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. ****.

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Guillaume Theophile Korn, 1801

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Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 57 - Ah! Maria! puellarum elegantissima ! ah ! flore venustatis abrepta, vale ! heu quanto minus est cum reliquis versari quam tui meminisse.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.

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