A description of the scenery of the lakes in the north of EnglandLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1823 - 144 páginas |
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... common Centre . - Effect of Light and Shadow as dependant upon the Position of the Vales . - Mountains , their Substance , -Surfaces , and Colours.Winter Colouring . The Vales , - Lakes , ― Islands , — Tarns , — Woods , Rivers , -Cli ...
... common Centre . - Effect of Light and Shadow as dependant upon the Position of the Vales . - Mountains , their Substance , -Surfaces , and Colours.Winter Colouring . The Vales , - Lakes , ― Islands , — Tarns , — Woods , Rivers , -Cli ...
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... in- habitants to this day - dean , from which the latter part of the word is derived , being in many parts of England a name for a valley . narrow æstuary enters the sea below the small town of B 2 A COMMON CENTRE . 3.
... in- habitants to this day - dean , from which the latter part of the word is derived , being in many parts of England a name for a valley . narrow æstuary enters the sea below the small town of B 2 A COMMON CENTRE . 3.
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... these vales , and divide them from each other , I mean in the forms and surfaces , first of the swelling grounds , next of the hills and rocks , - an ascent of almost and lastly of the mountains regular B 3 A COMMON CENTRE . 5.
... these vales , and divide them from each other , I mean in the forms and surfaces , first of the swelling grounds , next of the hills and rocks , - an ascent of almost and lastly of the mountains regular B 3 A COMMON CENTRE . 5.
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... common also with other mountains , their apparent forms and colours are perpetually changed by the clouds and vapours which float round them : the effect indeed of mist or haze , in a country of this cha- racter , is like that of magic ...
... common also with other mountains , their apparent forms and colours are perpetually changed by the clouds and vapours which float round them : the effect indeed of mist or haze , in a country of this cha- racter , is like that of magic ...
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... common as in the West of Eng- land and Ireland . The rain here comes down heartily , and is frequently succeeded by clear , bright weather , when every brook is vocal , and every torrent sonorous ; brooks and torrents , which are never ...
... common as in the West of Eng- land and Ireland . The rain here comes down heartily , and is frequently succeeded by clear , bright weather , when every brook is vocal , and every torrent sonorous ; brooks and torrents , which are never ...
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A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England: With ... William Wordsworth Visualização integral - 1823 |
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Alps Ambleside ancient appearance beauty birch Blowick Borrowdale bosom brooks Buttermere Castle chapel church clouds colour Coniston cottages curious pastime dale Derwent Derwent-water descend Duddon dwellings Ennerdale favourable feeling fern fields foliage forest forms frequently Furness Furness Fells Grasmere green ground Hawswater Helvellyn herbage hills hollies inhabitants intermixture island lake land landscape Langdale larch lichens looked Loughrigg Fell Loughrigg Tarn Loweswater manner manorial meadows moun mountains native wood nature neighbour north of England numerous objects observed ornament Patterdale places plain plant Pooley Bridge race walk racter rich ridge river rocks rocky Rydal scarcely scattered Scawfell scenery scenes Scotch fir Scotland season seen shadow shape Shepherd shores side Skiddaw snow soil steep stone stream sublimity summit surface tains Tarn things tint torrents traveller trees Ulswater vale of Keswick valley vapours variety Wastdale weather whole wild Winandermere Windermere winds winter
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Página 15 - 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 26 - 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 57 - 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 47 - ... 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 39 - 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...
Página 113 - Ash-course lay yet in view; and, side by side with Eskdale, we now saw the sister Vale of Donnerdale terminated by the Duddon Sands. But the majesty of the mountains below, and close to us, is not to be conceived. We now beheld the whole mass of Great Gavel from its base, — the Den of Wastdale at our feet — a gulf immeasurable : Grasmire and the other mountains of Crummock — Ennerdale and its mountains ; and the Sea beyond...
Página 52 - ... often supported by some tree near the door ; a cluster of embowering sycamores for summer shade ; with a tall fir, through which the -winds sing when other trees are leafless ; the little rill or household spout murmuring in all seasons ; — combine these incidents and images together, and you have the representative idea of a mountain-cottage in this country so beautifully formed in itself, and so richly adorned by the hand of Nature.
Página 83 - Whom mere despite of heart could so far please And love of havoc (for with such disease Fame taxes him) that he could send forth word To level with the dust a noble horde, A brotherhood of venerable trees, Leaving an ancient dome, and towers like these...
Página 24 - Grasmere, is the most beautiful example. It has a margin of green firm meadows, of rocks, and rocky woods, a few reeds here, a little company of water-lilies there, with beds of gravel or stone beyond ; a tiny stream issuing neither briskly nor sluggishly out of it; but its feeding rills, from the shortness of their course, so small as to be scarcely visible. Five or six cottages are reflected in its peaceful bosom ; rocky and barren steeps rise up above the hanging enclosures ; and the solemn Pikes...
Página 87 - England, testify that they deem the district a sort of national property, in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy.