Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . cience, 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 some little fortune, which, after tlieir mar-riage, was handsomely increased by a legacy. The removal of Mr. and to Rydal Mount, where thepoet continued to reside for the restof his life, a jicriod of thirty-sevenyears, was marked by continued accessof fortune. Through the
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . cience, 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 some little fortune, which, after tlieir mar-riage, was handsomely increased by a legacy. The removal of Mr. and to Rydal Mount, where thepoet continued to reside for the restof his life, a jicriod of thirty-sevenyears, was marked by continued accessof fortune. Through the instrumentalityof Lord Lonsdale, he was appointed dis-tributor of stamps for Westmoreland, asomewhat lucrative post, yielding anannual revenue of £500 ; to this was intime added a Government pension of£300 a year; and, apart from thesemonetary benefits, the Laureateship andthe academic honours conferred on himby the universities of Oxford andDmham, together with his advancingfame, gladdened the declining years ofhis honoured life. He died on Day, 1850, tlu-ee years after 56. ?WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.(From a Portrait by Bancook.) 438 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Grasmere and his beloved daughter, Dora QuilHnan, and about thrice tliat interval of time beforethe death of Mrs. Wordsworth, who continued to dwell at Rydal Mount, deprivedof sight, but cheerful and full of conversational power, as in the old time. Nor is it alone with the church of Grasmere that, in fame as well as inmortality, we associate the name of William Wordsworth. His epitaph onSouthey has been read by every Lake tourist visiting the church of large, ancient, and massive building, with heavy buttresses and battlements,is dedicated to St. Kentigern. The church was restored in 1845. Its ancientmonuments and brasses, cmious font of Edward III., and other points of anti-quarian interest, are obscured in general estimation by the monument of RobertSouthey, a recumbent figure, by the self-taught scu
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