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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
37
Sunday,
1st
October.--Coleridge
and
Chester
went
to
Ratzeberg
at
seven
o'clock
in
the
morning....
William
and
I
set
forward
at
half-past
eleven
with
an
intention
of
going
to
Blankenese....
The
buildings
all
seem
solid
and
warm
in
themselves,
but
still
they
look
cold
from
their
nakedness
of
trees.
They
are
generally
newly
built,
and
placed
in
gardens,
which
are
planted
in
front
with
poplars
and
low
shrubs,
but
the
possessors
seem
to
have
no
prospective
view
to
a
shelter
for
their
children.
They
do
not
plant
behind
their
houses.
All
the
buildings
of
this
character
are
near
the
road
which
runs
at
different
distances
from
the
edge
of
the
bank
which
rises
from
the
river.
This
bank
is
generally
steep,
scattered
over
with
trees
which
are
either
not
of
ancient
growth,
or
from
some
cause
do
not
thrive,
but
serve
very
well
to
shelter
and
often
conceal
the
more
humble
dwellings,
which
are
close
to
the
sandy
bank
of
the
river....
We
saw
many
carriages.
In
one
of
them
was
Klopstock,
the
poet.
There
are
many
inns
and
eating-houses
by
the
roadside.
We
went
to
a
pretty
village,
or
nest
of
houses
about
a
league
from
Blankenese,
and
beyond
to
a
large
open
field,
enclosed
on
one
side
with
oak
trees,
through
which
winds
a
pleasant
gravel
walk.
On
the
other
it
is
open
to
the
river....
When
we
were
within
about
a
mile
and
a
half
or
two
miles
of
Altona,
we
turned
out
of
the
road
to
go
down
to
the
river,
and
pursued
our
way
along
the
path
that
leads
from
house
to
house.
These
houses
are
low,
never
more
than
two
storeys
high,
built
of
brick,
or
a
mixture
of
brick
and
wood,
and
thatched
or
tiled.
They
have
all
window-shutters,
which
are
painted
frequently
a
grey
light
green,
but
always
painted.
We
were
astonished
at
the
excessive
neatness
which
we
observed
in
the
arrangement
of
everything
within
these
houses.
They
have
all
window
curtains
as
white
as
snow;
the
floors
of
all
that
we
saw
were
perfectly
clean,
and
the
brass
vessels
as
bright
as
a
mirror....
I
imagine
these
houses
are
chiefly
inhabited
by
sailors,
pilots,
boat-makers,
and
others
whose
business
is
upon
the
water.
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