Observations pittoresques sur différentes parties de l'Angleterre: particulièrement sur les montagnes et les lacs du Cumberland et du Westmoreland, tr. par le baron de B. ****.Guillaume Theophile Korn, 1801 |
Términos y frases comunes
agréable agrestes Ambleside amphithéâtre Angleterre arbres avions bâtimens bâtiment beau belles Berghem Berkshire Birmingham bords Borrodale Bowness Bridgwater brisés Brugh cascade Castellet château château de Warwick chène chute du Lodoar collines comte de Leicester comtés comtés de Cumberland contraste côté couleurs couverte de bois Coventry Cumberland d'Ambleside d'arbres d'eau Derbyshire Derwent désagréable Description devans différentes effet éloignées embellir endroits environ espèce forme Furness général genre grandeur habitans hauteur idées Kendal l'art l'auteur l'eau l'effet l'île l'imagination l'oeil Lancastre ligne lointain lord lumière majestueuse masse milles nature nord objets observer ombres ornée ornemens par-tout paraît paysage peintre pied pinceau pitto place plaine précipice promontoire qu'une quelquefois remarquer rement resque resserré rivière rocher rochers romantique route ruine ruisseau sauvage saxon scène de montagnes SECT seule soleil sommet surface tableau tagnes Tamise teintes tems terrain terre tion traverse trouve vallée vallon variées variété vaste Warwick Watenlath Westmoreland Windermere Woodstock
Pasajes populares
Página 156 - Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incompos'd he shakes ; and from his sides The troublous insects lashes with his tail, Returning still. Amid his subjects safe, Slumbers the monarch-swain ; his careless arm, Thrown round his head, on downy moss sustain'd : Here laid his scrip, with wholesome viands fill'd ; There, listening...
Página 156 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffused into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface.
Página 182 - Is deep enriched with vegetable life ; Till, in the western sky, the downward sun Looks out, effulgent, from amid the flush Of broken clouds, gay-shifting to his beam. The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes The...
Página 104 - A boding silence reigns, Dread through the dun expanse; save the dull sound That from the mountain, previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth, disturbs the flood, And shakes the forest-leaf without a breath. Prone, to the lowest vale, the' aerial tribes Descend: the tempest-loving raven scarce Dares wing the dubious dusk.
Página 61 - Great Nature scorns control : she will not bear One beauty foreign to the spot or soil She gives thee to adorn : 'tis thine alone To mend, not change her features. . Does her hand Stretch forth a level lawn ? Ah, hope not thou To lift the mountain there. Do mountains frown •Around ? Ah, wish not there the level lawn.
Página 57 - Ah! Maria! puellarum elegantissima ! ah ! flore venustatis abrepta, vale ! heu quanto minus est cum reliquis versari quam tui meminisse.
Página 181 - Scowls o'er the darkened landscape snow, or shower ; If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew> and bleating herds Attest their joy, that- hill and valley rings.
Página 131 - And lost in lonely musing, in a dream. Confused, of careless solitude, where mix Ten thousand wandering images of things. Soothe every gust of passion into peace, All but the swellings of the softened heart. That waken, not disturb, the tranquil mind.
Página xviii - Yet, in fair, it is not fo : for the rules of pifturefque beauty, we know, are drawn from nature ; fo that to examine the face of nature by thefe rules, is no more than to examine nature by her own moft beautiful exertions. Thus Shakefpear : -There is an art. Which does mend Nature— change it rather : but That art...
Página 1 - Angleterre, il ne sera pas hors de propos de jeter un coup d'oeil rapide sur les grands traits de ce pays, d'où sa beauté pittoresque dépend en si grande partie.