| Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 pages
...promise by putting their hands between theirs. From the nature of the country, the charms of which were heightened by novelty, and by the expectations...Our evening rides were not less delightful, when we weat out among the gardens round the city, and admired the richness and repose of the landscape, contrasted... | |
| Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1819 - 562 pages
...with cool mats, \ k • /• > to, /?^ I ' ' 1 i From the nature of the country, the charms of which were heightened by novelty, and by the expectations...admired the richness and repose of the landscape, conirasted with the gloomy magnificence of the _ _ — , , " were laid out for us, in such numbers,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1824 - 858 pages
...of the sights and incidents which we should meet with among so wild and extraordinarya people, itmay be supposed that these morning expeditions were pleasing...interesting. Our evening rides were not less delightful, when ive went out among the gardens round the city, and admired the richness and repose of the landscape,... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 480 pages
...supposed, that these morning expeditions were pleasing and interesting. Our evening rides were not le>s delightful, when we went out among the gardens round...magnificence of the surrounding mountains, which were often iuvolved in clouds and tempests, while we enjoyed the quiet and sunshine of the plain. The gardens... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1838 - 480 pages
...is the ornament of every other face in the city. From the nature of the country, the charms of which were heightened by novelty, and by the expectations...the surrounding mountains, which were often involved IB clouds and tempests, while we enjoyed the quiet and sunshine of the plain. The gardens are usually... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 492 pages
...by novelty, and by the expectations we formed of the sights and incidents which we should meet ivith among so wild and extraordinary a people, it may be...magnificence of the surrounding mountains, which were often iuvolved in clouds and tempests, while we enjoyed the quiet and sunshine of the plain. The gardens... | |
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