Peak scenery; or, Excursions in Derbyshire1824 |
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... darkness , is at least an amusing , if not a sublime employ- ment it calls into play the reveries of imagination , a faculty which is always more delighted with objects of its own creation , than with what it finds definitively formed ...
... darkness , is at least an amusing , if not a sublime employ- ment it calls into play the reveries of imagination , a faculty which is always more delighted with objects of its own creation , than with what it finds definitively formed ...
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... darkness lower ; " While yonder summits , far away , " Shine sweetly through the gloom , " Like glimpses of eternal day " Beyond the Tomb . " MONTGOMERY's Peak Mountains . The Dale of Hope looked lovely from this commanding situation ...
... darkness lower ; " While yonder summits , far away , " Shine sweetly through the gloom , " Like glimpses of eternal day " Beyond the Tomb . " MONTGOMERY's Peak Mountains . The Dale of Hope looked lovely from this commanding situation ...
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... darker colour , and display a more awful aspect Even at sunset I have sometimes beheld them invested with a pur- ple tint , so firm and deeply toned , that , with the exception of the great landscape painter , Turner , who delights in ...
... darker colour , and display a more awful aspect Even at sunset I have sometimes beheld them invested with a pur- ple tint , so firm and deeply toned , that , with the exception of the great landscape painter , Turner , who delights in ...
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... dark ones past , " And whose sweet tears o'er wrong forgiven , " Shine as they fall , with light from heaven ! " MOORE's Lalla Rookh . From this commanding station the steep ridge of mountains called FROGGAT EDGE form the back - ground ...
... dark ones past , " And whose sweet tears o'er wrong forgiven , " Shine as they fall , with light from heaven ! " MOORE's Lalla Rookh . From this commanding station the steep ridge of mountains called FROGGAT EDGE form the back - ground ...
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... dark mass of intervening shadow , and the obscurity that now pervaded this wild and singular dale , wonderfully enhanced its grandeur . We passed it in silence , as if we feared to disturb the stillness of the scene , and interrupt its ...
... dark mass of intervening shadow , and the obscurity that now pervaded this wild and singular dale , wonderfully enhanced its grandeur . We passed it in silence , as if we feared to disturb the stillness of the scene , and interrupt its ...
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adorned amongst ancient appears artist Ashbourne Bakewell banks beautiful beheld Bridge Buxton Castle Castleton cavern chapel character Chatsworth church church-yard clouds colour contemplation Cross Dale dark delightful Derby Derbyshire Derwent Devonshire Duke elegant eminence erected excursion Eyam feeling foliage Glossop grandeur ground Haddon Haddon Hall Hall Hathersage hills honour Ilam Ilam Hall landscape light lofty Lord magnificent Mam Tor mansion marble Matlock Bath Matlock Dale Middleton miles mineral Miss Seward Monsal-dale monument Moor mountains nearly noble object observed occupied ornamented passed Peak of Derbyshire Peveril picture picturesque present recollection residence rich river Dove river Wye road rock rocky romantic scene scenery sculptured Sheffield side situation Stanton Stanton Moor steep stone stream summit surrounding Thorpe Cloud Tideswell toadstone town traveller trees vale valley vicinity village visited whole wild William Peveril Winnats Wirksworth wood Wormhill
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