. William Wordsworth, his life, works and influence . r Ehrlichen Worth und GewandschneiderGilde Nahmens-Buch; Biirger-RoUe von Ostern 1799 ab, iiber dieStephani Pfarre. There was not much to gladden the eye in any of thesedocuments, save the last. But here was a discovery indeed, and one verymuch needed to give value to all the others. For at the top of the left-hand pages in this long brown book was written, Hausbesitzer (House-holders), and at the top of the right-hand pages, Hausgenossen(Lodgers); and under No. 107, on the left was the record of Frau Depper-manns death, and on the right :
. William Wordsworth, his life, works and influence . r Ehrlichen Worth und GewandschneiderGilde Nahmens-Buch; Biirger-RoUe von Ostern 1799 ab, iiber dieStephani Pfarre. There was not much to gladden the eye in any of thesedocuments, save the last. But here was a discovery indeed, and one verymuch needed to give value to all the others. For at the top of the left-hand pages in this long brown book was written, Hausbesitzer (House-holders), and at the top of the right-hand pages, Hausgenossen(Lodgers); and under No. 107, on the left was the record of Frau Depper-manns death, and on the right : JoHANN Heinrich Deppermann, Kaufmann 23 Feb. 1801 Biirger gewordenHr. WillicLHi Wzztzlzid eiE E-Bgian-^ic-i: 1st weg The line through the name was drawn later, Mr. Vernon tells me, andanother hand had added the last two words, ist weg (has gone). Thereis nothing to show when Herr William Waetsford, an Englishman, wentaway, but of his identity with William Wordsworth there can be no doubt* E. H. Coleridges Letters of S. T. Coleridge, Vol. I., p. THE HOUSE IN GOSLAR WHERE THE WORDSWORTHSLIVED IN 1798 [Vol. I., p. 366 1799] DEPARTURE FROM GOSLAR 367 on the edge of the Hartz Forest. In this town theGerman emperors of the Franconian Hne were accus-tomed to keep their court, and it retains vestiges ofancient splendour. So severe was the cold of thiswinter, that, when we passed out of the parlour warmedby the stove, our cheeks were struck by the air as bycold iron. I slept in a room over a passage which wasnot ceiled. The people of the house used to say, ratherunfeelingly, that they expected I should be frozen todeath some night; but with the protection of a pelisselined with fur, and a dogs skin bonnet, such as wasworn by the peasants, I walked daily on the ramparts,or in a sort of public ground or garden in which was apond. Here, I had no companion but a kingfisher, abeautiful creature, that used to glance by me. I con-sequent^ became much attached to it. This exasperating ret
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