Sylvan's Pictorial Handbook to the English LakesJohn Johnstone, Paternoster Row, 1847 - 274 pàgines |
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Pàgina 6
... situated on the west side of the market place , is an imposing structure , and contains , in the council chambers , some well - executed paintings of William Pitt and Lord Nelson , George III . and George IV . The arcade and portico are ...
... situated on the west side of the market place , is an imposing structure , and contains , in the council chambers , some well - executed paintings of William Pitt and Lord Nelson , George III . and George IV . The arcade and portico are ...
Pàgina 7
... situated as it is on an eminence overlooking the town , naturally attracts attention , and forms an important feature in a general view of Lancaster . It is spacious and lofty , one hundred and forty feet in length , sixty feet broad ...
... situated as it is on an eminence overlooking the town , naturally attracts attention , and forms an important feature in a general view of Lancaster . It is spacious and lofty , one hundred and forty feet in length , sixty feet broad ...
Pàgina 9
... The institutions of Lancaster demand a passing notice . Among the most interesting is the gallery of drawings and paintings of the Society of Arts situated on Castle Hill , instituted for the encouragement of art in the.
... The institutions of Lancaster demand a passing notice . Among the most interesting is the gallery of drawings and paintings of the Society of Arts situated on Castle Hill , instituted for the encouragement of art in the.
Pàgina 10
... situated in St. Leonard's Gate , and an Assembly - Room in King Street , used for public concerts , lectures , and subscription balls . It is occasionally the scene of much festive gaiety , and the resort of all the beauty and fashion ...
... situated in St. Leonard's Gate , and an Assembly - Room in King Street , used for public concerts , lectures , and subscription balls . It is occasionally the scene of much festive gaiety , and the resort of all the beauty and fashion ...
Pàgina 11
... situated on an elevated bank , is a prominent object . - In the distance , to the right , rises the Black Coombe Mountain ; and the Coniston Range close the scene . As we pass along the coast to the right , Warton Crags stand out boldly ...
... situated on an elevated bank , is a prominent object . - In the distance , to the right , rises the Black Coombe Mountain ; and the Coniston Range close the scene . As we pass along the coast to the right , Warton Crags stand out boldly ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
abbey Ambleside ancient ascent banks Barrow Bassenthwaite beautiful Borrowdale Bowness Brathay Bridge Broughton Buttermere called Carlisle Castle chapel cloth Cockermouth Coniston Water Crag crossing Crummock Crummock Water dale Derwent Water distance district Duddon Edinburgh Edition eminence Ennerdale Water Eskdale Esthwaite Esthwaite Water excursion Foolscap 8vo formerly Free Church Furness Furness Abbey Gill Grasmere half a mile Hall Hawes Water Hawkshead height Helvellyn High Street hills Initial letter interesting islands Isle John Kendal Keswick Kirkstone Lancaster Langdale Langdale Pikes Loughrigg Fell margin miles distant mountains Nab Scar Park passing Patterdale Penrith picturesque principal railway ramble residence rising river road rocks Rosthwaite Rothay ruins Rydal Water Saddleback Scaw Fell Pikes scene scenery seat Seathwaite seen Shap side situated Skiddaw spot stone summit surrounding Tarn tourist tower town trees tributary Troutbeck Ulleswater Ulverston vale valley village Wansfell Pike Wast Water Wastdale whence Windermere
Passatges populars
Pàgina 169 - The cataract strong Then plunges along, Striking and raging As if a war waging Its caverns and rocks among ; Rising and leaping, Sinking and creeping, Swelling and sweeping, Showering and springing, Flying and flinging, Writhing and wringing, Eddying and whisking, Spouting and frisking, Turning and twisting, Around and around With endless rebound : Smiting and fighting, A sight to delight in ; Confounding, astounding, Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.
Pàgina 191 - 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 To be destroyed.
Pàgina 77 - ... 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 So placed, to be shut out from all the world!
Pàgina 16 - Sketches of Scottish Church History, Embracing the Period from the Reformation to the Revolution. With an Appendix, relative to the alleged Accession of John Knox to the Conspiracy against Riccio.
Pàgina 12 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth: that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
Pàgina 53 - Smiling so tranquilly, and set, so deep ! Oft doth your dreamy loveliness return, Colouring the tender shadows of my sleep With light Elysian ; for the hues that steep Your shores in melting lustre, seem to float On golden clouds from spirit-lands remote, Isles of the blest; and in our memory keep Their place with holiest harmonies : fair scene, Most loved by evening and her dewy star!
Pàgina 70 - Lake" presided over one of the most splendid regattas that ever enlivened Windermere. Perhaps there were not fewer than fifty barges following in the Professor's radiant procession, when it paused at the point of Storrs to admit into the place of honour the vessel that carried kind and happy Mr Bolton and his guests. The...
Pàgina 69 - high discourse,' intermingled with as gay flashings of courtly wit as ever Canning displayed, and a plentiful allowance on all sides of those airy transient pleasantries in which the fancy of poets, however wise and grave, delights to run riot, when they are sure not to be misunderstood. There were beautiful and accomplished women to adorn and enjoy this circle. The weather was as Elysian as the scenery. There were brilliant cavalcades through the woods in the mornings, and delicious boatings on...
Pàgina 237 - LIST, ye who pass by Lyulph's Tower * At eve ; how softly then Doth Aira -force, that torrent hoarse, Speak from the woody glen ! Fit music for a solemn vale ! And holier seems the ground To him who catches on the gale The spirit of a mournful tale. Embodied in the sound.
Pàgina 14 - Presbyterianism the truly Primitive and Apostolic Constitution of the Church of Christ; or, a View of the History, Doctrine, Government, and Worship of the Presbyterian Church. By Samuel Miller, DD, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey. 2. The Character and Advantages of Presbyterianism ascertained by Facts; with an Appendix on the Pretensions of the New Anglican School, commonly called Puseyites — the Testimony of the Fathers and...