Browse Items (50 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: mountains Previous Page Page of 5 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "Such dismal and loansom Places are very apt to make frightful and melancholy Impessions upon the Minds for Weak and Ignorant" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: approach, bogland, eighteenth century, inaccessibility, John Richardson, mountains, Protestant critique, roads, rocks, terrain, wildness "Tempt the lake's dark wave" Luis approaches Purgatory and meets Polonia Tags: grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age "The dark place reserved for sin" "KING. What would'st thou? PATRICK. Come with me..." Tags: grimness, miracle, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age "The little islands of Pan held in the crooked elbow of the lake" The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941 Tags: County Donegal, distraction, embodied experience, islands, location, miracle, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, penance, poetry, poverty, remoteness, repetition, rural landscape, spiritual experience, twentieth century, vista "The Mouth of a Horrible Cave" "SCENE XVIII. A REMOTE PART OF THE MOUNTAIN WITH THE MOUTH OF A HORRIBLE CAVE..." Tags: birdlife, grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age "Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it." "It is remarkable how completely the exterior world is shut out. Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, barrenness, hills, isolation, lake, mountains, rhetoric, rural landscape, timelessness, tradition, twentieth century, water "We pray to ourself. The metal moon, unspent" The poetry of Dennis Devlin Tags: colour, Dennis Devlin, devotional activities, landscape, moon, mountains, night, poetry, prayer, twentieth century "Wild and gloomy loneliness" "Lough Derg has certainly been well chosen as a spot of religious penitence and seclusion, for the character of its scenery harmonises well with such a feeling; it is that of wild and gloomy loneliness." Tags: arbutus, colour, description, fauna, fishing, flora, fly fishing, Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Henry Newland, isolation, loneliness, memoir, mountains, myrica, nineteenth century, remoteness, wildness "Without doubt to-day some pilgrim Roweth to this island shore." "SCENE VIII. THE ENTRANCE OF A CONVENT — AT THE END THE CAVE OF PATRICK..." Tags: birdlife, grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age A description of Lough Derg and its topography “Lough Derg is a lonely sheet of water, extending from north to south, about six miles in length..." Tags: Caesar Otway, Daniel O'Connor, geography, geology, hills, hydrology, lake, landscape, mountains, nineteenth century, positive description, River Derg, topography, watershed Previous Page Page of 5 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
