 | 1851 - 658 pages
...eminences ; some of rock, some of soft turf, that half conceal nrnl vary the figure of tlie little hike they command: from the shore, a low promontory pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village with a parish-church rising in the midst of it : hanging enclosures, corn-fields, and... | |
 | John Phillips, Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1853 - 356 pages
...margin is hollowed into small bavs, with eminences, some of rock, some of soft turf, that halt conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command...pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village, with a parish church rising in the midst of it ; hanging enclosures, corn fields, and... | |
 | James Thomson - 1861 - 480 pages
...hollowed into small bays, with hold eminences, some of them rocks, some of soft turf, that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command....pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village, with the parish church rising in the 1 In the vernacular of the district a " reek" signifies... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 pages
...turf, that half conceal and vary the form of the little lake they command : from the shore, a lone promontory pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village, with the parish church rising in the midst of it : hanging enclosures, corn-fields,... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 pages
...turf, that half conceal and vary the form of the little lake they command : from the shore, a lone promontory pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village, with the parish church rising in the midst of it : hanging enclosures, cornfields, and... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 pages
...turf, that half conceal and vary the form of the little lake they command : from the shore, a lone promontory pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village, with the parish church rising in the midst of it : hanging enclosures, corn-fields,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...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...pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village with the parish church rising in the midst of it; hanging enclosures, corn-fields, and... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 456 pages
...hollowed into small bays, with bold eminences, some of themwocks, some of soft turf, that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command....pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village, with the parish church rising in the midst of it ; hanging enclosures, corn-fields,... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 pages
...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....pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village with the parish church rising in the midst of it; hanging enclosures, corn-fields, and... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 374 pages
...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....pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village with the parish church rising in the midst of it; hanging enclosures, corn-fields, and... | |
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The bosom of the mountains spreading here into a broad basin, discovers in the midst Grasmere 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... 
