 | Books - 1819 - 544 pages
...difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to...the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant about this forlorn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow and staunchelled... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 636 pages
...difficult to conceive. The sombrons and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to...the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant about this forlorn abode, excepting that one, and Vol XII. KS 2 N only one, of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Covenanters - 1819 - 722 pages
...difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to...the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant about this forlorn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow and staunchelled... | |
 | 1819 - 532 pages
...difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to...symbol of unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unminglecl with horror. Although the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant... | |
 | Walter Scott - Covenanters - 1819 - 352 pages
...difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to...ear what the landscape was to the eye— a symbol ef unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unmingled with horror. Although the night was not far advanced,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 376 pages
...difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to...the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant about this forlorn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow and staunchelled... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to...the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant about this forVOL. HI. D lorn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to...the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant about this forVOL. III. D lorn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to the ear what the landscape was to the eye—a symbol of unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unmingled with horror. Although the night... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 852 pages
...difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to...symbol of unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unmingjcd with horror. Although the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant... | |
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... stone, stood glimmering in the moonlight, like the sheeted spectre of some huge giant. A wilder or more disconsolate dwelling it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky... 
