Loiterings among the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland, by the author of 'Wanderings in the Isle of Wight'. |
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... undertakings , and get something from everything around them , he had rambled and mused among the meres and mountains , observing , reflecting , and making notes on every interesting scene . Paul knew that a vi INTRODUCTION .
... undertakings , and get something from everything around them , he had rambled and mused among the meres and mountains , observing , reflecting , and making notes on every interesting scene . Paul knew that a vi INTRODUCTION .
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George Mogridge. " Yes ; much have I to tell you of mountains and meres , tarns and waterfalls . You may , perhaps , not know that a mere is a lake , and a tarn a smaller sheet of water , usually up among the mountains . The largest ...
George Mogridge. " Yes ; much have I to tell you of mountains and meres , tarns and waterfalls . You may , perhaps , not know that a mere is a lake , and a tarn a smaller sheet of water , usually up among the mountains . The largest ...
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... mere is half covered with grass . " pose " 6 No , that is not the case now , whatever it may have been in days gone by . Grasmere is a fine sheet of water , reflecting the sky when calm , but washing the stony shore like the waves of ...
... mere is half covered with grass . " pose " 6 No , that is not the case now , whatever it may have been in days gone by . Grasmere is a fine sheet of water , reflecting the sky when calm , but washing the stony shore like the waves of ...
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... mere to be a beauty . " " But which is right ? Wordsworth thinks one thing , and professor Wilson another ; what do you think about it ? " " And so you wish me to decide between two such competent judges as professor Wilson and the ...
... mere to be a beauty . " " But which is right ? Wordsworth thinks one thing , and professor Wilson another ; what do you think about it ? " " And so you wish me to decide between two such competent judges as professor Wilson and the ...
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... meres , and the glowing skies . After seeing the Rydal Falls , I found , at no great distance from Grasmere Water , an old quarry , or as I will call it , a rocky temple , one of the most beautiful scenes in miniature that I ever gazed ...
... meres , and the glowing skies . After seeing the Rydal Falls , I found , at no great distance from Grasmere Water , an old quarry , or as I will call it , a rocky temple , one of the most beautiful scenes in miniature that I ever gazed ...
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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.