Allison's northern tourist's guide to the lakes, of Cumberland, Westmorland, & Lancashire1832 |
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Allison's Northern Tourist's Guide to the Lakes, of Cumberland, Westmorland ... J. Allison No preview available - 2019 |
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Ambleside appear ascended banks Bassenthwaite Lake Beck boat Borrowdale bosom breadth Buttermere Carlisle Cascade Castle char charming Church clouds Cockermouth Conniston craggy Crummock Crummock Water Cumberland dale Dalemain delightful Derwent Derwent Water Derwentwater descends distance elevation enchanting Ennerdale Esthwaite Water feet Fell foot Force Furness Abbey grandeur Grasmoor Grassmere Greystoke Castle half a mile Hall Hallen Harter Fell Hawe's Water head height Helvellyn hills House inclosures interesting islands Kendal Keswick Kirkstone lofty Lowdore Lyulph's Tower magnificent Melbreak miles in length moun mountains narrow neighbourhood numerous objects opposite passing Patterdale Penrith picturesque Pike pleasing Pooley Bridge presenting prospect rising river road rocks romantic Rydal Saddleback scene scenery seat seen shore side situated Skiddaw steep sublime summit surface surrounding tains Tarn three miles Tourist town trees trout Ullswater Vale valley variegated Village Wallow Crag Wastdale Waterfall Westmorland wild Windermere winding wood
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Page 111 - Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round.
Page 30 - But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows...
Page 62 - ... but to give you a complete idea of these three perfections, as they are joined in Keswick, would require the united powers of Claude, Salvator, and Poussin. The first should throw his delicate sunshine over the cultivated vales, the scattered cots, the groves, the lake, and wooded islands. The second should dash out the horror of the rugged cliffs, the steeps, the hanging woods, and foaming water-falls; while the grand pencil of Poussin should crown the whole w_ith the majesty of the impending...
Page 132 - Not a little fragment of rock thrown into the basin, not a single stem of brushwood that starts from its craggy sides, but has a picturesque meaning, and the little central current, dashing down a cleft of the darkest coloured stone, produces an effect of light and shadow beautiful beyond description. This little theatrical scene might be painted as large as the original, on a canvass not bigger than those usually dropped in the Opera House.
Page 132 - Here Nature has performed every thing in little that she usually executes on her largest scale ; and, on that account, like the miniature painter, seems to have finished every part of it in a studied manner ; not a little fragment of rock thrown into the basin, not a single stem of brushwood that starts from its craggy sides, but has its picturesque meaning ; and the little central stream dashing down a cleft of the darkest-coloured stone, produces an effect of light and shadow beautiful beyond description.
Page 64 - Upon green-growing herbs and flowers, and sate Embowered in odorous shrubs : four long, light boats, Yoked to the garden, with accordant song, And dip and dash of oar in harmony, Bore me across the lake.
Page 69 - ... which can only be expressed by the image of a tempestuous sea of mountains. Let me now conduct you down again to the valley and conclude with one circumstance more, which is, that a walk by still moonlight (at which time the distant waterfalls are heard in all their variety of sound) among these enchanting dales, opens such scenes of delicate beauty, repose and solemnity as exceed all description.
Page 126 - And quench with wine the yet remaining fire. The snowy bones his friends and brothers place (With tears collected) in a golden vase; The golden vase in purple palls they roll'd, Of softest texture, and inwrought with gold. Last o'er the urn the sacred earth they spread, And raised the tomb, memorial of the dead.
Page 150 - Borrowdale on the west, and by the precipices of Skiddaw and Saddleback, close on the north. The hue which pervades all these mountains is that of dark heath or rock, they are thrown into every form and direction that fancy...
Page 61 - Isle), in the bond of spiritual love and friendship. For living a solitary life in the isle of that great and extended lake, from whence proceeds the river of Derwent, he used to visit St. Cuthbert every year, to receive from his lips the doctrine of eternal life.