 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 468 pages
...discover above them a broken line of crags, that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no flaming gentleman's house, or garden walls break in upon the...neatest, most becoming attire. The road winds here over Grasmere-hill,1 whose rocks soon conceal the water from your sight, yet it is continued along behind... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 452 pages
...discover above them a broken line of crags, that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no naming gentleman's house, or garden walls break in upon the...neatest, most becoming attire. The road winds here over Gfrasmere-hill,1 whose rocks soon conceal the water from your sight, yet it is continued along behind... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 612 pages
...natural beauty and simplicity: "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." Cottage at Grasmere. — In a letter to a friend, dated 18oo, Dorothy Wordsworth... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 pages
...natural beauty and simplicity: "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." Cottage at Grasmere. — In a letter to a friend, dated 1800, Dorothy Wordsworth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1886 - 462 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 * Aba ! only for a time.... | |
 | Edmund Lee - 1886 - 230 pages
...crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no staring gentleman's house breaks in upon the repose of this unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its sweetest, most becoming attire." This description must, of course, at the present day jr be somewhat... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 pages
...of crags, that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no glaring 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.' Nathaniel Hawthorne thus writes of Grasmere : This little town seems to... | |
 | Edmund Lee - 1887 - 240 pages
...crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no staring gentleman's house, breaks in upon the repose of this unsuspected paradise; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its sweetest, most becoming attire." This description must, of course, at the present day be somewhat modified.... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pages
...of crags, that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no flaming gentleman's house, or garden walks break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 488 pages
...the Recluse. Compare this description of the vale with that of Gray . — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house, or garden walls break in...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire." " Bleak Season was it, Turbulent and Wild." Wordsworth and his sister left... | |
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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. 
