 The blue majestic everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears its head unsung), with Edinburgh at their base clustering proudly over her rugged...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 1511882Full view - About this book
 | 1881 - 884 lehte
...everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears...proudly over her rugged foundations, and covering with a vapory mantle the jagged black venerable masses of stonework that stretch far and wide and show like... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 506 lehte
...everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears...sun was going down, and the moon's fine crescent, like a pretty silver creature as it is, was riding quietly above me. Such a sight does one good. But... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 502 lehte
...everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears...sun was going down, and the moon's fine crescent, like a pretty silver creature as it is, was riding quietly above me. Such a sight does one good. But... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 812 lehte
...everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears...evening when the sun was going down, and the moon's fme crescent, like a pretty silver creature as it is, was riding quietly above me. Such a sight does... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 590 lehte
...everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears...proudly over her rugged foundations, and covering with a vapory mantle the jagged, black, venerable masses of stone-work that stretch far and wide and show... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1886 - 390 lehte
...the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind it on the north ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet ("where not a hillock rears...masses of stonework, that stretch far and wide and showlike a city of fairyland. There's for you, man ! I saw it all last evening — when the sun was... | |
 | David Masson - 1892 - 464 lehte
...Mr. Ireland's copies of letters : Conway, p. 178. 2 Ditto, ibid. p. 180. 8 Ditto, ibid. pp. 201, 202. revisit me, as I know she will, it shall ere long...sun was going down, and the moon's fine crescent, like a pretty silver creature as it is, was riding quietly above me." 1 Reminiscence in 1867. — "Hope... | |
 | David Masson - 1892 - 460 lehte
...us, where the atmosphere is pure as a diamond, and the prospect grander than any you ever saw,—the blue, majestic, everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills...sun was going down, and the moon's fine crescent, like a pretty silver creature as it is, was riding quietly above me." 1 Reminiscence in 1867.—"Hope... | |
 | John Nichol - 1892 - 266 lehte
...clustering proudly over her rugged foundations and covering with a vapoury mantle the jagged black masses of stonework that stretch far and wide, and show like a city of Faerylaud. ... I saw it all last evening when the sun was going down, and the moon's fine crescent,... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 lehte
...everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears...and covering with a vapoury mantle the jagged black masses of stonework that stretch far and wide, and show like a city of Faeryland. ... I saw it all... | |
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