is but to open the Cork, & <3the>3 it flames--but to Love & serviceable Friendship, let them, like Nebuchadnezzer, heat the Furnace with a 7 fold Heat, this Triune Shadrach, Meshach, <1f74v>1 Abednego, will shiver in the midst of it.-- 1619 21.377 Thursday, Oct. 27. 1803. I sate for my Picture-- heard from Southey the Institution of the Jesuits, during which some interesting Idea occurred to me, & has escaped.--I made out however the whole business of the Origin of Evil satisfactorily to my own mind, & forced H. to confess, that the metaphysical argu- ment reduced itself to this: Why did not infinite Power <1always>1 & exclusively produce such Beings as in each moment of their Duration were infinite/why, in short, did not the Almighty create an absolutely infinite number of Almighties?--The Hollow- ness & Impiety of the Argument will be felt by considering, that <3the>3 suppose a universal Happiness & Perfection of the moral as well as natural world, still the whole objection applies, just as forci- bly as at this moment. The malignity of the Deity (I shudder even at the assumption of this affrightful & satanic Language) is mani- fested in the creation of Archangels & Cherubs & the whole Com- pany of pure Intelligences burning in their unquenchable Felicity equally as in the creation of Neros, & Tiberiuses, of Stone & Leprosy--Suppose yourself perfectly happy, yet according to this argument you <1ought>1 to charge God with Malignity for having cre- ated you--Your own Life & all its Comforts are in the Indict- ment against the Creator--for surely even a child would be ashamed to answer--No! <1I>1 should still exist; only in that case in- <1f75>1 stead of being a Man I should be an infinite Being--as if the word <1I>1 here had even the remotest Semblance of a meaning--Infinitely more absurd, than if I should write <1"1/1000">1 on a slate, then rub it out with my spunge, & write in the same place , "555,666,879"--and then observe, that the former figure was greatly <1improved>1 by the measure--That <1it>1 was grown a far finer figure?--Conceiting a <1change,>1 where there had been positive Substitution.-- Thus then it appears, that the sole Justification of those who offended by the Vice & misery of the created world, as far [as] we know it, impeach the power or goodness of the Almighty, making the proper cause of such vice & misery to have been a defect either of power or goodness,--it appears, that their sole Justification rests on an argument; which has nothing to do with vice or misery, as vice & misery--on an argument, which would hold equally good in Heaven, as in Hell--on an argument, which, it might be demonstrated, no human Being in a state of Happiness could ever have conceived--an argument which a Millenium would annihilate, & which yet would hold equally good then as now?--But even in point of metaphysic the whole rests at last on the Conceivable. Now I appeal to every man's internal consciousness, if he will but sincerely & in brotherly simplicity silence the bustle of argument in his mind & the ungenial Feelings that mingle with & fill up the mob--& then ask his own Intellect, whether supposing he could conceive the creation of posi- tively Infinite & coequal Beings, & whether, supposing this not <1f75v>1 only possible but real, this has exhausted his notion of <1Creatability?>1 Whether the Intellect by an inborn, and original Law of its Es- sence, does not demand of infinite Power more than merely infinity of Number--infinity of <1Sorts>1 & orders?--Let him have created this infinity of Infinites--Still there is space in the Imagination for the Creation of Finites--but instead of these let him again create Infinites--Yet still the same Space is left--it is no way filled up. I feel too, that the whole rests on a miserable Sophism of applying to an Almighty Being such words as <1All.>1 Why were not <1all>1--Gods? But there is no <1all,>1 in creation--It is composed of Infinites--& the Imagination bewildered by heaping Infinites on Infinites, & weary- ing of demanding increase of number to a number which it con- ceives already infin., deserted by Images, and mocked by words, whose sole Substance is the inward sense of Difficulty that accompanies all our notions of infinity applied to number, turns with delight to distinct Images, & clear Ideas--contemplates <1a>1 <1World,>1 an harmonious System where an infinity of Kinds subsist each in a multitude of Individuals apportionate to its Kind in con- formity to Laws existing in the divine Nature--& therefore in the nature of Things. We cannot indeed <1prove>1 this in any other way <1f76>1 than by finding it as impossible to deny omniform, as eternal, agency to God--by finding it impossible to conceive that an omnis- cient Being should not have a distinct Idea of finite Beings, or that distinct Ideas in the mind of God should be without the perfection of real Existence--i.e. imperfect-- This is a proof, subtle indeed, yet not more so than the difficulty. The intellect that can stand the one can understand the other, if his vices do not prevent him. Admit for a moment, that "to conceive" is = with creation in the divine nature, synonimous with "to beget," (a feeling of which has given to Marriage a mysterious sanctity & sacramental significance in the mind of many great & good men). Admit this, and all difficulty ceases--all Tumult is hushed--all is clear & beautiful--/We sit in the Dark, but each by the side of his little Fire in his own group, & lo! the summit of the distant moun- tain is smitten with Light--all night long it has dwelt there--& we look at it, & know that the Sun is not extinguished/yea, that he is elsewhere bright & vivifying--that he is coming to us, to make our fires needless--yet even now that our Cold & Darkness are so called only in comparison with the Heat & Light of the Coming Day/ never wholly deserted of the Rays.--Ask it as a Duty to choose Good rather than evil--even tho' there were a choice.-- <1f76v>1 This I wrote on Friday Morning, 40 minutes past 3 o'clock--the Sky covered with one Cloud, that yet lies in dark & light Shades, & tho' one smooth Cloud, by the Dark Colour it appears to be <1steppy.>1 --A sad night--went to bed after Tea--& in about 2 hours abso- lutely summoned the whole Household to me by my Screams, from all the chambers--& I continued screaming even after Mrs. Coleridge was sitting & speaking to me!--O me! O me!-- 1620 21.378 Frid. Morn. 5oclock--Dosing, dreamt of Hartley as at his Christening--how as he was asked who redeemed him, & was to say, God the Son/he went on, humming and hawing, in one hum & haw, like a boy who knows a thing & will not make the effort to recollect it--so as to irritate me greatly. Awakening it was the Ticking of my Watch which lay in the Pen Place in my Desk on the round Table close by my Ear, & which in the <3nervous>3 diseased State of my Nerves had <1fretted>1 on my Ears--I caught the fact while Hart- ley's Face & moving Lips were yet before my Eyes, & his Hum & Ha, & the Ticking of the Watch were each the other, as often hap- pens in the passing off of Sleep--that curious modification of Ideas by each other, which is the Element of <1Bulls.>1--I arose instantly, & f77 wrote it down--it is now 10 minutes past 5. 1621 16.51 Friday Oct. 28th, 1803. Noon. Walked with <1fl8v>1 Southey up the Greta, to the Theatre of Wood with the <1Cowl>1 of green Field on its Top, opposite the Sopha of Sods--for the last Time/unless the Woodmen let other Leaves come out next Spring before they begin their Devastation/ 1622 21.379 To return to the Question of Evil--woe to the f77 man, to whom it is an uninteresting Question--tho' many a mind, overwearied by it, may shun it with Dread/and here, N.B. scourge with deserved & lofty Scorn those Critics who laugh at the discus- sion of old Questions--God, Right & Wrong, Necessity & Arbitre- ment--Evil, &c--No! forsooth!--the Question must be new, <1new>1 <1spicy hot>1 Gingerbread, a French Constitution, a Balloon, change of Ministry, or which had the best of it in the Parliamentary Duel, Wyndham or Sheridan, or at the best, a chemical Theory, whether the new celestial Bodies shall be called Planets or Asteroids--&c--Something new, something <1out>1 of themselves--for whatever is <1in>1 them, is deep within them, must be <1old as>1 elementary Nature. To find no contradiction in the union of old & novel--to contemplate the Ancient of Days with Feelings new as if they then sprang forth at his own Fiat--this marks the mind that feels the Riddle of the World, & may help to unravel it. But to return to the Question--the whole rests on the Sophism of imagining Change in a case of positive Substitution.--This, I fully believe, <1settles>1the Question/--The assertion that there is in the essence of the divine nature a necessity of omniform harmonious action, and that Order, & System/not number--in itself base & disorderly & irrational--/ define the creative Energy, determine & employ it--& that number is subservient to order, regulated, organized, made beautiful and f77v rational, an object both of Imag. & Intellect, by Order--this is no mere assertion/it is strictly in harmony with the Fact, for the world appears so--& it is proved by whatever proves the Being of God--. Indeed, it is involved in the Idea of God.-- 1623 21.380 What is it, that I employ my Metaphysics on? To perplex our clearest notions, & living moral Instincts? To ex- tinguish the Light of Love & of Conscience, to put out the Life of Arbitrement--to make myself & others as <1Worthless, Soul->1less, Godless?--No! To expose the Folly & the Legerdemain of those, who have thus abused the blessed Organ of Language, to support all old & venerable Truths, to support, to kindle, to project, to make the Reason spread Light over our Feelings, to make our Feelings diffuse vital Warmth thro' our Reason--these are my Objects--& these my Subjects. Is this the metaphysics that bad Spirits in Hell delight in? 1624 21.381 Sat. Morn. Oct. 29. 1803. Three o'clock. The Moon hangs high over Greta, & the Bridge, on the first step of her Descent, & three hours at least from the Mountain, behind which she is to sink: nearly full--not a Cloud in Heaven, the Sky deep sable blue, the Stars many & white in the height of the Sky, but above around, & beneath the Moon, not a Star; she is starless as the <1f78>1 Sun. Yet there is no gleam, much less silver whiteness, on the Lake: simply it is easily seen; & even the Greta stretching strait in an oblique line underneath is not -bright, or any where bril- liant; but rather the gleam of some baser Composition imitating Silver, it is a grey brightness like the colour of an ash grove in keenest December Moonlight. The Mountains are dark, low, all compact together, quiet, silent, asleep--the white Houses are bright throughout the vale, & the evergreens in the garden. The only Sound is the murmur of the Greta, perpetual Voice of the Vale-- <1f57>1 1625 21.327 Oct. 31. 1803. The full moon <3on>3 glided behind a black cloud/& what then? & who cared?--It was past 7oclock in the morning--There is a small Cloud in the East, not larger than the Moon, & ten times brighter than she! So passes Night & all her favors vanish in our minds, ungrateful! -- 1626 21.328 In the Chapter on Abstract Ideas I might intro- <1f5>1 duce the Subject by quoting the 8th Proposition of Proclus' Elem. of Theology--The whole of Religion seems to me to rest on & in this Question--The one, & the Good, are these Words, or Realities. --I long to read the Schoolmen on this Subject-- 1627 16.52 Oct. 31. Monday Morning, between 7 & 8--The <1f18v>1 Sun rises behind Helvellin, white, glowing like a globe of Iron in white heat, restless, and as it stands just one finger's breadth above the Mountain, round rapidly like a wheel that circumvolves so rapidly that you see the motion only, not the Turns. The Moon full, now right opposite hanging directly above Barugh (the great bulging Ness of Withop Fells, behind the Church in an oblique <1f19>1 Line, & wherever you see the Church on this side the Vale always combining with it, <1mortised>1 to it/--has hid self in a cloud, that a few minutes ago was <1brassy bright,>1 how far brighter than the moon that entered it--but now is pale & wan before the rising Intensity/ See! the Cloud parts--the moon comes out & fills the interspaces, just touching the Cloud above & below/& of the same colour with the Cloud/How sharp lined the shadows are on Skiddaw/a Cloud, creeping & never getting away, in shape & size like a Tortoise on its summit/& a little below the Sharp shadow cuts it off, a section from the Mountain/on the opposite Mountains, Grisdale &c the Shadows are loose, & treelike/The Sun! I turned again to it--itself is overpowered in the great Bason of tempestuous Light, of glow- <1f19v>1 ing whiteness, which it has circumfused/I looked steadily--I re- covered the Sun/still looked/till all that glowing whiteness became a beautiful crimson/then turned round to the pale moon/and it became all at once a rich purple to my eye/the Church the vale all purple/& now as I sit by the Lime Heap to write it down, a spot of the size of a shilling of the richest & most delicate yellow has fol- lowed my pencil all down the white paper, fainter & faint/& yet it is still under it even now, only very faint/The moon will set on the Bassenthwaite side of Barugh.--I have been looking again at the <1f20>1 Sun, again after the pink & the purple this yellow Spot has come/ O how very rich!--and lo! I give it to the moon & still more to all the Sky above & below it/only there it is Chrysolite, yellow green/ on the paper it is Topaz.--And how long the yellow-green lasts--& I looked at the Moon more than 5 minutes, & it continued in all its strength, a yellow green parallellogram. The moon set in the beginning of the lowest part of Withop, just behind Sir F. Vane's three-cornered <1Shave>1 out of the wood--& as it approached near the Mountain, it was with the utmost Straining of the eye that I could discern it--& before it reached the Mountain, it vanished compleatly by its own dimness. Only I could <1know>1 it by a dim difference of Tint in the Sky where it was <1f78>1 1628 21.382 Monday Morning, Oct. 31. 1/2 past 7.--The Sky has been cloudy all night, clouds in large masses, all conglutinated, no interspace, some dark, some pierced with Light--Now it is full daylight. The Moon in about half an hour or a little more will sink behind the Thornthwaite Fells between Scale How & Baragh/as I guess.--She glides, See! see! she is gone in behind a Cloud, ten times brighter than herself--of a rich brassy Light from the Sun. It set, more than an hour afterwards, & on the commencement of the flat Low ridge of Withop close behind Sir F. Vane's 3 cornered Cut of Bowness--before it set vanished completely & its dimness as I have fully described in G. Ward's pocket book. <1f2o>1 1629 16.53 A Frenchman leaping on the Top mast--defies an Englishman to do the like/the Englishman attempted, fell off the mast, & so from Rope to Rope, & marvellously landed on the Deck <1f2ov>1 without injury/then turning to the Frenchman, exclaimed--Damn your eyes! <1do that!>1 1630 16.54 Dr Beddoes's <1first>1 Title page, for his Work on the use of Cow-houses in Consumption, was, Speedy & certain Cure for Pulmonary Consumption/this was altered, during the printing, into "Speedy Relief & probable Cure"--lastly & so as it stood, into <3Poss>3 Probable Relief & Possible Cure for pulmonary Consump. 1631 16.55 The admirable Character of Captn Thomas & his Family--Lamb's Bobadil-- 1632 16.56 O ye <1Souls!>1 if this be War, may it never be Peace.-- Irishman-- 1633 16.57 Dr Reed--asked how he might best be distin- <1f21>1 guished from the great Dr Read--O says a bystander, who never made a Pun before or since/we will call you Dr Reed-<1iculus>1 (or little Dr Reed)-- 1634 16.58 Sailor that took the Post Chaise but weary after two Stages of sitting by himself asked & obtained the Landlord's permission "to ride along side of Jack." 1635 21.383 Wednesday Morning, 20 minutes past 2oclock <1f 8v>1 November 2nd. 1803. The Voice of the Greta, and the Cock-crowing: the Voice seems to grow, like a Flower on or about the water be- yond the Bridge, while the Cock crowing is nowhere particular, it is at any place I imagine & do not distinctly see. A most remarkable Sky! The Moon, now waned to a perfect Ostrich's Eggs, hangs over our House almost--only so much beyond it, garden-ward, that I can see it, holding my Head out of the smaller Study window. The Sky is covered with whitish, & with dingy <1Cloudage,>1 thin dingiest Scud close under the moon & one side of it moving, all else moveless: but there are two great Breaks of Blue Sky--the one stretching over our House, & away toward Castlerigg, & this is speckled & blotched with white Cloud--the other hangs over the road, in the line of the Road in the shape of a [D] I do not know what to call: but this is the Figure-- this is un- speckled, all blue--3 Stars in it/more in the former Break--all un- moving. The water leaden white, even as the grey gleam of Water is in latest Twilight.