 ... isles, distant shores, and boundary of mountains ; and now, a fair and fertile champaign country, varied with hill, dale, and rock, and skirted by the picturesque ridge of the Pentland mountains. But as the path gently circles around the base of the...  Waverley novels. (Library ed.). - Pagina 93di sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1852Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 332 pagine
...around the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting and sublime subjects, changes at every step, and presents them blended with...imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied,—so exciting by its intricacy, and yet so sublime, is lighted up by the tints of morning or... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 354 pagine
...around the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting and sublime subjects, changes at every step, and presents them blended with...imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied,—-so exciting by its intricacy, and yet so sublime, is lighted up by the tints of morning... | |
 | Thomas Moule, William Westall - 1830 - 250 pagine
...round the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting and sublime subjects, changes at every step, and presents them blended with,...in every possible variety which can gratify the eye or the imagination ; when a piece of scenery so beautiful yet so varied, so exciting by its intricacy,... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1832 - 388 pagine
...round the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting and sublime subjects, changes at every step, and presents them blended with,...in every possible variety which can gratify the eye or the imagination ; when a piece of scenery so beautiful yet so varied, so exciting by its intricacy,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 728 pagine
...picturesque ridge of the Pentland mountains. But as the path gently circles around the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting...When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied, — go exciting by its intricacy, and yet so sublime, — is lighted up by the tints of morning or... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 728 pagine
...picturesque ridge of the Pentland Mountains. But as the path gently circles around the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting and sublime objects, changes at every atep, and presents them blended with, or divided from, each other, in every possible variety which... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1845 - 572 pagine
...picturesque ridge of the Pentland mountains. But as the path gently circles around the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting...imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied—so exciting by its intricacy, and yet so sublime— is lighted up by the tints of morning... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pagine
...as the path gently circles around the base of the cliffs, the prospect, cornposed as it is of those enchanting and sublime objects, changes at every step,...and yet so sublime — is lighted up by the tints of IKS EDINBURGH. morning or of evening, and displays all that variety of shadowy depth, exchanged with... | |
 | 1851 - 704 pagine
...picturesque ridge of the Pentland mountains. But as the path gently circles around the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting...possible variety which can gratify the eye and the imaginatioa When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied—so exciting by its intricacy, and... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black, Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1851 - 284 pagine
...picturesque ridge of the Pentland mountains. But as the path gently circles around the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting...objects, changes at every step, and presents them blended WHITE HORSE CLOSE. 29 be seen the site of the cottage of Davie Deans, and other objects rendered imperishably... | |
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