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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III

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85) .-- Ed.] [Footnote a: The following is the inscription on the head-stone in Cartmell Churchyard: 'In memory of the Rev.William Taylor, A.M., son of John Taylor of Outerthwaite, who was some years a Fellow of Eman.Coll., Camb., and Master of the Free School at Hawkshead.

He departed this life June the 12th 1786, aged 32 years 2 months and 13 days.
His Merits, stranger, seek not to disclose, Or draw his Frailties from their dread abode, There they alike in trembling Hope repose, The Bosom of his Father and his God.' Ed.] [Footnote b: This is exact.

Taylor died in 1786.

Robespierre was executed in 1794, eight years afterwards .-- Ed.] [Footnote c: He refers to the 'Lines written as a School Exercise at Hawkskead, anno aetatis' 14; and, probably, to 'The Summer Vacation', which is mentioned in the "Autobiographical Memoranda" as "a task imposed by my master," but whether by Taylor, or by his predecessors at Hawkshead School in Wordsworth's time--Parker and Christian--is uncertain .-- Ed.] [Footnote d: Compare Hausman's 'Guide to the Lakes' (1803), p.

209.
"Chapel Island on the right is a desolate object, where there are yet some remains of an oratory built by the monks of Furness, in which Divine Service was daily performed at a certain hour for passengers who crossed the sands with the morning tide." This, evidently, is the ruin referred to by Wordsworth .-- Ed.] [Footnote e: See note, book ii.ll.


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