--Now while I have been writing this & gazing <1f79>1 between whiles (it is 40 M. past Two) the Break over the road is swallowed up, & the Stars gone, the Break over the House is nar- rowed into a rude Circle, & on the edge of its circumference one very bright Star--see! already the white mass thinning at its edge <1fights>1 with its Brilliance--see! it has bedimmed it--& now it is gone --& the Moon is gone. The Cock-crowing too has ceased. The Greta sounds on, for ever. But I hear only the Ticking of my Watch, in the Pen-place of my Writing Desk, & the far lower note of the noise of the Fire--perpetual, yet seeming uncertain/it is the low voice of <3silent>3 quiet change, of Destruction doing its work by little & little. 1636 21.384 Thursday Ev. Nov. 3. 1803. Mrs. Coleridge told me of Mr. J. & Mrs. W. having gone mollire <2nani arri, h gukt,>2 <2ouile se ouas lookin into is draouer phor linnen, into pwr old>2 Mr <2graphses Ouil, oure se phound out that onli phorti pound ouas>2 <2lepht er/the old man esti nun aphrwn, dia thn hmiplhgian, an>2 <2elpless obgekt. Nani phuriis persita>2 omnia minatur--etiam beynahe desertionem senis! --O auri fo|eda fames! --PROPERTY. <1f79v>1 O the impudence of those who dare hold Property to be the great binder up of the affections of the young to the old, &c--and God- win's Folly in his Book.--Two Brothers in this Country fought in the mourning Coach, & stood with black eyes & their black Clothes all blood over their Father's Grave. 1637 21.385 Incest. Paley's Chapter on this Subject unter aller Critik.--Brotherly & Sisterly Love. 1. The Existence of strong Af- fection to one of the other sex, greatly modified by the difference of Sex, made more tender, graceful, soothing, consolatory, yet still re- maining perfectly pure, would be glorious fact <1for>1 human Nature, if the Instances were only here and there; but being, as it is, only not universal, it is a glorious fact <1of>1 human Nature--the object therefore of religious Veneration to all that love their fellow-men or honor themselves. 2. The power of Education is exemplified--& a datum of Hope gained for other yet unrealized Excellencies, dormant in human Nature. 3.--By dividing the sisterly & fraternal from the conjugal affection, the human Heart has two loves instead of one, is richer in love--each as strong perhaps in affectionate Na- tures as it can be--but most certainly as strong as any single affec- tion ought to be, consistently with the performance of our Duties, & the love we owe to our Neighbours &c.--4. By the long habitual practice of the sisterly affection preceding the conjugal, this latter is thereby rendered more pure, more even, & of greater constancy. 5. To all this is to be added the beautiful Graduation of attachment, <1f8o>1 from Sister, Wife, Child, Uncle, Cousin, one of our blood, &c. on to mere Neighbour--to Townsman--to our Countrymen.--The bad effects of a want of this variety of Orders, of this graceful Sub- ordination, in the architecture of our Attachments is seen very often in the Quakers--who are often, as in C. Lloyd, like Milton's Hell, either all Ice, or all Brimstone & Fire--with no intermediate Cli- mates.--How has Nature & Providence secured these Blessings to us?--Chiefly, as I think, by making the <1age of Puberty>1 a distinct revolutionary Epoch in the human mind & body--/a new feeling best & most certainly coalesces with a new Object, the idea of this becoming <1vivid,>1 which an habitually familiar object can scarcely be- come--& it is with the <1Idea>1 that the Feeling coalesces, not with the Object itself--or the affair would be wholly brutal.--To this per- haps may be added the aversion that seems to have acted very strongly in rude ages, <3of>3 derived from imagination, de eodem utero --de revertendo in fontem, &c--tho' what strength is attributable to this, I cannot say.--Likewise, the desire to keep up the bond of relationship between families who had emigrated from the patriarchal Seat--this best done by the marriage of <1distant>1 relations --consequently, the Sisters & Brothers would be reserved for this purpose, as our Princes & Princesses.--Such seem to have been all the marriages in the book of Genesis.-- All these circumstances would make the marriage of Brothers & Sisters infrequent & this very infrequency would in those simple ages have a sort of <1ominous>1 Feeling.--Yet with all this I cannot ac- <1f8ov>1 count for the great religious <1Horror>1 attached to Incest, but by sup- posing that some one Tribe, or body of men, from some Caprice of Superstition, had confined marriages to Brother & Sister--as among the Persian Kings--and as in a different way among the Magi, which two are, in my opinion, <3fair>3 cases fairly in point, & making my assumption something more than mere Hypothesis--that the consequences of this in a few Generations became so marked & so terrific, as to attract the attention of mankind then few in number comparatively, so as to be wisely regarded by them as a proof of divine Vengeance on the Practice--and so taught by Father to Child, till as in many other instances <1the Feeling>1 was propagated, the physical Fact, that first occasioned it, having been forgotten. But probably in the Temples of Egypt & of India the physical Fact was carefully preserved--& from these the great Legislators of Antiquity, Moses, &c &c derived the wisdom & prudence of accumulated Experience.--This Horror having been once bottomed in the human race would easily be kept--and as to our present Feelings, they appear to me to involve no difficulty.-- Children at a very very early age talk of marrying--a little Visitor comes, & the new Object impressing by the common law of Thought vivid Ideas, this little floating <1Idea>1 of marriage coalesces <1f81>1 with the vividest Idea, even as in the after age of Puberty the new <1Feeling>1 will coalesce with the vividest Idea--Yet <3if>3 it often will happen, that the little child will say--that it will marry his Sister-- & is instantly with shake of the Head & serious Look told, O no!-- nobody marries their Sisters--According from the age of Three, at which time a child may be supposed capable of observing, to the age of 14 or 15, at which his sexual Instincts begin to disquiet him, he hears of a thousand marriages--but never one of a Brother & Sister --And hence this assumes the precise feeling of <1Necessity,>1 of a thing of Nature--& he has reflected but little on the operations of the human mind, who has not noticed the vast agency of this sup- position, true or false, of Necessity--<3Of>3 Among common minds, aye, among any but very uncommon minds, who enquires whether <1any>1 one <1can>1 do that which no one <1does>1 do--. Add to this all the moral Loveliness of the Disposition of the two affections, which the better part of our nature <1feels>1--tho' only a few speculative men de- velope that feeling, & make it put forth its distinct <1form,>1 in the understanding.--A melancholy Task remains--namely to shew, how all this beautiful Fabric begins to moulder, in corrupt or be- wildered (verwilderte) Nature--the street of Paris & the Tents of the copper Indians, or Otaheitans.--<3P.S. This Paley>3 Of this else- where, when we <1must.>1 It is a hateful Task.-- P.S. Paley bottoms the whole on the desire of Legislators to pre- vent premature Indulgences--did it not occur to him, that this could only hold strong while men lived in single Houses far far apart from each other--and that this is an unknown State of So- ciety. In the <1earliest>1 Time when but a few Households existed, Brothers & Sisters must have married--& after this there would im- <1f8lv>1 mediately arise neighbourhoods & close clusters of Houses--nay, perhaps, House joined to House, or rather Tent beside Tent in the form of a Camp--& the intercourse between one Tent & another would be in reality more favorable to stolen Indulgence than the same <1Tent>1--&c.--Those on the other hand who would rest it on an Instinct, will be puzzled to account for an <1Instinct>1 in man, whose first act by the necessity of the case must have been to act in contra- diction to it. Besides, I have shewn, & fully, I trust, that the whole can be well explained by the common Laws of association: & we must not seek <1recondite>1 Reasons where obvious ones <1bottom>1 the Question.-- Nov. 4. 1803. in consequence of a <3conver>3 little Dispute the <3little>3 Night before.--Southey still thinks that the whole of the Feeling is explicable by common Laws of Association; but what Laws, & by what process, he does not say--nor in any way explain the <1Horror>1 attached to it, compared with Theft, Robbery, Rape, &c--nay, I am not sure whether it does in common mind[s] excite a degree of Horror & a kind greater & higher than the Crime against Nature. In many Countries this latter has been, & still is, a bagatelle, a fashionable Levity!--but <3no>3 in no age or country among civilized Nations has Incest been regarded without Horror, or attributed to a man but under the certainty of <1blackening>1 him--as .Cataline & Julius Ca|esar--. --Southey thinks it in the teeth of all analogy that a moral feeling should be traditionary almost everywhere; & the physical Fact every where forgotten. This <1surprized>1 me; it seems to me e contra supported by a thousand Facts strictly analogous-- the dancing round the May pole on May day is a part of the <1f82>1 worship of Priapus--the fact is forgotten, the custom &c continued. --We say, God bless you! when one sneezes--How many million have said this, & with some feeling, who were utterly ignorant of the sneezing Sickness--History of early Times seems to me valua- ble chiefly as furnishing instances of this--. --Likewise, study the Laws of Moses & of Man under the feeling of the anxiety of the first men to preserve their contested Superiority over the Brutes--/ whatever appeared to degrade the race, became instantly an object of religious Execration--& it is not impossible, that <3in>3 Experiments might have been made by the Priests in Egypt to determine this-- & that they established it among their Kings--if indeed this Custom did not take place after the extinction of Egyptian Wisdom--for the purpose of degrading the Kings & making them poor instru- ments as the Merovingian Race were by the Capets-- <1f21>1 1638 16.59 A great man appearing all too late in the world like Philopo|emen compared to a Bean which I saw this Nov. 5th/ planted by accident or by a child to blossom at Christmas. <1f82>1 1639 21.386 Saturday Evening, Nov. 5. 1803. from 1/2 past 6 to 8o clock. Bonfires in the Town--General Peche's white House resplendent--but on Swinside & Latterig the Whinns set on fire-- Swinside represented a city, Bath, approached at night--& when the Fires grew duller, a Street in London--I almost fancied the House doors & Shop windows, each under its own Lamp. But Latterig scarcely permitted us to look at Swinside--Women, & Children, & the little Infant Sara, we all gazed at Latterig--so great & so in- tense the Conflagration, that I could read a part of a Letter a few <1f82v>1 yards from our front Door--the Sky, low hung with rainy clouds that actually drizzled over Latterig & even all over our House a bright Salmon color, while the Vale as the Church inclusive was of that most interesting Light, which often lies on the fields in the very earliest Dawn of a Winter Morning-- or at Midnight under a setting half moon! 1640 21.387 Poor Miss Dane!--born with a wrong Conforma- tion that prophesied <3the>3 early Death, it occasioned--Such are gen- erally gentle & innocent Beings--God himself seems to stamp on their Forehead the Seal of Death, in sign of Appropriation/no evil dares approach--the sacred Hieroglyphic on this Seal of Redemp- tion we on earth interpret early Death; but the heavenly Spirits, that minister around us, read in it "Abiding Innocence."-- 1641 21.388 Something to me delicious in the Thought that one who dies <3in Infany>3 a Baby presents to its glorified Saviour & <2NOVEMBER>2 1803 [1645 Redeemer that same sweet Face of Infancy which he blessed when [on] earth, & sanctified with a kiss--& solemnly pronounced to be the Type, & Sacrament of Regeneration. 1642 21.389 Extravagant to write so loose & slovenly. 1643 16.60 Derwent (Nov. 6. Tea time) came in, & all the <1f21>1 <1Cake>1 was eat up, & he was by no means willing to accept dry Toast & butter as a Substitute. "Don't eat all the Cake!"--Well, we will not tomorrow!--"O but don't eat the Cake! You have eat the cake! O but don't eat up all the cakes!"--His Passion had compleatly <1f2lv>1 confounded his Sense of Time, & its Consequences--He saw that it was done; & yet he passionately entreated you not to do it--& not for the time to come/but for the Present & the Past. "O but you have! O but don't now!"--This Mem. for the effect of the Pas- sions on the reasoning power imprimis in producing <1Bulls>1 1644 21.390 Very unwell all Sunday -- to day, Nov. 6th bet- <1f82v>1 ter. Walked with Southey to Braithwaite--interesting Lagune in the River not far from Mr. Smith's at How--Weeds forming three beautiful Clouds in the water among weeds of distinct vegetable character--an appearance of down, jelly, & cloud, combined--most <1f83>1 like the Cloud of Precipitation in some chemical Decomp. The colour olive-green.--Indisposed in my Bowels--Observe that this Feeling of uncomfortableness &c is combined with <1Fear,>1 with <1tender>1 Thoughts, tender & serious recollections--& if I were with one whom my Soul loved, it would rather increase than de- crease my Happiness.--I had a violent Motion (in the field under an oak by a Fence with the Brook on the other side)--about 3 minutes after having to get over a petty fence from the Field into the Turnpike Road I found myself quite a Coward--till the Thought awakened & <3subdued me>3 scouted the Feeling.--The rest of the walk I was deeply impressed by the Faith, that my Illness would not materially diminish my Happiness if I were Housemate with Love. 1645 21.391 Derwent's <1Bull>1 from eager Desire & Disappoint- ment Nov. 6 in g--w Mem: book.--at the same time I noticed the 1646] <2NOVEMBER>2 18o3 remarkable disposition of all Children of his Age, who are any way kindly treated, to <1contradict>1--the pleasure they find in it/when there is any plausibility in their own counterassertion it often rises into passion & self-willedness; when none, it is <1fun>1--& <1wit>1--. It hangs in a String with their love of calling white black, &c. as Derwent when he had scarce a score of words in his whole Tonguedom comes holding up a pair of filthy Pawlets, & lisps-- Here's <1clean white>1 Hands! --& then laughed immoderately.-- 1646 21.392 With a deep groan from the Innermost of my Heart, in the feeling of self-humiliation, & a lively sense of my own weakness, & the distraction of my mind, which is indeed "al- <1f83v>1 ways doing something else," I yet write down the names of the Works that I have planned, in the order in which I wish to execute them, with a fervent prayer that I may build up in my Being enough of manly Strength & Perseverence to do one thing at a time--to know with efficient knowledge that whichever I began first, some objections would exist--some reasons of Prefer- ence--! --. The Men and the Times: & then absolutely to have done with all newspaper writing. Christabel--or the Dramas.--2nd & 3rd Comforts and Consolations 4th Eidoloclastes. ---------- 6th On Man, and the probable Destiny of the Human Race.-- 1 & <1great>1 work--always had in mind.> The History of Logic with a Compendium of Aristotelean Logic prefixed. 7th. History of Metaphys. in Germany 8th 1 Romances. 5 Milton 2 Chaucer. 6 Jerome Taylor 3 Spenser. 5th 7 Dryden 4 Shakespere 8 Genius of modern Poetry, Hay- ley, Darwin &c &c &c &c &c.-- Revolutionary Minds, Thomas Aquinas, Scotus, Luther, Baxter <1f84>1 as represent. of the English Presbyterians & as affording a place for the Church of England--Socinus, G. Fox.--9th. Giordano Bruno, Jacob Boehmen, Spinoza 10th The work which I should wish to leave behind me, or to publish late in Life, that On Man, and the probable Destiny of the Human Race, followed & illustrated by the Organum vere Organum, & philosophical Romance to explain the whole growth of Language, and for these to be always collecting materials. As to Poems, I have said nothing--the wind bloweth as it listeth. 2nd Vol --Soother of Absence.--My Life & Thoughts.--Comic Epic.--Hymns, Sun, Moon, Elements, Man & God. Destruction of Jerusalem.--Conquest of India by Bacchus in Hexameters.-- 1647 21.393 It has been long my sincere wish, & (for that all our Habits partake of human Frailty) my <1pride,>1 to try to under- stand, in myself, & to make intelligible to others, how great men may err <1wildly,>1 yet not be mad--that all opinions that can be under- stood & are not contrad. in terms have more to be said for them than Bigots & Pedants & Sciolists suppose.--Paschal! !-- 1648 21.394 Nov. 9th, Wednesday Night, 45 m. past 6.--The <1f8 v>1 town with lighted windows & noise of the <1Clogged>1 Passengers in the Streets--sound of the unseen River--Mountains scarcely per- ceivable except by eyes long used to them, & supported by the images of Memory flowing in on the impulses of immediate Im- pression--the Sky black Clouds, two or three dim untwinkling Stars, like full stops on damp paper--& large Stains and Spreads of <3Light>3 sullen White, like a tunic of white Wool seen here & there thro' a torn & tattered Cloak of Black.