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, Volumen1R. Lough and Company, 1819 |
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... John ...... 358 Greensides 447 Grasstead How ...... .......... 4.56 I Gummers How 199 Inn at Patterdale Ivy Crag ......... 340 282 .H Hawkshead 120 Hawkshead Hall 121 Harry Place 259 Harrow Slack ............... 172 Hartshope Hall ...
... John ...... 358 Greensides 447 Grasstead How ...... .......... 4.56 I Gummers How 199 Inn at Patterdale Ivy Crag ......... 340 282 .H Hawkshead 120 Hawkshead Hall 121 Harry Place 259 Harrow Slack ............... 172 Hartshope Hall ...
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... John's Vale 424 Scandale Beck Scandale Lane 162 Stainab 445 300 Striding Edge ............... 457 Scandale Fell .............. 316 Swan Inn Grasmere 4.00 Scroggs 276 Swart Moor Hall 54 Seathwaite 97 Sweden Bridge ........... 300 ...
... John's Vale 424 Scandale Beck Scandale Lane 162 Stainab 445 300 Striding Edge ............... 457 Scandale Fell .............. 316 Swan Inn Grasmere 4.00 Scroggs 276 Swart Moor Hall 54 Seathwaite 97 Sweden Bridge ........... 300 ...
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... John , in his journey from Ambleside to Keswick . Flo- ra displays few of her charms early in May , in a country that has been chilled by seven winter months . " The best season for visiting the lakes is from the beginning of June to ...
... John , in his journey from Ambleside to Keswick . Flo- ra displays few of her charms early in May , in a country that has been chilled by seven winter months . " The best season for visiting the lakes is from the beginning of June to ...
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... John Wilkinson , Esq , The site is something curious , and the owner has made great im- provements in the grounds about it . - The house is seen to advan tage as you cross the sands , and greatly enlivens the part of the coast where it ...
... John Wilkinson , Esq , The site is something curious , and the owner has made great im- provements in the grounds about it . - The house is seen to advan tage as you cross the sands , and greatly enlivens the part of the coast where it ...
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... liberal - minded Mr. John Soulby , printer and stationer in Ulverston , * New edition with additions of West's Antiquities of Furness , by the late Mr. William Close . was the means of establishing a public circu- lating library 22.
... liberal - minded Mr. John Soulby , printer and stationer in Ulverston , * New edition with additions of West's Antiquities of Furness , by the late Mr. William Close . was the means of establishing a public circu- lating library 22.
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Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...