The gem of the Peak; or, Matlock Bath and its vicinityLongman & Company, 1838 - 256 Seiten |
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... trees on the one hand , and on the other its bold ridges and steep sides , which , in some places , exhibit immense masses of rock descending rapidly from about midway from the top to the river's edge , ranged in succession like a ...
... trees on the one hand , and on the other its bold ridges and steep sides , which , in some places , exhibit immense masses of rock descending rapidly from about midway from the top to the river's edge , ranged in succession like a ...
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... tree of almost every kind , 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 ...
... tree of almost every kind , 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 ...
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... trees still standing on the Terrace . It may appear to some unimportant and , perhaps , trifling , by dwelling so much on this house , in giving such minute details respecting its gradual in- crease in magnitude ; but it must be ...
... trees still standing on the Terrace . It may appear to some unimportant and , perhaps , trifling , by dwelling so much on this house , in giving such minute details respecting its gradual in- crease in magnitude ; but it must be ...
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... tree , of gigantic and almost inconceivable size , cannot fail to cross his mind as he beholds the noble branches of this tree propped up in many places , comparable to the natural ones of the Banian , lest the weight on these extended ...
... tree , of gigantic and almost inconceivable size , cannot fail to cross his mind as he beholds the noble branches of this tree propped up in many places , comparable to the natural ones of the Banian , lest the weight on these extended ...
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... tree , the towering crag , -the lowing of the herd on the mountain side , the hum of the bee as it glides from flower to flower extracting the nectar , or groups of his own kind , from the four quarters of the globe , descried from the ...
... tree , the towering crag , -the lowing of the herd on the mountain side , the hum of the bee as it glides from flower to flower extracting the nectar , or groups of his own kind , from the four quarters of the globe , descried from the ...
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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.