 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...were very frequent during that horrible anarchy. By the side of the high road ' ' A very little above the source of the Leven, on the lake, stands the house...Cameron, belonging to Mr. Smollett, so embosomed in an oak wood that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door.' Humphry Clinker, Letter... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 590 pages
...(lands the houfe of Cameron, belongirg to Mr. Smollett, fo embofomed in oak wood, that we did not fee it till we were within fifty yards of the door. The lake approaches on one fide to within fix or feven yards of the window. It might have been placed in a higher fite, which... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 254 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the Frith at Dunbritton. A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron belonging to Mr. Smollett, so embosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have seen the Lugo... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 254 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the Frith at Dunbritton. A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron belonging to Mr. Smollett, so embosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have seen the Lago... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 584 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the frith at Dunbritton. A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr Smollett, so embosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have seen the Lago... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 748 pages
...of his forefathers in the following enthusiastic, yet not exaggerated terms : " A very little above the source of the Leven, on the lake, stands the house...Cameron, belonging to Mr Smollett,* so embosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. The lake approaches on... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the frith at Dunbritton. A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr. Smollett, so embosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have seen the LagodiGardi,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1825 - 260 pages
...of his forefathers in the following enthusiastic, yet not exaggerated terms : " A very little above the source of the Leven, on the lake, stands the house...oakwood that we did not see it till we were within fifty * The late Commissary Sqnollett. yardr of the door. The lake approaches, oh one side, to within six... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...his forefathers in the following' enthusiastic yet not exaggerated terms : « A very, little above the source of the Leven, on the lake, stands the house...Cameron, belonging to Mr Smollett,' so embosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. The lake approaches,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - Great Britain - 1831 - 472 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the frith at Dunbritton. A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging...see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have seen the Lago di Gardi, Albano, De Vico, Bolsena, and Geneva, and, on my honor, I prefer Loch... | |
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A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr. Smollett, so embosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. 
