The History of a ManGeorge Gilfillan A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1856 - 357 pagina's |
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... effect almost unearthly . It was fine , too , to send the imagination away under the night canopy , and to find comparisons and similitudes for the genius of favourite poets in the sights and sounds around us ; -the cataract , with its ...
... effect almost unearthly . It was fine , too , to send the imagination away under the night canopy , and to find comparisons and similitudes for the genius of favourite poets in the sights and sounds around us ; -the cataract , with its ...
Pagina 15
... effect produced by what in my ear was unintelligible , upon the people - to see their tears started by the combined power of what to me were an unknown tongue and a well - known eye ; their hearts pierced and souls moved by the strange ...
... effect produced by what in my ear was unintelligible , upon the people - to see their tears started by the combined power of what to me were an unknown tongue and a well - known eye ; their hearts pierced and souls moved by the strange ...
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... effect only inferior to that of the Scots novels . The " Sheiling " was particularly prized , and I transferred the picture of the thunderstorm in Glennevis , to a glen ten miles to the west of my native place , and ever since in fancy ...
... effect only inferior to that of the Scots novels . The " Sheiling " was particularly prized , and I transferred the picture of the thunderstorm in Glennevis , to a glen ten miles to the west of my native place , and ever since in fancy ...
Pagina 33
... effect was overwhelming , and was considerably enhanced by an incident which occurred . An old Baptist minister named Johnstone , with more zeal than discretion , got up at the close , and put in a very feeble reclamation in behalf of ...
... effect was overwhelming , and was considerably enhanced by an incident which occurred . An old Baptist minister named Johnstone , with more zeal than discretion , got up at the close , and put in a very feeble reclamation in behalf of ...
Pagina 44
... effect of this story on my imagi- nation . For many months it literally possessed me . I could scarcely be alone at night - time ; I lay with the bed - clothes piled over my face , lest , looking out , I should see the fearful stranger ...
... effect of this story on my imagi- nation . For many months it literally possessed me . I could scarcely be alone at night - time ; I lay with the bed - clothes piled over my face , lest , looking out , I should see the fearful stranger ...
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Pagina 268 - AWAY, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses ! In you let the minions of luxury rove ; Restore me the rocks, where the snow-flake reposes, Though still they are sacred to freedom and love : Yet, Caledonia, beloved are thy mountains, Round their white summits though elements war ; Though cataracts foam 'stead of smooth-flowing fountains, I sigh for the valley of dark Loch na Garr.