Guilty Thing (68 page)

I do therefore ask you. . .
Japp, I, p. 136.

I have suffered considerable. . .
Japp, I, p. 138.

Some of them. . .
gloom of the hall. . .
‘Confessions', p. 78.

aerial dungeon. . .
Recollections
, p. 344.

a chamber within a chamber. . .
Recollections
, p. 251.

he is loving, gentle and happy. . .
Knight (ed.),
Letters
, I, p. 425.

Mr de Quincey has been here. . .
Jordan, p. 57.

little Chinese maiden. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 365.

her sole tutor. . .
gentle thoughts. . .
Knight (ed.),
Letters
, I, p. 436.

a sixteen stoner. . .
William Maginn, ‘John Wilson, Esq',
Fraser
'
s Magazine
, 3 (Apr 1831), p. 364.

balmy odours. . .
see Karl Miller,
Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg
, London: Faber, 2003, p. 129.

more brilliant . . .
principles of poetry. . . Recollections
, p. 123.

headlong nonsense. . .
H. A. Page, II, p. 175.

the stormiest pleasures. . .
Recollections
, p. 362.

I abhor stairs
. . .
Gordon,
Memoir of John Wilson
, p. 89.

a most tempestuous youth. . .
Masson, V, p. 279.

he rarely walked. . .
Jordan, p. 217.

I have often remarked . . .
circumstances. . . Recollections
, p. 160.

no neighbour that buys them. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 377.

dearest spot of all. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 376.

A monstrous incongruity!. . .
Japp, II, p. 5.

that beautiful and wild-hearted girl. . .
Japp, II, p. 285.

stop the press. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 294.

the very great injustice
. . .
Jordan, p. 132.

Never describe Wordsworth
. . .
Recollections
, p. 381.

it gives me great concern
. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, pp. 317–18.

fending and proving. . .
Recollections
, p. 376.

You must take it . . .
decently. . . Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 339.

much anxiety and care. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 320.

dismembered creatures. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 337.

When I get to the house. . .
down in it. . .
Jordan, pp. 317–18.

joy in the house. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 314.

at all in fault. . .
Jordon, p. 198.

both respect. . .
Second-thoughts. . .
Griggs, III, pp. 305–6.

according to all analogy
. . .
Hogg, p. 24.

Sometimes we fancy. . .
pleasure. . . Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 169.

I observe you always say. . .
out of your way. . .
Japp, II, p. 3.

in
exact proportion. . .
promise. . .
Griggs, III, p. 927.

twenty Atlantics. . .
‘Confessions', p. 85.

the motion of time. . .
haunted my sleep. . .
‘Confessions', p. 53.

he recommended . . .
the next generation. . .
Masson, III, p. 112.

three Walking Stewarts. . .
Masson, III, p. 107.

forgeries. . .
Japp, I, p. 262.

my non-identity. . .
Japp, I, p. 256.

We could not help laughing. . .
Japp, I, p. 283.

when I first came here . . .
sitting-room. . .
Jordan, p. 244.

malice has done the work. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 338.

Pleasant indeed it is . . .
ravaged. . . Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 337.

perfect paradise. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 369.

in three weeks. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 363.

When are we to see you?. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 371.

He has been in cold Countries. . .
Jordan, p. 254.

It was. . .
on a November night. . . Recollections
, p. 301.

Chapter 9: Residence in Dove Cottage and the Revolution

little orphan maiden. . .
Recollections
, p. 301.

one of our own Family. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 374.

I can tell you. . .
smallness of the house. . . Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 376.

lazy, luxurious and sensual. . .
Recollections
, p. 269.

youthful charge. . .
Recollections
, p. 370.

smothered. . .
Recollections
, p. 294.

tip-top of exaltation. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 374.

not the least atom of beauty. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 370.

impersonation of the dawn. . .
Recollections
, p. 372.

the only very intimate friend. . .
Recollections
, p. 288.

the sound of pealing anthems. . .
Recollections
, p. 332.

trace the course . . .
reign of the cricket. . . Recollections
, pp. 228–9.

a truth before your eyes. . .
Masson, X, p. 270.

that swallowed up abysses. . .
Masson, X, p. 416.

for more than twenty years. . .
Recollections
, p. 169.

in substance, what I have been all my life. . .
Hartley Coleridge (ed.),
Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, London: John Murray, 1835, II, p. 71.

we should flee for refuge from them
. . .
‘A Prefatory Observation on Modern Biography',
The Friend,
Number 21, 1810, p. 337.

to be made at an unreasonable time. . .
Middle Years
, pt 1, p. 397.

in the cottage style. . .
Griggs, III, p. 273.

we are all glad. . .
his friends as possible. . . Middle Years
, pt 1, pp. 398–9.
criminal negligence. . . Recollections
, p. 271.

lively gushing thought-employing
. . .
people. . .
Beth Darlington (ed.),
The Love Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth
, London: Chatto and Windus, 1982, p. 59.

end of time. . .
Darlington (ed.),
Love Letters
, p. 48.

kiss the words a thousand times! . . .
Darlington (ed.),
Love Letters
, p. 42.

whole frame. . .
depth of affection. . .
Darlington (ed.),
Love Letters
, p. 210.

