Leigh's Guide to the Lakes and Mountains of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire. With ... Maps1830 - 120 pages |
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adorned Ambleside ascend Bank Bassenthwaite beautiful Beck boat Borrowdale Bowder Stone Bowness Brathay Buttermere Calder Bridge called carriage cascade Causey Pike church commands Coniston Water Coniston Waterhead Crag crosses Crummock Water Cumberland Derwent Water distance Elter Water ENNERDALE WATER erected Esthwaite Water excursion farm-house feet Fell foot formerly forms Furness Abbey Gowbarrow Park Grange Grasmere half a mile Hall Hawes Water Hawkshead height Helvellyn Holme horseback Inns islands Kendal Keswick Kirkstone lake Lancaster Langdale Leven lofty Low Wood Lowdore Lowes Water Lowick Bridge mansion mile distant miles in length Millthorpe mountains narrow Patterdale Penrith Pike Pooley Bridge principal proceed promontory rises river road passes rock Rossthwaite Rothay route Sands Scale Hill scenery Seatallor Seathwaite seen shore side situated Skelwith Skiddaw steep Stye Head summit surrounded thence tourist town trees trout Troutbeck Bridge Ullswater Ulverstone Vale of Newlands valley vicinity village Wast Water Westmoreland Whitehaven Windermere
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Page 40 - Water ; its margin is hollowed into small bays, with bold eminences, some of rock, some of soft 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 parish...
Page 41 - Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire.
Page 92 - Walked over a spongy meadow or two, and began to mount the hill through a broad straight green alley among the trees, and with some toil gained the summit. From hence saw the lake opening directly at my feet, majestic in its calmness, clear and smooth as a blue mirror, with winding shores and low points of land covered with green enclosures, white farm-houses looking out among the trees, and cattle feeding.
Page 40 - Grasmere water; its margin is hollowed into small bays with bold eminences, some of them rocks, some of soft turf, that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command. From the shore, a low promontory pushes itself...
Page 39 - And the tall steep of Silver-How, sent. forth A noise of laughter; southern Loughrigg heard, And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone : Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky Carried the lady's voice — old Skiddaw blew His speaking trumpet ; back out of the clouds Of Glaramara southward came the voice : And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head.
Page 39 - When I had gazed perhaps two minutes' space, Joanna, looking in my eyes, beheld That ravishment of mine, and laughed aloud. The Rock, like something starting from a sleep, Took up the Lady's voice, and laughed again...
Page 22 - ... in others, breaking into rocks, craggy, pointed, and irregular ; here rising into hills covered with the noblest woods, presenting a gloomy brownness of shade, almost from the clouds to the reflection of the trees in the limpid water of the lake they so beautifully skirt ; there, waving in glorious slopes of cultivated...
Page 57 - Solway appeared surprisingly near us, though at fifty miles distance; and the guide said, that, on a bright day, its shipping could plainly be discerned. Nearly in the north, the heights seemed to soften into plains, for no object was there visible through the obscurity that had begun to draw over the...
Page 56 - We stood on a pinnacle, commanding the whole dome of the sky. The prospects below, each of which had been before considered separately as a great scene, were now miniature parts of the immense landscape. — To the north lay, like a map, the vast tract of low country which extends between Bassenthwaite and the Irish Channel, marked with tho silver circles of the river Derwent, in its progress from the lake.
Page 57 - ... to swell again, and what we were told were the Cheviot hills dawned feebly beyond Northumberland. We now spanned the narrowest part of England, looking from the Irish Channel, on one side, to the German Ocean, on the other, which latter was, however, so far off as to be discernible only like a mist.