35 ['French Revolution'] .-- Ed.] [Footnote D: Compare 'Ruth', in vol.ii.p.

112: 'Before me shone a glorious world-- Fresh as a banner bright, unfurled To music suddenly: I looked upon those hills and plains, And seemed as if let loose from chains, To live at liberty.' Ed.] [Footnote E: In 1795 .-- Ed.] [Footnote F: Referring probably to Napoleon's Italian campaign in 1796 .-- Ed.] [Footnote G: In 1794 he returned, with intermittent ardour, to the study of mathematics and physics .-- Ed.] [Footnote H: In the winter of 1794 he went to Halifax, and there joined his sister, whom he accompanied in the same winter to Kendal, Grasmere, and Keswick.

They stayed for several weeks at Windybrow farm-house, near Keswick.

The brother and sister had not met since the Christmas of 1791.
It is to those "days," in 1794, that he refers .-- Ed.] [Footnote I: Compare in the first book of 'The Recluse', l.

91: Her voice was like a hidden Bird that sang; The thought of her was like a flash of light, Or an unseen companionship.
Ed.] [Footnote K: In 1804 Bonaparte sent for the Pope to anoint him as 'Empereur des Francais'.