Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes: Including the Geology of the DistrictAdam and Charles Black, 1870 - 293 sider |
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Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes, Including The Geology of the ... Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1870 |
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Abbey Ambleside amongst ancient ascent Bank Bassenthwaite beautiful Beck beds Borrowdale Bowness Brougham Buttermere called Castle chapel Church Cockermouth Coniston Crag crossed Crummock Cumberland dale Derwent Derwentwater distance Earl east Egremont elevation Ennerdale excursion feet foot Furness Furness Abbey Gill glen granite Grasmere Grasmoor Grisedale Hall Harter Fell Hawes Water Hawkshead height Helm Crag Helvellyn High Street hill Hotel House island Isle Kendal Keswick Kirkby Kirkstone Lake district Langdale limestone Lonsdale Lord Loughrigg Fell Lowther margin middle slates mountains neighbourhood old red Park pass Patterdale Penrith Pooley Bridge Proprietor Railway ridge river road round Rydal sandstone Scar Scawfell Pike scenery Screes Seat Seat Sandal seen Shap shore side Skiddaw slaty rocks stands Station stone strata stream summit Tarn tourist tower town Troutbeck Ullswater Ulverston vale valley village Wansfell Wastdale Head Waterhead Westmorland Whitehaven Windermere wood Wordsworth
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Side 170 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Side 44 - ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or PEARL DENTIFRICE, A "white Powder compounded of the rarest and most fragrant exotics. It bestows on the teeth a pearl-like Whiteness, frees them from Tartar, and imparts to the Gums a healthy firmness, and to the breath a delicate fragrance.
Side 11 - Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel, Newmarket's glory rose, as Britain's fell ; The soldier breath'd the gallantries of France, And ev'ry flowery courtier writ romance. Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm, And yielding metal flow'd to human form : Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
Side 81 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Side 61 - Dispirited : when, all at once, behold! Beneath our feet, a little lowly vale, A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high Among the mountains; even as if the spot Had been from eldest time by wish of theirs So placed, to be shut out from all the world ! Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn ; With rocks encompassed, save that to the south Was one small opening, where a heath-clad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close ; A quiet treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool that glittered...
Side 40 - The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Side 112 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Side 44 - KALYDOR a most refreshing preparation for the Complexion, dispelling the cloud of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the Skin. Freckles,, Tan, Spots, Pimples, Flushes, and Discoloration fly before its application, and give place to delicate clearness, with the glow of beauty and of bloom.
Side 17 - The Porters of the Hotel await the arrival of each Train for the removal of Luggage, &c.
Side 67 - He who has arrived the nearest to it, is the ingenious and learned Sandys, the best versifier of the former age, if I may properly call it by that name, which was the former part of this concluding century. For...