| John Britton - 1814 - 1124 pages
...above them a broken line of crags that crowa the scene. Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house, or garden walls, break in upon the repose of...and happy poverty, in its neatest, most becoming, atlire." RYDAL WATER, like Grassmere, is fed by the Rothay : it it •bout a mile in length. A wood... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - 1802 - 316 pages
...above them a broken line of crags that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house, or garden walls, break in upon the repose of...happy poverty, in its neatest, most becoming attire." A little to the north east of Rydal-water, is Rydal-Hall, seated on a gentle eminence, at the junction... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - 1803 - 460 pages
...crags, that crown the scene. • Not a single red tile, no flareing Gentleman's house, or gar• den walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected « paradise; but all k peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in ' its neatest, most becoming attire.' Gray's Letters te Dr.... | |
| E. Polehamton - 1815 - 470 pages
...side, and discover above them a broken line of crags that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, uo flaring gentleman's house, or garden walls, break...neatest most becoming attire. The road winds here over Grasmere. hill, whose rocks soon conceal the water from your sight ; yet it is continued along behind... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...large farm-house at the bottom of a steep smooth lawn embosomed in old woods, which climb half way up the mountain's side, and discover above them a...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire. The road winds here over Grasmere-hill, whose rocks soon conceal the water... | |
| 1830 - 990 pages
...neighbouring village, as Gray of the vale of Grasmere, " Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house, or garden walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspecting paradise." This eulogium is ours no longer. Hitherto, indeed, we have escaped the " gentleman's... | |
| 1831 - 602 pages
...neighboring village, as Gray of the vale of Grasmere, " Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house, or garden walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspecting paradise." This eulogium is ours no longer. Hitherto, indeed, we have escaped the " gentleman's... | |
| William Green (of Ambleside.) - 1819 - 524 pages
...above them a broken line of crag,? that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house or garden walls break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise : but 3F2 all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest most becoming attire." The following... | |
| Thomas West - 1821 - 346 pages
...above them a broken line of crags that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house, or garden walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all its peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest, most becoming attire. The road here winds... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1822 - 180 pages
...Vale of Grasmere: — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden-wall, breaks in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise;...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire." What is here so justly said of Grasmere applied almost equally to all its... | |
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