Hand-book to the English Lakes1853 - 80 pàgines |
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Pàgina 1
... scenes which the lake country discloses , is by way of Lan- caster and Kendal a route which at the same time that it is the most speedy and convenient , has also the advantage of introducing the tourist into the most beautiful and ...
... scenes which the lake country discloses , is by way of Lan- caster and Kendal a route which at the same time that it is the most speedy and convenient , has also the advantage of introducing the tourist into the most beautiful and ...
Pàgina 5
... scene of great beauty and attraction ; and more particularly so if viewed in the softening light of evening , when visiters will frequently stay until the last notes of the blackbird have died away in the woods beneath , and the shades ...
... scene of great beauty and attraction ; and more particularly so if viewed in the softening light of evening , when visiters will frequently stay until the last notes of the blackbird have died away in the woods beneath , and the shades ...
Pàgina 7
... scene will be unforgotten to your dying day - for such passive impressions are deeper than we can explain whole spiritual being is suddenly awakened to re- - our ceive them — and associations , swift as light , B 4 THE ENGLISH LAKES ...
... scene will be unforgotten to your dying day - for such passive impressions are deeper than we can explain whole spiritual being is suddenly awakened to re- - our ceive them — and associations , swift as light , B 4 THE ENGLISH LAKES ...
Pàgina 10
... scenes of dignified and softened beauty . In the words of a native author , " there is not perhaps a spot about the lake can equal a walk round this island in a summer evening , when the long level shadows of the west are seen in the ...
... scenes of dignified and softened beauty . In the words of a native author , " there is not perhaps a spot about the lake can equal a walk round this island in a summer evening , when the long level shadows of the west are seen in the ...
Pàgina 14
... scenes of grandeur and loveliness , can pass the delightful hour in pleasant converse , with " Sport that wrinkled Care derides , And Laughter holding both his sides . " The aquatic excursionist in sailing over the lake may feast his ...
... scenes of grandeur and loveliness , can pass the delightful hour in pleasant converse , with " Sport that wrinkled Care derides , And Laughter holding both his sides . " The aquatic excursionist in sailing over the lake may feast his ...
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.