 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 468 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... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1891 - 112 pages
...recollections of the scene in his diary. " Not a single red tile," says he, " no gentleman's glaring house or garden walls break in upon the repose of...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire." The picture is true at this distance still, as we looked backward ; but... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 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... | |
 | 1905 - 556 pages
...of crags that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no glaring gentleman's house, or gardenwalls, break in upon the repose of this little, unsuspected paradise ; but all is space, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest, most becoming attire. ' ' Every word here seems... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 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, whose rocks soon conceal the water from your sight, yet it is continued along behind... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 250 pages
...discover above them a broken line of crags, that crown the scene. Not 25 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, whose rocks 30 soon conceal the water from your sight, yet it is continued along behind... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1894 - 272 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...happy poverty in its neatest, most becoming attire." l So wrote the traveller Gray ; and Wordsworth, half a century after his friendless and somewhat melancholy... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 618 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 Rydal, not without a reference... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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, whose rocks soon conceal the water from your sight, yet it is continued along behind... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 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, whose rocks soon conceal the water from your sight, yet it is continued along behind... | |
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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. 
