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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 th . . .
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THE NOTEBOOKS
1804---1808
Entries 1843--3231
1843 16.226 Left Grasmere, Saturday noon, Jan. 14. 1804-- f70
on foot/arrived at Kendal after a sweltring walk thro' heavy hot
air & the latter half of the Journey thro' Drizzle, at 5 o'clock in the
evening--19 miles/in 5 hours, & I rested once to lunch.
1844 16.227 Images of Calmness on @@@Grasmere@@@ Rydale Lake,
Jan. 14/ @@@new@@@ fresh Delves in the Slate Quarry I @mistook@ for smoke
in the reflection/An islet Stone, at the bottom of the Lake, the
reflection so bright as to be heaved up out of the water/the Stone
& its reflection looked so compleatly one, that Wordsworth re-
mained for more than 5 minutes trying to explain why that Stone
had no Reflection/& at last found it out by me/the shore, &
green field, @@@with@@@ a Hill bank below that Stone, & with Trees &
Rock forming one brilliant picture without was such, that look at
the Reflection & you annihilated the water/it is all one piece of
bright Land/just half wink your Eyes & . . .
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THE NOTEBOOKS
I808-1819
Entries 3232-4504
3232 22.147 W--W--&c <1f84>1
It is not in nature to love those, who after my whole man-
hood's service of faithful self-sacrificing Friendship have want-
only stripped me of all my comfort and all my hopes--and to
hate them is not in <1my>1 nature. What remains ?--to do them all
the good, I can; but with a blank heart!
3233 22.148
"And Zephyrus and Flora gentilly
Gave <3the>3 to the Flowrets soft and tenderly
Their sote\ breath, & made them for to sprede
As God & Goddess of the flowry mede:
In which methoughten, I might daye by daye
Dwellen always the jolly month of May
Withouten sleepe, withouten mete or drink! <1f84v>1
Adown full softily I gan to sink
And leaning on my elbow and my side
The longe\ day I shope me to abide
For nothing ellis (and I shall not lie)
But for to lokin upon the <1Daisie>1
The Daisie, or else the eye of the Day,
The empress and the flower of flo<3wers>3uris all
I pray to God, that . . .
