 | Women - 1831 - 372 pages
...Norway, and when the winds beat with violence, must enjoy all the terrific grandeur of the tempestuous ocean. I would not for my amusement wish for a storm...humanity, that I should willingly look out upon them from Slues Castle." R issue, on the 14th of June, 1798, he was succeeded by his next brother, William, the... | |
 | John Burke - 1833 - 264 pages
...Norway, and when the winds beat with violence, must enjoy all the terrific grandeur of the tempestuous ocean, I would not for my amusement wish for a storm...willingly look out upon them from Slanes Castle." April, 1832, Louisa, only child of Captain the Honourable Duncombe PleydellBouverie, RM ;— 8. Emma,... | |
 | William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Andrew Chatto, William Beattie - Engraving - 1842 - 294 pages
...Norway, and when the winds beat with violence, must enjoy all the terrific grandeur of the tempestuous ocean. I would not for my amusement wish for a storm, but as storms, whether wished for or not, will sometimes happen, I may say without violation of humanity, that I should willingly... | |
 | Photography - 1867 - 642 pages
...tempestuous ocean. I would not for my amusement wish fur a atorm ; but as storms, whether wished for or not, will sometimes happen, I may say without violation...humanity, that I should willingly look out upon them from Slain's Castle." Had Dr. Johnson taken the trouble to scramble down the rocks — in the position,... | |
 | John Blaikie - Scotland - 1868 - 336 pages
...violence, must enjoy all the terrific grandeur of a tempestuous storm* I would not for my amusement wish a storm, but as storms, whether wished or not, will...humanity, that I should willingly look out upon them from Slains Castle." The St. Glairs, or Sinclairs, have long taken the lead in Caithness, and, as the chiefs... | |
 | William Finden - 1874 - 320 pages
...Norway, and when the winds beat with violence, it must enjoy all the terrific grandeur of the tempestuous ocean. I would not for my amusement wish for a storm, but as storms, whether wished for or not, will sometimes happen, I may say, without violation of humanity, that I should willingly... | |
 | Alexander Smith - Aberdeen (Scotland) - 1875 - 712 pages
...ocean. I would not, for my amusement, wish for a stonn ; but as storms, whether wished for or not, will happen, I may say, without violation of humanity, that I should willingly look out upon them from Slaius Castle." The Castle stands in a very commanding position, on the brink of the cliffs, from which... | |
 | Alexander Smith - Aberdeen (Scotland) - 1875 - 704 pages
...Norway, and when the winds beat with violence, must enjoy all the teriffic grandeur of the tempestuous ocean. I would not, for my amusement, wish for a storm ; but as storms, whether wished for or not, will happen, I may say, without violation of humanity, that I should willingly look out... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...Journey ' (which, from beginning to end, has clearly a humorous intent in its elaborate formality) ' wish for a storm : but as storms, whether wished or...violation of humanity, that I should willingly look upon them from Slane's Castle.' ' A Scotchman,' he says in the same book, ' must be a very sturdy moralist,... | |
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From the windows the eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway, and when the winds beat with violence must enjoy all the terrifick grandeur of the tempestuous ocean. I would not for my amusement... 
