Excerpt from Poems by William Wordsworth Here are places with so distinct and finished a character of their own, and so hallowed by their association with persons who have been great in the worlds of thought and feeling, that both intellect and imagination select them to cherish in the inward life, to impersonate them as friends, and to enjoy their company at will. They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. Grasmere is such a place to those who love it. Its landscape, even in remembrance, restores our heart to peace; and in the midst of its valley lies the little dwelling-place of Wordsworth which held of old, and to-day radiates, those human associations which are needed to give to the beauty and solemnity of nature their crowning sentiment and charm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.