item: #1 of 6 id: 41430 author: None title: English Lakes: Water-Colours date: None words: 339 flesch: 76 summary: [Illustration: logo] A. & C. BLACK, LTD. 4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1 LIST OF VOLUMES IN BLACK'S WATER-COLOUR SERIES CAMBRIDGE. By Thomas Tyndale Published by A. & C. BLACK. LTD., 4, 5 & 6. SOHO SQUARE. keywords: grasmere; illustration cache: 41430.txt plain text: 41430.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 41431 author: None title: The English Lake District date: None words: 2912 flesch: 79 summary: When Wordsworth left the cottage for two months in 1802 on the occasion of his honeymoon he wrote A Farewell, which begins:-- Farewell, thou little nook of mountain ground, Thou rocky corner in the lowest stair Of that magnificent temple which doth bound One side of our whole vale with grandeur rare; Sweet garden-orchard, eminently fair, The lovliest spot that man hath ever found, Farewell!--we leave thee to Heaven's peaceful care, Thee, and the Cottage which thou dost surround. You drive up and down a narrow, hilly lane, catching peeps of mountains and sunset through thick, overhanging trees; you turn sharp up through a gate under dark firs and larches; and the carriage stops in what seems in the twilight a sort of court--a gravelled space, one side formed by a rough stone wall crowned with laurels and almost precipitous coppice, the brant (or steep) wood above, and the rest is Brantwood with a capital B. Chapter vi. keywords: cottage; derwentwater; grasmere; illustration; lake; life; mountain; wordsworth cache: 41431.txt plain text: 41431.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 42139 author: Bradley, A. G. (Arthur Granville) title: The English Lakes date: None words: 11941 flesch: 62 summary: Here, too, behind the long grassy promontory with pebbly shore that roughly marks the entry to this upper and more beautiful four miles of lake, is Lyulph's tower. Here are pleasant silvery strands overhung with tall sycamores and oaks; there are rocky shores fringed with hazel and alder, where the crystal waters of this most pellucid of large lakes breaks sonorously when a gale is blowing. keywords: buttermere; country; crag; day; half; head; helvellyn; illustration; keswick; lake; lakeland; life; man; miles; mountain; shore; skiddaw; time; ullswater; vale; water; windermere; wordsworth cache: 42139.txt plain text: 42139.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 42476 author: Sessions, Frederick title: Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District date: None words: 57860 flesch: 65 summary: It is the declaration of the mind of God-made great men. He could not be a mere hanger-on to greater men to whom several poets addressed sonnets of affection and admiration. keywords: age; ambleside; art; author; beauty; books; character; charles; children; christian; church; coleridge; coniston; cottage; country; day; days; death; earth; england; english; family; father; form; friend; god; good; great; half; hand; heart; high; home; house; illustration; john; lake; left; letters; life; linton; literature; living; lloyd; london; love; man; men; mind; mother; mountain; nature; north; people; place; poems; poet; poor; quincey; right; round; ruskin; school; soul; southey; spirit; study; things; thought; time; water; way; wife; william; wordsworth; work; world; years cache: 42476.txt plain text: 42476.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 48207 author: White, John Pagen title: Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country With Copious Notes date: None words: 96772 flesch: 68 summary: On an Inquisition taken after the death of Johanna de Coupland, in the 49th Edward the Third, it was found that she held the advowson of the Chapel of Saint Mary's Holme, within the lake of Wynandermere, but that it was worth nothing, because the land which the said Chapel enjoyed of old time had been seized into the hands of the King, and lay within the park of Calgarth. In older times, when the interests of the lords outweighed farther than in our own day the rights of the peasantry, certain youthful members of the retinue, in order to deepen the impression and make it more enduring, were severely whipped at all those points which the stewards were most anxious to have held in remembrance. keywords: abbey; abbot; account; age; battle; brother; carlisle; castle; century; church; clifford; come; country; cross; crown; cumberland; daughter; day; days; death; district; earl; earth; east; edward; egremont; england; fair; family; father; feet; fell; forest; form; furness; gave; god; good; green; half; hall; hand; head; heart; helm; henry; high; hills; home; house; inhabitants; island; john; king; lady; lake; lands; lay; left; life; lord; love; man; manor; men; miles; monks; morning; mountain; near; night; north; notes; o'er; place; present; round; saint; scotland; sea; shore; sir; son; south; stone; thomas; thought; time; tower; town; tradition; vale; valley; wall; water; way; westmorland; white; wild; william; wind; year cache: 48207.txt plain text: 48207.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 54318 author: Home, Gordon title: The English Lakes: A Sketch-Book date: None words: 467 flesch: 83 summary: By D. E. G. Woollard |NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. By H. G. Hampton and D. E. G. Woollard |NORWICH. keywords: illustration cache: 54318.txt plain text: 54318.txt