A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and LancashireW. Pennington, and sold, 1821 - 312 Seiten |
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... prospects no less surpris- ing , and with more variety than the Alps themselves . The tops of the highest Alps are inaccessible , being covered with everlast- ing snow , which commencing at regular heights above the cultivated tracts ...
... prospects no less surpris- ing , and with more variety than the Alps themselves . The tops of the highest Alps are inaccessible , being covered with everlast- ing snow , which commencing at regular heights above the cultivated tracts ...
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... prospects , greatly extended and va riegated , are often more tedious than entertaining , perhaps the reader will not lament , that our author has not any where attempted to delineate a view taken from either of these capital mountains ...
... prospects , greatly extended and va riegated , are often more tedious than entertaining , perhaps the reader will not lament , that our author has not any where attempted to delineate a view taken from either of these capital mountains ...
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... prospects of the northern mountains . The chapel is a neat and convenient place of worship . There are also in this town presbi- terian , quaker , and methodist meeting houses , and a Romish chapel . When the present in- commodious ...
... prospects of the northern mountains . The chapel is a neat and convenient place of worship . There are also in this town presbi- terian , quaker , and methodist meeting houses , and a Romish chapel . When the present in- commodious ...
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... named Bewby - bridge ( where they meet again ) is about 18 miles . This latter stage , which is mountainous and uneven , affords a great variety of prospects . front appears a fine sweep of country sloping to the A GUIDE TO THE LAKES , 27.
... named Bewby - bridge ( where they meet again ) is about 18 miles . This latter stage , which is mountainous and uneven , affords a great variety of prospects . front appears a fine sweep of country sloping to the A GUIDE TO THE LAKES , 27.
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... prospect , must affect it in a very sublime and unusual manner . This the bare appearance of the sands will do . But when the traveller reaches the side of the Eau , these affections will be greatly increased . He there drops down a ...
... prospect , must affect it in a very sublime and unusual manner . This the bare appearance of the sands will do . But when the traveller reaches the side of the Eau , these affections will be greatly increased . He there drops down a ...
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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
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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.