...every season green, sweet at all hours. 70 SELECTIONS FROM THE EXCURSION. I. THE WANDERER'S BOYHOOD. From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer,...repaired, Equipped with satchel, to a school, that stood 5 Sole building on a mountain's dreary edge, Remote from view of city spire, or sound Of minster clock!...

...schoolmaster, so that he was taught his letters betimes. But then, as it is here set forth with much solemnity, From his sixth year, the boy of whom I speak In summer tended cattle on the hills! From early childhood, even, as hath been said, From his sixth year, he had been sent abroad, In summer—to...

...childhood in his record of the mind of the Wanderer in The Excursion, in the lines beginning: — " From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak In summer tended cattle on the hills." It may be said that in all this Wordsworth is simply rehearsing aud expanding an exceptional experience...

...of the mind of the Wanderer in The Excursion, in the lines beginning: — "From his sixth year, thi- Boy of whom I speak In summer tended cattle on the hills." It may be said that in all this Wordsworth is simply rehearsing and expanding an exceptional experience...

...Espoused the teacher of the Village School; Who on her offspring zealously bestowed Needful instruction. From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer,...Hills; But, through the inclement and the perilous day* Of long-continuing winter, he repaired To his Step-father's School, — &c. For all the admirable...

...Espoused the teacher of the Village School; Who on her offspring zealously bestowed Needful instruction. From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer,...perilous days Of long-continuing winter, he repaired To his step-father's school. — &c.l For all the admirable passages interposed in this narration,...

...His bible in a school that stood alone, Sole building on a mountain's dreary edge, Far from the sight of city spire, or sound Of minster clock. From that bleak tenement 1 The Pedlar starts so abruptly because it was composed, in FebruaryMarch 1 798, to be 'inserted in...

...abroad" to tend his father's sheep "ere his ninth summer" is given a milder and less revealing form: "From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, / In summer, tended cattle on the hills" (I, 18-19). Most important, the vision of nature which in MS. B immediately follows the statement of...

...children taught Stern self-respect, a reverence for God's word, And piety scarce known on English Land. From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak In summer tended cattle on the Hills, But in the winter time he duly went To his Step-father's School, that stood alone, Sole Building on a Mountain's...

...duties appertained . . . B p 9, marked with a partially erased pencil line in the margin 1 1 134-8 From his sixth year, the Boy of whom I speak, In summer,...perilous days Of long-continuing winter, he repaired To his Step-father's School* . . . С p 19, pencil, marked with a partially erased line in the margin...