 | Anne Grant - 1807 - 240 páginas
...have no fpite againft this place, but I am provoked at its fuperabundant negatives. It is a fea-port, without being animated^ it is a village, without the...rural ; it is highland, without being pi&urefque or romaiuic ; ic has plains without verdure, hills without woods, mountains without majefty,. and a Iky... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 páginas
...which Mrs. Grant, in her Letters from the Mountains, has very justly described : — " It is a sea-port without being animated ; it is a village without the air of peace and simplicity ; it is military without being either gay or bold-looking ; it is country without being... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - 590 páginas
...which Mrs. Grant, in her Letters from the Mountains, has very justly described :—" It is a sea-port without being animated ; it is a village without the air of peace and simplicity; it is military without being either gay or boldlooking ; it is country without being rural;... | |
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... reared together ; the latter follow the former, and eat up thyme, pennyroyal, and other aromatic herbs, which the former will not touch. I was not sorry to leave Maryborough, the neighbourhood of which Mrs. Grant, in her Letters from the Mountains,... 