Excerpt from Wordsworth But it was not from exercises of this kind that Words worth's school-days drew their inspiration. N 0 years of his life, perhaps, were richer in strong impressions but they were impressions derived neither from books nor from companions, but from the majesty and loveliness of the scenes around him -from Nature, his life-long mistress, loved with the first heats of youth. To her influence we shall again recur it will be most convenient first to trace Wordsworth's progress through the curriculum of ordinary education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.