A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and LancashireW. Pennington, and sold, 1821 - 312 páginas |
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... stone from Lancaster , on the Hornby road , will fail in taking one of the finest afternoon rural views in England . The station he points out is a quarter of a mile too low and somewhat too much to the left . The more advantageous ...
... stone from Lancaster , on the Hornby road , will fail in taking one of the finest afternoon rural views in England . The station he points out is a quarter of a mile too low and somewhat too much to the left . The more advantageous ...
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... stone in the battlement , on the northern side , inscribed 圈 E. R. 1585 R. A. proves that the repair was made in the time of Queen Elizabeth . It is pretty evident that two towers , with the rampart have been re- moved to give light ...
... stone in the battlement , on the northern side , inscribed 圈 E. R. 1585 R. A. proves that the repair was made in the time of Queen Elizabeth . It is pretty evident that two towers , with the rampart have been re- moved to give light ...
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... stones . Though the station was one of the first which the Romans had in these parts , and , from its importance , the last they abandoned , * This has been lately destroyed . yet , but few Roman British remains have been discovered 18 ...
... stones . Though the station was one of the first which the Romans had in these parts , and , from its importance , the last they abandoned , * This has been lately destroyed . yet , but few Roman British remains have been discovered 18 ...
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... stone , of four feet by two and a half dimensions . A foot and two inches were broken off the lower corner on the right ... stones . The elegance of the charac- ters pronounces them to be the work of the best times ; but the two small ...
... stone , of four feet by two and a half dimensions . A foot and two inches were broken off the lower corner on the right ... stones . The elegance of the charac- ters pronounces them to be the work of the best times ; but the two small ...
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... appearance this town has at a distance , on account of the castle , church , and the con- spicuous situation of several good stone houses . courteous , hospitable , and polite . The church is A GUIDE TO THE LAKES . 23.
... appearance this town has at a distance , on account of the castle , church , and the con- spicuous situation of several good stone houses . courteous , hospitable , and polite . The church is A GUIDE TO THE LAKES . 23.
Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.