--Whence do these Stains of White proceed--all over the Sky--so long after Sunset-- & from their indifference of place in the Sky seemingly unaffected by the West?-- 1649 21.395 Nov. 10th, 1/2 past 2 o'clock, Morning. Awoke after long struggles & with faint screaming from a persecuting Dream. The Tale of the Dream began in two <1Images>1--in two Sons of a Nobleman, desperately fond of shooting--brought out by the Footman to resign their Property, & to be made believe that they had none/they were far too cunning for that/as they struggled & resisted their cruel Wrongers, & my Interest for them, I suppose, increased, I became they--the duality vanished--Boyer & Christ's <1f85>1 Hospital became concerned--yet still the former Story was kept up --& I was conjuring him, as he met me in the Streets, to have pity on a Nobleman's Orphan, when I was carried back to bed, & was struggling up against an unknown impediment, some woman on the other side about to relieve me--when a noise of one of the Doors, strongly associated with Mrs. Coleridge's coming in to awake me, awaked me--the first thing, I became conscious of, was a faint double scream, that I uttered.--Drizzle. The Sky uncouthly marbled with white vapours, & large black Clouds, their surface of a fine wooly grain: but in the Height & Key-stone of the arch a round Space of dim watery Stars, the seven Stars in the Central, seen, thro' white vapours that en- tirely shapeless gave a whiteness to the Circle of Sky, but stained with exceedingly thin & subtle flakes of black Vapor might be hap- pily said in language of Boccace (describing Demogorgon, in his Genealog. de gli Iddii) to be Vestito d'una Pallidezza affumicata. 1650 21.396 Thursday Night, 1/4 after 7. The Sky covered with Stars; the wind up; right opposite my window, over Brandelhow, <3is>3 an enormous black Cloud exactly in the shape of an Egg--this the only Cloud in all the Sky--impressed me with a Da|emoniacal grandeur.--O for change of weather! <1f85v>1 1651 21.397 Friday Night, Nov. 1 1.--Martinmas Day.--The Barometer for the last 3 days & more portentously low, & I not only frenzied with rheumatic tortures, now in the right jaws, teeth, face, eye, & forehead, & now in the left; but wandering about, unable to sit, or lie--& miserable when in motion--from a <1stifling asthmatic>1 flatulence. This latter calamity, & all like it, seem to be <1in>1 one, to be <1the state>1 of one's sum Total; while the former Tortures seem like cruel Enemies out of us & attacking & tormenting us. I almost think, I should prefer the Stone to Asthma. 1652 21.398 the flat-topp'd double Flame Of th' unsnuff'd Candle.-- 1653 21.399 11 oclock. Perfectly starless--almost perfectly black--only over Borrodale the Clouds are Pallidezza affumicata-- a dingy Paleness--calm as Death/the Greta always sounding-- 1654 16.61 Vere Stupor Mundi et Immutator Seculi--Matt <1f2lv>1 Paris of Pope Innoc. 3.--applied to Bonaparte/ 1655 16.62 Barrow greatly inferior to all his great Predeces- sors, from Hooker to Taylor, in dignity of Style. Perhaps from aversion to the Puritans, a desire in all innocent ways to affect <1live->1 <1liness,>1 as a mark of a loyal Churchman, was the foundation of this <1f22>1 woeful degeneracy--It is strange/the very men, such as Barrow, & <1Sa Theoria>1 Burnet, who wrote with more than ancient majesty in Latin, should in English be as pert as their subjects & ideas would permit their words to be.--What an instructive Lesson on Style does not Burnet's own Translation of his Sacra Theoria furnish? And thus Barrow--L'estrange or Tom Brown could not write it more <1pertly>1 than this great man at times, while his Thoughts are al- ways grave, & fortunate. Tr. of Pope's Suprem: p. 78. When our Lord was apprehended by the Soldiers, presently <1up>1 was his Spirit, & <1out>1 went his Sword in defence of him. And at the Transf. he fell to propose about making an abode there/ 1656 16.63 Anecdote of myself <1f22v>1 Frere with false heart complimenting me at Cambridge as if I was almost sure of getting the prize, I told him, I was sure of the Contrary--"<3But why?>3" namely, that he or some one of King's would obtain it. "But why?"--Why, Sir! the Boot fits you, Sir! I cannot get my Leg in. 1657 16.64 At Gottingen, at Blumenbach's Lectures on Physi- ology when some anatomical Preparations were handing round, there came in & seated himself by us Englishmen an Hospitator, one who attends one or two Lectures unbidden & unforbidden & <1f23>1 gratis, on a claim of <1Hospitality>1--as a Stranger &c--This Hospes was the uncouthest strangest Fish, I ever beheld, pretending to human--I turned to Greenough--& who broke his Bottle?--I whis- pered.-- 1658 16.65 Southey's (Nov. 13th, 1803) notion of Godwin-- My close Stool was right opposite to him, as he sate by my bedside --he compared him to a close Stool pan, most often empty, & better empty than when full 1659 16.66 Godwin & Holcroft went together to Underwood --Little Mr Underwood, we are perfectly acquainted with the sub- ject--only ignorant of the Particulars--What is the difference be- tween a Thermometer & a Barometer-- <1f85v>1 1660 21.400 Sunday morning Nov. 13. 1/2 past 2.--The Sky in upon Grysdale Pike, & onward to the Withop fells floored with <1flat>1 smooth dark or dingy Clouds--else where starry--the 7 Stars, and all the rest in the height of the Heaven bedimmed, those on the descent bright & frosty--the river has a loud voice, self-biog- rapher of <3th>3 today's rains & thunder showers--. The owls are silent --they have .been very musical--all weathers on Saturday, 12-- <1f86>1 Storm & Frost, Sunshine, Rain, Hail, Thunder, Lightning & what not!--I God be praised! tho' sleepless, am marvellously bettered & I take it for granted that the Barometer has risen.--I have been reading Barrow's Treat. on the Pope's Supremacy--& have made a note in g-w on the LESTRANGEISM of his Style, whenever his Thoughts rendered it possible for the words to be pert, frisky, & vulgar--which luckily could not be often, from the gravity of his Subjects, the solidity & appropriateness of his Thoughts, & that habitual geometrical <1precision>1 of mind, which demanded the most <1appropriate>1 words. He seems to me below <1South>1 in dignity--at least, South never sinks so low as B. sometimes. <1f23v>1 1661 16.67 Instance with becoming Indignation the neglect- ful Scorn, with which men of Science & Ingenuity are treated by the English Aristocracy in the circumstance of the const. superiority of the French to us--in what?--In Ship-building! Every thing <1Job>1 & <1Faction>1/here/Every thing in France that does not respect <1the national greatness>1--where they are always <1alive>1 & <1awake.>1 1662 16.68 Suppers & Brandy & water always wantonly injure/ the latter with scarce any sense of Exhilaration. If hungry is the hunger genuine--if not, tis poison to eat--at least more than a morsel--at all events--eat no more than a morsel.-- 1663 16.69 Sense of Flatness in a Mountain Country of the flat Areas, so exquisite, so that what is in a flat country we enjoy even more. 1664 16.7o Ravis, hoarseness--hence ravi colores/dull hot <1f24>1 colours--for ravus = hoarseness from parched throat.--Rava Lupa --ravi leones--so <1dim>1--deaf--heavy--num? insipid--the idem aliquid, the <2tupos autotatos>2 in different senses--Multa fiunt eadem sed aliter. Lord Bacon had a deep feeling of this. 1665 16.71 Tuesday Morning Nov. 14. 1803. On the brink of six--I vow solemnly to God & my Conscience that I will not taste either Wine or Spirit, for the remainder of this Month. 1666 21.401 The wife of Mr. McAlpin at the Head of Loch <1f86>1 Ketterin applied the term "fearful wild beast" to the Eagle, so as perfectly to puzzle us. 1667 21.402 Tuesday <3Morn>3 Noon, Nov. 15. 1803.--All Snow --the Hollow under Grysdale Pike thro' dingy deep vapour! In Borrodale on the mountains behind the Castle beheaded by a straight Line of black Cloud; on all below that line a yellow brilliance on white Snow--& black Barenesses interpatch'd. The front Mountains, Grange, Castle, &c, in plain white Snow patched with melted or uncovered places.-- 1668 21.403 a pretty optical fact occured this morning. As I was returning from Fletcher's, up the back lane, & just in sight of the River, I saw floating high in the air, somewhere over <3Mr>3the Banks's, a noble <1Kite>1--I continued gazing at [it] for some time; when turning suddenly round I saw at an equidistance on my right, i.e. over the middle of our field, a pair of Kites--floating about--I looked at them for some seconds when it occurred to me that I had never before seen two Kites together--instantly the vision disap- <1f86v>1 peared--it was neither more or less than two pair of Leaves, each pair on a separate Stalk, on a Fruit tree that grew on the other side of the wall, not two yards from my eye. The leaves be- ing alternate did, when I looked at them as leaves, strikingly re- semble wings--& they were the only leaves on the Tree.--The magnitude was given by the imagined Distance; that Distance by the former Adjustment of the Eye, which <1remained>1 in consequence of the deep impression, length of time, I had been looking at the Kite, the pleasure, &c--& a new Object impressed itself on the eye/ &c &c. 1669 21.404 When I am sad & sick, I'd fain persuade my heart, I do not wish to see you; but when my nature feels a vernal breeze, a gleam of sunshine, & begins to open, motions felt by me, & seen by none, for still I look sad; as the opening rose in its first opening seems shut, O then I <1long>1 for you, till Longing turns to Grief--& I close up again, <3in>3 despondent, sick at heart.-- <1f24>1 1670 16.72 Month after month, year after year, the deepest Feeling of my Heart hid & wrapped up in the depth & darkness-- <1f24v>1 solitary chaos--& solitariness--is it not pang & complaint even in sickness & torture how was this every where uppermost/ 1671 16.73 In the "Destiny of the Human Race" one, 2--or more chapters to the History all the attempts at improving the Race/from simple Chieftainry to all forms of Government, secret Societies, Sects, & <1Quakerism />1 1672 16.74 Skiddaw snow almost half way down/that upper Half by starlight quite indistinguishable from a fleecy white cloud/ the Star on the very Top, it seemed, being somewhat bedimmed, that it twinked behind the <1thinning off>1 of this Cloud. Nov. 19. 1803. 1673 16.75 If I go on with "the Men and the Times" I will write two Letters in the M.P. & get them into the Courier, the <1f25>1 first, denouncing Esquire Peter Bailly, Junr/the other <1stating>1 <1the Case>1 fairly, as to the present <1School,>1 Wordsworth, Cole- ridge, &c.--You will make enemies/I think not.--They are already made/Thro' Life I have found Dullness & Rascality my natural Enemies. Some flatter personally; & then use the <1invisible Cap>1 of the Reviews, & Magazines, to attack & calumniate/ Fellow with a Grenadier's Cap on, with the word "Invisible" in large Brass Letters.--This the Invisible Knight/ Noscitur e socio, applied to me & W. with a vengeance in spite of direct proof to the contrary. Lactea purpureos interstrepit unda lapillos/ <1f2 v>1 Pura coloratos/ Mr <1Canning!>1 As I despise the Rich Master of the Feast/(vide [?Plautus/Statius] for the names) I cannot be supposed to have much respect for the Parasite/ This defence of myself & my friends cannot surely be deemed im- pertinent Intrusion, when not a Review, not a Magazine appears/ not to mention a number of Books/in which we are not named or alluded to/when <1Ministers>1 & persons in high offices seem to have done <1nothing>1 that the Public knows of, but write <1Parodies>1 &c/-- work this up.-- I have no inclination/I had rather have my pocket picked & submit <1f26>1 to it, than raise the cry of Stop Thief--& get myself hustled by Ruffians--but in this case &c--3 Letters/first, on P. Baill. 2. defence of <1myself,>1 & of my Friends in transitu ex obiter/3. the Case fairly stated/--a defence of the L. B. as far [as] W. is concerned. Quote Garve on Gellert. 1674 21.405 Novemb. 20th.---Midnight---O after what a day <1f86v>1 of distempered Sleeps, out of which I woke, all sense of Time & 1675] NOVEMBER 1803 Circumstance utterly lost/of fever, rheumatic pain & loads of stomach-sickness.--I get up/am calm, like one <1lownded>1--/as I lifted up the Sash, & looked out at the Sky, for the first minute I thought it all dark, a starless Sky; the wind, all the summer swell <1f87>1 lost, & the winter Hollowness & Whistle not yet come, mixed its sea-like solemn roars with <1the Rustle>1 from the yet remaining half dry Leaves on all the Trees--/--but I looked again at the Sky--& there were many Stars, so dim & <1dingy,>1 that they might have put into Paracelsus's Fancy his whim of the Astra tenebricosa, that radiated cold & darkness, with hollow rays, tube-like as Hairs, en- sheathing the rays of Light & Heat, & so producing cold & dark- ness-- Monday Morning, 9oclock--Cold Rain in the valley, which is Snow upon the Mountains-- <1f60>1 1675 31/2.49 <3Durch>3 Von der Sinnlichkeit zur Vernunft durch das beyde verknu%pfende Band der Scho%nheit. --What justice is there in Garve's Idea, that a mountain delights us from its position/as a painting lying flat, what is it?--The painter comes, & puts it on the Easel/now what is a mountain else but a great flat picture--, Trees, Houses, Crags, Beasts &c placed by Nature on an Easel--It is certainly very just/you see what on a flat would be seen/& you see Trees, &c that on a flat would hide each other, but now stand, like Spectators in a Theatre/ <1f60v>1 --it delights us therefore durch Anna%herung und Emporhebung.-- It fills the mind with <1distinct>1 Images without any painful Effort to acquire them & joins therefore all the requisites of pleasure, Ease, Sufficiency, & Vividness-- 2. Mountains cast larger Shadows, & must needs therefore pro- <1f61>1 duce grander effects of Light & Shade/& the absolute change of visual Objects produced thereby--I do not see the same things in the Noon that I did in the Morning--/ the ever-vary- ing Distances of the distant Objects to you, & to each other. 3. The View of an extensive Plain, all cultivated, from a high mountain, would be merely an amusing object--a curiosity--a map --a picture-- were it not for the imposingness of the situation from which we view it--the feelings, possibly worked on by the air &c. Hence, the advantage of Sea, & Lake in these Views-- they take off the <1littleness>1 & picturishness--the Camera obscura effect-- 4. The effect ought not to be forgotten, that from the distance in mountain Countries being so distinct, you have a continual Induce- ment to look forward to the distance--whereas in flat Countries <1f6lv>1 you look just before you, or on each side of you, at the turn in the Road, or the Flowers in the Hedge. Now there certainly is an in- tellectual movement connected with looking forward/a feeling of Hope, a stirring & inquietude of Fancy--. To look down upon, to comprehend, to be above, to look forward to, are all metaphors that shew in the original feeling a resemblance to the moral meaning christened thereafter. 5. Greater liveliness of the perceptions of motion, and Sound-- partly from Contrast, partly from the echoingness of the Rocks, partly from the silence. 1676 31/2.48 128 Blank <3pages Leaves>3 Pages remaining in this <1f60>1 Pocket-book. Nov. 21, 1803 Monday Morning, 4 oclock--: which I propose to fill with Notes &c on the Picturesque, & the Pleasures of natural Scenery--/from Garve, Price, &c--These I have paged.-- 1677 16.76 Tuesd. Nov. 22--1803--the prodigious effect of <1f26>1 the Love of Spices on the human Race/the cause of the E. India Voyages, viz of Columbus--&c &c &c-- 1678 21.406 In Plotinus the system of the Quakers is most <1f87>1 beautifully expressed, in the 5th Book of the fifth Ennead: speaking of "the inward Light." It is not lawful to enquire from whence it originated, for it neither approached hither, nor again departs from hence to some other place, but it either appears to us, or it does not appear. So that we ought not to pursue it, as if with a view of dis- covering its latent <3Abode>3 Original, but to abide in Quiet, till it suddenly shines upon us; preparing ourselves for the blessed Spec- tacle, like the eye waiting patiently for the rising Sun. 1679] NOVEMBER 1803 1679 21.407 My nature requires another Nature for its sup- <1f87v>1 port & reposes only in another from the necessary Indigence of its Being.--Intensely similar, yet not the same; or may I venture to say, the same indeed, but dissimilar, as the same Breath sent with the same force, the same pauses, & with the same melody pre- imaged in the mind, into the Flute and the Clarion shall be the same Soul diversely incarnate. 1680 21.408 All things desire that which is first from a neces- sity of Nature, prophesying as it were that they cannot subsist without the energies of that first Nature. But Beauty is not first/ it happens only to Intellect, & creates restlessness, & a <1seeking>1--but good, which is present from the beginning & unceasingly to our innate Appetite, abides with us even in Sleep, and never seizes the mind with astonishment, & requires no peculiar reminiscence to convince us of its presence.