It did not eclipse the village lights; and the sound of dancing and merriment came along the still air.

I walked with Coleridge and William up the lane and by the church...." Ed.] [Footnote B: These lines are from a descriptive Poem--'Malvern Hills'-- by one of Wordsworth's oldest friends, Mr.Joseph Cottle of Bristol.

Cottle was the publisher of the first edition of "Lyrical Ballads," 1798 (Mr.Carter 1850) .-- Ed.] [Footnote C: The district round Cockermouth .-- Ed.] [Footnote D: Possibly an allusion to the hanging gardens of Babylon, said to have been constructed by Nebuchadnezzar for his Median queen.
Berosus in Joseph, _contr.

Ap._ I.19, calls it a hanging _Paradise_ (though Diodorus Siculus uses the term [Greek: kaepos]) .-- Ed.
The park of the Emperor of China at Gehol, is called 'Van-shoo-yuen', "the paradise of ten thousand trees." Lord Macartney concludes his description of that "wonderful garden" by saying, "If any place can be said in any respect to have similar features to the western park of 'Van-shoo-yuen,' which I have seen this day, it is at Lowther Hall in Westmoreland, which (when I knew it many years ago) ...

I thought might be reckoned ...