human
Point referred to in this poem, leaving the eastern shore truly
gpt
--a
human
; the high-way road for carriages being at that time over White Moss Common. The late Dr. Arnold, of Rugby and Foxhowe, used to name the three roads from Rydal to Grasmere thus: the highest,
gpt
Old Corruption ; the intermediate,
human
Bit by bit Reform ; the lowest and most level,
gpt
Radical Reform. Wordsworth was never quite reconciled to the radical reform effected on a road that used to be so delightfully wild and picturesque. The spot which the three friends rather infelicitously named
human
Point Rash-Judgment is easily identified; although, as Wordsworth remarks, the character of the shore is changed by the public road being carried along its side. The friends were quite aware that the
gpt
they gave it was