A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance (1877)
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo, Wordsworth Collection · London, Virtue · leaf 326
ts foot there is a spring where grow the plants thatflourish best in perpetual moisture. There, too, is the stone that at Wordsworthssuit was spared : the lines he wrote are engraved on a brass tablet, let into it:— In these fair vales hath many a tree, At Wordsworths suit, heen spared;And from the… … THE STONE : AT WOEDSWOETHS SUIT WAS SPAEKD. In this spot, it seemed to me, and no doubt it will so seem to all visitors wholove the bard and reverence his memory, that Wordsworth was more palpably presentthan elsewhere; and it will demand no great degree of hero-worship to utter, besidethat stone…
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