Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain: During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volume 1G. Ramsay, 1815 |
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... mountains ; it is a lump of earth sloping to the water , more or less abruptly , but with great va- riety , and deeply indented with bays . The great charm is the contrast of the loneliness and retire- ment of the objects near you ...
... mountains ; it is a lump of earth sloping to the water , more or less abruptly , but with great va- riety , and deeply indented with bays . The great charm is the contrast of the loneliness and retire- ment of the objects near you ...
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... canvas , without giving to distant objects larger dimensions than they really have ; -mountains represented under their true angle would look like ant hills . Historical sub- VOL . I. M 178 LONDON - PAINTING . jects , an dany others.
... canvas , without giving to distant objects larger dimensions than they really have ; -mountains represented under their true angle would look like ant hills . Historical sub- VOL . I. M 178 LONDON - PAINTING . jects , an dany others.
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... mountain , one of them in a grotto . There is certainly great beauty in all this ; but the water of the lake is dull and muddy , full of reeds and aquatic plants , which mark its stagnation . The lawns are half covered and belittled by ...
... mountain , one of them in a grotto . There is certainly great beauty in all this ; but the water of the lake is dull and muddy , full of reeds and aquatic plants , which mark its stagnation . The lawns are half covered and belittled by ...
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... mountains , and without water , were still highly beautiful , and almost sublime . Very few commons or waste grounds were to be seen ; those few had sheep and a vast number of young asses grazing about ; these , with their long ears and ...
... mountains , and without water , were still highly beautiful , and almost sublime . Very few commons or waste grounds were to be seen ; those few had sheep and a vast number of young asses grazing about ; these , with their long ears and ...
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... mountains , shook into every possible form of horror . " Cader Idris deserves alone the name of mountain , and formed a conspicuous ob- ject for a great part of yesterday . We stopped at its base to see a very pretty waterfall , and ...
... mountains , shook into every possible form of horror . " Cader Idris deserves alone the name of mountain , and formed a conspicuous ob- ject for a great part of yesterday . We stopped at its base to see a very pretty waterfall , and ...
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Page 26 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
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Page 322 - Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. xv. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And,
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Page 153 - Here let us sweep The boundless landscape; now the raptured eye, Exulting swift, to huge Augusta send, Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow.