Black's Guide to England and Wales: Containing Plans of the Principal Cities, Charts, Maps and Views, and a List of Hotels |
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12 miles Abbey Ambleside ancient antiquity banks Bart Bath beautiful Birmingham Bishop borough Branch Bridge Brighton BRIST Bristol building built Buttermere called Canal Carlisle Castle celebrated chapel Chester church contains Cockermouth Court Crag Duke Earl east Edward eminence erected Exeter extensive feet Fell Forest formerly Gothic Grasmere Grove Hall Helvellyn Henry Hill House Junction Kendal Keswick King lake late Leeds LEFT FROM LOND Liverpool Lodge London Lord Loughrigg Fell M.P. Pop magnificent Manchester mansion manufacture members to Parliament miles distant monuments mountains neighbourhood numerous parish Park passes Patterdale Penrith Pikes Population Priory Railway reign remains residence RIGHT FROM LOND river Avon river Calder river Severn river Wye road Roman ruins Saxon scenery seat Shrewsbury side situated Skiddaw Southampton Station stone Street summit Tarn Thames three miles tower town trade vale valley vicinity village Whitehaven William Windermere Wood
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Page 305 - 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 shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 283 - The cypress and her spire ; — Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Page 289 - Fade, like the hopes of youth, till the beauty of earth is departed : Pensive, though not in thought, I stood at the window, beholding Mountain and lake and vale ; the valley disrobed of its verdure ; Derwent retaining yet from eve a glassy reflection Where his expanded breast, then still and smooth as a mirror, Under the woods reposed ; the hills that, calm and majestic, Lifted their heads in the silent sky, from far Glaramara Bleacrag, and Maidenmawr, to Grizedal and westermost Withop.
Page 297 - There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.
Page 195 - ... monument of its owner's ambition. The external wall of this royal Castle was, on the south and west sides, adorned and defended by a lake partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the Castle by a path hitherto untrodden...
Page 134 - A great part of Carew Castle is in a state of excellent preservation, and it ranks among the most beautiful and interesting ruins in the principality. It was one of the royal demesnes of the princes of South Wales, and with seven others, was given as a dowry with Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tew Dwr, to Gerald de Windsor, an ancestor of the Carew family. Henry VII.
Page 367 - Park, of about five miles in length, and one or two in width. Bilhaghe is a forest of oaks, and is clothed with the most impressive aspect of age that can perhaps be presented to the eye in these kingdoms.
Page 195 - We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm and siege, and now in the games of chivalry, where beauty dealt the prize which valour won, all is now desolate.
Page 195 - The lordly structure itself, which rose near the centre of this spacious enclosure, was composed of a huge pile of magnificent castellated buildings, apparently of different ages, surrounding; an inner court, and bearing in the names attached to each portion of the magnificent mass, and in the armonial bearings which were there blazoned...
Page 296 - Its margin, which is overhung by some of the loftiest and steepest of the Cumbrian mountains, exhibits on either side few traces of human neighbourhood; the level area, where the hills recede enough to allow of any, is of a wild pastoral character, or almost savage; the waters of the lake are deep and sullen; and the barrier mountains, by excluding the sun for much of his daily course, strengthen the gloomy impressions. At the foot of this lake...