Hand-book to the English Lakes1853 - 80 pàgines |
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Pàgina 31
... heights of Yew- dale , are conspicuous objects on this side , and near to the head may be had a good view of the village of Coniston and Coniston Hall , the ancient seat of the Flemings , now at Rydal . On the western side are the ...
... heights of Yew- dale , are conspicuous objects on this side , and near to the head may be had a good view of the village of Coniston and Coniston Hall , the ancient seat of the Flemings , now at Rydal . On the western side are the ...
Pàgina 32
... height is 2,477 feet . The easiest ascent is by way of Torver , but the nearest from Coniston is past the copper mines and slate quarries , the former of which have been worked from time immemorial , with the exception of a short period ...
... height is 2,477 feet . The easiest ascent is by way of Torver , but the nearest from Coniston is past the copper mines and slate quarries , the former of which have been worked from time immemorial , with the exception of a short period ...
Pàgina 35
... height , but always having a plentiful supply of water , and encompassed by splen- did scenery . A mile further there is a fine view of Elterwater , shortly after which the road passes through Colwith Bridge , and near to Colwith Force ...
... height , but always having a plentiful supply of water , and encompassed by splen- did scenery . A mile further there is a fine view of Elterwater , shortly after which the road passes through Colwith Bridge , and near to Colwith Force ...
Pàgina 36
... height of sixty feet , having over it a natural arch . This is called Dungeon Gill , and is the scene of Words- worth's " Idle Shepherd Boys , " where " Into a chasm a mighty block Hath fallen and made a bridge of rock , The gulph is ...
... height of sixty feet , having over it a natural arch . This is called Dungeon Gill , and is the scene of Words- worth's " Idle Shepherd Boys , " where " Into a chasm a mighty block Hath fallen and made a bridge of rock , The gulph is ...
Pàgina 40
steep and grassy banks , or bold projecting rocks , rising to a vast height ; the native woods in a wild intricacy , impend from the rocks , which are addition- ally clothed with fern , moss , and other vegetation . " From Ambleside the ...
steep and grassy banks , or bold projecting rocks , rising to a vast height ; the native woods in a wild intricacy , impend from the rocks , which are addition- ally clothed with fern , moss , and other vegetation . " From Ambleside the ...
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.