The Tourist's New Guide: Containing a Description of the Lakes, Mountains, and Scenery, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, with Some Account of Their Bordering Towns and Villages. Being the Result of Observations Made During a Residence of Eighteen Years in Ambleside and Keswick, Volume 1R. Lough and Company, 1819 - Lake District (England) |
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... as a relief to the monotony occasioned by the description of one class of matter only . Remarks on the beauty and deformity of the country as occasioned by wood ; with hints for its proper distribution over viii . PREFACE .
... as a relief to the monotony occasioned by the description of one class of matter only . Remarks on the beauty and deformity of the country as occasioned by wood ; with hints for its proper distribution over viii . PREFACE .
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... wood ; with hints for its proper distribution over the whole face of the country will not be thought unworthy of the ... woods , the encircling elevations seem to have been generally disregarded . Proposals for the reduction of the ...
... wood ; with hints for its proper distribution over the whole face of the country will not be thought unworthy of the ... woods , the encircling elevations seem to have been generally disregarded . Proposals for the reduction of the ...
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... Wood 289 Fox How ............ .......................................... .. 269 D .. Fox Gill ...... 269 Dalton 43 Forest Side 401 Daiham Tower 129 Furness Abbey 24 Dalemain 327 Dacre Castle ...... 358 G Dale Head ..
... Wood 289 Fox How ............ .......................................... .. 269 D .. Fox Gill ...... 269 Dalton 43 Forest Side 401 Daiham Tower 129 Furness Abbey 24 Dalemain 327 Dacre Castle ...... 358 G Dale Head ..
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... .... . 163 Windermere Water Head 165 Wood Wound Hill ... ............................................. .......... 368 Wry nose 118 Yealand Conyers Yealand Redman Yealand Storrs ............... 128 Yew Tree , in Coniston 95 Yew Crag 328 ....
... .... . 163 Windermere Water Head 165 Wood Wound Hill ... ............................................. .......... 368 Wry nose 118 Yealand Conyers Yealand Redman Yealand Storrs ............... 128 Yew Tree , in Coniston 95 Yew Crag 328 ....
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... wood , and is watered by the Lune and the Wenning ; on the northern banks of the latter river and higher up the stream than the Castle , are some exquisite relishes of Claude , which represented by that faithful naturalist might more ...
... wood , and is watered by the Lune and the Wenning ; on the northern banks of the latter river and higher up the stream than the Castle , are some exquisite relishes of Claude , which represented by that faithful naturalist might more ...
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Abbey Ambleside amongst ancient appear artist ascend assemblage banks beautiful Beck bleside Borrowdale Bowness Brathay buildings called Chapel charming church Coniston Water cottages craggy dale Derwent Water descent distance Easedale elegant elevated Esthwaite Esthwaite Water excursion farm house ferry-house foot Furness Furness Abbey grand Grasmere green grounds Grove half a mile Hall Hartshope Hawkshead Haws Water head Helm Crag Helvellyn hill Holm inclosures island Kendal Keswick lake land Little Langdale Loughrigg Fell Loughrigg Tarn Low Wood moun mountains Nab Scar neighbouring Newby Bridge objects passes Patterdale Penrith picturesque Pike Place Fell pleasant Powley Bridge present pretty quarry rises river road rocks rocky Rothay rugged Rydal Water scene scenery seat Seat Sandal Seathwaite seen shore stands steep stones sublime summit tains tion traveller trees Troutbeck Ulls Water Ulverston vale valley village wall western side Westmorland Windermere winds writer Yewdale
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Page 402 - See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 197 - ... adorned in the sweetest manner with every object that can give variety to art, or elegance to nature ; trees, woods, villages, houses, farms, scattered with picturesque confusion, and waving to the eye in the most romantic landscapes that nature can exhibit.
Page 182 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination.
Page 391 - 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 ; from the shore a low promontory pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village with the parish...
Page 32 - The abbey, which was formerly of such magnitude as nearly to fill up the breadth of the glen, is built of a pale red stone, dug from the neighbouring rocks, now changed by time and weather to a tint of dusky brown, which accords well with the hues of plants and shrubs, that every where emboss the mouldering arches.
Page 24 - SEE the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears ! With nodding arches, broken temples spread, The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
Page 344 - Walked over a spungy meadow or two, and began to mount the hill through a broad straight green alley among the trees, and with some toil gained the summit. From hence saw the lake opening directly at my feet, majestic in its calmness, clear and smooth as a blue mirror, with winding shores and low points of land covered with green inclosures, white farm-houses looking out among the trees, and cattle feeding.
Page 287 - It is seen from a summer-house; before which it's rocky cheeks circling on each side form a little area; appearing through the window like a picture in a frame. The water falls within a few yards of the eye, which being rather above its level, has a long perspective view of the stream, as it hurries from the higher grounds; tumbling, in various, little breaks, through...
Page 37 - ... to the Abbot, to be true to him against all men, excepting the King. Every mesne lord obeyed the summons of the Abbot, or his steward, in raising his quota of armed men, and every tenant of a whole tenement furnished a man and...
Page 41 - ... he would give vent to the effusions of his fancy, and harangue in the most animated manner upon the subject of his art, with a sublimity of idea, and a peculiarity of expressive language, that was entirely his own, and in which education or reading had no share. These sallies of natural genius, clothed in natural eloquence, were perfectly original, very highly edifying, and entertaining in the extreme. They were uttered in a hurried accent, an elevated tone, and very commonly accompanied with...