--Plotinus. This is just & profound; yet perfect Beauty being an abstract of Good, in & for that particular Form, excites in me no passion but that of an admiration so quiet as scarcely to admit of the name, passion.--But one that participating in the same Root of Soul does yet spring up with excellences that I have not, to this I am driven, by a desire of Self-completion with a restless & inextinguishable <1f88>1 Love. God is not all things, for in this case he would be indigent of all; but all things are God, & eternally indigent of God.--And in the original meaning of the word "essence" as predicable of that, concerning which you can say, This is he, or that is he, this or that rather than any other/in this sense of the word Essence I perfectly coincide with the Platonists & Plotinists, that if we add to the na- ture of God either Essence, or Intellect, or Beauty we deprive him of being the Good himself, the only <1One,>1 the purely & absolutely ONE. 1681 21.409 Wednesday Midnight, one o clock or near it-- after much excitement, very very far short of intoxication, indeed not approaching to it to the consciousness of the understanding, tho' I had taken a considerable Quantity of <2laudanum>2 I for the first time in my Life felt my eyes near-sighted, & tho' I had 2 Can- dles near me, reading in my bed, I was obliged to magnify the NOVEMBER 1803 [1683 Letters by bringing the Book close to my Eye--I then put out the Candles, & closed my eyes--& instantly there appeared a spectrum, <1f88v>1 of a Pheasant's Tail, that altered thro' various degradations into round wrinkly shapes, as of Excrement, or baked Apples-- indeed exactly like the latter--round baked Apples, with exactly the same colour, the same circular intra-circular Wrinkles--I started out of bed, lit my Candles, & noted it down, in order to state these circular irregularly concentrical Wrinkles, something like Horse dung, still more like flat baked or Apples, such as they are brought in after Dinner.--<1Why those Concentric Wrin->1 <1kles?>1 I went to the window, to empty my Urine-pot, & wondered at the simple grandeur of the View/1. darkness & only not utter black undistinguishableness--2. The grey-blue steely Glimmer of the Greta, & the Lake, 3./The black, yet form preserving Moun- tains/4 the Sky, moon-whitened there, cloud-blackened here--& yet with all its gloominess & sullenness forming a contrast with the <1f89>1 simplicity of the Landscape beneath. Over the black form-retaining Mountains the Horizon of Sky grey-white all round the whole Turn of my Eye the Sky above chiefly dark, but not nearly so black as the space between my eye & the Lake, which is one formless Black, or as the black nothing-but- form-& colour-Mountains beyond the grey-steely glimmery Lake & River/& this diminished Blackness mottled by the not-far-from- setting half-moon.--O that I could but explain these concentric Wrinkles in my Spectra!-- 1682 21.410 Thursday, Nov. 24th, 1803.--Lo! on this day <1we>1 <1change Houses!>1--All is in a bustle/and I do not greatly like <1Bustle;>1 but it is not that that depresses me/it is the <1Change!>1-- Change!--O Change doth trouble me with Pangs untold!--But change, and change! change about! --But they shall not get me out--from Thee, Dear Study!--I must write a Poem on this.-- But this is not the only thing--it is Nov. 24th, 1803. Nov. 24th 1799, it was a Sunday, & I was at Sockburn!--/ 1683 21.411 Friday, Nov. 25, 1803.--Morning. 45 minutes <1f8 v>1 past 2. after a night of storm & Rain, the Sky calm & whitely blue 1684] NOVEMBER 1803 --vapours thinning into formlessness instead of Clouds/The Mountains of height covered with Snow, the secondary Mountains black. The Moon descending aslant the [D], thro' the midst marked A--. she being an egg, somewhat uncouthly shaped perhaps, but an ostrich's egg rather than any other/she is two Nights more than a Half moon/--She set behind the black point--fitted <1itself>1 <1on to it,>1 like a Cap of Fire--then became a crescent/then a moun- tain of Fire in the Distance/then the Peak itself on fire--one steady flame--then stars of the first, second & third magnitude--& vanish- ing, up boiled a swell of Light--& in the next Second the whole Sky, which had been <1sable blue>1 around the <1yellow>1 moon, whitened & brightened, for as large a space as would take the Moon half an hour to descend thro'.-- <1f26>1 1684 16.77 Joel Barlow's two arguments with the Dey of <1f26v>1 Algiers, which really induced him to make a Treaty with the United States/1. That the Christian Religion was not established there, nor any preference given to it over the Mahometan/Men were only required to believe in one God.--2. That there was a natural affinity between the 13 Stars of America, & the half moon of Algiers. 1685 16.78 Emperor Paul making the young Englishman, who pretended short-sightedness as an excuse for his not stopping & getting out in the Streets of Peterburgh, wear Spectacles every where--& sending for the Major from Moscow who had worn a caricature of Paul's Regimentals &c--publickly-- 1686 16.79 Die Ba%ume und die Felsen sagen mir nichts, said Socrates & the endless superiority of Christ over him in this respect/ Tant pis pour vous-- <1f27>1 1687 16.8o No! dear Wedgwood! I understand you/& there- fore love & am patient/but the unintelligible distresses me/in this sense we are ab hospitibus feros-- <2NOVEMBER>2 1803 1688 16.81 When some wretched Poets have run down some beauty or licence in the mechanism of Verse, or Diction, & it has been noticed with disgust, then come your still more wretched Critics (the same perchance who at the first had hugely admired the thing), & if they find in any poem even a single Instance of this, it is instantly <1detected>1 with all the airs of offended Wisdom/ here--Judiciously used--& so used by him, as that it would always have been felt as excellent, if none had ever used it otherwise--so for instance, in putting the emphasis on the adjective--Each fond word utters with a fond delight. 1689 16.82 Borrodale, 1 range perfectly black/the higher <1f2 v>1 mountains behind all snow & snow-cloud, a grand [?landstory]-- all adown the Mountains even to the end of Bassenthwaite--Mist on various Lines, & raggednesses wonderfully connected as in a Woolen band the whole range/but Barrow's mist/a black [D] above it--& behind & above a dazzling white snowy Peak/the tops of the range, some hid, some not, by the Snow-cloud/of the <1choice>1 of sensations, I in much pain leaning on my Staff, & viewing the clouds & hearing the Church Bell from Crosthwaite Church/ 1690 16.83 Monday, Nov. 29 1803 [D] Carpet of weeds or chopped reeds, which the waves on the Shore lift & belly up without breaking, and under-door wind lifts up a loose Carpet/Thelwall with me/ 1691 16.84 The Beggar & her Children asleep on the <1dry f28>1 Torrent, by a slender Ash which had been sheltered by a huge Rock in the middle of the Stream, that ash in Autumn, Spring, & Winter fury, shaken all its leaves by the Water-blast, & its very Trunk by the Stray Cataractlings, that just touch & lave its roots/ but now they are all asleep, on the dry stones, lulled by the Noise of the water that crept unseen under the dusty Stones. 1692 16.85 True & easy Test of Poetry. If it relate to sight, might a well educated man born blind have written it--Examine 1693] NOVEMBER-<2DECEMBER>2 18o3 <1f28v>1 Blacklock. And if to ear or sound, the deaf--if to feelings, a man utterly heartless? 1693 16.86 Slow shifting of Raven Crag from behind the green o'er wooded Hill, over which it arose with its naked Precipice & crowned Head/How majestically it glided away! Nov. 29. 1694 16.87 An Apron, of tressy water/2. a steep Slope of leaping billowy water, 3. a grand Plunge, an arch of water, 4. a long Elbow of a narrow Torrent, with many a plunging Water- break, 5 & last, a direct perpendicular Fall adown a smooth Rock, which no where projecting is passively parallel with the stream-- 1695 16.88 Those only who feel no originality, no conscious- ness of having received their Thoughts & opinions from immediate Inspiration, are anxious to be thought originals--the certainty & feeling is enough for the other, & he rejoices to find his opinions plumed & winged with the authority of venerable Forefathers.-- <1f29>1 1696 16.89 The Torrent opposite to the Cherry Tree, out of Harrop Tarn, & a few hundred yards Lakeward from the Rock of Seats & Thrones with mossy Cushions/this Torrent, I have repeat- edly observed, is <1the loudest>1 in the whole Country. Nov. 29. 1803. 1697 16.90 Happily disengaged & vacant never Look'd at the Sky & Clouds in every puddle, Along the Winter Road. <1f89v>1 1698 21.412. Dec. 6. 1803.--Adam travelling in his old age came to a set of the descendants of Cain, ignorant of the origin of the world; & treating him as a Madman killed him. A sort of Dream, which I had this Night. 1699 21.413 We ought to suspect reasoning, founded wholly on the differences of man from man, not on their commonnesses-- which are infinitely greater. So I doubt the wisdom of the Treat- <1f90>1 ment of Sailors, & criminals; because it is wholly grounded on their vices, as if the vices formed the whole or major part of their Being. DECEMBER 1803 [1704 1700 21.414 Abstruse Reasoning : the inductions or common sense : : reaping : delving. But the Implements with which we reap, how are they gained? By Delving.--Besides what is common sense--it was abstruse Reasoning with earlier Ages. 1701 21.415 Tuesday 1/2 past 3. beautiful Sun set--the Sun set- ting behind Newlands across the foot of the Lake. The Sky cloud- less, save that there is a cloud on Skiddaw, one on the highest Mountain in Borrodale, some on Helvellin, and the Sun sets in a glorious Cloud/these Clouds are of various shapes, various Colours --& belong to their mountains, & have nothing to do with the Sky. --N.B. Something metallic, silver playfully & imperfectly gilt, & highly polished; or rather something mother of pearlish, in the Sun gleams upon Ice, thin Ice. 1702 21.416 Die Gabe, die dazu geho%rt vortro%ffliche Verse zu machen ist vielleicht mehr als irgend ein Philosoph vermag; diese Gabe nur den Ausdruck des Gedankens zu suchen, und doch zugleich den Reim und das Metrum zu finden. Gellert besass diese Gaben, wenn irgend einer unserer Dichter, und vielleicht hat nichts zu dem grossen und algemeinen Aufsehen, das seine Fabeln machten, mehr beygetragen. Es war <3one>3 eine seltsame und in Deutschland noch unerho%rte Erscheinung, Verse zu lesen, wo alles so gesagt war, wie man spricht, und doch alles edel und einneh- mend, und alles zugleich im Sylbenmaasse und Reime richtig. Es ist gewiss, dass die Poesie wenn sie diese Vortrefflichkeit erreicht einen weit gro%ssern Eindruck macht als die Prosa. Sogar das Vergnu%- gen, welches der Reim macht ist alsdenn kein verachtliches Ver- gnu%gen mehr. Anmerk. uber Gellert, Sammlung einig. Abhand. von Christian Garve. 1703 21.417 Nostoch, the stinking tawny Jelly of a fal'n Va- <1f9ov>1 pour, or (by Dr. Charlton) the nocturnal Pollution of some ple- thorical and wanton Star.--Diction. of hard words. 1704 16.91 All Philosophy divides naturally into 3 parts/2 <1f29>1 material, & 1 formal. The latter Logic/or the Laws of Reasoning 1705] <2DECEMBER>2 1803 in general/the former Physics or Ethics, accordingly as we contem- plate an Object as free or compelled-- 1705 16.92 <1It is not enough that we act in conformity to the>1 [a] <1Law of moral Reason-we must likewise>1 FOR THE SAKE <1of that law/>1 it must not only be our Guide, but likewise our Impulse-- Like a strong current, it must make a visible Road on the <1Sea,>1 [b] & drive us along that road gema%ss--um desselben willen. God <1der Wille>1--Christ <1Logos>1--new exposition of the Text. Why callest thou me good?-- <1f29v>1 [c] Understanding like Gold & Silver has a representative value, <1a>1 [d] <1pure Will like a>1 Diamond <1has its value in itself>1--<1and it is SET>1 IN [e] understanding, or Grace, or Beauty, <1the easier to be handled, or to>1 <1attract perhaps the first attention of the Ignorants.>1 Had Happiness been the sole final Object--the ultimatum--of the organization, spiritual & bodily, of men, why Reason rather than Instinct, or Reason only as a Contemplatrix, a source of new Enjoy- ments of Reflection & Gratitude/but not as a weak powerless 0ft [f] bestunned Regent and Directress--so unknowing of the Past, and so unprescient/instead of the ever certain Instinct, that deter- mines the end & supplies the means.--and in fact those who most distinctly & continuously hold forth to themselves the end of their own Happiness as to be attained by their Reason & Understanding, are commonly the most discontented at last--often malcontents, <1f30>1 and end like Solomon in Misology--weil sie nach dem Uberschlage [g] alles Vortheils from the arts & Sciences nevertheless find that they [h] have Vanity & Anxiety, & so instead of holding cheap the almost animal-of-instinct vulgar man, rather envy him/Remember T. Wedgwood, as we were sitting together in the Coach/& for- [i] ever are loving to look at Children/Vide Schiller. Denn da die Vernunft dazu nicht tauglich genug ist um den Willen in Ansehung [j] der Gegensta%nde desselben, etc--so the only purpose of Reason (if Nature mean any thing) is to produce a pure will, which shall be [k] good not only as a mean, but ultimately good/now observe too, that whenever the ultimate end of Nature is answered, all the subordinate ends are best answered, so are men really the happi- est who take Virtue not Happiness for the ultimatum/--& <2DECEMBER>2 18o3 [1708 must be so.--Dieser Wille darf also zwar nicht das einzige, <1[und>1 <1[l]>1 <1f30v>1 <1das ganze],>1 aber er must doch das Ho%chste Gut, und zu allem u%brigen, selbst allem Verlangen nach Glu%ckseligkeit, die Bedingung seyn/& this fully justifies Nature even in the occasional Failure of Happiness, if only it have a natural Tendency to effectuate a good will, <1einer [einen]>1 AN <1SICH guter [guten] Wille, dessen Werth>1 <1u%ber alles geht.>1 All this in truth needs not to be taught (for it already exists in every sound mind) but only to be cleared up--namely, the high Worth in & for itself of a pure Will or Goodness. Duty = good Will, difficulties & limitations presupposed-- The Coincidence of Duty & Inclination illustrated in the one fixt Price of a Tradesman in a large Concern/ <1[m]>1 So men preserve their Lives <1conformably to Duty,>1 how seldom <1out>1 <1[n]>1 <1f31>1 <1of Duty.>1 Kant instances it in men overwhelmed with their own misery. T.W. in men of cold Temperament, but N.B. will not a <1[o]>1 pure will generate a feeling of Sympathy/Does even the sense of Duty rest satisfied with mere <1Actions>1, in the vulgar sense, does it not demand, & therefore may produce, Sympathy it- <1[p]>1 self as an Action/?--This I think very important/--Nay, it is proved by Scripture/& Kant therefore, p.13. Metap. der Sitten, very unfairly explains away the word Love into Beneficence-- 1706 16.93 As he who passes over a bridge of slippery uneven Stones placed at unequal distances, at the foot of an enormous waterfall, is lost, if he suffer his Soul to be whirled away by its diffused every where nowhereness of Sound/but must condense his Life to the one anxiety of not Slipping, so will Virtue in certain <1f3lr>1 Whirlwinds of Temptations. 1707 16.94 To analyse the pleasures received from Gates, in corners of Fields, at twilight/Vide Wordsworth--Evening Walk The sound of closing Gate across the water borne/ 1708 16.95 3, & nearly 4 days work for a stout woman, a stout Girl, and a feeble old woman, 1 Stone of wool, for which they get %%0, 2s, 10d/spinning from 7 in the morning to 9 at night, of course 1709] DECEMBER 1803 <1v>1 using Coal & Candle; they can do it in 3 days; but then they have to reel it, & carry it to Collarth Bridge, at least 5 miles.--O women are hardly off!-- 1709 16.96 The common Fern fades into an Orange/the Stone Fern into a <1rich>1 Brown-- <1f32>1 1710 16.97 Reverence for the LAW of Reason/now this truly is a <1feeling>1, but says Kant it is a self-created, not a received passive Feeling--<1it is the Consciousness of the Subordination of the Will>1 <1[to a Law].>1--Examine this: for in Psychology Kant is but suspi- cious Authority.--As an imposed Necessity it is Fear, or an Analo- gon of Fear; but as a Necessity imposed on us by our own Will it is a species of Inclination/& in this word, as in many others, Man's double Nature appears, as Man & God. I am fully per- suaded, that all the Dogmas of the Trinity & Incarnation arose from Jesus asserting them of himself, as man in genere/ 1711 16.98 P.19, <1[Grundlegung zur] M[etaphysik]>1 der Sit- ten. Kant, like Paley, <2ws emoi dokei>2 introduces mere empty generalization into the Principle of Morals, <1a word>1 of classifi- cation instead of words expressive of any real definite moral <1f32v>1 action.--This seems to be the best Rule. That which it would be prudent for the Race to enact, it is each individual's Duty to perform; <& because it is his Duty.>--This appears far better than the, Ich soll niemahls anders verfahren, als so, dass ich auch wollen ko%nne, meine Maxime solle ein allgemeines Gesetz werden; tho, I admit, that this is a <1Guide>1, not a motive, & that I must add--because it is his Duty.