This is a quote from a memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth, reflecting on a trip she took with two famous poets, her brother, William Wordsworth, and their similarly gifted companion, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. We sat upon a bench, placed for the sake of one of these views, whence we looked down upon the waterfall, and over the open country ... A lady and gentleman, more expeditious tourists than ourselves, came to the spot; they left us at the seat, and we found them again at another station above the Falls. Coleridge, who is always good-natured enough to enter into conversation with anybody whom he meets in his way, began to talk with the gentleman, who observed that it was a majestic waterfall. Coleridge was delighted with the accuracy of the epithet, particularly as he had been settling in his own mind the precise meaning of the words grand, majestic, sublime, etc., and had discussed the subject with William at some length the day before. “Yes, sir,” says Coleridge, “it is a majesti
Are the two photos of the same kitten? Is he or she yours? It's nice to see a side of you I never saw before, in all these years.
ReplyDeleteSorry. These are Google Images. Generic "cute kitten" pics. The reason you have never seen the kitten-loving side of me is that it doesn't exist. (I do have two adorable dogs though: subject for another post perhaps.)
ReplyDeleteBut you chose the kitten images, and that says something about you, for which you deserve credit.
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