| William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 pages
...Poet Gray more than seventy years ago. ' No flaring gentleman's-house,' says he, 'nor garden-walls break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise, but all is peace,' &c., &c. Were the Poet now living, how would he have lamented the probable intrusion of a railway with... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 pages
...Poet Gray more than seventy years ago. ' No flaring gentleman's-house,' says he, ' nor garden-walls break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise, but all is peace,' &c., &c. Were the Poet now living, how would he have lamented the probable intrusion of a railway with... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1877 - 522 pages
...isolated — " not a single red tile, no staring gentleman's house breaks in upon the repose of tliis unsuspected paradise, but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its sweetest, most becoming attire." It is entirely altered now : here is Mrs. Lynn Linton's description... | |
| 1878 - 732 pages
...tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden-wall break in upon the repose of this little suspected paradise : but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest, most becoming attire. Now return we to the mountains. A mighty phalanx they are, with names as soft and as loud-sounding... | |
| William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden- wall break in upon the repose of this little suspected paradise : but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest, most becoming attire. Now return we to the mountains. A mighty phalanx they are, with names as soft and as loud-sounding... | |
| William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden-wall break in upon the repose of this little suspected paradise : but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest, most becoming attire. Now return we to the mountains. A mighty phalanx they are, with names as soft and as loud-sounding... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...of crags, that crown the Bcene. Not n single red tile, no glaring L-entlemanV house or garden-walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise : but all is pence, rusticity, and happy poverty, in Us neatest and most becoming attire. The sublime scenery of... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 246 pages
...crags, that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house, or garden-walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire. Passing from Grasmere, he drove through -Eydal, not without a reference to... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1884 - 456 pages
...in his Journal : — " Not a single red tile, nor 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."— ED. Of a good shepherd tended as themselves Do tend their flocks) partake... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 328 pages
...crags that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no staring gentleman's house, or gardenwall, breaks in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire. conceal the water from your sight ; yet it is continued along behind them,... | |
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