Sir Thomas More (Volume 1 ); Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's. with Plates. in Two Volumes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831. Excerpt: ... A Tall, raw-boned, hard-featured North-Briton said one day to one of our Keswick guides, at a moment when I happened to be passing by, 'Well, I have been to look at your lake; it's 'a poor piece of water with some shabby moun'tains round about it.' He had seen it in a cold, dark, cheerless autumnal afternoon, to as great a disadvantage as I suppose, from the stamp of his visage and the tone and temper of his voice, he would have wished to see it, for it was plain that he carried no sunshine in himself wherewith to light it up. I have visited the Scotch lakes in a kindlier disposition; and the remembrance of them will ever be cherished among my most delightful reminiscences of natural scenery. I have seen also the finest of the Alpine lakes; and felt on my return from both countries, that if Derwentwater has neither the severe grandeur of the Highland waters, nor the luxuriance, and sublimity, and glory of the Swiss and Italian, it has enough to fill the imagination and to satisfy the heart. The best general view of Derwentwater is from the terrace, between Applethwaite and Milbeck, a little beyond the former hamlet. The old roofs and chimnies of that hamlet come finely in the foreground, and the trees upon the Ormathwaite estate give there a richness to the middle ground, "which is wanting in other parts of the vale. From that spot, I once saw three artists sketching it at the same time; William Westall (who has engraved it among his admirable views of Keswick), Glover, and Edward Nash, my dear, kind-hearted friend and fellow-traveller, whose death has darkened some of the blithest recollections of my latter life. I know-not from which of the surrounding heights it "is seen to most advantage; any one will amply repay the labour of the ascent; and often as...