The gem of the Peak; or, Matlock Bath and its vicinityLongman & Company, 1838 - 256 Seiten |
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... crystals , winds along Crusts the green mosses and the tangled wood , And sparkling plunges to its parent flood . " Darwin's Loves of the Plants . These waters are found to be most efficacious in all bilious complaints , rheumatism and ...
... crystals , winds along Crusts the green mosses and the tangled wood , And sparkling plunges to its parent flood . " Darwin's Loves of the Plants . These waters are found to be most efficacious in all bilious complaints , rheumatism and ...
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... crystal stream here broken up into a series of cascades by rough artificial ledges , and there reflecting the fine objects on either side from its quiet expanse of waters , the deer of every species , and the low- ing cattle tossing ...
... crystal stream here broken up into a series of cascades by rough artificial ledges , and there reflecting the fine objects on either side from its quiet expanse of waters , the deer of every species , and the low- ing cattle tossing ...
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... crystals of olivine or augite embedded , which by becoming detached occasion the slight cavities found on the surface . The two at the east side are a singular kind of serpentine - veneered - Between this noble Apartment and the ...
... crystals of olivine or augite embedded , which by becoming detached occasion the slight cavities found on the surface . The two at the east side are a singular kind of serpentine - veneered - Between this noble Apartment and the ...
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... crystals of Feldspar , * finely polished and calculated by their hardness and durability to stand all weathers . Pompey's pillar , which is of the Egyptian , has withstood the violence and erosion of nearly nineteen centuries , and yet ...
... crystals of Feldspar , * finely polished and calculated by their hardness and durability to stand all weathers . Pompey's pillar , which is of the Egyptian , has withstood the violence and erosion of nearly nineteen centuries , and yet ...
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... crystals are a double pyramid called the Scalon dodecahedron . - This specimen is from the Ecton mine belong . ing to the Duke . These pillars were brought from the inner court where they supported the open balconies now taken down ...
... crystals are a double pyramid called the Scalon dodecahedron . - This specimen is from the Ecton mine belong . ing to the Duke . These pillars were brought from the inner court where they supported the open balconies now taken down ...
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adorned amongst ancient appearance Ashford Bakewell beautiful beds bold Bonsall Buxton called Castle Castleton Cavern Chatsworth Church cliff colour considerable cottages cotton crags Crescent Crich Cromford crystals Cumberland Cavern dark Derby Derbyshire Dovedale Duke of Devonshire Earl effect elegant elevated eminence Eyam feet finest fluor garden Grace grit gritstone ground Haddon Hall height Heights of Abraham hence hill immense interest June to July lead lime limestone lofty lovely magnificent Mam Tor Manor marble masses Masson Matlock Bath Middleton Dale miles Mill miners Monsal Dale Moor mountain noble object occurs ornamental parties passing Peak Peak Cavern present remarkable river road rocks romantic Rowsley rude scenery shale side situated spar splendid steep stone stranger stream summit Taddington tion Toadstone tower trees Vale veins village visitors walk Wirksworth wood Wormhill yards
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Seite 28 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 17 - So now, where Derwent guides his dusky floods, Through vaulted mountains, and a night of woods, The nymph Gossypia...
Seite 199 - Place in the Peke, and there decide their pretensions by the use of arms; declaring at the same time, that whoever vanquished his competitors, should receive his daughter, with his castle at Whittington, as a reward for his skill and valour.
Seite 81 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Seite 95 - Kennet) with workmen to pull down " the south side of that good old seat, and to rebuild it on a plan he gave to them, for a front to his gardens, so fair and august, that it looked like a model only of what might be done in after ages. When he had finished this part he meant to go no further ; till seeing public affairs in a happier settlement, for a testimony of ease and joy, he undertook the east side of the quadrangle...
Seite 18 - First, with nice eye, emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the ravell'd fleece : Next moves the iron hand with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms th
Seite 9 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Seite 203 - ... and pleasure, astonishment and delight, which is one of the most interesting feelings of the mind.