Loiterings among the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland, by the author of 'Wanderings in the Isle of Wight'. |
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... .. 1222 CHAPTER III . GRASMERE WATER 26 CHAPTER IV . RYDAL WATER CHAPTER V. HAWES WATER .. 38 51 CHAPTER VI . ESTHWAITE WATER 62 22 CHAPTER VII . BUTTERMERE LAKE 74 CHAPTER VIII . CONISTON WATER PAGE 89 CHAPTER IX .
... .. 1222 CHAPTER III . GRASMERE WATER 26 CHAPTER IV . RYDAL WATER CHAPTER V. HAWES WATER .. 38 51 CHAPTER VI . ESTHWAITE WATER 62 22 CHAPTER VII . BUTTERMERE LAKE 74 CHAPTER VIII . CONISTON WATER PAGE 89 CHAPTER IX .
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George Mogridge. CHAPTER VIII . CONISTON WATER PAGE 89 CHAPTER IX . WAST WATER .. 102 CHAPTER X. DERWENTWATER 115 CHAPTER XI . ENNERDALE LAKE 131 CHAPTER XII . CRUMMOCK LAKE ... 139 CHAPTER XIII . LOWES WATER 151 CHAPTER XIV ...
George Mogridge. CHAPTER VIII . CONISTON WATER PAGE 89 CHAPTER IX . WAST WATER .. 102 CHAPTER X. DERWENTWATER 115 CHAPTER XI . ENNERDALE LAKE 131 CHAPTER XII . CRUMMOCK LAKE ... 139 CHAPTER XIII . LOWES WATER 151 CHAPTER XIV ...
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... Coniston , and I set off to see it one after- noon , grasping my walking - stick firmly , for I knew that I had enough to do . " " How far was it that you had to walk ? " " " It might be nine or ten miles ; but then I had to come back ...
... Coniston , and I set off to see it one after- noon , grasping my walking - stick firmly , for I knew that I had enough to do . " " How far was it that you had to walk ? " " " It might be nine or ten miles ; but then I had to come back ...
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... Coniston , running up from the sea ; the lakeless valley of Duddon ; the beautiful vale of Esk ; the water with its winding stream flowing under the woody steep crowned by Muncaster Castle ; the deep valley of Wastdale ; Ennerdale ...
... Coniston , running up from the sea ; the lakeless valley of Duddon ; the beautiful vale of Esk ; the water with its winding stream flowing under the woody steep crowned by Muncaster Castle ; the deep valley of Wastdale ; Ennerdale ...
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... Coniston ; and Blelham Tarn is not half so beautiful as the Tarn of Loughrigg . The latter , with its green margin , rocky woods , reeds , and water lilies , is very fair to look on . ' دو " I should like Loughrigg Tarn , I am sure ...
... Coniston ; and Blelham Tarn is not half so beautiful as the Tarn of Loughrigg . The latter , with its green margin , rocky woods , reeds , and water lilies , is very fair to look on . ' دو " I should like Loughrigg Tarn , I am sure ...
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Abbey Ambleside banks Bassenthwaite Water beautiful Blueback Borrowdale bridge bright brook Buttermere called Castle cloud colour Coniston cottage Crummock Water dale dare say delight Derwent Derwentwater distance enjoy Ennerdale Esthwaite Water eyes fall father feet foot Furness Abbey Gable gaze Gill Force God's Grasmere green grey Harter Fell Hawes Water head hear heart Helm Crag Helvellyn hills hundred island Kendal Keswick Kirk Fell Kirkstone Kirkstone Pass Knab Scar lake country Langdale loiterings look Lord Loughrigg Fell miles moun mountains neighbourhood never pass Patterdale Paul Ritter pleasure professor Wilson prospect ramble Red Pike river rock rocky round Rydal Scawfell Pike scene scenery seen side Skiddaw standing stones stream Striding Edge tains Tarn tell things Thirlemere told tourist tower trees Ulleswater vale valley walked Wallow Crag Wast Water Wastdale waterfall wild Windermere wonder woods Wordsworth
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Page 138 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Page 138 - COMMIT thou all thy griefs And ways into His hands, To His sure truth and tender care, Who earth and heaven commands.
Page 27 - MY God ! the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights, The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights.
Page 83 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 190 - Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Page 184 - The Dog, which still was hovering nigh, Repeating the same timid cry, This Dog, had been through three months' space A dweller in that savage place.
Page 160 - To Scotland's heaths; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Page 182 - Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay smooth and still, And? down its verdant bosom led, A winding brooklet found its bed.
Page 184 - This dog had been through three months' space A dweller in that savage place. Yes, proof was plain that since the day On which the traveller thus had died The dog had watched about the spot, Or by his master's side : How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate.
Page 138 - Thou on the Lord rely, so safe shalt thou go on; fix on his work thy steadfast eye, so shall thy work be done. No profit canst thou gain by self-consuming care; to him commend thy cause; his ear attends the softest prayer.