Appendix V

Appendix IV

Anecdote for Fathers

See Eusebius'

Præparatio Evangelica

, vi. 5.:

which was Apollo's answer to certain persons who tried to force his oracle to reply.—Ed.

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The Thorn

William Taylor's translation of Bürger's

Pfarrer's Tochter

appeared in

The Monthly Magazine

(1796), and as the same volume contained contributions by Coleridge and Lamb, it is possible that Wordsworth saw it. Bürger's Pastor's Daughter murdered her natural child, but it is her ghost which haunts its grave, which she had torn

With bleeding nails beside the pond,
And nightly pines the pool beside.

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