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... construction of much needed and highly successful rail- ways, and promotion of others largely speculative. In the decade of 1840-1850 the Lake District came to be circled with rails, around the southern and western coasts to Workington, and along the north from Workington to Cockermouth and thence...

..., was protesting the construc- tion of a railway line from Kendal to Windermere.’ One argument for the line was that it would allow large numbers of factory workers to take day trips to the Lake District, thus briefly escaping urban blight. To Wordsworth, in his country retirement...

... in some detail of the palace erected on an island in the lake of Dambea, a description largely paralleled in Rasselas. Seged dreams of an inundation which overwhelms his palace (and Rasselas was shut in for some time by an inundation).lO A crocodile rises from the lake and overruns Seged’s garden...

... been addressed to the description of the lake of Como in Chapter 2 of the novel; while Edmond de Goncourt concluded, briefly: “Son ime me semble aussi &he que sa prose.” Arthur Chuquet, in his Stendhal- Beyle, said much the same : “Stendhal n’est pas UQ bcrivain.” Among contemporary...

... is much farther north than has generally been thought, for New York City is decidedly southeast of Zenith; the Chaloosa River runs southeast- ward, as no major river does between Chicago and the Appalachians; and Lake Michigan is simply ignored by Lewis in creating the state. In order to border...

... of poetry, property, and labor. Like James K. Chandler and Marjorie Levinson, Simpson grounds Wordsworth’s imagination in the socio- historical moment of its origins; and like Alan Liu, Simpson is especially sensitive to how social relations in the Lake District were influenced by what...

..., the Apennines were either adorned with panoramas or blossoming fruit trees or lakes and running water-but nothing called great or grand. “Pleasing incidents” and “agreeable confusion” seem the nearest to this value. “Sublime” is not even within range, and the term was not to be applied to mountains...

... , where the Matmos is, according to a character called the Concierge, “a very curious lake, composed like you and I of living energy, but energy in liquid form, and it watches us,” converting our “negative psychic vibrations” into life force. Daniel is also the author of two scholarly monographs...

... to Augusta” Lake Leman and its environs take on special meaning because they recall Newstead Lake and its environs. But it is in canto 13 of Don Juan, where he describes Norman Abbey, the seat of the Amundevilles, in terms of Newstead Abbey (stanzas 56-58), that he gives his most intense...

.... David J. Lake and MacD. P. Jackson, two recent Mid- dleton scholars who cannot be ignored and whose conclusions have been ar- rived at independently, agree in ascribing a substantial part of the Middleton play to Webster on the basis of so-called involuntary linguistic habits...

... students of Mid- dleton accept the ascription to him on the title-page of Anything for a Quiet Lfe, 1662, and there is no support for Webster’s part in The Fair Maid ofthe Inn, from the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1647” (p. 199). Unfortunately, matters are not so simple. David J. Lake...

... humorous pieces, most welcome are the parody of Peter Bell, and the one beginning: He lived amidst th’untrodden ways To Rydal Lake that lead:- A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read. B. K...

... of the Lake The critic considered these views characteristic of the group : general discontent with the existing order of society; brooding over the disorder of man’s prog- 24 Jeffrey, “Review of Priestly’s Memoirs,” Contributions, p. 501. 25 Ibid., pp. 503-04. 26 Idem. 27 Jeffrey...

... of the orchard or in a wood close by the lake-side. William writes verses, John goes a fishing, and we read the books we have and such as we can procure. I read German, partly as preparatory to translating, but I am unfit for the task alone, and William is better employed so I do...

... in the English Lake District from Original Drawings by T. L. Rowbotham . London . Logan Shirley Wilson . 2008 . Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America . Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press . Lynch Deidre . 2015 . Loving...

... responsibility from the individual to society. He attacked the Lake poets’ apparent acceptance of this doctrine : For all sorts of vice and profligacy in the lower orders of society, they have the same virtuous horror, and the same tender compassion. While the ex- istence of these offences...

... that truer words were never uttered than “I gazed—and gazed—but little thought But let us look and look again: I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees...

... is “scholarly explana- tion.” Essentially, we are informed, not that Christ sailed over Galilee, but that Galilee was a “lake”: Fuar drzihtin inti sine zibar einan Zhntse. Moreover, Otfrid stops in his narration to mention that the books (biblia=sacred books) name this lake “Galilee” : joh Galile‘a...

... who “went out across unknown seas fighting, discovering, colonizing, and graved out the channels . . . through which the commerce and enterprise of England . . . flowed out over all the world” with the “few poor fishermen from an obscure lake in Palestine” who, during the time of the apostles...

..., a scribe with a particular relish for burlesque, rough humor, and reckless satire who gave the book flattering attention in a generous ten-page article.6 “The design,” he declared, ‘(is altogether sui generis, suitable to the wildness of the scene, which is laid among the woods and lakes...