 | Anne Grant - 1807 - 240 páginas
...narow, fo warm, fo fertile, fo overhung by mountains, which feem to meet above you, — with frdes fo fhrubby and woody! — the haunt of roes, and numberlefs...and fecurity. In this romantic retreat where a blue stream bends its courfe, with a half circular fweep, through the moft peaceful and fecluded of narrow... | |
 | 1859 - 826 páginas
...unequalled for the chorus of ' wood-notes wild' that resounded from every side. The sea is so nenr that its roar is heard and its productions abound...was always accounted (for its narrow bounds) a place nf great plenty and security." f Lord Macaulay must have seen this description, for he alludes to the... | |
 | John Paget - 1861 - 422 páginas
...was unequalled for the "chorus of 'wood-notes wild' that resounded " from every side. The sea is so near that " its roar is heard and its productions...(for its narrow " bounds) a place of great plenty and se" curity."1 Lord Macaulay must have seen this description, for he alludes to the letter in a contemptuous... | |
 | John Paget - 1861 - 428 páginas
...was unequalled for the "chorus of 'wood-notes wild' that resounded " from every side. The sea is so near that " its roar is heard and its productions...(for its narrow " bounds) a place of great plenty and se" curity."1 Lord Macaulay must have seen this description, for he alludes to the letter in a contemptuous... | |
 | 1868 - 624 páginas
...describes as ' a glen so narrow, so warm, so fertile—the haunt of roes and numberless small birds, always accounted (for its narrow bounds) a place of great plenty and seturity,' is turned into a barren wilderness, the appropriate haunt of a gang of banditti, whom it... | |
 | 1868 - 608 páginas
...describes as ' a glen so narrow, so warm, so fertile — the haunt of roes and numberless small birds, always accounted (for its narrow bounds) a place of great plenty and security? is turned into a barren wilderness, the appropriate haunt of a gang of banditti, whom it... | |
 | 1868 - 612 páginas
...describes as ' a glen so narrow, so warm, so fertile — the haunt of roes and numberless small birds, always accounted (for its narrow bounds) a place of great plenty and security,' is turned into a barren wilderness, the appropriate haunt of a gang of banditti, whom it... | |
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... glen so narrow, so warm, so fertile, so " overhung by mountains which seem to meet " above you — with sides so shrubby and woody ! " — the haunt of roes and numberless small birds. " They told me it was unequalled for the "chorus of 'wood-notes... 