Observations pittoresques sur différentes parties de l'Angleterre, Volume 2

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Page 33 - Where was their dwelling in a pleasant glade With MOUNTAINS round about environed, And MIGHTY WOODS which did the valley shade, And like a stately theatre it made, Spreading itself into a spacious plaine ; And in the midst a little river plaide Emongst the pumy stones which seem'd to plaine With gentle murmure that his course they did restraine.
Page 59 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 148 - This pillar was erected in the year 1656, by Ann, Countess Dowager of Pembroke, &c. for a memorial of her last parting, in this place, with her good and pious mother, Margaret, Countess Dowager of Cumberland, on the 2d of April, 1616; in memory whereof she hath left an annuity of 41.
Page 33 - Into that forest farre they thence him led, Where was their dwelling in a pleasant glade With MOUNTAINS round about environed, And MIGHTY WOODS which did the valley shade...
Page 32 - Pindo, spumosis volvitur undis : Dejectuque gravi tenues agitantia fumos Nubila conducit, summasque aspergine silvas Impluit, et sonitu plus quam vicina fatigat.
Page 59 - ... often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air. Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven.
Page 54 - There is a mood, (I sing not to the vacant and the young) There is a kindly mood of melancholy, That wings the soul, and points her to the skies...
Page 32 - Impluil ; et sonitu plus quam vicina fatigat. Haec domus, haec sedes, haec sunt penetralia magni Amnis : in hoc, residens facto de cautibus antro, Undis jura dabat , Nymphisque colentibus undas.
Page 8 - Whose walks with godlike harmony resound : Fountains, which Homer visits ; happy groves, Where Milton dwells : the intellectual power, On the mind's throne, suspends his graver cares, And smiles : the passions, to divine repose, Persuaded yield : and love and joy alone Are waking : love and joy, such as await An angel's meditation.
Page 171 - Fresh shadows, fit to shroud from sunny ray; Fair lawns, to take the sun, in season due; Sweet springs, in which a thousand Nymphs did play; Soft-rumbling brooks, that gentle slumber drew; High-reared mounts, the lands about to view; Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze; Delightful bowers, to solace Lovers true ; False labyrinths, fond runners...

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