Pleasant Spots and Famous PlacesWilliam Tegg, 1862 - 288 pages |
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... picturesque Matlock scenery ; the glorious Malvern hills ; the wondrous peaks and lovely dales of Derbyshire ; the ever - changing splen- dours of the Lake counties ; the riches of Devon- shire ; the grand and picturesque honours of ...
... picturesque Matlock scenery ; the glorious Malvern hills ; the wondrous peaks and lovely dales of Derbyshire ; the ever - changing splen- dours of the Lake counties ; the riches of Devon- shire ; the grand and picturesque honours of ...
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... picturesque disposal of those myriad branches , and the graceful play of those innumerable leaves ! Every tint that the mind can conceive , and numbers which no human colour can transfer to canvass , meet the eye . All these varieties ...
... picturesque disposal of those myriad branches , and the graceful play of those innumerable leaves ! Every tint that the mind can conceive , and numbers which no human colour can transfer to canvass , meet the eye . All these varieties ...
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... picturesque sights which you obtain at every step ; the curious but always beautiful effects produced by the arrange- ments of the branches , and the positions of the leaves of the trees , the in - streaming of light through the ...
... picturesque sights which you obtain at every step ; the curious but always beautiful effects produced by the arrange- ments of the branches , and the positions of the leaves of the trees , the in - streaming of light through the ...
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... picturesque , secluded , and delightful realization of a moated grange . The house is old . It was built by Sir William Compton , in the reign of Henry VIII . The family of the Comptons was a loyal one , and the house is covered with ...
... picturesque , secluded , and delightful realization of a moated grange . The house is old . It was built by Sir William Compton , in the reign of Henry VIII . The family of the Comptons was a loyal one , and the house is covered with ...
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... picturesque chimneys and roofs ; its antique stables , its dove - cote like the Glastonbury kitchen , its solitary little church , its quiet moat , its curiously - clipped trees , its lonely situation in this wooded valley , far from ...
... picturesque chimneys and roofs ; its antique stables , its dove - cote like the Glastonbury kitchen , its solitary little church , its quiet moat , its curiously - clipped trees , its lonely situation in this wooded valley , far from ...
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Page 268 - Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Page 45 - 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...
Page 28 - tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Page 18 - What thou art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Page 22 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be...
Page 18 - Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower: Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view...
Page 270 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th...
Page 267 - Soul of the age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
Page 29 - ... rest. No words that I know of will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, the starred divisions of rubied bloom...
Page 268 - Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter Nature be, His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...