Peak scenery; or, Excursions in Derbyshire1824 |
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... nearly the whole of his canvass to the scenery of Derbyshire , and to give it a station more honourable to its character , and more worthy of its pretensions . This highly interesting county abounds with objects of a more important ...
... nearly the whole of his canvass to the scenery of Derbyshire , and to give it a station more honourable to its character , and more worthy of its pretensions . This highly interesting county abounds with objects of a more important ...
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... nearly equal to the surface of a mirror . : Amongst the public buildings at Derby , the Infirmary holds a distinguished rank , whether the architecture , the interior accommodations , or the utility of the structure are considered its ...
... nearly equal to the surface of a mirror . : Amongst the public buildings at Derby , the Infirmary holds a distinguished rank , whether the architecture , the interior accommodations , or the utility of the structure are considered its ...
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... nearly allied to the ineffable feeling awakened and cherished by a view of the ocean , under a clear sky , and unruffled by a breeze ; when the mind , moving over a world of mighty waters , is sensibly impressed with the gran- deur ...
... nearly allied to the ineffable feeling awakened and cherished by a view of the ocean , under a clear sky , and unruffled by a breeze ; when the mind , moving over a world of mighty waters , is sensibly impressed with the gran- deur ...
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... nearly allied obscurity is to grandeur . Shortly , the sun shone out in all its splendour , the mists disappeared , and the charm dissolved . Its existence , though lovely , was fugitive . A new picture succeeded , extremely unlike the ...
... nearly allied obscurity is to grandeur . Shortly , the sun shone out in all its splendour , the mists disappeared , and the charm dissolved . Its existence , though lovely , was fugitive . A new picture succeeded , extremely unlike the ...
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... nearly invests one side of it , breaks the dull monotony of its outline , and produces a tolerably good effect ; in other respects , it is not strikingly attractive as a picturesque object . The Abbey of Bello- Capite will ever be dear ...
... nearly invests one side of it , breaks the dull monotony of its outline , and produces a tolerably good effect ; in other respects , it is not strikingly attractive as a picturesque object . The Abbey of Bello- Capite will ever be dear ...
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adorned amongst ancient appears artist Ashbourne Bakewell banks beautiful beheld Bridge Buxton Castle Castleton cavern chapel character Chatsworth church church-yard clouds colour contemplation Cross Dale dark delightful Derby Derbyshire Derwent Devonshire Duke elegant eminence erected excursion Eyam feeling foliage Glossop grandeur ground Haddon Haddon Hall Hall Hathersage hills honour Ilam Ilam Hall landscape light lofty Lord magnificent Mam Tor mansion marble Matlock Bath Matlock Dale Middleton miles mineral Miss Seward Monsal-dale monument Moor mountains nearly noble object observed occupied ornamented passed Peak of Derbyshire Peveril picture picturesque present recollection residence rich river Dove river Wye road rock rocky romantic scene scenery sculptured Sheffield side situation Stanton Stanton Moor steep stone stream summit surrounding Thorpe Cloud Tideswell toadstone town traveller trees vale valley vicinity village visited whole wild William Peveril Winnats Wirksworth wood Wormhill
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Página 144 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among...
Página 303 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Página 297 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind 'away: O, that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!— But soft!
Página 148 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while : I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends : subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Página 314 - Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
Página 36 - And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation ; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people : and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living ; and the plague was stayed.
Página 81 - By wintry famine rous'd, from all the tract Of horrid mountains which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands; Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave; Burning for blood; bony, and gaunt, and grim. Assembling wolves in raging troops descend; And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snow. All is their prize.
Página 297 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it : as thus : Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam ; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Página 312 - For which the shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness loud in rustic lays, And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream Of pansies, pinks, and gaudy daffodils.
Página 124 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.