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The Prose Works of William Wordsworth

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[VI.] Sir George Beaumont painted two pictures of this subject, one of which he gave to Mrs.Wordsworth, saying she ought to have it: but Lady B.
interfered, and after Sir George's death she gave it to Sir Uvedale Price, in whose house at Foxley I have seen it--rather grudgingly I own.
502.

_Elegiac Verses_.

[VIII.] In memory of my Brother, John Wordsworth, Commander of the E.I.
Company's ship the Earl of Abergavenny, in which he perished by calamitous shipwreck, Feb.

6, 1805.

Composed near the Mountain track that leads from Grasmere through Grisdale Hawes, where it descends towards Patterdale.


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