I have been doing nothing, and still continue to do nothing.

What is to become of me I know not.' He announces his resolve _not_ to take orders; and 'as for the Law, I have neither strength of mind, purse, or constitution, to engage in that pursuit.'[32] 12.

_Literary Work: Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches_: 1794.
In May, 1794, William Wordsworth was at Whitehaven, at his uncle's, Mr.
Richard Wordsworth's; and he then proposes to his friend Mathews, who was resident in London, that they should set on foot a monthly political and literary Miscellany, to which, he says, 'he would communicate critical remarks on poetry, the arts of painting, gardening, &c., besides essays on morals and politics.' 'I am at present,' he adds, 'nearly at leisure--I say _nearly_, for I am _not quite_ so, as I am correcting, and considerably adding to, those poems which I published in your absence' ('The Evening Walk' and 'Descriptive Sketches').

'It was with great reluctance that I sent those two little works into the world in so imperfect a state.

But as I had done nothing by which to distinguish myself at the university, I thought these little things might show that I _could_ do something.