The illustrated Wordsworth’s guide to the lakes – William Wordsworth Hoge Kwaliteit

“The stillness seemed to be not of this world: – we paused and kept silence to listen; and no sound could be heard; the Scawfell Cataracts were voiceless to us; and there was not an insect to hum in the air…But the majesty of the mountains below, and close to us, is not to be conceived. We now beheld the whole mass of Great Gavel from its base, – the Den of Wastdale at our feet – a gulph immeasurable; Grasmire and the other mountains of Crummock – Ennerdale and its mountains; and the Sea beyond!” In this wa…