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... leading to Ambleside ; and before I left Ambleside I did not fail to pay it a visit . The church of Grasmere is dedicated to St. Oswald , and has been very celebrated , not only for the beauty of its position , and its neighbourhood ...
... leading to Ambleside ; and before I left Ambleside I did not fail to pay it a visit . The church of Grasmere is dedicated to St. Oswald , and has been very celebrated , not only for the beauty of its position , and its neighbourhood ...
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... leading to it , plainly bespeak it a Roman work . " " This fort , " he further adds , " is guarded on the west by the conflux of the rivers Rothay and Brathay , on the south by Windermere . A high rock , at a small distance ...
... leading to it , plainly bespeak it a Roman work . " " This fort , " he further adds , " is guarded on the west by the conflux of the rivers Rothay and Brathay , on the south by Windermere . A high rock , at a small distance ...
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... leading to Rydal Mount , the latter being on the left . The hall is a square , ungainly building , and is in no way worthy of remark or notice , if we except the fact in its history , that on the same spot the same family have resided ...
... leading to Rydal Mount , the latter being on the left . The hall is a square , ungainly building , and is in no way worthy of remark or notice , if we except the fact in its history , that on the same spot the same family have resided ...
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... leading by High Wray , and over Brathay bridge : the second , which is at least double the distance , or about fifteen miles , leading to the ferry opposite Bowness , and of which mention has been already made . The first of these two ...
... leading by High Wray , and over Brathay bridge : the second , which is at least double the distance , or about fifteen miles , leading to the ferry opposite Bowness , and of which mention has been already made . The first of these two ...
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... leading over the picturesque bridge of the Brathay - a bridge that had such charms in the eyes of our artist , that he has produced a fac - simile of it , that others like himself may pause to admire its beauty . BRATHAY BRIDGE ...
... leading over the picturesque bridge of the Brathay - a bridge that had such charms in the eyes of our artist , that he has produced a fac - simile of it , that others like himself may pause to admire its beauty . BRATHAY BRIDGE ...
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2d Edition admiration Ambleside ancient ascent ballad Bassenthwaite beautiful Bishop Blencathra bound bridge British Buccleugh Buttermere called Carlisle Castle church cloth Cockermouth coloured Coniston Crag Crummock Water Cumberland D. H. M'Kewan Derwent Derwentwater distance Dunmaile Raise Eminent Encyclopædia England English Engravings on Wood Ennerdale Ennerdale Water Fcap feet Fell Foolscap 8vo Furness Abbey garden Gilks Gill Grasmere grimme baròne Guenever height Helvellyn hill HISTORY Hobbie Hughie the Graeme Illustrations J. C. Loudon Kendal Keswick King Arthur Kinmont Willie knight Lady Lake District Langdale Langdale Pikes Lodore London Lord Scrope miles Miss Costello mountains Penrith picturesque Pike Plates poet poetical Post 8vo road rocks Royal ruins Rydal Saddleback Scawfell scene scenery seen side sketches Skiddaw Southey Stanley Gill stones stream Tarn thou tourist tower town traveller TREATISE Ulleswater vale Vignette Titles vols Westmoreland Windermere Woodcuts Wordsworth
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