Loiterings among the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland, by the author of 'Wanderings in the Isle of Wight'. |
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... scenery , and the majestic mountains at its head , without emotions of delight . Some think the best view of Windermere is from its surface at the upper part , while others prefer that from the high road between Ambleside and the vale ...
... scenery , and the majestic mountains at its head , without emotions of delight . Some think the best view of Windermere is from its surface at the upper part , while others prefer that from the high road between Ambleside and the vale ...
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... scenery . There were brilliant cavalcades through the woods in the mornings , and delicious boatings on the lake by moonlight ; and the last day , professor Wilson , the Admiral of the Lake , ' as Canning called him , presided over one ...
... scenery . There were brilliant cavalcades through the woods in the mornings , and delicious boatings on the lake by moonlight ; and the last day , professor Wilson , the Admiral of the Lake , ' as Canning called him , presided over one ...
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... scenery . - Advantage of piety to a lover of nature . - Grasmere Water . - Wordsworth on lake scenery . - Moun- tains seen from Red Bank . - Helm Crag . - Easdale . - Terrible acci- dent . The wishing - gate . - The woolly bear ...
... scenery . - Advantage of piety to a lover of nature . - Grasmere Water . - Wordsworth on lake scenery . - Moun- tains seen from Red Bank . - Helm Crag . - Easdale . - Terrible acci- dent . The wishing - gate . - The woolly bear ...
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... scenery that ever took pen in hand . As I loitered on Red Bank and looked around me , I saw in the distance Calva in Skiddaw Forest , and Seat Sandal , and Dolly Waggon Pike , and , towering up still higher , Great Rigg , and further to ...
... scenery that ever took pen in hand . As I loitered on Red Bank and looked around me , I saw in the distance Calva in Skiddaw Forest , and Seat Sandal , and Dolly Waggon Pike , and , towering up still higher , Great Rigg , and further to ...
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... scenery used to be magnificent , and , even now , there are some noble trees growing there . I stood musing for some time at the foot of a fine old forest - tree , whose stately stem and wide - spreading branches called forth my ...
... scenery used to be magnificent , and , even now , there are some noble trees growing there . I stood musing for some time at the foot of a fine old forest - tree , whose stately stem and wide - spreading branches called forth my ...
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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.