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91.

93.

96.

2. After the Peace of Tilsit, July 1807, Bavaria under its king, Maximilian Joseph, became a member of the Confederation of the Rhine.

2. The first mighty Hunter-Nimrod.

x. 9, and Paradise Lost xii. 30.

Genesis

1. Spain rose in arms after Napoleon had given
the Spanish Crown to his brother Joseph,
June 6, 1808.

1. The rising of the Tyrolese peasants under
Andreas Hofer was rendered ineffectual by
the battle of Wagram, July 6, 1809, and
the Treaty of Vienna made between the
Emperor Francis and Napoleon on October
14, following. See page 95, Sonnet 2.
1. After an obstinate resistance Saragossa was
captured by the French, Feb. 21, 1809.
1. Friedrich Schill, one of the leaders of a
German rising against Napoleon, fell in the
streets of Stralsund, May 31, 1809.

96. 2. Gustavus IV. of Sweden was forced by his
people to abdicate, March 29, 1809.
97. 2. Professor Knight conjectures that the Sonnet
refers to Palafox, the defender of Saragossa,
who became a prisoner of the French in
Feb. 1809, though this-as it would seem
from the next Sonnet-was not known to
Wordsworth.

104. 2. Relates to the effect made by the sight of the Rhine on the Austrian army under Schwartzenberg, before the invasion of France by the Allies in 1814.

105.

105.

1. After the battle of Leipsic, Oct. 16 to 19,
1813.
2. The Duke d'Enghien, of the House of
Bourbon, had been lawlessly seized and (on
March 21, 1804) shot at Vincennes in re-
taliation for a plot against the life of Bona-

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parte. He was disinterred in 1816 after the Restoration.

109. 1. The Fast was occasioned by the Cholera of 1832.

110. 1. Professor Dowden says that the blank in the last line takes the place of the name

'Grote.'

115. 1. Young England was the name given to the party headed by Mr Disraeli and Lord John Manners, which revolted from Peel in 1844, in consequence of Peel's tendency towards Corn Law Repeal.

129. 1.

134. 2.

148.

162.

Refers to the spring at Donaschingen in the
Black Forest.

Refers to the Cato St. Conspiracy' to
assassinate members of the Cabinet, and the
disorders attending the return of Queen
Caroline.

Sir W. S. left Abbotsford, Sept. 23, 1831. Wordsworth had arrived to bid his friend good-bye on Sept. 21. Scott reached Naples on Dec. 17.

1. like Cocytus. W. refers to the notion that the word Greta' is from the Northern 'greet,'

to weep.

167. 1. Hillary. Sir W. Hillary aided in founding the Tower of Refuge and the life-boat establishment at Douglas.

168. 1. timely aid furnished by the Poet's son. 172. 1. See p. 152 Sonnet 1.

175. 2. The concluding lines are from a sonnet of

Russel.'

192. 1. The quotation in line 1, is from the poet Daniel.

220.

a Gospel Teacher, the Rev. Robert Walker, whose devoted life Wordsworth has described at length in a note on this poem. 1. Wordsworth here referred to the story of Pope

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252.

Alexander III. setting his foot on the neck of the Emperor Barbarossa at Venice. Being told that this was a mere legend, he directed the reader to substitute for it the penance inflicted by Gregory VII. on the Emperor Henry IV.

a lovely maid-the Poet's daughter, seen by him in a dream when he was at this point of the sonnet-series.

2. White. The first Bishop of the American Episcopalian Church, Bishop White, was consecrated at Lambeth, 1787.

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