| Arthur Granville Bradley - 1901 - 360 pages
...its virgin state, " not a single red tile," he says, "no gentleman's flaring house or garden breaks in upon the repose of this, little unsuspected paradise...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire." But Gray merely cast an academic glance and passed on. Wheels had never... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...of crags, that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no glaring gentleman's house or garden-walls, ious attention to little objects, which neither require...moment's thought, lower a man ; who from thence is thoug and most becoming attire. The Grande Chartreuse. It is a fortnight since we set out hence upon a little... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 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. The Grande Chartreuse. It is a fortnight since we set out hence upon a little... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 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 to... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1905 - 420 pages
...side, and discover above them a broken line of crags that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house, or garden walls, break...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire." This, or something approaching this, was still the condition in which Wordsworth... | |
| 1905 - 548 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 intended... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1906 - 260 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... | |
| Arthur Granville Bradley - 1908 - 368 pages
...its virgin state, " not a single red tile," he says, " no gentleman's flaring house or garden breaks in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire." But Gray merely cast an academic glance and passed on. Wheels had never... | |
| Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1911 - 480 pages
...described the Grasmere community : " Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house or garden breaks in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire." Wordsworth uses like terms of admiration for this " perfect republic of... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1912 - 482 pages
...of crags, that crown the scene, not a single red tile, no flaming Gentleman's house, or garden-walls 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... | |
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