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Ambleside ancient appears ascent Bank beautiful beds Black Borrowdale Bowness Bridge called Castle chapel church Cockermouth Coniston contains Crag crossed Cumberland deposits Derwent Derwent Water direction distance district Earl east Edition elevation enters extremity feet Fell foot Force forms four granite Grasmere Guide half Hall head height Helvellyn High hill Holm Hotel House island Isle John Kendal Keswick lake land Langdale lead leaves limestone margin masses miles mountains nature Park pass Penrith Pike portion Price reach remains residence rises river road rocks round Rydal says Scar Scawfell scenery Scotland seat seen shore side Skiddaw slates stands station stone stream Street summit surface taken Tarn tourist Tower town traveller Ulleswater upper vale valley village Wast Water Westmorland whole Windermere Wood
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Page 60 - 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 37 - For a sheet of flame, from the turret high, Waved like a blood-flag on the sky, All flaring and uneven ; And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid...
Page 121 - Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Page 14 - Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel, Newmarket's glory rose, as Britain's fell ; The soldier breath'd the gallantries of France, And ev'ry flowery courtier writ romance. Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm, And yielding metal flow'd to human form : Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
Page 158 - 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 127 - 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 83 - 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 So placed, to be shut out from all the world ! Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn; With rocks encompassed, save that to the south Was one small opening, where a heathclad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close ; A quiet treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool that glittered...
Page 92 - The bosom of the mountains spreading here into a broad basin discovers in the midst Grasmere-water; its margin is hollowed into small bays with bold eminences: some of them rocks, some of soft turf that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command. From the shore a low promontory pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village with the parish...
Page 39 - 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 114 - Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay smooth and still, And? down its verdant bosom led, A winding brooklet found its bed.
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| Title | Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes: Including an Essay on the Geology of the District Black's guide books |
| Authors | John Phillips, Adam and Charles Black (Firm) |
| Edition | 6 |
| Publisher | Adam and Charles Black, 1853 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 251 pages |
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