A Tour on the Banks of the Thames: From London to Oxford, in ... 1829The author, 1834 - 142 Seiten |
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... pleasing , and for which it would have been cen- sured , had it not afforded . The face of the coun- try hereabout , and for several miles further , affords nothing better to the eye than an uninteresting flat ; in the mean time , the ...
... pleasing , and for which it would have been cen- sured , had it not afforded . The face of the coun- try hereabout , and for several miles further , affords nothing better to the eye than an uninteresting flat ; in the mean time , the ...
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... pleasing deception , and to give at the same time a curious catalogue of the authores deperditi . At each end of this gallery is a little pavilion or closet , finished in the most exquisite taste , as is also a beautiful closet in one ...
... pleasing deception , and to give at the same time a curious catalogue of the authores deperditi . At each end of this gallery is a little pavilion or closet , finished in the most exquisite taste , as is also a beautiful closet in one ...
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... pleasing to others and grateful to ourselves . Looking to the south , the eye , rapidly scanning the beauties of Kew , rests on the hills of Surry ; thence surveys , in the east , the mighty metropolis ; while , in fine contrast to the ...
... pleasing to others and grateful to ourselves . Looking to the south , the eye , rapidly scanning the beauties of Kew , rests on the hills of Surry ; thence surveys , in the east , the mighty metropolis ; while , in fine contrast to the ...
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... pleasing notion of the effect which it must have produced when seen in its highest perfection . " Let no access of any distrust make you think of me differently in a cloudy day from what you do in the most sunshiny weather . Let the ...
... pleasing notion of the effect which it must have produced when seen in its highest perfection . " Let no access of any distrust make you think of me differently in a cloudy day from what you do in the most sunshiny weather . Let the ...
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... pleasing character to the scene , while the quantity of wood to the right , where the eye once more surveys the fair domain of Oatlands , over which hastily glancing , we gaze for an instant on Walton's picturesque bridge , and finally ...
... pleasing character to the scene , while the quantity of wood to the right , where the eye once more surveys the fair domain of Oatlands , over which hastily glancing , we gaze for an instant on Walton's picturesque bridge , and finally ...
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Seite 47 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Seite 30 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Seite 32 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view; The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys, warm and low ; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky! The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an ^Ethiop's arm.
Seite 35 - Nymph of the Grot, these sacred Springs I keep, And to the Murmur of these Waters sleep ; Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave I You'll think I have been very Poetical in this Description, but it is pretty near the Truth.
Seite 78 - There, interspersed in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Here in full light the russet plains extend : There wrapt in clouds the bluish hills ascend. Ev'n the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That, crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Seite 35 - River passing suddenly and vanishing, as thro' a Perspective Glass. When you shut the Doors of this Grotto, it becomes on the instant, from a luminous Room, a Camera obscura ; on the Walls of which all the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats, are forming a moving Picture in their visible Radiations: And when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different Scene: it is finished with Shells interspersed with...
Seite 78 - And where, though all things differ, all agree. Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude, the day ; As some coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
Seite 35 - ... in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Seite 34 - I have put the last hand to my works of this kind, in happily finishing the subterraneous way and grotto : I there found a spring of the clearest water, which falls in a perpetual rill that echoes through the cavern day and night.
Seite 36 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.