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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Tuesday,
21st.--
...
Wm.
had
been
unsuccessful
in
the
morning
at
the
sheepfold.
The
reflection
of
the
ash
scattered,
and
the
tree
stripped.
Wednesday
Morning.--
...
Wm.
composed
without
much
success
at
the
sheepfold.
Coleridge
came
in
to
dinner.
He
had
done
nothing.
We
were
very
merry.
C.
and
I
went
to
look
at
the
prospect
from
his
seat....
Wm.
read
Ruth,
etc.,
after
supper.
Coleridge
read
Christabel.
Thursday,
23rd.--Coleridge
and
Stoddart
went
to
Keswick.
We
accompanied
them
to
Wytheburn.
A
wintry
grey
morning
from
the
top
of
the
Raise.
Grasmere
looked
like
winter,
and
Wytheburn
still
more
so....
Wm.
was
not
successful
in
composition
in
the
evening.
Friday,
24th.--A
very
fine
morning.
We
walked,
before
Wm.
began
to
work,
to
the
top
of
the
Rydale
hill.
He
was
afterwards
only
partly
successful
in
composition.
After
dinner
we
walked
round
Rydale
lake,
rich,
calm,
streaked,
very
beautiful.
We
went
to
the
top
of
Loughrigg.
Grasmere
sadly
inferior....
The
ash
in
our
garden
green,
one
close
to
it
bare,
the
next
nearly
so.
Saturday.--A
very
rainy
day.
Wm.
again
unsuccessful.
We
could
not
walk,
it
was
so
very
rainy.
We
read
Rogers,
Miss
Seward,
Cowper,
etc.
Sunday.--Heavy
rain
all
night,
a
fine
morning
after
10
o'clock.
Wm.
composed
a
good
deal
in
the
morning....
Monday,
27th
October.--
...
Wm.
in
the
firgrove.
I
had
before
walked
with
him
there
for
some
time.
It
was
a
fine
shelter
from
the
wind.
The
coppices
now
nearly
of
one
brown.
An
oak
tree
in
a
sheltered
place
near
John
Fisher's,
not
having
lost
any
of
its
leaves,
was
quite
brown
and
dry....
It
was
a
fine
wild
moonlight
night.
Wm.
could
not
compose
much.
Fatigued
himself
with
altering.
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