Jenkinson's Practical Guide to the English Lake District1875 - 80 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
Ambleside ascent Bassenthwaite Lake beautiful Beck Blea Blencathara Borrowdale Bow Fell Buttermere cart-road Castle Causey Pike cliffs climb Crinkle Crags cross Crummock Lake Dale Head Derwentwater descending Dungeon Gill Easedale Ennerdale entered Fairfield farm-house farther feet foot front gate Glaramara Glen Grasmere Grasmoor Green Gable Grisedale Pike heights Helm Crag High Stile High Street Honister Ill Bell Keswick Kirk Fell Lake District Langdale Pikes leads leaving Lingmell Lingmoor Lodore Loughrigg Loweswater Mellbreak Moor mountain Newlands path Patterdale Penrith Pillar pony railway ravine reached Red Pike Red Screes ridge river road rocks rocky Rosthwaite round Rydal Scawfell Pikes scenery Seat Sandal Seathwaite seen shore short distance side sight Skiddaw stands station steep stone stream streamlet Sty Head Pass summit Sunday Crag Tarn tourist Troutbeck Ullswater vale valley village walk wall Wastdale Head Wastwater Watendlath Wetherlam wild Windermere Lake wood Wythburn yards
Popular passages
Page 186 - ... the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century.
Page 95 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comes — the cloud — And mists that spread the flying shroud; And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.
Page 166 - 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; Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane...
Page 158 - There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.
Page 142 - And falling and brawling and sprawling, And driving and riving and striving, And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling, And sounding...
Page 162 - I gazed— and gazed— but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Page 96 - Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide; All was still, save, by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied. On the right, Striden-edge round the Red-tarn was bending, And Catchedicam its left verge was defending, One huge nameless rock in the front was ascending, When I marked the sad spot where the wanderer had died.
Page 151 - Upon a semicirque of turf-clad ground, The hidden nook discovered to our view A mass of rock, resembling, as it lay Eight at the foot of that moist precipice, A stranded ship, with keel upturned, that rests Fearless of winds and waves.
Page 179 - Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay smooth and still, And, down its verdant bosom led, A winding brooklet found its bed. But, midmost of the vale, a mound Arose, with airy turrets crown'd, Buttress and rampire's circling bound, And mighty keep and tower; Seem'd some primeval giant's hand The castle's massive walls had plann'd, A ponderous bulwark to withstand Ambitious Nimrod's power.
Page 97 - When a prince to the fate of the peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall...