 | Daniel Dewar - 1812 - Počet stránok 372
...reflection perpetually recurs, of the weakness " and insignificance of perishable man, whose " generations pass away into oblivion with all " their toils and...pours out her •" streams and renews her forests with undecay" ing activity, regardless of the fate of her . * The causes which have operated to produce... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - Počet stránok 382
...obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and the habits of the people, and on the cliffs, and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land ; and the...of the fate of her proud and perishable sovereign. We set all this down at random, from the vague and casual recollection of the impressions we have ourselves... | |
 | 1824 - Počet stránok 1008
...obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and the habits of the people, and on the cliffs, and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land ; and the...perpetually recurring, of the weakness and insignificance of perish» able man, whose generations thus pass away into oblivion, with all their toils and ambition,... | |
 | 1837 - Počet stránok 574
...obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and the habits of the people, and on the cliffs and caves and gulfy torrents of the land; and the...of the fate of her proud and perishable sovereign." only derive immense pleasure from the preceding extract, but will know how to increase that emotion... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - Počet stránok 466
...and obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and habits of the people, and on the cliffs, and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land, and the...ambition, while Nature holds on her unvarying course, and renews her forests with undecaying activity, regardless of the fate of her proud and perishable sovereign.... | |
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 796
...and obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and habits of the people, and on the cliffs, and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land — and...regardless of the fate of her proud and perishable soveThis is a glowing illustration of Alison's theory, and is as good as any argument for the purpose... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - Počet stránok 790
...obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and the habits of the people, and on the cliffs, and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land; and the...of the fate of her proud and perishable sovereign. temperature of the air, and the profusion of sustenance, —the pairing of birds,—the cheerful resumption... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - Počet stránok 788
...obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and the habits of the people, and on the cliffs, and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land ; and the...of the fate of her proud and perishable sovereign. We have said enough, we believe, to let our readers understand what we mean by external objects being... | |
 | 1850 - Počet stránok 534
...obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and the habits of the people, and on the cliffs and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land — and...of the fate of her proud and perishable sovereign.' . . -.!. ,-n. In 1820 Mr Jeffrey was elected Lord Rector of the university of Glasgow. The principle... | |
 | 1850 - Počet stránok 270
...language and the habits of the people, and on the cliffs and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land—and the solemn and touching reflection perpetually recurring...of the fate of her proud and perishable sovereign.' In 1820 Mr Jeffrey was elected Lord Rector of the university of Glasgow. The principle of election... | |
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... on the mountains in summer, and the tales and the sports that amuse the little groups that are frozen into their vast and trackless valleys in the winter. Add to all this, the traces of vast and obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language... 