William used many . . .
been very angry. . . Middle Years
, pt 1, pp. 488–9.

so murderous of domestic comfort. . .
Curry (ed.),
New Letters of Robert Southey
, I, p. 448.

whirled about without a centre. . .
Coburn (ed.),
Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, III, p. 3991.

suddenness of a flash of lightning. . .
Griggs, III, p. 389.

never-closing . . .
Wound
. . . Griggs, III, p. 338.

like nobody in my looks and appearance. . .
Darlington (ed.),
Love Letters
, p. 35.

the Misses De Quincey have just called. . .
Moorman,
Later Years,
p. 114.

your sweet country. . .
ever-green corner. . .
Japp, II, p. 79.

and all for the sake . . .
set by that orchard. . .
Coburn, pp. 36–7.

storm in the apple orchard. . .
Jordan, p. 219.

inhuman arrogance. . .
usurpations. . . Recollections
, pp. 375–6.

little cottage was Wordsworth's. . .
Recollections
, pp. 122–3.

I have been ill-used. . .
Recollections
, p. 377.

a strange sort of contradictory life. . .
Recollections
, p. 381.

reads the newspapers standing . . .
his company. . .
Coburn, pp. 37–8.

Chapter 10: Residence in London and Grasmere

over the face of the land
. . .
‘Mail-Coach', p. 192.

never rested. . .
part of vagrants. . .
‘Postscript', p. 98.

No circumstances which did not concern me
. . .
‘On Murder', p. xi.

he had in his pocket fourteen shillings
. . .
John Fairburn,
Fairburn's Account of the Life, Death and Interment of John Williams, the Supposed Murderer of the Families of Marr and Williamson, and Self Destroyer
, John Fairburn, Blackfriars, 1812, p. 6.

an unseemly exhibition. . .
see P. D. James and Thomas A. Critchley,
The Maul and the Peartree
, London: Faber, 1986.

what is the effect?. . .
Payne Collier,
Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton
, introductory preface, p. 142.

comparatively dim. . .
aversion to action. . .
Payne Collier,
Seven Lectures
, introductory preface, pp. 141–2.

proceeded from the hands of a friend. . .
Recollections
, p. 380.

in great indignation. . .
Alan G. Hill (ed.),
William and Dorothy Wordsworth: A Supplement of New Letters
, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, p. 63.

lower classes of the community
. . .
all parts of the globe. . .
John Fairburn,
Fairburn's Account of the Inhuman Murder of Mr and Mrs Williamson and Their Woman Servant at the King's Arms, New Gravel Lane, Ratcliffe Highway, on Thursday Night, 19 Dec 1811
, John Fairburn, Blackfriars, 1812, p. 3.

Whether he was in his native country. . .
remorse. . .
Fairburn,
Fairburn's Account of the Life, Death and Interment of John Williams
, p. 3.

conduct of the two formed. . .
untimely end. . .
Fairburn,
Fairburn's Account of the Life, Death and Interment of John Williams
, p. 4.

apprehended on suspicion. . .
Fairburn,
Fairburn's Account of the Life, Death and Interment of John Williams
, p. 5.

accomplices remains to be discovered
. . .
Fairburn,
Fairburn's Account of the Life, Death and Interment of John Williams
, p. 7.

the late murders
. . .
butchered like so many brute beasts!
. . . Rev. G. Williams, ‘The Substance of a Sermon on the Horrid Murders in Ratcliffe Highway and Gravel Lane, which was Preached on Sunday December 29th, 1811, at the Chapel of the Rev. Rowland Hill', London: Fairburn, 1811, p. 2.

determination to confront. . .
Knight (ed.),
Letters
, II, p. 3.

Recollect, Gentlemen
. . .
Andro Linklater,
Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister
, London, Bloomsbury, 2012, p. 130.

These were the very words
. . .
Linklater,
Spencer Perceval
, p. 38.

The country is no doubt in a most alarming situation. . .
Darlington (ed.),
Love Letters
, p. 148.

I am grieved to the heart
. . .
Knight (ed.),
Letters
, II, p. 9.

more affected than the father. . .
Jordan, p. 210.

puling and womanly weakness. . .
Morrison, p. 159.

Nobody. . .
can judge. . . dear lips again. . .
Jordan, p. 265.

idle gazers. . .
Jordan, p. 266.

Oh that I could have died for her. . .
Jordan, pp. 270–1.

The grounds for this fiction. . .
Hogg, p. 23.

early dawn . . .
fountain of life. . . Recollections
, p. 372.

obscure and little heard of
. . .
Recollections
, p. 369.

for more than two months running. . .
Recollections
, p. 372.

life could not be borne . . .
Recollections
, p. 373.

peculiar sensation . . .
wrenched. . . Recollections
, p. 374.