-- 1712 16.99 On the simplicity or manifoldness of the human Being? In what sense is it one? Sense, Appetite, Passion, Fancy, Imagination, Understanding, & lastly the Reason & Will? 1713 16.100 The suitableness of pure Virtue to human Feel- ings: its connection by shew of likeness & affinity with those Feel- <1f33>1 ings that prompt to action & sustain under Pain/Dignity, Hope, &c. DECEMBER 1803 [1718 --N.B. This must be <1made>1 out by an exact analysis; & an <1urgent>1 Dissuasive from teaching Virtue to Children by Inducements or Examples--Versus Hartley, Priestley, & the Multitude/ 1714 16.101 The superiority of a clear or distinct idea over a "schwankend" notion pleasure from wine at this moment to Health, &c--applied to the Former. 1715 16.102 The best part of Heaven &c is that being utterly indistinct & dim it acts as nothing but a representation of Virtue itself. But if you make [?out] it clearly, it is then just as base as a guinea/& would be felt as such by any noble minded Child of 7 years old--to whom you told a Story of a virtuous Action--God = Reason personified Self-- Heaven = Complacency & satisfaction 171616.103 And where their Weakness--( Book 2-- <1f33v>1 To <1their>1 defence ( Beelzebub's Speech <1Mee>1 from attempting--None shall partake with me. 1717 16.104 Der Wille, says Kant, ist nichts anderes, als prac- tisches Vernuntf [ <1Vernunft.]>1 This I doubt/My will & I seem per- fect Synonimes--whatever does not apply to the first, I refuse to the latter/--Any thing strictly of outward Force I refuse to ac- knowlege, as done <1by>1 me/it is done <1with>1 me. Now I do not feel this perfect synonimousness in Reason & the Wille. I am sure, Kant cannot make it out. Again & again, he is a wretched Psychologist. Yet it is, doubtless, a most abstruse Subject. In all inevitable Truths, e.g. that the two sides of a [Triangle] are greater than the third, I feel my will active: I seem to <1will>1 the Truth, as well as to per- ceive it. Think of this!-- 1718 16.105 When in a state of pleasurable & balmy Quietness <1f34>1 I feel my Cheek and Temple on the nicely made up Pillow in Ca|elibe Toro meo, the fire-gleam on my dear Books, that fill up one whole side from ceiling to floor of my Tall Study--& winds, perhaps are driving the rain, or whistling in frost, at my blessed 1719] DECEMBER 1803 Window, whence I see Borrodale, the Lake, Newlands--wood, water, mountains, omniform Beauty--O then as I first sink on the pillow, as if Sleep had indeed a material <1realm,>1 as if when I sank on my pillow, I was entering that region & realized Faery Land of Sleep--O then what visions have I had, what dreams--the Bark, the Sea, all the shapes & sounds & adventures made up of the <1f34v>1 Stuff of Sleep & Dreams, & yet my Reason at the Rudder/O what visions, <22 > as if my Cheek & Temple were lying on me gale 0' mast on--Seele meines Lebens! --& I sink down the waters, thro' Seas & Seas--yet warm, yet a Spirit--/ Pillow = mast high 1719 16.106 <1The Good>1 for all who have reason/& so perhaps the Beautiful--<1the Agreeable>1 depends on each man's internal na- ture/on the Subject, not the Object/Now what is it, if there be any thing, which belongs to the very nature of a rational Being, & which, it is matter of Fact, that all men have, who have Reason?-- In short, REASON--N.B. 1720 16.107 With respect to the instinct of sitting upon the eggs the custom of hatching chicken in an oven destroys the In- stinct, so that not one in 3 Hens has the Instinct--Reimarus seems <1f35>1 not to have known this. 1721 16.108 Pragmatic (Sanctions, e.g.) opposed to <1theoretic/>1 not such as may be deduced from the absolute <1Rights>1 of this or that Party, not that which either Party might demand as fully coincident with Reason & Conscience, but such as all Parties per- ceived, to be under existing circumstances, necessary for the actual (pragmatic, i.e. matter of fact) interests of all, by mutual Com- promise. Dogmatical, a man over positive in Positions, Pragmatical, a man over busy in business. Interest/properly something not final, but connected with the final, as a means, as a Bridge, a road kept open.--Est inter me & meam pecuniam which is absent from me/i.e. left out. But I know no word so abused in its moral Applications/Concerning interest-- The right Bank, the Left Bank & the Bridge between both. [. . .] nunc cum istis <1cerno.>1-- 1722 16. 109 <1Maxim>1 always implies a voluntary Rule/Laws <1f35v>1 are not maxims, tho' a good man may by Habit perhaps elevate his Maxim into a Law for himself.--Maxim = the ultimate Principle of action. "To mind er No I is <1my>1 maxim" truly in every respect accurately says a purple-faced Fellow with bright black eyes, who helps himself first at an Ordinary/to do unto others as you would be done by, is the Maxim of a good man--but it is not a <1Law,>1 nor was taught as a Law. The Law is, <1Be ye perfect,>1 even as your Fa- ther in Heaven is perfect. 1723 16.110 Hier sehen wir nun die Philosophie in der That auf einen misslichen Standpunct gestellet, der fest seyn soll, unerachtet er weder im Himmel, noch auf der Erde an etwas geha%ngt, oder woran gestu%tzt wird. Hier soll sie ihre Lauterkeit beweisen, als Selbsthalterin <1ihrer>1 Gesetze, nicht als Herold der- jenigen, welche ihr ein eingepflanzter Sinn, oder wer weiss welche vormundschaftliche Natur einflu%stert, die insgesamt, sie mo%gen <1f36>1 immer besser seyn als gar nichts, doch niemals Grundsa%tze abgeben ko%nnen, die die Vernunft dictirt, und die durchaus vo%llig a priori ihren Quell, und hiemit zugleich ihr gebietendes Ansehen haben mu%ssen: nichts von der Neigung der Menschen, sondern Alles von der Obergewalt des Gesetzes und der schuldigen Achtung fu%r das- selbe zu erwarten, oder den Menschen widrigenfalls zur Selbstver- achtung und innern Abscheu zu verurtheilen. Alles also, was empirisch ist, ist, als Zuthat zum Princip der Sittlichkeit, nicht allein dazu ganz untauglich, sondern der Lauter- keit der Sitten selbst ho%chst nachtheilig, an welchen der eigentliche und u%ber allen Preis erhabene Werth eines schlec [h] terdings guten Willens eben darin besteht, dass das Princip der Handlung von allen Einflu%ssen zufa%lliger Gru%nde, die nur Erfahrung an die <1f36v>1 Hand geben kann, frey sey. Wider diese Nachla%ssigkeit oder gar niedrige Denkungsart in Aufsuchung des Princips unter empiri- schen Bewegursachen und Gesetzen, kann man auch nicht zu viel und zu oft Warnungen ergehen lassen, indem die menschliche Vernunft in ihrer Ermu%dung gern auf diesem Polster ausruht, &c-- Grundl. zur Met. der Sitt. 60, 61.-- 1724 16.111 Hartley Books to be read in the following order-- [. . .] , Weishaupt, Reimarus <1f120>1 1725 16.376 I have repeatedly said, that I could have made a Volume, if only I had noted down, as they occurred to my Recol- lection or Observations, the instances of the Proverb, Extremes Meet/--This Night, Sunday, Dec. 11, 1803, 1/2 past 11, I have determined to devote the last 9 pages of my Pocket[book] to the collection of the same. EXTREMES MEET. The parching Air Burns frore, and Cold performs the Effect of Fire. Par. Lost, Book 2. 594. Insects by their smallness, the Mammoth by its hugeness, terrible. Sameness in a Waterfall, in the foam Islands of a fiercely boiling Pool at the bottom of the Waterfall, from infinite Change. The excess of Humanity & Disinterestedness in polite Society, not to give Pain, e.g. not to talk of your own Diseases or misfor- tunes, & to introduce nothing but what will give pleasure, destroys all Humanity & Disinterestedness by making it intolerable thro' <1f12ov>1 Desuetude, to listen to the Complaints of our Equals or of any where the Listening does not gratify or excite some vicious Pride, & sense of Superiority. A perfectly unheard of Subject, & a crambe bis cocta, chosen by a man of Genius--difficult to say, which would excite in the higher degree the sense of Novelty. E.g. the Orestes of Sotheby Dark with excess of Light. Self-absorption & Wordly-mindedness N.B. The latter a most philosophical word 16.377 The dim Intellect <1sees>1 an absolute Oneness, the perfectly clear Intellect <1knowingly perceives>1 it. Distinction & Plurality lie in the Betwixt. 9. The naked Savage, & the Gymnosophist. 10. Nothing & intensest absolutest Being. 16.378 11. Despotism and ochlocracy. <1f121>1 1726 16.112 Wednesd. Morn. 3 oclock, Dec. 13, 1803. Bad <1f36v>1 dreams/How often <1of a sort/>1 at the university--a mixture of Xts Hospital Church/escapes there--lose myself/trust to two People, one Maim'd, one unknown/insulted by a fat sturdy Boy of about 14, 1ike a Bacchus/who dabs a flannel in my face, (or rather soft hair brown Shawl stuff) (was this a flannel Night-cap?) he attacks me/I call to my Friends--they come & join in the Hustle against <1f37>1 me--out rushes a university Harlot, who insists on my going with her/offer her a shilling--seem to get away a moment/when she overtakes me again/I am not to go to another while she is <1"biting">1 --these were her words/--this will not satisfy her/I sit down on a broad open plain of rubbish with rails & a street beyond/& call out--whole Troops of people in sight--now [?cannot] awake.-- Wind & the <2ta aidoia pensilia>2 & somewhat painful/--but what wonderful wanderings thro' the Hall, with bad Portraits of the Emperor of Russia, the Hall belonging to the E.--the wanderings thro' Streets, the noticing the Complex side of a noble Building, & saying to my Guides--"it will be long before I shall find my way here--I must endeavor to remember this"/the turning up a Lane with wall & magnificent Trees (like a quiet Park-garden wall) In the early part of the Dream, Boyer, & two young Students, & <1f37v>1 R. Allen: Legrice & I quizzing/N.B. arrogant sense of intellectual superiority under circumstances of depression, but no envy/-- <1"Obsonant">1 ++ The Harlot in white with her open Bosom certainly was the Cambridge Girl, --One thing noticeable in an after Dream/a little weak contemptible wretch offering his Serv- ++ one of the words used by the young [?Fowos/Foward]. ices, & I (as before afraid to refuse them) literally & distinctly remembered a former Dream, in which I had suffered most se- verely, this wretch leaping on me, & grasping my Scrotum/--I therefore most politely assured him of the 3 guineas, but I meant only to get rid of him/--Again too the slight pain in my side pro- duced a fellow knuckling me there/--My determination to awake, I dream that I got out of bed, & volition in dream to <1scream,>1 which I actually to [o] did, from that volition/& the strange visual Distor- <1f38>1 tions of all the bed Cloaths, some lying as on a <3form>3 frame toward the fire/some one way, some another/all which, I in my dream explained as the effects of my eyes being half-opened, & still affected by Sleep/in an half upright posture struggling, as I thought, against involuntary sinking back into Sleep, & consequent suffocation/twas then I screamed, by will/& immediately after really awoke/ I must devote some one or more Days exclusively to the Medita- tion on <1Dreams.>1 Days? Say rather Weeks! 1727 16.113 Proclus, the Good, the Intellect, the Life or Soul, the Body. Inanimate Body--living Creatures--rational Life/God. 1728 16.114 The 50th Prop. of El. Theol. contains totidem verbis my Etymology of <1Natura,>1 without referring either to it or <2phusis. anhr>2 by metastisis for <2hn ar'.>2 God--I am. <1f38v>1 1729 16.115 Motto for my Idoloclastes "It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish that lies in the way to Knowlege. Locke's Epistle to the Reader prefixed to his Ess. on Hum. Underst. 1730 16.116 Ut non dicatur nos Veritati, sed Veritatem nobis defuisse. 1731 16.117 The Water lily in the midst of the Lake is equally refreshed by the Rain, as the Spurge on the sandy Shore. 1732 16.118 Heat not Light--Stove/item, Crickets. 1733 16.1 19 Negros : Planters : : Candles : Bats, if they are illuminated, they <3waste>3 use their own Tallow/how the Bat loves the Tallow but hates the Light-- 1734 16.120 A bad Writer like a Prince's Titles <3proceeds by>3 <1f39>1 <3regular>3 climbs up by regular Anticlimax 1735 16.121 In the next world the Souls of the Dull Good men serve for Bodies to the Souls of the Shakesperes & Miltons-- & in the course of a few Centuries, when the Soul can do without its vehicle, the Bodies will by advantage of good Company have refined themselves into Souls, fit to be cloathed with like Bodies. 1736 16.122 The paradise of Flowers' & Butterflies' Spirits. 1737 16.123 The Soul within the Body, can I any way com- pare this to the Reflection of the Fire seen thro' my window on the solid Wall, seeming of course within the solid wall, as deep within as the distance of the Fire from the Wall?--I fear, I can make nothing out of it/but why do I always turn away from any inter- esting Thought to do something uninteresting--as for instance, when this Thought struck me, I turned off my attention suddenly, & went to look for the Wolff which I had missed--/Is it a coward- <1f39v>1 ice of all deep Feeling, even tho' pleasurable? or is it Laziness? or is it some thing less obvious than either?--Is it connected with my epistolary Embarrassments? 1738 16.124 Buffon's wicked Declamation against the Sloth. Blumenbach told me, that he had conversed with many Dutchmen who had lived in Guiana, & from them collected that this appar- ently miserable is rather an enviable Animal. 1. Nourishes itself entirely from Leaves, & therefore when it has once climbed a Tree, can sustain itself on the same Dish for a Quarter of a Year together. 2. He does not drink at all. 3. Is exposed to very few Enemies, his Dining-Room being his Castle/when he marks a Tyger Cat climb- ing up the Tree, it goes softly to the end of the Branch, & rocks it till the Tyger Cat falls off--so that the instances of a Sloth being surprized or caught by a Tyger Cat is extremely rare/& even upon the ground its Claws are so strong, its Cries so fearful, that the <1f40>1 Tyger Cat generally gets the worst.--N.b. as it moves but a few feet in a whole Day, when on the ground, how long must it have been in travelling from Mount Ararat/a new point of Chronology/ 1739 16.125 What makes Society differ from a <1herd?>1 The human <1Ear.>1 A Person born deaf is dumb too. 1740 16.126 The reproduction of the Lizard &c, &c, furnishes awful subject for meditation on the Vita Creatrix, on the possible evolvement of the Senses from the principle of Life.--What shall I say to that of Proclus--that LIFE IS KNOWLEGE? Elem. of Theol. Prop. 188. Is it not falsely translated by T. Taylor? Knowlege is Life, i.e. presupposes Life. 1741 16.127 A whisper--& news-Monger = a Buzz-fly. 1742 16. 128 Some nations like Caterpillars continue to live, after their Heart & Lungs have been eaten away-- 1743 16.129 A great Man's Book in this Country like a Candle in Lapland, extinguished the moment after it was lit, by Insects, Gnats, & Buzzflies. 1744 16.130 Good & ill-natured name of the same Thing/Fish <1f40v>1 of a clumbsy Shape is, when alive, phosphoric from sides & belly/this the Germans call Klumpfisch, the French Lune de mer, the English Sun-Fish. 1745 16.131 Your overheaded, heartless, Designers pass into Frog-fish/the Lophius piscatorius, whose Head is more than 1/2 its whole Body, & its Maul with two fleshy Angler-Threads. 1746 16.132 The Dolphin, a gorgeous Creature, which espe- cially in dying plays into wondrous beauty of Colour, out of yellow into Blue & Purple Red/a Patriot dying nobly, &cv 1747 16.133 Soles Flounders, Plaise i.e. this whole Tribe of Pleuronectes, have both eyes on the same side of the head, some species on one, some on the other--they <1only>1 1748 16.134 Blumenbach argues for a Post & Continuing Cre- ation from one solitary Hydatid, the Hydatis Finna, because it is found in tame Swine, & not known to exlst in the wild Swine or in <1f41>1 other animals! --Wh has Caused the wild Swine to discard? O Egregias, what are the Improbabilities on the one side? What on the other?--State in detail what this Post-creation <1supposes>1/ 1749 16.135 Passionately fond of the Hebrew Poetry I often have thought of the loss of the Library therein contained of Ora- cles & History, of which our present Bible is but a meagre & fortui- tous extract, of but few Times &c with grief & so of the Greek Hymns & Dythyrambics & Corybyntics, many perhaps equal to the Atys of Catullus, wch I deem a Translation from the Greek, & think it high Genius in a Roman to feel and to represent an inspired Greek/but what if all these had been preserved? A Life would not <1f41v>1 have sufficed to the Reading thereof, and the admiration would have killed all original Power, all Hope/we have enough to excite Emulation. more would overlay it. Dec. 18. 1803. 1750 16.136 . . . . . . but overpowered with the [?