The gem of the Peak; or, Matlock Bath and its vicinityLongman & Company, 1838 - 256 Seiten |
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... sometimes singularly inserted into their cavities , drinking up and deriving their sole nou- rishment from the water that filtrates through the rock , the ivy entwining its delicate tendrils around them , and making its way everywhere ...
... sometimes singularly inserted into their cavities , drinking up and deriving their sole nou- rishment from the water that filtrates through the rock , the ivy entwining its delicate tendrils around them , and making its way everywhere ...
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... sometimes forming " pic nic " parties , making Mat- lock a " point d'appiu , " for a few days or a week , to visit the sublime and beautiful scenery and objects of interest in its immediate neighbourhood . And so great is the in- flux ...
... sometimes forming " pic nic " parties , making Mat- lock a " point d'appiu , " for a few days or a week , to visit the sublime and beautiful scenery and objects of interest in its immediate neighbourhood . And so great is the in- flux ...
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... sometimes stiffening into a gentle breeze , through the luxuriant foliage , the deathlike stillness of the assembled mul- titude as they listened with profound attention to the speaker , whose voice , clear , sonorous , and musical ...
... sometimes stiffening into a gentle breeze , through the luxuriant foliage , the deathlike stillness of the assembled mul- titude as they listened with profound attention to the speaker , whose voice , clear , sonorous , and musical ...
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... sometimes parties engage them to play on the water , where the music has a most charming effect . The Band depends solely on the public for remuneration . The young men have all military dresses . PEDESTRIAN TOURS , Or short Rides and ...
... sometimes parties engage them to play on the water , where the music has a most charming effect . The Band depends solely on the public for remuneration . The young men have all military dresses . PEDESTRIAN TOURS , Or short Rides and ...
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... sometimes to a late hour . On such occasions , the hand is sent for to mingle the strains of sweet music with the solemn dash of the oar glittering in the moonbeam ; and at intervals Ladies will tune their sweet voices to heavenly music ...
... sometimes to a late hour . On such occasions , the hand is sent for to mingle the strains of sweet music with the solemn dash of the oar glittering in the moonbeam ; and at intervals Ladies will tune their sweet voices to heavenly music ...
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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.