The History of a ManGeorge Gilfillan A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1856 - 357 pagina's |
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... once contrasted and harmonized with the beauties of the more cultivated tracts . This was quite the character of my native parish . A fine level plain had , a poet would say , lain down at the feet of rough gigantic hills , to wonder at ...
... once contrasted and harmonized with the beauties of the more cultivated tracts . This was quite the character of my native parish . A fine level plain had , a poet would say , lain down at the feet of rough gigantic hills , to wonder at ...
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... once ; but my companion and I , instead of trembling , felt the glow and thrill of that terrible sublimity which is the mere shadow of the passing God . It was finer still to come up to this emi- nence on an autumn twilight , while the ...
... once ; but my companion and I , instead of trembling , felt the glow and thrill of that terrible sublimity which is the mere shadow of the passing God . It was finer still to come up to this emi- nence on an autumn twilight , while the ...
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... once drew out , and riveted in my mind , the knowledge I already had . Now he encouraged me to ask questions of him ; now he stooped over a flower , and told me something about its con- struction , or repeated the famous story of ...
... once drew out , and riveted in my mind , the knowledge I already had . Now he encouraged me to ask questions of him ; now he stooped over a flower , and told me something about its con- struction , or repeated the famous story of ...
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... once the angel and the demon of my existence , and still thy fairy hands are spreading their gauzy veil between me and the universe , and I may almost say with Schiller , " the Beautiful still is the God of the Earth ! " When thy torch ...
... once the angel and the demon of my existence , and still thy fairy hands are spreading their gauzy veil between me and the universe , and I may almost say with Schiller , " the Beautiful still is the God of the Earth ! " When thy torch ...
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... once carried back to my own valley , and borne away to a land beyond the wing of dreams . The first five I laid my hands on were the Monastery , Waverley , the Abbot , the Fortunes of Nigel , and Ivanhoe . The Monastery , reckoned by ...
... once carried back to my own valley , and borne away to a land beyond the wing of dreams . The first five I laid my hands on were the Monastery , Waverley , the Abbot , the Fortunes of Nigel , and Ivanhoe . The Monastery , reckoned by ...
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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.