<3emotion>3] Pha|enomena I arose, lit my Candle, & wrote--of figures, even with open eyes/of squares, & [D] & of various colours, & I know not what/ How in a few minutes I forgot such an Assemblage of distinct Impressions, ebullitions & piles of golden colour & thence to think <1f42>1 of the Nature of Memory. So intense/& yet in one Minute for- gotten! the same is in Dreams/Think <1of this/if, perchance,>1 thou <1livest>1--ALAS! Of the necessity of writing & indeed of all other m[otion] IN LARGE, whenever 1751 16.137 As I was sitting on my bed by the Table, reading, <1f 2v>1 with my face downward, I saw a phantom of my face upon the night cap which lay just on my pillow/in the middle of it/I sitting nearly at the foot of the Bed/it was indistinct, of bright colour tho' & came only as my head was bent low. Was it the action of the rays of my face upon my eye/that is, did my eyes see my face, & from the sidelong & faint action of the Rays place the Image in that distance/ --but I moved the Night Cap & lost it/the night cap & the associ- <1f43>1 ations [. . . .] were therefore [. . . . . . . . . .] of the Color, & the great indistinctness of the Form, as well as its dependence on the night cap.--Dec. 19. 1803. Monday Morning-- 1752 16.138 As if the Volunteers would throw off their arms, as Lobsters their claws at a Clap of Thunder or the Salute of a great Gun/ 1753 16.139 Addington + Tierney = the Seacrab & the Pinna in the Second Book of Oppian/-- <1f43>1 <2Ostrakon au buthias men ekiei plakas. en de oi Ikithus>2 <2Pinnh naetaei keklhmenos, h men analkis>2 <2Oute ti mhtisasthai epistatai, oute ti rexai-->2 <2All' ara oi xeinon te domon, xeinhnte kaluptrhn--->2 <2Karkinos ennaiei, pherbei te min, hde phulassei>2 <2Tw kai pinnophulax kiklhsketai all' ote kokilou>2 <2Ikithus endon ikhtai, o d' ou phroneousai amuxas>2 <2Dhgmati kerdalew pinnhn elen. hd' odunhsin>2 <2Ostrea sump[l]ata/ghse, kai endothen ephrasat' agrhn>2 <2Auth t hd' etarw xeinon d' ama deipnon elonto.>2 <2Oppianou Alieu: B.>2 186-195 <1f43>1 1754 16.14o Sole Compensation. Sara Coleridge amici./Sara sis/ter/Coleridge. 1755 16.141 Divide association from the Beautiful--& yet still consider it as an existing Copresence. Why does Dorothy not think a <1smooth>1 race horse Beautiful [ ? Groom], Stables, Master, &c a dis- traction in short--How can she think a rough Colt beautiful? <1f44>1 Beauty the same in me as in a Lincolnshire Farmer quoad <1Effect>1-- but quoad <1causes,>1 which the Permanent, die Vereinigungspunct of other possible Faculties?--What then is the real Difference & is there a real Difference between the Picturesque & the Beautiful? The causes that make certain appearances more beautiful, at least interesting, in a Picture than in Nature/& may not Knowlege & Taste & Feeling produce these in Nature, & make a wise man, inde- pendent of Raphael, Rembrandt, & Wealth? / 1756 16.142 Greater Smoothness perhaps in a rich Heath, Fern & Birch Bushes, than in a smooth shaven Green & Walk of <1f44v>1 <1Brown--to me;>1 but not to a common mind. 1757 16.143 Mem. to ask for Mrs Ashburner, of Dr B. a pal- liative of Asthma. 1758 16.144 When a System is stated, what says the Philoso- pher of London & Paris--Does he go into his own Nature, look at it stedfastly, & observe whether or no it or the part of it then in question, corresponds with the Statement?--O no! this would be a sort of Ventriloquism in his Opinion/his poor Asthmatic Soul feels by a moment's Self-introition as if he had been already 3 days & 3 nights in the Jonas-Prison of an Odd-fish's Belly--No! he asks--what [shall] I say to these sayings? How <3I>3 can I by verbal <1f45>1 association so alter, or dislocate, these sentences, by dialectic art, as to make them appear a contradiction in Terms. They never reason so in Physics; because here is always <1an Object,>1 & the whole becomes matter of Fact/& that they do so reason in Metaphysics is sufficient Proof, that in these they have never known, nor believe <1an Object>1 <1or Subject>1--They have Lungs & a Larynx; & live in an Atmosphere of articulable Air--& that is enough!--Send one of these Fellows to the Moon, which is Airless, they say--& let him be so organized for this new place as that he may live without breathing in all else of body & mind unaltered--yet by this alone his whole Intellect is annihilated at once--in a second. 1759 16.145 Of Logic & its neglect, & the consequent strange <1f45v>1 Illogicality of many even of our principal writers--hence our Crumbly friable Stile/each Author a mere Hour-Glass/--& if we go on in this way, we shall soon have undone all that Aristotle did for the human Race, & come back to Proverbs & Apologues--/The multitude of Maxims, Aphorisms, & Sentences & their popularity among the French, the beginners of this Style, is it some proof & omen of this? 1760 16.146 In all controversies it is politic to allow every man <1a vote>1--not that he is always entitled to it, but because by this means you gain the largest number of efficient votes, & the votes <1f46>1 of the unqualified do less harm than these good, from their perish- ableness--Every man has a vote, no man passes Judgment, every man a voter, no man a Judge--every man may <1give>1 no man <1pass Judgment.>1 1761 16.147 Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1803, Dorothy's Birth Day/I was at Grasmere with Derwent/--arrived at Grasmere, in a Return Post Chaise, Tuesday, Dec. 20th/ 1762 16.148 N.B. A metaphysical, or spiritual <1Map,>1 and com- pleat Guthrie's Grammar--the Spiritual Guthrie--or Guthrie's Grammar spiritualized of great Genera or Classes of character-- the rational or German--the understanding or intelligent = Eng- lish--the sensual & instinctively <1clever>1 = the French. 1763 16.149 Dec. 26. 1803.--The Will & (new) Testament, <1f46v>1 <2THeou Dwron,>2 no! I resisted the Impulse--Why? because I could not endure my after Consciousness. Hence derive the immense Importance to Virtue of increasing and <1enlivening>1 the Conscious- ness & press upon your own mind & as far as in you lies, on others, the connection between Consciousness & Conscience/the mutual Dependence of Virtue & the Understanding on each other. 1764 16.150 Between each one of these Lines another might have been written with ease & perfect Legibility, I am extravagant. This Pocket book cost 9s,6d/more Shame to Mr G. Ward! 1765 16.151 I have only to shut my eyes to feel how ignorant I am/whence these forms & colored Forms & colors, distinguishable beyond what I can distinguish, these varying & infinitely co-present <1f47>1 Colours/these Shapes which I ask what they are/to what they belong in my waking Remembrance--& almost never receive an answer. Only I perceive & know, what whatever I change in any part of me, produces some Change in these Eye-Spectra, as for in- stance, if I press my Thigh, change sides, &c &c. 1766 16.152 What a beautiful Thing Urine is, in a Pot, brown yellow, transpicuous, the Image, diamond shaped of the Candle in it, especially, as it now appeared, I having emptied the <1f47v>1 Snuffers into it, & the Snuff floating about, & painting all-shaped Shadows on the Bottom. 1767 16.153 Purple <1Steams>1 in manifold Shapes, but <1angular>1 --& then white or flesh-colored Streaks with Dark Streak/or Dark- ness streaked with Life & Flesh. 1768 16.154 angle--angular--yet a doubt whether I have spelt the word/the nature of memory/the Effort in writing--com- pare this writing with sober writing--the diminished Facility of <1f48>1 Volition, whatever that Faculty be. 1769 16.155 all substances seem to torment me as <1Gasses.>1 Stomach-wind. 1770 16.156 I will at least make the attempt to explain to my- self the Origin of moral Evil from the <1streamy>1 Nature of Associa- tion, which Thinking = Reason, curbs & rudders/how this comes to be so difficult/Do not the bad Passions in Dreams throw light & shew of proof upon this Hypothesis?--Explain those bad Passions: & I shall gain Light, I am sure--A Clue! A Clue!--an Hecatomb a la Pythagoras, if it unlabyrinths me.--Dec. 28, 1803--Beautiful luminous Shadow of my pencil point following it from the Candle --rather going before it & illuminating the word, I am writing. <1f 8v>1 11 oclock/--But take in the blessedness of Innocent Children, the blessedness of sweet Sleep, &c &c &c: are these or are they not con- tradictions to the evil from <1streamy>1 association?--I hope not: all is to be thought <1over>1 and <1into>1--but what is the height & ideal of mere association?--Delirium.--But how far is this state produced by Pain & Denaturalization? And what are these?--In short, as far as I can see any thing in this Total Mist, Vice is imperfect yet existing Volition, giving diseased Currents of association, because it yields on all sides & <1yet>1 is--So think of Madness:--O if I live! Grasmere, Dec. 29. 1803. 1771 16.157 Dec. 30th, 1/2 past one oclock, Morning, or rather <1f49>1 therefore, Dec. 31st/Saturday Morning/Just rolled bits of paper, many fine little bits of wick, some tallow, & the soap together/the whole flame equal in size to half a dozen Candles did not give the Light of one/& the letters of the Book looked by the unsteady Flame, just as thro' Tears, or in dizziness. Next page. <1f49v>1 The Experiment over leaf illustrates my idea of <1motion>1-- namely, that it is presence & absence rapidly alternating, so as that the fits of absence exist continuously in the Feeling, & the Fits of Presence vice versa continuedly in the Eye/Of course, I am speak- ing of Motion psychologically, not physically--What it is in us, not what the supposed mundane Cause may be.--I believe, that what we call <1motion>1 is our consciousness of motion, arising from the in- terruption of motion = the acting of the Soul resisted./. Free un- resisted action (the going forth of the Soul) Life without Con- sciousness, properly infinite, i.e. unlimited--for whatever resists, limits, & vice versa/This is (psychologically speaking) SPACE. The sense of resistance or limitation TIME--& MOTION is a Synthesis of the Two. The closest approach of Time to Space forms co-existent Multitude. <1f49>1 1772 16.158 Egotistic Talk <1with me>1 very often the effect of my Love of the Persons to whom I am talking/My Heart is talk- ing of them/I cannot talk continuously of them to themselves--so I seem to be putting into their Heart the same continuousness as to me, that is in my own Heart as to them.-- 1773 16.159 Ivied Pollard, up Michael's Gill = Green head <1f50>1 gill--18 feet up to the tall Grove of Ash poles/--5 feet from the ground moss'd green but ivyless--from thence thickening up to a broad Hips <1but split>1/three large moss covered Stones at its feet-- 1774 16.160 The huge hollow Trunk with two moss stones above it & looking in upon that absolute Hartley's Parlour, the tortuous ash growing out of its brookward Side 1775 16.161 Walter Scot--Buchen--& the Columbarium-- : 1776 16.162 Dec. 31st 1 803. Saturday--visited Green Head- gill with W. Wordsworth/view of the Bridge, road, & river, they tried insulating Butterlip How with its patches of Hair, its Mole- tufts, on its shaven green Head, under the Rough Mountains/a part of Langdale snow-streaked & black looking--from on high on the Left/-- 1777 16.163 High up the Gill, sublime Lines of simple sub- <1f50v>1 lime by Helm Crag centrally fronting/indescribable in idea/the Tune, the Music only can be given--2 Nesses, then a gap, then three mountain steps horizontal-- 1778 16.164 Waterfall heavy & loud within, curtained or win- dowed by a thin broad Sheet of Glass or flowing Isinglass--so clear & smooth, you might so shut your eyes as not to see it move-- 1779 16.165 My Spirit with a fixed yet leisurely gaze Following its ever yet quietly changing Clus- ters of Thoughts, As the outward Eye of a happy Traveller a flock of Starlings. 1780 16.166 A Ghost Skeleton, a robe of white ever moving & descending down his black ribs & Hanches & Thigh bones, as a white sheet of water adown a jagged ribbed black Rock.-- <1f51>1 1781 16.167 Chopt-Hay looking Olla of all the vegetation of a wild mountain, moss, buds, stiff grass, &c &c &c, perfectly chopt & chopt, lying upon the unmelted Snow by the brink of the steep Sike, in a beautiful Network in the lower part, carpeting the higher. Green Head Gill. 1782 16.168 The two Nesses, dispated [D] --ask Dorothy for a word/--the Helm Crag central/Easedale Tarn Rocks (<3on one>3 <3side>3 Steel Fell the expanse to our Right) to the left of Helm Crag Sour Milk Force, Langdale Pikes, Elterwater Quarries & Coniston Fells--/--the foot path so even on the steep breast, of the Moun- tain, with such a precipice beneath & the tumultuous Brook at the bottom/but as you turn round & come out upon the vale, O my <1f5lv>1 God! the whole white vale, from Steel Fell this way, from the Force on Easedale the River with the Mountain Islanding the half almost of the vale, including Butterlip How, the Church/& 0! just in sight close down beneath me that House with dark slates & dingy white walls!--O remember it-- The eye--let it be a spectrum in my feverous brain! The con- nection by Intakes of the smooth bowling Green Vale with the steep Mountain, & of the sides of the mountain with its craggy castle-ruin-like Top/--Road between Walls--the Lake with three walls rising each above the other--the Bridge with 2 arches--/-- the smoke a perfect pillar/--the whole River from the Force to the quiet Lake/--On this blessed calming Day--sitting on the very <1f52>1 Sheepfold dear William read to me his divine Poem, Michael.-- The last day of the year. 1783 16.169 The two Apparition-Birch Trees, close to- gether, abreast, with the <1chocolate mist>1 of winter branches and tresses <3within &>3 around and above its silver body--by the side of the steep steep noisy Syke with two sheep-tracks inclosing an ir- regular oval area.--picture of a robe round a Spirit 1784 16.170 The waterfall at the head of the vale (the circular mountain walled vale) white, stedfast, silent from Distance/--the River belonging to it, smooth, full, silent--the Lake into which it empties also silent/yet the noise of waters every where/Something distant/something near, Tis far off, & yet every where/--and the pillar of smoke/the smooth winter fields--the <1indistinct>1 Shadows in the Lake are all eloquent of Silence-- 1785 16.171 Just on the side of the Hill the Steeple of Gras- <1f52v>1 mere Church makes a perfect Church of the Vicars House/so you have your Choice to which the Steeple shall belong--but it clearly looks more as the Vicar's. 1786 16.172 Mismotion/to unapparel. 1787 16.173 "Bedded and bath'd in all his Ordures" Donne. 1788 16.174 In heaven/ God help me, Girl! I would not miss you there, For all the bliss that you can give me here. 1789 16.175 For Folly's Lion is but Wisdom's ape-- 1790 16.176 Shark murdering & tyrannizing in a <1Net.>1 1791 16.1 Nv 16 Abingdon St <1fI>1 (Poole's) Westminster 1792 1.25 W. Peach Esq. <1f19>1 Nvll Little Scotland Yard White Hall Westminster. 1793 16.177 Read Daniel--12 oclock, <11803.>1-- [or was it after <1f52v>1 12 oclock 1804/I blessed Sara at bed time--[. . . . . . . . .]-- <1f53>1 blessed them--& then made Dorothy's bed in the bed, & with her help made my own--] 1794 16.178 The prodigious Eye-vividness of our modern Scenes finds a Counter balance only in boisterous Rant, or gross Distresses, in boisterous Event & Bustle. "All tender Passions, mo- tions soft & grave" must needs be flat to the most of the Spectators & out of place to the most enlightened. Jan. 1. 1804, Grasmere 1795 16.179 Think you any length/of Time Can ever have the power to make A Heart of Flesh not mourn, not grieve, not pine That knows, that feels, that thinks as much as mine?--Daniel's Hymens Triumph. 1796 16.180 In Consolations/some part quote the introd. Sonnet to Musophilus-- 1797 16.181 Counter-course/Remember the <1Opossum Holly/>1 a sweet Image of the Child of a great man [ ?lurking] in his Father's Ruins-- <1f53v>1 1798 16.182 Of a great metaphysician/he looked at (into?) his own Soul with a Telescope/what seemed all irregular, he saw & shewed to be beautiful Constellations & he added to the Conscios- ness hidden worlds within worlds. 1799 16.183 The Spring--or well-spring, under the rock/bowl on it--brown flesh-like, Jelly flesh, Oakleaves a sober silver gray on their backs/<3Sweet>3 Soothing sound of Drops, & the breezy sun- shadows thereby on the pale green house-leeky weeds that cloathed the [D] of the one steep bank/ 1800 16.184 Remember to describe water (apparition--tad- poles) pulsating/really gliding down under ice/water--black under Ice--silver. 1801 16.185 Wednesday, Jan. 4th/in the highest & outermost <1f54>1 of Grasmere Wordsworth read to me the second Part of his divine Self-biography-- 3 basons--1 misty Tairn/satting dove colour painted Petticoat rocks/& a slope/ 1802 16.186 Looking at obseen Picture ophthalmium vene- rea-- 1803 16.187 1. Bason of the Tairn of Rushes. 2. Bason of the Sheepfold & setting Rocks. 3. Shelving Bason with green Hill/ Bracken/4 much larger Bason, 2 Sheepfolds, & one (smaller) in a stone enclosure/then a wild straggling rocky valley conducts you in Easedale.--the one every where feature the inverted arch under Helm Crag by the Back of Sidrophel-- 1804 16.188 The great tarn and the apparitions from the Shee <1v>1 moving on the outward ridge--coloured as rocks. When they began <1f54v>1 to move, seemed as moving rocks. 1805 16.189 A boy sucking an Icicle with what affectionate Re- membrance of a Lollipop. ; 1806 16.190 Horsedung echoing to the merry Traveller on a frosty morning. 