Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes: Including an Essay on the Geology of the District |
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Pàgina 87
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 march'd To Scotland's ...
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 march'd To Scotland's ...
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Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes: Including an Essay on the ... Adam and Charles Black (Firm),John Phillips Visualització completa - 1863 |
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Ambleside amongst ancient appearance ascent Bank beautiful beds Borrowdale Bowness Bridge building called Castle chapel church close Cockermouth Coniston contains Crag crossed Cumberland Derwentwater described direction distance district Earl east elevation enters extremity feet Fell foot forms four granite Grasmere Green Guide half Hall head height Helvellyn High hill island Isle John Kendal Keswick lake land Langdale lead length limestone Lord margin mass Mell Fell miles mountains nature neighbourhood objects Park pass Penrith Pike present Price principal reach remains residence rises river road rocks round Rydal says Scawfell scenery Scotland seat seen shore side Skiddaw slates stands stone stream Street summit taken Tarn tourist tower town traveller trees vale valley village walls Water Westmorland whole Windermere Wood
Passatges populars
Pàgina 108 - I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject ; your man shan't stand. " ANNE, DORSET, PEMBRoKE,
Pàgina 11 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Pàgina 126 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wond'ring Senates hung on all he spoke, The Club must hail him master of the joke.
Pàgina 38 - And students with their pensive citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest peak of Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells...
Pàgina 108 - Which still records beyond the pencil's power, The silent sorrows of a parting hour; Still to the musing pilgrim points the place Her sainted spirit most delights to trace? Thus, with the manly glow of honest pride, O'er his dead son the gallant ORMOND sighed. Thus, thro' the gloom of SHENSTONE'S fairy grove, MARIA'S urn still breathes the voice of love.
Pàgina 87 - 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. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary tree ! — a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent...
Pàgina 153 - 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 105 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Pàgina 53 - 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 So placed, to be shut out from all the world...
Pàgina 81 - With unrejoicing berries - ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And time the Shadow; - there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship...
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| Títol | Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes: Including an Essay on the Geology of the District |
| Autor | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) |
| Edició | 5 |
| Editor | A. and C. Black, 1850 |
| Original de | Universitat de Califòrnia |
| Digitalitzat el | 10 Des. 2007 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 240 pàgines |
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