Life and Nature at the English LakesJ. MacLehose and sons, 1899 - 192 sidor |
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Sida 23
... wonder ? On across the morasses , bridged by the shepherds ' care , we strode , when , just as we were entering upon the house paddock , up rose with a whirr a strange cream - white bird , and shone in the sun , and whirred away and ...
... wonder ? On across the morasses , bridged by the shepherds ' care , we strode , when , just as we were entering upon the house paddock , up rose with a whirr a strange cream - white bird , and shone in the sun , and whirred away and ...
Sida 26
... wonder at the speed . " Falcons is a wonderful thing for pace , " said our friend . " They do say that top - speed is two hundred and fifty miles an hour , four times as fast as an express , you know , sir . " And as he spoke , the ...
... wonder at the speed . " Falcons is a wonderful thing for pace , " said our friend . " They do say that top - speed is two hundred and fifty miles an hour , four times as fast as an express , you know , sir . " And as he spoke , the ...
Sida 29
... wonder whether the young raven prisoner heard what he said . " The most interesting bird that flies . " Perhaps he did . All I know is that when we rose from our afternoon repast in the forest shepherd's cottage , we found that some ...
... wonder whether the young raven prisoner heard what he said . " The most interesting bird that flies . " Perhaps he did . All I know is that when we rose from our afternoon repast in the forest shepherd's cottage , we found that some ...
Sida 91
... wonder we grieve as we stand to - night at Greta Hall ; no wonder the Greta seems to share our sorrow . But the western light beyond grey Grisedale grows in glory , and ere its wonder fades from out the heavens , lo ! high o'er ...
... wonder we grieve as we stand to - night at Greta Hall ; no wonder the Greta seems to share our sorrow . But the western light beyond grey Grisedale grows in glory , and ere its wonder fades from out the heavens , lo ! high o'er ...
Sida 104
... wonder that for studious minds , " in populous cities pent , " the Kent - dale has had such attractions as are witnessed to by the epitaph of a former vicar of Kendal , one Randolph Trevor , who died 104 THE ENGLISH LAKES.
... wonder that for studious minds , " in populous cities pent , " the Kent - dale has had such attractions as are witnessed to by the epitaph of a former vicar of Kendal , one Randolph Trevor , who died 104 THE ENGLISH LAKES.
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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.