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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III

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332, beginning: 'Jones! as from Calais southward you and I Went pacing side by side, this public Way Streamed with the pomp of a too-credulous day, When faith was pledged to new-born Liberty.' Ed.] [Footnote X: Robespierre was a native of Arras .-- Ed.] [Footnote Y: Robespierre was guillotined with his confederates on the 28th July 1794.

Wordsworth lived in Cumberland--at Keswick, Whitehaven, and Penrith--from the winter of 1793-4 till the spring of 1795.

He must have made this journey across the Ulverston Sands, in the first week of August 1794.

Compare Wordsworth's remarks on Robespierre, in his 'Letter to a Friend of Burns',--Ed.] [Footnote Z: The "honoured teacher" of his youth was the Rev.William Taylor, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was master at Hawkshead School from 1782 to 1786, who died while Wordsworth was at school, and who was buried in Cartmell Churchyard.

See the note to the 'Address to the Scholars of the Village School of----' (vol.ii.p.


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