Hand-book to the English Lakes1853 - 80 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... boats , a few with unfurled sails of snowy whiteness , scudding slowly before the breeze ; its scattered islands clad with shady trees ; and its banks ex- hibiting field , wood , hill , and dale in pleasing dis- order , adorned with ...
... boats , a few with unfurled sails of snowy whiteness , scudding slowly before the breeze ; its scattered islands clad with shady trees ; and its banks ex- hibiting field , wood , hill , and dale in pleasing dis- order , adorned with ...
Pàgina 8
... Boats of various descriptions are riding at anchor , while others are perpetually entering or departing , loaded with many a pleasure - seeking party . The village contains two excellent inns ( the Royal Hotel and the Crown ) , where ...
... Boats of various descriptions are riding at anchor , while others are perpetually entering or departing , loaded with many a pleasure - seeking party . The village contains two excellent inns ( the Royal Hotel and the Crown ) , where ...
Pàgina 10
... boat may be procured to Belle Isle , or as it is locally termed The Island , from being the largest on the lake . Its surface measur- ing about thirty acres , is covered with trees , and intersected with gravel walks . There is also a ...
... boat may be procured to Belle Isle , or as it is locally termed The Island , from being the largest on the lake . Its surface measur- ing about thirty acres , is covered with trees , and intersected with gravel walks . There is also a ...
Pàgina 13
... boat as best adapted for that purpose . By thus taking a leisurely survey , novel prospects and unlooked for beauties are continually presenting themselves to view . We will now proceed to give a brief sketch of the lake itself , which ...
... boat as best adapted for that purpose . By thus taking a leisurely survey , novel prospects and unlooked for beauties are continually presenting themselves to view . We will now proceed to give a brief sketch of the lake itself , which ...
Pàgina 18
... boats , & c . and also suitable apartments for those who wish to make a temporary stay . By this route the distance is from Ambleside to Ferry Hotel eight miles , and from Ferry Hotel to Newby Bridge seven miles . The tourist staying at ...
... boats , & c . and also suitable apartments for those who wish to make a temporary stay . By this route the distance is from Ambleside to Ferry Hotel eight miles , and from Ferry Hotel to Newby Bridge seven miles . The tourist staying at ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
Ambleside ancient ascending ATKINSON banks Bassenthwaite beauty Birthwaite Boats Borrowdale Bowness Brathay Buttermere Carriages cascade Castle chapel church Cockermouth Coniston Crag Crummock Crummock Water Derwent Water Derwentwater distance Ditto Earl eastern side Elterwater English Lakes Ennerdale ESPECTFULLY Esthwaite excursions feet Fell Ferry Hotel foot Furness Abbey Grasmere Greta Hall HANDBOOK Hawkshead head Helvellyn hills Holm House hundred inns islands Isle Keswick Keswick Lake Kirkstone Lake District Lake Windermere Langdale late London Longsleddale Loughrigg Loughrigg Fell Low Wood Hotel Lowdore Lowther Maps mile further Milnthorpe moun mountains nearly neighbourhood Newby Bridge Patterdale Pencil Penrith picturesque Pike Pooley Bridge Post 8vo river road passes Scar Scawfell scene scenery seat Seathwaite seen shore situated six miles Skelwith Skiddaw Station Stock Gill Force summit tains Tarn Threlkeld Tower town trees Troutbeck Ullswater Ulverston vale valley village visiting Wast Water Water Cumberland Waterfalls Westmorland Whitehaven Wordsworth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 56 - How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber ? When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start ? How many long^ days and long...
Pàgina 79 - Countess Dowager of Pembroke, &c. for a memorial of her last parting, in this place, with her good and pious mother, Margaret Countess Dowager of Cumberland, on the 2d of April.
Pàgina 40 - mid these flowery plains; The still repose, the liquid lapse serene, Transferred to bowers imperishably green, Had beautified Elysium ! But these chains Will soon be broken; — a rough course remains, Rough as the past; where Thou, of placid mien, Innocuous as a firstling of the flock, And countenanced like a soft cerulean sky, Shalt change thy temper; and, with many a shock Given and received in mutual jeopardy, Dance, like a Bacchanal, from rock to rock, Tossing her frantic thyrsus wide and high...
Pàgina 41 - Dispirited : when, all at once, behold ! Beneath our feet, a little lowly vale, A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high Among the mountains; even as if the spot Had been from eldest time by wish of theirs...
Pàgina 33 - I would beg leave rather to decline than embrace it; for the chapels of Seathwaite and Ulpha, annexed together, would be apt to cause a general discontent among the inhabitants of both places ; by either thinking themselves slighted, being only served alternately, or neglected in the duty, or attributing it to covetousness in me ; all which occasions of murmuring I would willingly avoid.
Pàgina 60 - Shall Southey feed upon your precious lore, To works that ne'er shall forfeit their renown, Adding immortal labours of his own — Whether he traced historic truth, with zeal For the State's guidance, or the Church's weal, Or Fancy, disciplined by studious art...
Pàgina 49 - As by enchantment, an obscure retreat Opened at once, and stayed my devious feet. While thick above the rill the branches close, In rocky basin its wild waves repose...
Pàgina 67 - There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.