Hand-book to the English Lakes1853 - 80 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... interesting objects . About three miles from Kendal the traveller catches a glimpse of Sizergh Castle , to the west , an ancient building that has long been in possession of the Stricklands , surrounded by park and woodland scenery . It ...
... interesting objects . About three miles from Kendal the traveller catches a glimpse of Sizergh Castle , to the west , an ancient building that has long been in possession of the Stricklands , surrounded by park and woodland scenery . It ...
Pàgina 19
... interesting in its associations . Not far from the village the road enters the woods of Rayrigg , and Rayrigg House is seen at the edge of the lake . Here William Wilberforce , whose exertions for the cause of hu- manity have made his ...
... interesting in its associations . Not far from the village the road enters the woods of Rayrigg , and Rayrigg House is seen at the edge of the lake . Here William Wilberforce , whose exertions for the cause of hu- manity have made his ...
Pàgina 23
... interesting letters of King Charles I. At the general suppression of the monastic institu- tions by Henry VIII . , being a parochial as well as conventual church , it was purchased by the inhabi- tants for a trifling consideration , and ...
... interesting letters of King Charles I. At the general suppression of the monastic institu- tions by Henry VIII . , being a parochial as well as conventual church , it was purchased by the inhabi- tants for a trifling consideration , and ...
Pàgina 31
... interesting rambles may be made from Coniston . To the northward lie the vales of Yewdale and Tilberthwaite , the former remarkable for its crags and venerable tree , and the latter having extensive slate quarries amongst its woods and ...
... interesting rambles may be made from Coniston . To the northward lie the vales of Yewdale and Tilberthwaite , the former remarkable for its crags and venerable tree , and the latter having extensive slate quarries amongst its woods and ...
Pàgina 33
... interesting objects is its small chapel , where the " wonderful Walker ” * ( a name familiar to the readers of Wordsworth ) per- formed the duties of his calling . The Duddon has its rise on Bowfell , and after meandering through a ...
... interesting objects is its small chapel , where the " wonderful Walker ” * ( a name familiar to the readers of Wordsworth ) per- formed the duties of his calling . The Duddon has its rise on Bowfell , and after meandering through a ...
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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.