1807 16.191 Between two stone walls, at the Tarn a mass of rock in the wall, & lo! at a distance in the bottom seen thro' the Haze of the Pollard Top a House Gavel end side, in what exquisite harmony with the mass of rock/how the latter conducts to it/ Every where about such a crowd, a multitude of Forms of rock, heads & skulls & sea beasts/ 1808 16.192 Rhymes in blank Verse, half a dozen Couplets or more--so coming, and all made Suet Dumpling/-- <1f55>1 1809 16.193 Thursday, Jan. 5. 1804.--Snow on the ground-- snatched up by the wind that full of frosty particles seemed to rush from the valley up the Mountain, it galloped transversely from the middlemost of the mountains to their very Top, & along their Sum- mits, like a vast Ghost Cavalry scouring a Country--Item/I dis- tinctly & repeatedly saw the wind raise up from the mountain a true genuine Cloud of Snow, that rose high (seemingly to the eye, but not really, as high as the highest Clouds) sailed along, a true genuine large white cloud with all the form & varied outline of a Cloud/--& this in several Instances dropped again, snow at second Hand, <3but>3 & often in the Sun resembled a Shower of diamond Spearlets. 1810 16.194 Abstension with Vind. Gall.--& then Chops at a Maintenon-- 1811 16.195 Buildings, Church, & Shadows of the Island, etc thro' soft thick Snow. The newly-whitewashed Church, there as the imperfect Delusion of a Church Tower & Body, painted on a flat Board for an OBJECT in the distance of a Gentleman's Grounds/-- Likewise, it looked still more like a Snow-Church. 1812 16.196 Friday, Jan. 5, 1804. I observed the beautiful Effects of <1drifted Snow>1 upon the mountains/the divine Tone of Color from the Top of the Mountain downward, from the pow- deriness Grass, a rich olive Green warmed with a little Brown/& in this way harmonious & combined by insensible Gradation with the white--The Drifting took away all the mo- notony of Snow; & the whole Vale of Grasmere seen from the Ter- race Wall in Easedale, called Lankrigg, was as varied, perhaps more so, than even in the pomp of Autumn--In the distance was Loughrigg Fell the bason wall of the Lake/this from the Summit down ward was a rich Orange Olive, then the Lake a bright Olive <1f56>1 Green (very nearly the same Tint as the Snow-powdered Moun- tain Tops & high Slopes in Easedale--then the Church with its Firs, the centre of the View--the Firs looked divine & carried <3down>3 the Eye <3divine>3 <3my>3 back to some Firs in Brother's Wood on the Left Side of the Lake/(we looking toward Loughrigg) came 9 distinguishable Hills, six of them with woody Sides turned towards us, all of these Oak Copses with their bright red Leaves & snow powdered Twigs/these Hills all distinguishable indeed from the Summit downward, but none seen all the way down--so as to <3make>3 give the strongest sense of num- ber with unity/& these Hills so variously situated to each other, & to the view in general, so variously powdered, some only enough to give the Herbage a rich brown Tint, one intensely white, & light- ing up the whole of the others, & yet so placed as in the most in- obtrusive manner to harmonize by Contrast with a perfect naked, <1f56v>1 snowless bleek summit in the far distance on the Left--/from this variety of Site, of colour, of woodiness, of the situation of the woods, etc etc made it not merely number with unity, but In- tricacy with Unity/-- On returning we prolonged our walk on to Rydale, saw two quite perpendicular black Rocks, smooth as steep, windowed with ice, re- sembling cylinders of cut & bulbous Glass <3fastened>3 frozen together into one rough Plate; & under this glided in pulses the innumerable Tad Poles--like one's nervous Creepings down one's Limbs, back & thighs/--remark too the exceeding stoniness of the grey Moun- tain Sides/whereas in Easedale over the Cottage & the Cottage Hollies the stony Precipices of Helm Crag/from the Snow--i.e. I suppose that the Snow & the grey Rock being so alike, & so vastly the Paramount colors mutually annihilate all sense of the other <1f57>1 Colors to the first Abstraction of your Eyes--& that consequently it is stone & nothing but Stone--/--In the River that runs into Ry- dale all the sides were bright as bright could be with the celestial yellow green of the western Sky in Spring & Summer, before Stormy nights/the color of a part of the Rainbow/it thinned & breadthened in obedience to the Breeze--after dinner we had a glorious View out of the window, of the Lake/our View was isthmused by T. Ashburner's. Yew Tree between us & the Lake/on the one side of this we saw the Lake that same celestial Yellow Green, & on the other a divine mulberry-puce color occasioned by a blood-Cloud/ 1813 16.197 Catling, i.e. Kitten sitting on the Garden Wall <3be>3 Underneath the old Plum Tree Playing with the Falling Leaves On a calm grey Autumn Day-- <1f57v>1 and many a time before the Leaf had reached the Ground, The Sun had been out & in And the Leaf had been smitten with Light, A Pilgrim of manifold Fate In its brief perpendicular Fall. 1814 16.198 Morals never discussed till the Gentlemen retire to the Tea Table.--thence Women the ultimate Oracles of Morals, & those which flatter their Prejudices, or which most conduce to their Interest, the Orthodox Ethics, and the Point of Precedence among the Virtues settled <3by>3 in reference to this (the Canon, the <1Constitution,>1 & Polar Star to all subsequent Legislation over the Fundamentals & Ground Work, the Magna Charta & the Sum, Sustance, Substratum, vital Spirit & perpetual ut quo, et secundum quid interpretandum est, of the Decalogue: the moral <1f58>1 Rule of Three by which all Sums are done speedily & infallibly, to add, to subtract, to multiply, to divide, & from all these to bring out one uniform & harmonious Result.) The Lines within Crotchets written as a specimen of accumulation of Words & Variation of Metaphors, arising from dimness of mind, & the utter absence of the deciding <2to beltion,>2 not from warmth of Feeling, or from crowdedness of Thought & Fancy. 1815 16.199 The character of Australis a striking Illustration of the Basis of Morals. With truth, & with the warm coloring of one who feels the Truth, detail his Life, as a History, & the Tenor of his Life, as a system of Habits of his never once stumbling Temperance, his unstained Chastity from his Infancy to the present Hour, <3virgo>3 purus maritus puram, virgo virginem, the simplicity of his daily Life, the Industry, & vigorous Perseverance in his Pursuit, the worthiness & dignity of these Pursuits, his Liberality & fatherly conduct to his Brothers & Relatives--& for their sake how he submits to <1review & Job,>1 yet by unexampled In- <1f 8v>1 dustry can do this & yet do more than almost any other man, in the Subjects of his Choice & Ambition/his punctuality in all things--he inflicts none of those small Pains & Discomforts, which your ir- regular men scatter about them, & vice versa2, bestows all the pleasures which regular correspondence, & a <1reliability>1 in all things great & small can give/--he is kind to his servants, & he is more than kind--he is <1good>1 to them/Bella for instance/--all his works subserve Humanity, & the great cause of Peace, Equality, & pure Religion--and above all, of domestic Fidelity & Attachments of which as a Husband (& no doubt, he will as a Father) he is him- self in his real Life a Pattern in the eyes of ordinary good men/-- All this Australis <1does,>1 & if all Goodness consists in definite, <3&>3 ob- servable, & rememberable <1Actions,>1 Australis is only not perfect, his good Actions so many, his unad[mirable] ones so few, & (with one or two exceptions) so venial. But now what IS Australis? I can tell <1f59>1 you, what he is NOT. He is not a man of warmth, or delicacy of Feeling, HE IS NOT self-oblivious or self-diffused, or acquainted with his own nature: & when warped by Resentment or Hatred, not in- capable of doing base actions, at all events most <1very,>1 or <1damn'd,>1 indelicate actions, without hesitation at the moment, or any after- remorse (Recensio <2asmatiwn lurikwn>2 Epistola|e per mala|e Ca- rolorum, calumnia|e versus me, et animus quoad to <2Epos>2 prout in- gratus, domus ex adverso mea "Novi Sara tuam, Novi istam Meek Sister in the Family of Christ"/Furta et fustula poetica, et quicquid incongrui et parum decori follows from an unfathoming (and not only self-unfathomed, but even self-unsounded, Spirit.) The smiles, the emanations, the perpetual Sea-like Sound & Motion of Virtuousness, which is Love, is wanting--/He is a clear handsome <1f59v>1 piece of Water in a Park, moved from without--or at best, a stream with one current, & tideless, & of which you can only avail yourself to one purpose. 1816 16.200 How all too forcibly good minds (eager for all men, but especially for all whom they Love, to possess the same good qualities with themselves, whereas the Pharisee will even feel joy at a Vice in another which by point blank Contrast reminds him of a Pet Virtue in himself) how &c feel in their friends a fault that stands in opposition to a good point of their own character!--To love is to know, at least, to imagine that you <1know>1 (not always in- deed <1understand)>1 what is strange to you, you cannot love (Mrs C. is to me all <1strange,>1 & the Terra incognita always lies near to or under the frozen Poles.) Now a fault so opposite to our own char- acter is truly strange--hence the pain/--hence we exaggerate the same as in cases of noticeable Laws of Association omne ignotum <1f60>1 magnificatur/if I am ignorant too of this, & how this can co-exist, I may have mistaken in the rest--hence accursed Feelings of <1In->1 <1security,>1 all too like <1Suspicion>1 (that Arsenic, nay, Upas Tree Gum of Friendship)--&c &c--Hence the advantage to have had some remembered Instance/(for <1real>1 instance, I doubt not, all men have had, of all Vices, germinally I mean,) of some Frailties & Hypochondriacal Selfishness how differently it would impress me now from what it did at the time of my Sibylline Leaves of News- paper Essays--I need write no more/simply, this is the current of Thought, which I must seek out again, & sail down with it--only this let me impress on my Heart & Understanding, & if I can on those of others/the Eclipses & Occultations both of the moral and the intellectual Sun/to investigate the cause, & to make it probable that most often we are then acquiring some new Virtue, in the too great attention to which the other parts sink back--Mem. --my Conversation with Hazlitt/but this is not all--Think of your- self and above all of the Bedarkening of the unkindly Feelings, & yet what things are best seen in that false & diminished Light/ Grasmere, Sunday, Jan. 8, 1804. <1f60v>1 1817 16.201 Ideotcy with madness = Bonaparte, the only Image in Nature thereof is the Slavers i.e. Drivels of a mad dog. 1818 16.202 Of how much better it would be in the House of Commons to have every thing that <1is>1 & by the Spirit of English Freedom <1must be,>1 legal & open/as Reporting &c--/Of Short- handists appointed by the Government itself? I see the (weighty) arguments against it--are they or not to be got over? They might be printed (but time enough for the Newspapers to reprint!) and the same hazard as now for Libels-- 1819 16.203 Of the ungenial & I-do-not-wholly-love-&-respect- you Face of the Dyspeptic Hour. Sunday Night, Jan. 8. 1804, 12 oclock/nearer One. 1820 16.410 Monday Morning, Jan. 9. 1804 in the Dark with my eyes shut/a loud Thaw wind. Derwent asleep in the other Bed, <1f130v>1 God love little dear Heart--& Dorothy, in the Parlour, o dear Dorothy--& O dear Sara Hutchinson 1821 16.204 Shadows in Snow weather on the Lake/I have ob- served indistinct just like Derwent's Face when the Wanton has <1f60v>1 veiled it in the thin white Window Curtain in a pretty strong Light, the white Calico strained tight to his Face. 1822 16.2o5 Images in sickly profusion by & in which I talk in certain diseased States of my Stomach/Great & innocent minds <1devalesce,>1 as Plants & Trees, into beautiful Diseases/Genius itself, <1f61>1 many of the most brilliant sorts of English Beauty, & even extraor- dinary Dispositions to Virtue, Restlessness in good--are they not themselves, as I have often said, but beautiful Diseases--species of the Genera, Hypochondriasis, Scrofula, & Consumption! This was at first a Joke; but is now no longer so/for under the 3 Genera Hypochond., Scrofula, & Consumption (under Hypochondriasis implying certain sorts of Epileptic winds & breezes, gusts from the bowels of the Volcano upward to the Crater of the Brain, rushings & brain-horrors, seeming for their immediate proximate Cause to have the pressure of Gasses on the stomach, acting possibly by their specified noxious chemical & [. . .] Properties as well as by their general property of mechanical Pressure) under these names I in- clude (no matter how rightly) all those Diseases which proceed from or produce, in one word, which <1imply>1 an overbalance of the vital Feelings to the Organic Perceptions, of those Parts which assimilate or transform the external into the personal, or combine them thus assimilated (stomach, lungs, Liver, Bowels, & many others, no doubt, the use of which is not yet known) over the Eyes, <1f61v>1 Ears, Olfactories, Gustatories, & the organ of the Skin. Corollary from the preceding Remark, for <1Love>1 & Lust--the vital & personal linked to & combined with the external, the former gaining by the mutually assimilant Junction a phantom of Extra- neity, the latter, a spirit of personality & Life <2ta organa>2 <1vere ve->1 <1nerabilia,>1 an organ acting with what an intensity of personal Life/ compare it with the Eye & Ear/then at a less distance with the Smell, still less with the Taste/less still with the diffused or con- centered Touch/yet at what a distance from all these! --The depth & nature of the abscheulichkeiten <2kataphusikwn>2 might be beauti- fully deduced from this--& the allied considerations/--Too much vital feeling & too little organic, what sort of Love is that?--vice versa, & the exact balance what are these two?--But previously with most palpable clearness exhibit the full breadth, length, & Depth of the meaning of the Organic & the Vital, & their shadings off & tran- sitions into each other/--make it rich with characters of common & uncommon Life/-- 1823 16.206 "Coarctation" not a bad phrase for that narrowing in of Breadth on both sides, as in my <1Interpolation>1 of Schiller--and so on-- <1f62>1 The narrowing Line of Day-light that ran after The closing Door, &c. Of the ++ Coarctation of ## Time into ++ Space my own Image/ ++ This tho' written in the Dark again started up out of Sleep, & of course while I was at it was inebriated with its fumes + <2WPM>2 <1f11>1 is worth an after consideration/ by space I meant co-existent multitude--in this instance of Images of my own self, which appeared to gain their existence by the narrowing of a [D] into a [D] so as to gain in Latitude what it loses in length. (one might express it by the Horizontalizing of the Perpendicular but this was not the <1feeling)>1 ## Mental Time ++ Mental Space constituent of Genius, Wordsworth's Genius il- lustrates & egrege etiam egregiorum the Latter 1824 16.207 My Dream--History of Scotus, deranged as a youth/imagining himself in the Land of Logic, lying on the Road & in the Road to the Kingdom of Truth, falls into a criminal Inter- <1f62>1 course with a Girl, who is in Love with him, whom he considers as the Daughter of the King of the Land/--impersonation & absolute <1Incarnation>1 of the most Abstract--. Detected he defends himself on this ground. O it was a wild dream, yet a deal of true psychological Feeling at the bottom of it. 1825 16.208 Of the Hardheartedness of healthy People. 1826 16.209 The exquisite Affectibility of my Skin, & the in- stant Sympathy of my Stomach and mesenteries with the Affections of the Skin, exemplified in the shocking Effect of wearing the black Pantaloons next to my Skin, & in my miserable barometrical De- pendence of my Stomach Sensations on the <1weather,>1 especially damp & wet-stormy weather, forms a specific distinction between my Complaint, & William Wordsworth's Hypochondriasis.--Item, my almost never, on any occasion, even after Intoxication, having the Headach. What shall I say?--A cutaneous Disease <1driven in? f62v>1 --That some philosophical meaning is attachable to this phrase, the Nettle Rash sufficiently proves.--But assuredly, I may at least build hereupon the probability of essential Benefit from a hot Climate. What if it brought out a deforming Eruption on my Face & Body, leaving my inner Life sound & full of faculty?--O I should rejoice. My Soul she would always love, the faithfully Be- loved!--and I could more than pardon her aversion <3to>3 from my bodily Presence.-- Whether Gout and Rheumatism--or, to speak more guardedly, whether certain Diseases at least, which are now classed under Gout & Rheumatism, are not mainly & primarily <1cutaneous?>1 And whether the Skin be not a Terra Incognita in Medicine? And whether this Ignorance, if it exist, does not imply broad funda- mental Error in the Theory of Medicine, and probabilize (WHOO!! render probable the existence of) pernicious Mistakes in the Prac- tice?--That this has been and is the case with Metaphysicians, I KNOW--they at least, whatever may be the Fact with regard to <1f63>1 Physicians, are not even <1skin-deep.