A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England: With Additions, and Illustrative Remarks Upon the Scenery of the AlpsLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 144 páginas |
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... effect indeed of mist or haze , in a country of this cha- racter , is like that of magic . I have seen six or seven ridges rising above each other , all created in a moment by the vapours upon the side of a mountain , which , in its ...
... effect indeed of mist or haze , in a country of this cha- racter , is like that of magic . I have seen six or seven ridges rising above each other , all created in a moment by the vapours upon the side of a mountain , which , in its ...
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... effect of the drifted snow upon the mountains , and the perfect tone of colour . From the top of the mountains downwards a rich olive was produced by the powdery snow and the grass , which olive was warmed with a little brown , and in ...
... effect of the drifted snow upon the mountains , and the perfect tone of colour . From the top of the mountains downwards a rich olive was produced by the powdery snow and the grass , which olive was warmed with a little brown , and in ...
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... effect on the objects of sense . We may add , that whatever has been said upon the advantages derived to these scenes from a changeable atmosphere , would apply , perhaps still more forcibly , to their appearance under the varied ...
... effect on the objects of sense . We may add , that whatever has been said upon the advantages derived to these scenes from a changeable atmosphere , would apply , perhaps still more forcibly , to their appearance under the varied ...
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... effects of distance . These are insured by the height of the moun- tains , and are found , even in the narrowest vales , where they lengthen in perspective , or act ( if the expression may be used ) as telescopes for the open country ...
... effects of distance . These are insured by the height of the moun- tains , and are found , even in the narrowest vales , where they lengthen in perspective , or act ( if the expression may be used ) as telescopes for the open country ...
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... effects directly contrary to those which had been deprecated , The re - establishment , at that period , of furnaces upon a large scale , made it the interest of the people to convert the steeper and more stony of the enclosures ...
... effects directly contrary to those which had been deprecated , The re - establishment , at that period , of furnaces upon a large scale , made it the interest of the people to convert the steeper and more stony of the enclosures ...
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A description of the scenery of the lakes in the north of England William Wordsworth Visualização integral - 1823 |
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2d Edit 5th Edit Alps Ambleside AMELIA OPIE ancient appearance Author beauty birch Blowick Borrowdale Buttermere chapel church clouds colour Coniston cottages crags Dacre Castle dale Derwent Duddon Engravings Ennerdale favourable feeling fern foliage foolscap 8vo forest forms Gowbarrow Park Grasmere green ground head Helvellyn hills HISTORY inhabitants island J. C. LOUDON Lake land landscape Langdale larch Loughrigg Fell Loweswater manner meadows MEMOIRS moun mountains native wood nature North of England numerous objects observed ornament Patterdale plain plant Plates Poems Pooley Bridge Price 11 racter river River Duddon road rocks rocky Rydal scarcely scattered Scawfell scenery scenes season seen shores side Skiddaw snow soil spot steep stone stream sublimity summit sup.-roy surface tains Tale Tarn tion torrents traveller trees Ulswater vale of Keswick valley vapours variety Vols Wastdale weather whole wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Winandermere Windermere winds
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Página 11 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Página 22 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere ; Thither the rainbow comes — the cloud — • And mists that spread the flying shroud ; And sunbeams ; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier binds it fast.
Página 5 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Página 53 - Commonwealth; the members of which existed in the midst of a powerful empire like an ideal society or an organized community, whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which protected it. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, nor esquire was here; but many of these humble sons of the hills .had a consciousness that the land, which they walked over and tilled, had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of their name and blood...
Página 27 - Such clouds, cleaving to their stations, or lifting up suddenly their glittering heads from behind rocky barriers, or hurrying out of sight with speed of the sharpest edge — will often tempt an inhabitant to congratulate himself on belonging to a country of mists and clouds and storms, and make him think of the blank sky of Egypt, and of the cerulean vacancy of Italy, as an unanimated and even a sad spectacle.
Página 28 - One of these favoured days sometimes occurs in spring-time, when that soft air is breathing over the blossoms and new-born verdure, which inspired Buchanan with his beautiful Ode to the first of May; the air, which, in the luxuriance of his fancy, he likens to that of the golden age, — to that which gives motion to the funereal cypresses on the banks of Lethe; — to the air which is to salute beatified spirits when expiatory fires shall have consumed the earth with all her habitations. But it...
Página 43 - ... valley or over the mountains to the most commodious town. They had, as I have said, their rural chapel, and of course their minister, in clothing or in manner of life, in no respect differing from themselves, except on the Sabbath-day ; this was the sole distinguished individual among them ; every thing else, person and possession, exhibited a perfect equality, a community of shepherds and agriculturists, proprietors, for the most part, of the lands which they occupied and cultivated.
Página 29 - ... all else speaks of tranquillity; not a breath of air, no restlessness of insects, and not a moving object perceptible — except the clouds gliding in the depths of the lake, or the traveller passing along, an inverted image, whose motion seems governed by the quiet of a time to which its archetype, the living person, is perhaps insensible; or it may happen that the figure of one of the larger birds, a raven or a heron, is crossing silently among the reflected clouds, while the voice of the real...
Página 35 - Thou, whose massy strength and stature scorn The power of years — pre-eminent, and placed Apart, to overlook the circle vast — Speak, Giant-mother ! tell it to the Morn While she dispels the cumbrous shades of Night ; Let the Moon hear, emerging from a cloud...