[Footnote f:  The “craggy steep till then the horizon’s bound,” is probably the ridge of Ironkeld, reaching from high Arnside to the Tom Heights above Tarn Hows; while the “huge peak, black and huge, as if with voluntary power instinct,” may he either the summit of Wetherlam, or of Pike o’Blisco.  Mr. Rawnsley, however, is of opinion that if Wordsworth rowed off from the west bank of Fasthwaite, he might see beyond the craggy ridge of Loughrigg the mass of Nab-Scar, and Rydal Head would rise up “black and huge.”  If he rowed from the east side, then Pike o’Stickle, or Harrison Stickle, might rise above Ironkeld, over Borwick Ground.—­Ed.]

[Footnote g:  Compare S. T. Coleridge.

  “When very many are skating together, the sounds and the noises give
  an impulse to the icy trees, and the woods all round the lake
  tinkle.”

‘The Friend’, vol. ii. p. 325 (edition 1818).—­Ed.]

[Footnote h:  The two preceding paragraphs were published in ’The Friend’, December 28, 1809, under the title of the ’Growth of Genius from the Influences of Natural Objects on the Imagination, in Boyhood and Early Youth’, and were afterwards inserted in all the collective editions of Wordsworth’s poems, from 1815 onwards.  For the changes of the text in these editions, see vol. ii. pp. 66-69.—­Ed.]

[Footnote i:  The becks amongst the Furness Fells, in Yewdale, and elsewhere.—­Ed.]

[Footnote j:  Possibly from the top of some of the rounded moraine hills on the western side of the Hawkshead Valley.—­Ed.]

[Footnote k:  The pupils in the Hawkshead school, in Wordsworth’s time, boarded in the houses of village dames.  Wordsworth lived with one Anne Tyson, for whom he ever afterwards cherished the warmest regard, and whose simple character he has immortalised. (See especially in the fourth book of ‘The Prelude’, p. 187, etc.) Wordsworth lived in her cottage at Hawkshead during nine eventful years.  It still remains externally unaltered, and little, if at all, changed in the interior.  It may be reached through a picturesque archway, near the principal inn of the village (The Lion); and is on the right of a small open yard, which is entered through this archway.  To the left, a lane leads westwards to the open country.  It is a humble dwelling of two storeys.  The floor of the basement flat-paved with the blue flags of Coniston slate—­is not likely to have been changed since Wordsworth’s time.  The present door with its “latch” (see book ii. l. 339), is probably the same as that referred to in the poem, as in use in 1776, and onwards.  For further details see notes to book iv.—­Ed.]

[Footnote l:  Compare Pope’s ‘Rape of the Lock’, canto iii. l. 54: 

  ‘Gained but one trump, and one plebeian card.’

Ed.]

[Footnote m:  Compare Walton’s ‘Compleat Angler’, part i. 4: 

  ’I was for that time lifted above earth,
  And possess’d joys not promised in my birth.’