Black's Economical Guide to the English Lakes

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Adam and Charles Black, 1859 - 75 Seiten
 

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Seite 30 - To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Seite 48 - How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate.
Seite 27 - 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. But, midmost of the vale, a mound Arose, with airy turrets crown'd, Buttress and rampire's circling bound, And mighty keep and tower; Seem'd some primeval giant's hand The castle's massive walls had plann'd, A ponderous bulwark to withstand Ambitious Nimrod's power.
Seite 38 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear. Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Seite 20 - Bob Burke's Duel with Ensign Brady.— The Headsman : A Tale of Doom. — The Wearyful Woman. VOL. IV. How I Stood for the Dreepdaily Burghs.— First and Last. — The Duke's Dilemma: A Chronicle of Niesenstein. — The Old Gentleman's Teetotum. — "Woe to us when we lose the Watery Wall.
Seite 10 - The house was originally meant for a small villa, though it has long passed into the hands of farmers, and there is, in consequence, an air of neglect about the little demesne, which does not at all approach desolation, and yet gives it something of touching interest You see...
Seite 21 - Religion in Common Life. A Sermon preached in Crathie Church, October 14, 1855, before Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Albert. Published by Her Majesty's Command. Cheap Edition, 3d.
Seite 30 - ... connecting it with the larger Lake of Crummock; and at the edge of this miniature domain, upon the road side, stands a cluster of cottages, so small and few that, in the richer tracts of the islands, they would scarcely be complimented with the name of hamlet.
Seite 22 - Mountain, aud lake, and vale ; the valley disrobed of its verdure ; Derwent retaining yet from eve a glassy reflection. Where his expanded breast, then still...
Seite 19 - It was a spot which you may see If ever you to Langdale go ; Into a chasm a mighty block Hath fallen, and made a bridge of rock : The gulf is deep below ; And, in a basin black and small, Receives a lofty waterfall.

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