A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and LancashireW. Pennington, 1807 - Всего страниц: 311 |
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A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire: By the ... Thomas West Полный просмотр - 1789 |
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Стр. 247 - Tis here, in different paths, the way divides; The right to Pluto's golden palace guides; The left to that unhappy region tends, Which to the depth of Tartarus descends ; The seat of night profound, and punish'd fiends.
Стр. 203 - I went no farther than the farmer's (better than four miles from Keswick) at Grange; his mother and he brought us butter that Siserah would have jumped at, though not in a lordly dish, bowls of milk, thin oaten-cakes and ale; and we had carried a cold tongue thither with us.
Стр. 209 - ... 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...
Стр. 201 - Valley, with green and smiling fields embosomed in the dark cliffs ; to the left the jaws of Borrowdale, with that turbulent chaos of mountain behind mountain, rolled in confusion ; beneath you, and stretching far away to the right, the shining purity of the lake...
Стр. 204 - ... flew screaming round, but did not dare to attack him. He brought off the eaglet (for there is rarely more than one) and an addle egg.
Стр. 129 - And oft the craggy cliff he lov'd to climb, When all in mist the world below was lost : What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th...
Стр. 85 - Castle-hill (which you remember) because this is lower and nearer to the lake : for I find all points, that are much elevated, spoil the beauty of the valley, and make its parts, which are not large, look poor and diminutive...
Стр. 203 - Castlecrag, invested also with wood on its sides, and bearing on its naked top some traces of a fort said to be ~Roman. By the side of this hill, which almost blocks up the way, the valley turns to the left, and contracts its dimensions till there is hardly any road but the rocky bed of the river.
Стр. 208 - Castlerigg, and the sun breaking out, discovered the most enchanting view I have yet seen of the whole valley behind me, the two lakes, the river, the mountains all in their glory ; so that I had almost a mind to have gone back again.
Стр. 43 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.