Views of the Lakes in the North of England, from Original Paintings by the Most Eminent ArtistsC.Tilt, 1833 |
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Abbey acres ancient appears Askham Bampton beautiful belonged Birk-fell Borrowdale Brotherswater bulwark Buttermere called Castle church Clarke's Survey craggy Crosthwaite Dalemain deer DERWENT LAKE Derwent Water Derwentwater descends Druids Eamont earl Edward eminent English Lakes Engraved feet fish FOOT OF BARROW formerly Furness Furness Abbey Glenridding grandeur Green's Guide grey trout Greystoke half a mile Hartsop Hasell HAWES Haweswater height Helvellyn Henry hills History of Cumberland Honister Crag hundred Ibid inhabitants Keswick Layton lord Lowdore Machel says Machel's MSS manor Martindale mineral Morville observes PAINTING parish Patterdale Hall Penrith Place-fell pounds precipitous probably proprietor red deer reign rise river river Eamont rocks scene Scenery seems shore Sir Wilfrid Lawson situated Skiddaw slate steep stone streams Stybarrow-crag sublime summit Threlkeld title of Sir Ulswater vale vicar western side Westmorland and Cumberland William Fitz Duncan wood Wordsworth Yanwath-hall yards Yew Crag
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Page 18 - ... Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower.
Page 24 - Discoverer with a sigh Looks round, to learn the history. From those abrupt and perilous rocks The Man had fallen, that place of fear ! At length upon the Shepherd's mind It breaks, and all is clear: He instantly...
Page 24 - This dog had been through three months' space A dweller in that savage place. Yes, proof was plain that since the day On which the traveller thus had died The dog had watched about the spot, Or by his master's side : How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate.
Page 18 - Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale.
Page 10 - Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay smooth and still, And, down its verdant bosom led, A winding brooklet found its bed. But, midmost of the vale, a mound Arose, with airy turrets crown'd, Buttress and rampire's circling bound, And mighty keep and tower; Seem'd some primeval giant's hand The castle's massive walls had plann'd, A ponderous bulwark to withstand Ambitious Nimrod's power.
Page 30 - ... must be very insensible who would not be touched with pleasure at the sight of the chapel of Buttermere, so strikingly expressing, by its diminutive size, how small must be the congregation there assembled, as it were like one family ; and proclaiming at the same time to the passenger, in connection with the surrounding mountains, the depth of that seclusion in which the people live, that has rendered necessary the building of a separate place of worship for so few. A patriot, calling to mind...
Page 24 - This lamentable tale I tell! A lasting monument of words This wonder merits well. The Dog, which still was hovering nigh, Repeating the same timid cry, This Dog had been, through three months' space, A dweller in that savage place.
Page 12 - His ancient dower Olympus hath not sold ; And that inspiring Hill, which ' did divide Into two ample horns his forehead wide,' Shines with poetic radiance as of old ; While not an English Mountain we behold By the celestial Muses glorified. Yet round our sea-girt shore they rise in crowds : What was the great Parnassus...
Page 29 - it is about a mile and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile broad ; and being defended, to the northward, by the...
Page 24 - In the spring of 1805, a young gentleman of talents, and of a most amiable disposition, perished by losing his way on the mountain Hellvellyn.