Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes: Including an Essay on the Geology of the District |
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Abbey Ambleside amongst ancient ascent Bank Bassenthwaite beautiful Beck beds Borrowdale Bowfell Bowness Bridge Brougham Brougham Castle Buttermere called Castle chapel Church Cockermouth Coniston Crag crossed Crummock Crummock Water Cumberland Dacre dale Derwent Derwentwater distance Earl east Egremont elevation eminence Ennerdale feet foot four miles glen granite Grasmere Grasmoor Grisedale half a mile Hall Hawes Water head height Helvellyn High Pike High Street Holm House island Isle Kendal Keswick Kirkstone Lake district Langdale Pikes limestone Lord Loughrigg Fell Lowther margin mass mountains neighbourhood old red Park pass Patterdale Penrith picturesque promontory red sandstone ridge road round Rydal Scale Hill Scawfell Pike scenery Scotland Screes seat Seat Sandal seen Shap shore side Skiddaw slates slaty rocks stands stone stream summit Tarn tourist tower town Troutbeck Ulleswater Ulverston vale valley village Wansfell Wastdale Waterhead Westmorland Whitehaven Windermere Wordsworth
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Page 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,
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...