A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and LancashireW. Pennington, and sold, 1821 - 312 Seiten |
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... hand side , so as to render the inscription ob- scure , but the remaining letters were very plain , elegantly formed , square , and about three inches high . The inscription had con- sisted of eight or nine lines , of which six are ...
... hand side , so as to render the inscription ob- scure , but the remaining letters were very plain , elegantly formed , square , and about three inches high . The inscription had con- sisted of eight or nine lines , of which six are ...
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... hand of the middle distance rise two sloping hills , the left clothed with thick wood , the right with variegated rock pointed out . It is built after a design of Mr. Harrison , con- sists of five equal eliptical arches , and is 549 ...
... hand of the middle distance rise two sloping hills , the left clothed with thick wood , the right with variegated rock pointed out . It is built after a design of Mr. Harrison , con- sists of five equal eliptical arches , and is 549 ...
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... hand of the road , about two miles short of Burton , is Borwick - hall , form- erly the residence of Sir Robert Bindloss , but now only a farm - house . From thence to Millthorp 4 miles . ( There see Dallam - Tower , the seat of Daniel ...
... hand of the road , about two miles short of Burton , is Borwick - hall , form- erly the residence of Sir Robert Bindloss , but now only a farm - house . From thence to Millthorp 4 miles . ( There see Dallam - Tower , the seat of Daniel ...
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... hand , by Backbarrow Cotton - spinning - mills , the iron founderies , and Low - wood Gunpowder - mills , which are very romatically situated ) . From Bouth to Penny - bridge 2 miles , which there brings you into the tract of the tour ...
... hand , by Backbarrow Cotton - spinning - mills , the iron founderies , and Low - wood Gunpowder - mills , which are very romatically situated ) . From Bouth to Penny - bridge 2 miles , which there brings you into the tract of the tour ...
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... hand , another vale opens to the sands and shows a broken ridge of rocks , and beyond them , groups of mountains towering to the sky , Castle - steads , a pyramidal hill , that rises above the station at Kendal , is now in sight . At ...
... hand , another vale opens to the sands and shows a broken ridge of rocks , and beyond them , groups of mountains towering to the sky , Castle - steads , a pyramidal hill , that rises above the station at Kendal , is now in sight . At ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Ambleside ancient appearance arches Armathwaite ascend awful banks beauty bold Borrowdale bottom bridge broken Buttermere called cascade castle cataract cave chapel chasm church cliff craggy cultivated curious dark deep Derwent Derwent-water descend distance east elegant eminence Ennerdale feet FURNESS FELLS Gragareth Gray green ground groves hanging woods Hawkshead height Helvellyn hill inclosures Ingleborough Ingleton island Kendal Keswick lake Lancaster landscape limestone lofty margin moun mountains nature noble objects old Carlisle opens pass Patterdale Penrith picturesque pleasing precipice promontories prospects ride rise river river Lune road rocks rocky Roman rugged ruins scene seat seen shore side Skiddaw sloping station steep stone stream style sublime subterranean summit Swinside tains thence three miles tour tower town trees Ulls-water Ulverston vale valley variety vast village water-falls Westmorland Whernside Whitbarrow Windermere Windermere-water winding yards
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 209 - 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 rock, some of soft turf, that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command...
Seite 253 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Seite 218 - ... feet gushes from a hole in the rock, and spreading in large sheets over its broken front dashes from steep to steep, and then rattles away in a torrent down the valley. The rock on the left rises perpendicular with stubbed yew-trees and shrubs staring from its side to the height of at least 300 feet.
Seite 102 - In the evening walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow-Park after sunset and saw the solemn colouring of night draw on. the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hill-tops, the deep serene of the waters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them, till they nearly touched the hithermost shore.
Seite 201 - I guess, awefully overlooks the way ; our path here tends to the left, and the ground gently rising, and covered with a glade of scattering trees and bushes on the very margin of the water, opens both ways the most delicious view, that my eyes ever beheld. Behind you are the magnificent heights of...
Seite 193 - Keswick, would require the united powers of Claude, Salvator, and Poussin. The first should throw his delicate sunshine over the cultivated vales, the scattered cots, the groves, the lake, and wooded islands. The second should dash out the horror of the rugged cliffs, the steeps, the hanging woods, and foaming water-falls; while the grand pencil of Poussin should crown the whole with the majesty of the impending mountains.
Seite 209 - Just opposite to you is a large farm-house at the bottom of a steep smooth lawn embosomed in old woods, which climb half way up the mountain's side, and discover above them a broken line of crags, that crown the scene.
Seite 201 - ... barred all access to the dale (for this is the only road) till they could work their way through it. Luckily no one was passing at the time of this fall ; but down the side of the mountain...
Seite 201 - Borrowdale; the grass was covered with a hoar-frost, which soon melted and exhaled in a thin blueish smoke; crossed the meadows, obliquely catching a diversity of views among the hills over the lake and islands, and changing prospect at every ten paces. Left Cockshut...
Seite 263 - Refresh'd with gentle winds, and brown with shade, The chaste Diana's private haunt, there stood Full in the centre of the darksome wood A spacious grotto, all around o'er-grown , With hoary moss, and arch'd with pumice-stone, From out its rocky clefts the waters flow, And trickling swell into a lake below. Nature had every where so play'd her part, That every where she seem'd to vic with art.