 | Sir Richard Phillips - Great Britain - 1825 - 426 pages
...lin," which bear witness to the restless impetuosity of so many northern torrents. But if the Wharfe is here lost to the eye, it repays another sense by...beneath, amidst the silence of the surrounding woods. F 3 The terminating objects of the landscape are the remains of Harden Tower, interesting, from their... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 364 pages
...restless impetuosity of so many northern torrents. But, if here the Wharf is lost to the eye, it amply repays another sense by its deep and solemn roar,...like ' the voice of the angry spirit of the waters, 1 heard far above and beneath, amidst the silence of the surrounding woods. " The terminating object... | |
 | M. Thomas Shaw - Wharfdale (England) - 1830 - 206 pages
...broad strand of native grit-rstone, full of rock-basons, " or pots of the lin," forms the Strid, where its deep and solemn roar, like the voice of the angry spirit of the water, is heard far above and below, amidst the silence of the surrounding woods. But the beauties... | |
 | James Bell - England - 1836 - 1004 pages
...torrents. But if the Wtiarfe is here lost to tho eye, it repays another sense by its deep and solemn ronr, like the voice of * the angry spirit of the waters,'...beneath, amidst the silence of the surrounding woods. Tin.1 terminating objects of the land-cape are the remains of Barden tower, interesting from (heir... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...restless impetuosity of so many Northern torrents. But, if here Wharf is lost to the eye, it amply repays another sense by its deep and solemn roar, like ' the Voice of thn angry Spirit of the Waters,' heard far above and beneath, amidst the silence of the surrounding... | |
 | John Richard Walbran - Yorkshire (England) - 1851 - 148 pages
...the shade of luxuriant trees, whose slanting boughs stoop to kiss its bosom. At length its subdued and solemn roar, " like the voice of the angry spirit of the waters," disturbs the deep solitude of the woods, and announces the tremendous STRID, which suddenly greets... | |
 | Benjamin Clarke - England - 1852 - 820 pages
...lin,' which bear witness to the restless impetuosity of so many nortltern torrents. But if the Wharfe is here lost to the eye, it repays another sense by its deep and solemn roar, like tlte voice of ' the angry spirit of the waters,' heard far above and beneath, amidst the silence of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...restless impetuosity of BO many Northern torrents. But, if here Wharf is lost to the eye, it amply repays another sense by its deep and solemn roar,...beneath, amidst the silence of the surrounding woods. u The terminating object of the landscape is the remains of Barden Tower, interesting from their form... | |
 | John Richard Walbran - Harrogate (England) - 1856 - 162 pages
...the shade of luxuriant trees, whose slanting boughs stoop to kiss its bosom. At length its subdued and solemn roar, " like the voice of the angry spirit of the waters," disturbs the deep solitude of the woods, and announces the tremendous STKID, which suddenly greets... | |
 | Yorkshire (England) - 1858 - 344 pages
...historian of Craven refers, is the Strid, into which the impetuous waters of the stream are hurled with a " deep and solemn roar, like ' the voice of the angry...beneath, amidst the silence of the surrounding woods." It was here that young Komille met with his melancholy fate. A few lines from Wordsworth's " Force... | |
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Linn,' which bear witness to the restless impetuosity of BO many Northern torrents. But, if here Wharf is lost to the eye, it amply repays another sense by its deep and solemn roar, like ' the Voice of the angry Spirit of the Waters,' heard far above... 
