Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . -& Crosthwaite.] A GENEROUS NEIGHBOUR. 437. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. worldly care. A young man of goodfamily, and with extraordinary discern-ment of the uses to which money mightbeneficially be put, happened to be dyingof pulmonary consumption ; and, as mightbefall in a pleasant fiction, though ag most unusual incident of real life, heleft £900 to his poetical neighbour, be-cause he wanted it; a most ridiculousreason, as many excellent persons nodoubt thought, for a young gentleman-farmer to
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . -& Crosthwaite.] A GENEROUS NEIGHBOUR. 437. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. worldly care. A young man of goodfamily, and with extraordinary discern-ment of the uses to which money mightbeneficially be put, happened to be dyingof pulmonary consumption ; and, as mightbefall in a pleasant fiction, though ag most unusual incident of real life, heleft £900 to his poetical neighbour, be-cause he wanted it; a most ridiculousreason, as many excellent persons nodoubt thought, for a young gentleman-farmer to entertain. It was, however,the basis of Wordsworths prosperity,which was built up by a series of luckyaccessions. The bad Lord Lonsdale,out of sheer mad perversity, and a determination to do the thing that wasWTong, had withheld payment of money due to his law-agent, Wordsworthsfather. His lordships successor, a man of conscience, looking into his familyaffairs, found out the true state of the case, and hastened to make this act of simple honesty, the Wordsworths were duly benefited. Then,Miss Hutchinson brought her spouse s
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