Life and Nature at the English LakesJ. MacLehose and sons, 1899 - 192 sidor |
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Sida 10
... walls at the far end of the seats . Then a prayer or two is said , the Rushbearing hymn is sung , and sometimes I used to give an address . I believe that is the custom still . The children file out of church , pass the lych gate , and ...
... walls at the far end of the seats . Then a prayer or two is said , the Rushbearing hymn is sung , and sometimes I used to give an address . I believe that is the custom still . The children file out of church , pass the lych gate , and ...
Sida 15
... walls on this side were clothed in emerald velvet of mossy grace , or on that side the horn - beam hedge- rows ran bronzed like beaten copper , or where the sun smote on them , twinkled into ruddy gold . On by Low wood , some of whose ...
... walls on this side were clothed in emerald velvet of mossy grace , or on that side the horn - beam hedge- rows ran bronzed like beaten copper , or where the sun smote on them , twinkled into ruddy gold . On by Low wood , some of whose ...
Sida 21
... wall or an upturned peat , pausing to sun its tail which went like a wagtails , springing upward , to sink again with song . " Look back , " said my guide ; " Tewfit Tarn shines grandly . " And there , like a jewel in the breast of ...
... wall or an upturned peat , pausing to sun its tail which went like a wagtails , springing upward , to sink again with song . " Look back , " said my guide ; " Tewfit Tarn shines grandly . " And there , like a jewel in the breast of ...
Sida 29
... wall , and we heard the far distant croaks of triumph and defiance , and felt that the happy raven family at Dead Crags would once more be united . The raven had " manished " for itself sooner than we or the raven hunter had thought ...
... wall , and we heard the far distant croaks of triumph and defiance , and felt that the happy raven family at Dead Crags would once more be united . The raven had " manished " for itself sooner than we or the raven hunter had thought ...
Sida 30
... wall - flowers filling the air with their fragrance ; had never seen so many apple - blossom buds pink to the bursting , or lime - tree buds so nearly in leaf . I doubt if he had ever before had a chance of chasing a yellow orange - tip ...
... wall - flowers filling the air with their fragrance ; had never seen so many apple - blossom buds pink to the bursting , or lime - tree buds so nearly in leaf . I doubt if he had ever before had a chance of chasing a yellow orange - tip ...
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Ambleside Armboth Fells beauty beneath birds Bleaberry Fell Blencathra Borrowdale Brig-end CAIRD called Catbels Causey Pike choirs church climbed cloud Coleridge collie Crag Crosthwaite Crown 8vo daffodils dance dark Demy 8vo Dunmail Raise Edition eyes farm Fcap feet fells fellside fern flock flowers gathered gaze ghyll Grasmere Sports green Greta Hall grey head heaf heard heart heather heaven Helm Crag Helvellyn Herdwick hill honour hounds Kendal Keswick lambs larches Latrigg look Loughrigg MACLEHOSE AND SONS May-day Maypole meadow Merry little maidens mist mountain Naddle nett passed pasture peat poem poet Professor purple Queen raven remember round Rushbearing seemed seen sheep shepherd shining shone side sight silver sing Skiddaw slope song Southey Stybarrow Dodd sweet to-day town University of Glasgow vale valley voice wall Walla Crag Watch Westmoreland Wetherlam Windermere wonder woods Wordsworth
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Sida 172 - 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.
Sida 140 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Sida 114 - No, no, let us play, for it is yet day, And we cannot go to sleep; Besides, in the sky the little birds fly, And the hills are all covered with sheep.' 'Well, well, go and play till the light fades away, And then go home to bed.
Sida 10 - Homo' has given a firm, consistent, and convincing exposition, both of the infinitely various manifestations of the earlier religions and of that Christian synthesis which cannot die out of the human mind.
Sida 117 - WHEN the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still. Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down, And the dews of night arise ; Come, come, leave off play, and let us away Till the morning appears in the skies.
Sida 5 - Our fathers to the House of God, As yet a building rude, Bore offerings from the flowery sod And fragrant rushes strewed.
Sida 117 - The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Sida 23 - TALES FROM SPENSER, chosen from The Faerie Queene. By SOPHIA H. MACLEHOSE. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. Ornamental Cloth Boards, gilt top, 3s.