| John Britton - Architecture - 1814 - 1124 pages
...above them a broken line of crags that crowa the scene. Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house, or garden walls, break in upon the repose of...and happy poverty, in its neatest, most becoming, atlire." RYDAL WATER, like Grassmere, is fed by the Rothay : it it •bout a mile in length. A wood... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - 1802 - 316 pages
...above them a broken line of crags that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house, or garden walls, break in upon the repose of...happy poverty, in its neatest, most becoming attire." A little to the north east of Rydal-water, is Rydal-Hall, seated on a gentle eminence, at the junction... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1803 - 460 pages
...crags, that crown the scene. • Not a single red tile, no flareing Gentleman's house, or gar• den walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected « paradise; but all k peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in ' its neatest, most becoming attire.' Gray's Letters te Dr.... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...of crags that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house, or garden-walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected...neatest most becoming attire. The road winds here over Grasmere-hill, whose rocks soon conceal the water from your sight; yet it is continued along behind... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...side, and discover above them a broken line of crags, that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden walls, break in...peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire. The road winds here over Grasmere-hill, whose rocks soon conceal the water... | |
| England - 1830 - 990 pages
...neighbouring village, as Gray of the vale of Grasmere, " Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house, or garden walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspecting paradise." This eulogium is ours no longer. Hitherto, indeed, we have escaped the " gentleman's... | |
| 1831 - 602 pages
...neighboring village, as Gray of the vale of Grasmere, " Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house, or garden walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspecting paradise." This eulogium is ours no longer. Hitherto, indeed, we have escaped the " gentleman's... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...side, and discover above them a broken line of crags that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house, or garden walls, break...neatest most becoming attire. The road winds here over Grasmere-hill, whose rocks soon conceal the water from your sight ; yet it is continued along behind... | |
| William Green (of Ambleside.) - Lake District (England) - 1819 - 524 pages
...above them a broken line of crag,? that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house or garden walls break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise : but 3F2 all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest most becoming attire." The following... | |
| Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...side, and discover above them a broken line of crags that crown the scene. Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house, or garden walls, break...neatest most becoming attire. The road winds here over Grasmere-hill, ' whose rocks soon conceal the water from your sight; yet it is continued along behind... | |
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