THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. In Five Columes. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. ΤΟ SIR GEORGE HOWLAND BEAUMONT, BART. MY DEAR SIR GEORGE, ACCEPT my thanks for the permission given me to dedicate these Volumes to you. In addition to a lively pleasure derived from general considerations, I feel a particular satisfaction; for, by inscribing these Poems with your Name, I seem to myself in some degree to repay, by an appropriate honour, the great obligation which I owe to one part of the Collection-as having been the means of first making us personally known to each other. Upon much of the remainder, also, you have a peculiar claim, |