>1--To end a very serious note playfully, or rather serio-comically let me remark that our good Forefathers in pronouncing Beauty to be but skin-deep, payed it a higher Compliment than they were aware those words could be construed into. Jan. 9. 1804. past 10 <1night.>1 Grasmere. 1827 16.21o Of the intimate connection of Volition, and of the Feeling & Consciousness of Volition, on the state of the Skin, I have noticed long ago in a former Pocket-book, occasioned by the curious personation effected b; a certain phantas, of double touch-;the generation of the sense of realit; & life out of us, from the Im0; personation effected b; a certaon pkantasm of sou;vle to;u;ch but i am b;ou;nd to trace the mi;nister; of the lowest to the high the first instance then of brutal men sensatio uriorale when grati- Barcla;card limited is a larfe firm dealing with Barclay;card limited is a large firm dealing with the typing in of numbers of cheqauecards to go into the s;ecial machines Barclaycard limited is a large office dealing with the distribution of chequecards for use in the special machines Barcla;card limited is a large firm dealinf with the distribution of the cheque cards for the special machines outside banks it i;s ver; difficult to type when you are not lookinf at the keys as y I will fill in the aplication form anf send it off as soon as possible the cat sat on the mat the cat sat on the mat the cat sat on the mat peter piper picked a pepper from a pepperj pot this is the da this is the fat Barclaycrd clearing house is a large officewhich deals with the ty;ping in if you can type in nu;mbers then you eillbe fine when you join Barclaycard yo;u; have to know howto touch tupe when you start work at +arclaycard you will be given a special pha|enomenon experienced the Xtmas of 1801 at Mr Howel's, No 10, King St Covent Garden, my Skin deadened, the effect of vio- lent Diarrhoea/My Speculations thence on double Touch--the generation of the Sense of Reality & Life out of us, from the Im- personation effected by a certain phantasm of double Touch, &c &c &c, and thence my Hope of making out a radical distinction be- tween this Volition & Free Will or Arbitrement, & the detection of the Sophistry of the Necessitarians/as having arisen from confound- <1f63v>1 ing the two.--Sea sickness, the Eye on the Stomach, the Stomach on the Eye/--Eye + Stomach + Skin--Scratching & ever after in cer- tain affections of the Skin, milder than those which provoke Scratch- ing a restlessness for double Touch/Dalliance, & at its height, neces- sity of Fruition.--Fruition the intensest single Touch, &c &c &c; but I am bound to trace the Ministery of the Lowest to the High- est, of all things to Good/and the presence of a certain Abstract <3Idea>3 or Generical Idea, in the Top, Bottom, & Middle of each Genus. <2Libidinositat twn Idiwtwn>2--this must be explained in the first instance--then of brutal men. Rutting-time of Brutes <1&c &c &c &c &c &c &c>1--<1An Ocean>1 1828 16.211 Important Distinction between the Memory, or reminiscent Faculty, of Sensations--which young Children seem to possess in so small a degree from their perpetual Desire of having a Tale repeated, & the Memory of words & images which the very same young Child manifestly possess in an unusual degree--even to sealing wax accuracy of retention & representation.--Idiots prob- ably the same/perhaps defective in both; but in the latter less so.-- JANUARY 1804 [1833 1829 16.212 A dear Room with such dear Friends, & such a <1f64>1 dear Fire, that I seemed to love the moving Shadows on the wall, for their own sake--<1das Schatten volk>1--Sara & Mary--all the Time after 9 oclock of a winter Evening, when I came down from my Study having worked hard & successfully, & surrendered myself up to Love, & innocent Sportiveness of wild fancies-- 1830 16.213 Is more gained by repeating to a beloved House- mate your Poem or Work, passage by passage, that is, by repeating each night after supper the work of the Day?--Or by storing it up a week or fortnight?--Till the whole Poem, if it be Ode or Tale/ or a whole Book, if a long Work/or a complete Part, or Section, if in a Prose Work?--Ask William & Dorothy ++++ ++++ Dorothy thinks that it would be better to wait till some thing was finished, that could be repeated as a whole, Ode or single Book, or Chapter-- 1831 16.214 In all my metaphysical Speculations never to for- get to apply my Theory to Dogs, Cats, Horses, &c?--"If it be true, ought not they to be so & so?"--And are they?--an important Pre- ventive of gross Blunders. 1832 16.215 All this evening, indeed all this day (Monday <1f6 v>1 Jan. 9) I ought to have [been] reading & filling the Margins of Malthus--I had begun & found it pleasant/why did I neglect it?-- Because, I OUGHT not to have done this.--The same in reading & writing Letters, Essays, &c &c--surely this is well worth a serious Analysis, that understanding I may attempt to heal/for it is a deep & wide disease in my moral Nature, at once Elm-and-Oak-rooted -- Love of Liberty, Pleasure of Spontaneity, &c &c, these all express not explain, the Fact. 1833 16.216 Tuesd. Morn. Jan. 10. 1804.--After I had got into bed last night, I said to myself, that I had been pompously enunciating, as a difficulty, a problem of easy & common solution/ viz. that it was the effect of Association, we from Infancy up to 1834] JANUARY 1804 Manhood under Parents, Schoolmasters, Tutors, Inspectors, &c having had our pleasures & pleasant self-chosen Pursuits (self- chosen because pleasant, and not <1originally>1 pleasant because self- chosen) interrupted, & we forced into dull unintelligible Rudi- ments or painful Labor/--<1Now,>1 all Duty is felt as a <1command>1 commands <1most often,>1 & therefore by Laws of Associatlon felt as if <1always>1 from without & consequently, calling up the Sensations &c of the pains endured from Parents', Schoolmasters', &c &c--com- mands from without.--But I awoke with gouty suffocation this morning, 1/2 past one/& as soon as Disease permitted me to think at all, the shallowness & falsity of this Solution flashed on me at once/ I saw, that the pha|enomenon occurred far far too early--in early Infancy, 2 & 3 months old, I have observed it/& have seen it in Hartley, turned up & lay'd bare to the unarmed Eye of merest com- <1f65>1 mon sense. That <1Interruption>1 of itself is painful because & as far as it acts as Disruption/& then, without any reference to or distinct recollection of my former theory, I saw great Reason to attribute the effect wholly to the streamy nature of the associating Faculty and especially as it is evident that <1they most>1 labor under this de- fect who are most reverie-ish & streamy--Hartley, for instance & myself/This seems to me no common corroboration of my former Thought on the origin of moral Evil in general. 1834 16.217 The dignity of passiveness to worthy Activity when men shall be as proud within themselves of having remained an hour in a state of deep tranquil Emotion, whether in reading or in hearing or in looking, as they now are in having figured away one hour/O how few can transmute activity of mind into emotion/ yet there are who active as the stirring Tempest & playful as a May blossom in a Breeze of May, can yet for hours together remain with hearts broad awake, & the Understanding asleep in all but its retentiveness and receptivity/yea, & the Latter evinces as great Genius as the Former/ 1835 16.218 Common people, and all men in common Life, notice only low & high <1degrees,>1 & frame words accordingly/philoso- phers notice the <1kind>1 & as it were <1element,>1 & often finding no word to express this are obliged to invent a new word or to give a new <1f65v>1 sense to an old one/thus what Philosophers since the time of Mr Lock have called association was noticed by all men in certain <1strong>1 instances & was called CUSTOM in common Life we know what <1Pleasure>1 is, & what <1Pain>1 is--<1degrees>1 of the philosophical word Sen- sation/we have <1Heat>1 & <1Cold,>1 words of <1degrees,>1 the kind of which late philosophers have agreed to express by the word Caloric, or Calorific/Now those words in common Life which seem the most general & elementary, as more, mind, Life, &c originally designated some one particular form or degree of these & became general, that is, philosophical, as men in common learnt to generalize, i.e. so far to become philosophers--//now a philosopher, inventing a word or stamping with a new meaning an old word, in all coun- tries but especially since Printing & in proportion as we are Readers & form our Language from Books, these words slide into common <1f66>1 use, generally much alloyed by the carelessness of common Life, or in the case of an old word new stamped, injured by a confusion of the two meanings, & Language degenerates--& after a certain period, which it is indeed very difficult to assign, but which has assuredly passed by many centuries in this Country/Henry 8th the latest & yet if only out of Chaucer himself & his Contemporaries--taking in a space of 50 years--all the true glossary Synonyms were taken to explain the obscure words of Chaucer that might be found in those Books--I guess, we should be surprized at the close resemblance of that Language to our own/ --Men of great Genius find in new words & new combinations the sin that most easily besets them/a strong feeling of originality seems to receive a gratification by new Terms--hence the all too often useless nomenclatures in the philosophical writings of all men of originality--some quite overlayed by it, as poor Boehmen/but if a <1Daniel>1 whom Gower & Lidgate were so much below, & Chaucer <1f66v>1 so much above, had lived in the age of Chaucer, I doubt not, we should have been as much struck by the contrast as we now are by the contrast of Daniel's Language with Spenser's, & even the later Shakespere--N.B.--The former Half of this Note I mean for my C. C. on the comforts to be derived from generalization & the na- tural Tendency to generalize which Sickness & indeed all Adversity generates. 1836 16.219 Thaw/Half the Lake (the hither, we by the Gate on the ascent 1/4 of a mile or so from Gill's Cottage) bright, the other half breezey-dull/the snowy-zebraed Mountain in the <1reflec->1 <1tion,>1 all <1bright/>1--the Gap between Seat Sandal & Fairfield a beau- tiful upright blue <1Triangle>1 in the water [D] with, as I thought six or seven slips of Clouds most beautifully coloured & as beautifully disposed/I looked at the Gap , & could not perceive any corresponding clouds--noticed it to William, who immediately discovered & made me perceive that they were not clouds, but flakes of Ice on the hither shore close by--instantly the distance <1f67>1 altered, & I saw the slips as flakes of Ice close on the surface of the hither shore/yet by volition could again make them clouds-- Wednesday Morning-- 1837 16.220 Over the broad tho' shallow, rapid Stream, The Alder, a vast hollow Trunk, & ribb'd Within/all mossy green with mosses manifold, And Ferns still waving in the river breeze, Sent out, like Fingers, <3five>3 7 projecting Trunks, The shortest twice 6 of a tall man's Strides, One curving upward, and in its middle growth Rose straight with grove of Twigs, a pollard Tree The rest more brookward, gradual in descent, <3Two in>3 One on the Brook, & one befoam'd its waters, One ran along the bank, with elk-like Head And pomp of Antlers/--but still that one That lay upon or just above the brook And straight across it, more than halfway o'er Ends in a broad broad head, & a white Thorn Thicket of Twigs--& here another Tree As if the winds & waves had work'd by art That it, with similar Head, & similar Thicket Bridging the Stream compleat/thro' these two Thickets The Shepherd Lads had cut & plan'd a Path/ O sweet in summer/& in winter Storms I have cross'd the same unharm'd. 1838 16.221 Landward an ivy mass & from the Hill I've seen-- <1f67v>3 1839 16.222 The 6th Edit. of Cotton's Trans. of Montaigne 1743, the Editor says he has altered Cotton's English in 3000 places, it would be very well worth while getting an early Edition of Cotton, & comparing the Alterations. 1840 16.223 In Rubruquis' Travels into Tartary, is given, Ar- ticle the first, in the Third Part of Purchas his Pilgrimes--p.9. The enormous Droves of Oxen, Horses, & Flocks & few men. "Scacatai (a Tartar Chief) sate upon his Bed with a Citron in his Hand, & by his side his Wife, who had cut & pared her Nose between her Eyes, that she might look more flat & saddlenosed, she had left herself no Nose at all in that place, having anointed the same with a black Ointment, & also her Eyebrows--which sight seemed most ugly in our Eyes.--" I have quoted this in order to remind me of investigating the Caprices of Taste respecting personal Beauty--first, make a little collection of some score or more of Instances--& then proceed to explain-- Wicker Houses covered with Felt--the Roof riseth up into a <1f68>1 Roundel which serveth them for a Chimney--the Felt all filled with Pictures of Trees, Birds & Beasts/the Chimney with white Felt/Houses 30 Feet broad/--carried on carts drawn by 22 Oxen/ 11 a breast/the Driver stood in the Door of the House, on the Threshhold, smoking/--an outward Coverture rubbed with Tal- low or thickened Sheep's milk (which last, N.B. is used here for Tanning) to keep out rain/ Tartars sitting in the shade of their felted Carts. Rubruquis', Anno 1253, disputation in Tartary with the Tuinians who are Manicha|eans, Mangu Chan having sent three Learned Men to be Judges, one a Saracen one a Christian one a Tuine/ Whence cometh Evil, saith the Tuine/You ask amiss, said Rubru- quis/for first you should ask <1what>1 Evil is/before you demand <1whence>1 it is. Purchas, 42. Cublai Chan began to reign, 1256 the greatest Prince in Peoples, Cities, & Kingdoms that ever was in the World. 1841 16.224 O [?Barns]/It was not he--& her he found out, it was not me/& then neither or not the other. <1f68v>1 1842 16.225 Of Abstract Ideas.--Berkley's first sentence & in- deed first Paragraph on this subject, viz. the 7th # of his INTRODUC- TION to the Treatise concerning the Principles of human knowlege seems to me in no common degree unphilosophical. "It is agreed on all hands, that the Qualities or Modes of Things do never really exist each of them apart by itself, and separated from all others, but are mixed, as it were, and blended together, several in the same Object. But we are told, the mind being able to consider each qual- ity singly, or abstracted from those other Qualities with which it is united, does by that means frame to itself abstract Ideas. For ex- ample, there is perceived by sight an object extended, coloured, and moved: this mixed or compound Idea the Mind resolving into its simple, constituent Parts, and viewing each by itself, exclusive of the rest, does frame the abstract Ideas of Extension, Color, and Motion. Not that it is possible for Colour or Motion to exist with- <1f69>1 out extension; but only that the Mind can frame to itself by <1Ab->1 <1straction>1 the idea of Colour exclusive of extension, and of motion exclusive of both Colour and extension." <1Qualities or Modes>1-- Things? or not Things? If not things, in what sense are the words <1"blended,">1 & <1"several">1 applied to them? I am at a loss how to conceive any thing externally existing, which is not a Thing: & by its modes or Properties I must either mean new Things, as melted Wax is Wax & the matter of Heat, or some change in my own mind, as the sense of Heat, or the sensation, Color. But if Things, how can they be conceived as other than existing per se--not visibly apart, for that depends on the nature of the visual organ, as the Face of a lovely woman may appear a Honeycomb to a Lilliputian, but yet actually separate, subsisting in & by itself--for what else is the Definition of a Thing?--Blended, mixed, combined--can we conceive any thing by these words, as long as we believe, that [what] we <3behold>3 perceive by our senses, are [not] Things, but only so many changes in position, the combination in its strict sense, if it have <1f6 v>1 any, taking place only in our own minds?--The phrase <1"viewing>1 each by itself" & that of "the <1Idea>1 of Color," led me instantly to suspect, that the word <1Idea>1 is used as equivalent to <1visual Image/>1 in order to demonstrate the impossibility of an <1abstract>1 Idea--i.e. of an Image that is not an Image.--In short, the whole seems to me an unworthy & sophistical mode of introducing the Subject.-- 8th# Idea still used as Image. Why not have defined the word Idea?--If by Idea be meant Image, no doubt, an Image can only be an Image/but yet I can either have an Image of a Horse, as my Eye would give it to me at the proper point of Vision, with <3the>3 all those particularities that would enable me to <1know>1 recognize that particular Horse/or at a great distance, so that I only am enabled to say, that it is a Horse--in which latter Case a particular Image is an Hieroglyphic, bringing to my memory the notion of a Horse with a consciousness that I should not be able on afterwards seeing <1f70>1 a Horse close to me to determine, whether it were that Horse or no, which I had seen in the distance.----