Loiterings among the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland, by the author of 'Wanderings in the Isle of Wight'.Religious Tract Society, 1849 - 208 pàgines |
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Pàgina 8
... vale below , and the splendid prospect burst upon me at once . I did not see the precipice till I was within a few yards of it , and had it been night I might have walked over the brink of it , and been dashed to pieces at the bottom ...
... vale below , and the splendid prospect burst upon me at once . I did not see the precipice till I was within a few yards of it , and had it been night I might have walked over the brink of it , and been dashed to pieces at the bottom ...
Pàgina 15
... vale of Troutbeck . There is not , ' says professor Wilson , ' such another splendid prospect in all England . ' The lake has much the character of a river . The islands are seen almost all lying together in a cluster , below which all ...
... vale of Troutbeck . There is not , ' says professor Wilson , ' such another splendid prospect in all England . ' The lake has much the character of a river . The islands are seen almost all lying together in a cluster , below which all ...
Pàgina 41
... vale , without so much as once putting his foot on the ground . " " The trees , then , must have been thick enough . But what is a slack ? " " A slack is a hollow . In the next place , people talk of the three hundred bulls , three ...
... vale , without so much as once putting his foot on the ground . " " The trees , then , must have been thick enough . But what is a slack ? " " A slack is a hollow . In the next place , people talk of the three hundred bulls , three ...
Pàgina 42
... vale many a pleasant hour without being molested either by bull or giant . But I must tell you of my visit to Kirkstone Pass , a place that is lonely enough now , and dreary indeed it must have been be- fore the little inn that now ...
... vale many a pleasant hour without being molested either by bull or giant . But I must tell you of my visit to Kirkstone Pass , a place that is lonely enough now , and dreary indeed it must have been be- fore the little inn that now ...
Pàgina 45
... the mountains , The Maker of the meres , Go with thee , gifted man , and spread His sunbeams round thy honoured head Through this low vale of tears ! " " " " And did you send your note to him ? LOITERINGS ABOUT RYDAL WATER . 45.
... the mountains , The Maker of the meres , Go with thee , gifted man , and spread His sunbeams round thy honoured head Through this low vale of tears ! " " " " And did you send your note to him ? LOITERINGS ABOUT RYDAL WATER . 45.
Frases i termes més freqüents
Abbey Ambleside banks Bassenthwaite Water beautiful Blueback Borrowdale bridge bright brook Buttermere called Castle cloud colour Coniston cottage Crummock Water dale dare say delight Derwent Derwentwater distance enjoy Ennerdale Esthwaite Water eyes fall father feet foot Furness Abbey Gable gaze Gill Force God's Grasmere green grey Harter Fell Hawes Water head hear heart Helm Crag Helvellyn hills hundred island Kendal Keswick Kirk Fell Kirkstone Kirkstone Pass Knab Scar lake country Langdale loiterings look Lord Loughrigg Fell miles moun mountains neighbourhood never pass Patterdale Paul Ritter pleasure professor Wilson prospect ramble Red Pike river rock rocky round Rydal Scawfell Pike scene scenery seen side Skiddaw standing stones stream Striding Edge tains Tarn tell things Thirlemere told tourist tower trees Ulleswater vale valley walked Wallow Crag Wast Water Wastdale waterfall wild Windermere wonder woods Wordsworth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 138 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Pàgina 138 - COMMIT thou all thy griefs And ways into His hands, To His sure truth and tender care, Who earth and heaven commands.
Pàgina 27 - MY God ! the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights, The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights.
Pàgina 83 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Pàgina 190 - Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Pàgina 184 - The Dog, which still was hovering nigh, Repeating the same timid cry, This Dog, had been through three months' space A dweller in that savage place.
Pàgina 160 - To Scotland's heaths; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Pàgina 182 - Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay smooth and still, And? down its verdant bosom led, A winding brooklet found its bed.
Pàgina 184 - This dog had been through three months' space A dweller in that savage place. Yes, proof was plain that since the day On which the traveller thus had died The dog had watched about the spot, Or by his master's side : How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate.
Pàgina 138 - Thou on the Lord rely, so safe shalt thou go on; fix on his work thy steadfast eye, so shall thy work be done. No profit canst thou gain by self-consuming care; to him commend thy cause; his ear attends the softest prayer.