 | William Wordsworth - Alps - 1822 - 180 pages
...community, whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which protected it. Neither highborn Nobleman, Knight, nor Esquire, was here ;...had a consciousness that the land, which they walked * One of the most pleasing characteristics of manners in secluded and thinly-peopled districts, is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Alps - 1823 - 166 pages
...community, whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which protected it. Neither highborn nobleman, knight, nor esquire, was here;...years been possessed by men of their name and blood; — and venerable was the transition, when a curious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains,... | |
 | John Hudson (of Kendal.), William Wordsworth - Geology - 1842 - 336 pages
...community, whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which protected it. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, nor esquire, was here...years been possessed by men of their name and blood ; and venerable was the transition, when a carious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains,... | |
 | John Hudson - Cumbria (England) - 1843 - 312 pages
...whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which had protected it. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, nor esquire, was here...years been possessed by men of their name and blood ; and venerable was the transition, when a curious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains,... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 742 pages
...and regulated by the mountains which had protected it. Neither high-born noblemen, knight, nor squire was here ; but many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that tne land which they walked over and tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 356 pages
...their comfort and content, like the misery of the Irish, had been the creation of centuries ; and ' many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness...for more than five hundred years been possessed by their name and blood.' Mr Thornton's plan is not entirely novel. A system not unlike it was proposed... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 358 pages
...the creation of centuries ; and ' many of these humble sons ofthehills had a consciousness that tho land which they walked over and tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by their name and blood.' Jlr Thornton's plan is not entirely novel. A system not unlike it was proposed... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 688 pages
...Traits,' referring to the freeholders of Westmoreland, quotes the following passage from Wordsworth : " Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than 500 years been possessed by men of the same blood." From what work of Wordsworth's... | |
 | John Hudson (of Kendal) - Geology - 1853 - 312 pages
...site of the old one, at the expence of the Rev. T. Vaughan. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, or esquire, was here ; but many of these humble sons...years been possessed by men of their name and blood ; and venerable was the transition, when a curious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 310 pages
...site of the old one, at the expence of the Rev. T. Vaughan. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, or esquire, was here; but many of these humble sons of...years been possessed by men of their name and blood ; and venerable was the transition, when a curious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains,... | |
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Neither high-born nobleman, knight, nor esquire was here; but many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land, which they walked over and tilled, had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of their name and blood... 
