 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 654 páginas
...the prospects that burst upon us from every part of the vast horizon, when" we had gained the summit, were such as we had scarcely dared to hope for, and...lay, like -a map, the vast tract of low country which extends between Bassenthwaite and the Irish Channel, marked with the silver circles of the river Derwent,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 652 páginas
...the prospects that burst upon us from every part of the vast horizon, when we had gained the summit, were such as we had scarcely dared to hope for, and...lay, like a map, the vast tract of low country which extends between Bassenthwaite and the Irish Channel, marked with the silver circles of the river Derwent,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1814 - 572 páginas
...the midway air Shew acarce so gross as beetles. i . • • , We now stood on a point which commanded the whole dome of the sky. The prospects below, each of which we had before considered separately as a grand scene, were now only miniature parts in the immense... | |
 | Thomas West - 1821 - 346 páginas
...summit, were such as we had scarcely dared to hope for, and must now rather venture to enumerate then to describe. We stood on a pinnacle, commanding the...lay, like a map, the vast tract of low country which extends between Bassenthwaite and the Irish Channel, marked with tho silver circles of the river Derwent,... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1830 - 172 páginas
...varied and magnificent. It cannot be better described than in the language of Mrs. Radcliffe : — " We stood on a pinnacle commanding the whole dome of...lay, like a map, the vast tract of low country which extends between Bassenthwaite and the Irish Channel, marked with the silver circles of the river Derwent,... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1835 - 394 páginas
...was an object which first struck my companions with terror. We now stood on a point which commanded the whole dome of the sky. The prospects below, each of which we had before considered separately as a great scene, were now only miniature parts of the immense... | |
 | George Nicholson - 1840 - 692 páginas
...was an object which first struck rny companions with terror. We now stood on a point which commanded the whole dome of the sky. The prospects below, each of which we had before considered separately as a great scene, were now only miniature parts of the immense... | |
 | John (uncle, pseud.) - 1846 - 304 páginas
...of others. The prospects that now burst upon us at every step were grand beyond description. At last we stood on a pinnacle commanding the whole dome of the sky, and the prospects below, each of which had before been considered separately as a grand scene, were... | |
 | Henry Tudor - 1848 - 468 páginas
...he read the following sketch : — " ' We stood on a pinnacle,' (says the above-mentioned lady,) ' commanding the whole dome of the sky. The prospects...lay, like a map, the vast tract of low country which extends between Bassenthwaite and the Irish Channel, marked with the silver circles of the river Derwentin... | |
 | Samuel Clark - 1857 - 308 páginas
...of others. The prospects that now burst upon us at every step were grand beyond description. At last we stood on a pinnacle commanding the whole dome of the sky, and the prospects below, each of which had before been considered separately as a grand scene, were... | |
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... to describe. We stood on a pinnacle, commanding the whole dome of the sky. The prospects below, each of which had been before considered separately as a great scene, were now miniature parts of the immense landscape. To the north lay, like a map,... 
