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Common terms and phrases
Abbey Ambleside amongst ancient ascent Bank Bassenthwaite beautiful Beck Black BLACK'S GUIDE BOOK Borrowdale Bowfell Bowness Broughton Buttermere called Castle chapel church Cockermouth Coniston Crag crossed Crummock Cumberland dale Derwent Derwentwater distance Duddon Earl east Egremont elevation Ennerdale excursion feet foot Furness Furness Abbey glen granite Grasmere Grasmoor Grisedale half Hall Hawes Water Helvellyn High Street hill Holm Hotel island Isle Kendal Keswick Kirkstone Lake district Langdale Pikes limestone Lonsdale Loughrigg Fell Lowdore Lowther margin miles mountains neighbourhood park pass Patterdale Penrith picturesque Pooley Bridge promontory ridge river road rocks round Rydal Scar Scawfell Pike scenery Scotland Screes seat Seat Sandal Seathwaite seen Shap shore side Skiddaw slates slaty stands stone stream Sty Head summit Tarn tourist tower town Troutbeck Ulleswater Ulverston vale valley village Wansfell Wastdale Head Waterhead Westmoreland Whitehaven Windermere Wood Wordsworth
Popular passages
Page 170 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 173 - I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject ; your man shan't stand. " ANNE, DORSET, PEMBRoKE,
Page 193 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wond'ring Senates hung on all he spoke, The Club must hail him master of the joke.
Page 83 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Page 156 - The Dog, which still was hovering nigh, Repeating the same timid cry, This Dog, had been through three months' space A dweller in that savage place.
Page 167 - For a sheet of flame, from the turret high, Waved like a blood-flag on the sky, All flaring and uneven ; And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid...
Page 34 - And students with their pensive citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest peak of Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells...
Page 114 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Page 170 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 126 - 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.