 | William Wordsworth - Alps - 1822 - 180 pages
...journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere: — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house...upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire." What is here... | |
 | John Hudson (of Kendal.), William Wordsworth - Geology - 1842 - 336 pages
...journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere : — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house...upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire." What is... | |
 | John Hudson - Cumbria (England) - 1843 - 312 pages
...journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere: — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house...upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire." p 3 What... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Lake District (England) - 1846 - 318 pages
...visited by the tourist as now, speaks with equal raptures of its charms ; — Gray says of it, " that not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house...garden-wall breaks in upon the repose of this little unexpected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming... | |
 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...this lake by the poet Gray, which is generally quoted in the guide-books ; in this it is said, that " not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house...upon the repose of this little unsuspected Paradise." Would that all this were true now! But "Water-cure Establishments," and cottages orné, and larch plantations,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick - Geology - 1859 - 330 pages
...journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere : — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house...upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire." What is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 pages
...journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere : — ' Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house...upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire.' What is here... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English literature - 1876 - 366 pages
...journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere : — ' Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house...upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire.' What is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1886 - 460 pages
...journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere: — ' Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house...upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire.' What is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1884 - 456 pages
...Compare Gray's description of the Vale of Grasmere in his Journal : — " Not a single red tile, nor flaring gentleman's house, or garden-wall, breaks...upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire."— ED.... | |
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Every reader of this journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere: — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden-wall, breaks in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise;... 
