Observations on the Western Parts of England: Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; to which are Added, a Few Remarks on the Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of WightT. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1798 - 359 strán (strany) |
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Observations on the Western Parts of England: Relative Chiefly to ... William Gilpin Úplné zobrazenie - 1798 |
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Strana 213 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies: The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays: The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot...
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Strana 234 - He was a man of wit, and had by rote all the ribaldry and common-place jest against religion and scripture, which are well suited to display pertness and folly, and to unsettle a giddy mind ; but are offensive to men of sense, whatever their opinions may be, and are neither intended nor adapted to investigate truth. The brilliancy of Mr .Tilly's wit, however, carried him a degree further than we often meet with in the annals of profaneness.
Strana 225 - That led the sailor through the stormy way, Was from its rocky roots by billows torn, And the high turret in the whirlwind borne, Fleets bulg'd their sides against the craggy land, And pitchy ruins blacken'd all the strand.
Strana 85 - Regions like this, which have come down to us rude and untouched from the beginning of time, fill the mind with grand conceptions, far beyond the efforts of art and cultivation.
Strana 226 - In the mean time the fire having descended to the lower parts of the building, had driven the poor inhabitants upon the skirts of the rock ; where they were sitting disconsolate, when assistance arrived. They had the mortification, however, to find that the boats, through fear of being dashed in pieces, were obliged to keep aloof.
Strana 228 - ... forlorn inhabitants keep close quarters, and are obliged to live in darkness and stench ; listening to the howling storm, excluded in every emergency from the least hope of assistance, and without any earthly comfort, but what is administered from their confidence in the strength of the building in which they are immured. Once, on relieving this forlorn guard, one of the men was found dead, his companion choosing rather to shut himself up with a putrifying carcase, than, by throwing it into the...
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Strana 276 - Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most ; Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self, Recluse amid the close-embowering woods.