There is an easy ascent to the top, and the view far preferable to that on Castle-hill (which you remember) because this is lower and nearer to the Lake: for I find all points that are much elevated spoil the beauty of the valley, and make its parts (which... The Wye tour, or Gilpin on the Wye - Page 21by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, William Gilpin - 1834 - 199 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas West - Cumberland (England) - 1821 - 346 pages
...preferable to that on Castle-hill (which you remember) because this is lower and nearer the lake ; for I find all points that are much elevated, spoil the...parts, which are not large, look poor and diminutive*. While 1 was here, a little shower fell, red clouds came marching up the hills from the east, and part... | |
| Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 462 pages
...preferable to that on Castle hill (which you remember) because this is lower and nearer to the lake : for I find all points, that are much elevated, spoil the...parts, which are not large, look poor and diminutive. While I was here a little shower fell, red clouds came marching up the hills from the east, and part... | |
| William Gilpin, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - Wye River - 1826 - 200 pages
...says Mr. Gilpin, " of an easy sweep of the Wye, and of an extensive country beyond it. But it is uot picturesque." It is marked by no characteristic objects....horse-shoe curve of the river, the green meadow, the ivied towers "of Wilton Castle, and the light Bridge, there is a very pleasing though rather formal and somewhat... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...preferable to that on Castle-hill (which you remember), because this is lower and nearer to the lake : for I find all points, that are much elevated, spoil the...parts, which are not large, look poor and diminutive.* While I was here a little shower fell, red clouds came marching up the hills from the east, and part... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1836 - 336 pages
...' A soft and lulling sound is heard Of streams inaudible by day.' Wordsworth's White Doe, Canto IV. much elevated, spoil the beauty of the valley, and...parts (which are not large) look poor and diminutive.* While I was here, a little shower fell, red clouds came marching up the hills from the east, and part... | |
| Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...Walk," adjoining the churchyard. Gray and Gilpin, however, speak disparagingly of it. The former says, " I find all points that are much elevated spoil the...parts, which are not large, look poor and diminutive." Ross is a rural deanery; the rectory and vicarage were consolidated by an act of the legislature in... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1884 - 452 pages
...preferable to that on Castle-hill (which you remember) because this is lower and nearer to the Lake : for I find all points, that are much elevated, spoil the...and make its parts (which are not large) look poor 1 " A soft and lulling sound is heard Of streams inaudible by day." Wordsworth's White, Doe, Canto... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1884 - 450 pages
...preferable to that on Castle-hill (which you remember) because this is lower and nearer to the Lake : for I find all points, that are much elevated, spoil the...and make its parts (which are not large) look poor 1 "A soft and lulling sound is heard Of streams inaudible by day." and diminutive.1 While I was here,... | |
| Thomas Gray - English literature - 1894 - 252 pages
...preferable to that on Castlehill (which you remember) because this is lower and nearer to the Lake : for I find all points, that are much elevated, spoil the...parts (which are not large) look poor and diminutive. While I was here, a little shower fell, red clouds came marching up the hills from the east, and part... | |
| Eric Sutherland Robertson - Lake District (England) - 1911 - 482 pages
...of the first to learn and point out that, as Gray had also taught in his Journal (written in 1769), "all points that are much elevated spoil the beauty...parts, which are not large, look poor and diminutive." The reason why artists do not select eminences from which to paint a country of valleys simply is that,... | |
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