 But as the path gently circles around the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting and sublime objects, changes at every step, and presents them blended with, or divided from, each other, in every possible variety which...  My First Visit to Europe: Or, Sketches of Society, Scenery, and Antiquities ... - Page 79by Andrew Dickinson - 1856 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 354 pages
...can gratify the eye and the imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied,—-so exciting by its intricacy, and yet so sublime, is...exchanged with partial brilliancy, which gives character even to. the tamest of landscapes, the effect approaches nearer to enchantment. This path used to be... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 332 pages
...can gratify the eye and the imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied,—so exciting by its intricacy, and yet so sublime, is...exchanged with partial brilliancy, which gives character even to the tamest of landscapes, the effect approaches nearer to enchantment. Th° path used to be... | |
 | Thomas Moule, William Westall - Great Britain - 1830 - 250 pages
...or divided from each other, in every possible variety which can gratify the eye or the imagination ; when a piece of scenery so beautiful yet so varied, so exciting by its intricacy, is lighted up by the tints of morning or evening sun, and displays all that variety of shadowy depth,... | |
 | Thomas Moule - Great Britain - 1832 - 388 pages
...or divided from each other, in every possible variety which can gratify the eye or the imagination ; when a piece of scenery so beautiful yet so varied, so exciting by its intricacy, is lighted up by the tints of morning or evening sun, and displays all that variety of shadowy depth,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 676 pages
...divided from each other, in ever.y possible variety which can gratify the eye and the imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied,...exchanged with partial brilliancy, which gives character even to the tamest of landscapes, the effect approaches near to enchantment. This path used to be my... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1842 - 598 pages
...or divided from each other, in every possible variety which can gratify the eye and the imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied...exchanged with partial brilliancy, which gives character even to the tamest of landscapes, the effect approaches near to enchantment. This path used to be my... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1843 - 710 pages
...divided from, each other, in every possible variety which can gratify the eye and the imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied,...sublime, — is lighted up by the tints of morning or of I evening, and displays all that variety of shadowy depth, exchanged with partial brilliancy, which... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 728 pages
...can gratify the eye and the imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied, — go exciting by its intricacy, and yet so sublime, —...exchanged with partial brilliancy, which gives character even to the tamest of landscapes, the effect approaches near to enchantment. This path used to be my... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 728 pages
...every possible variety which can gratify the eye and the imagination. When a piece of scenery •o beautiful, yet so varied,— so exciting by its intricacy,...exchanged with partial brilliancy, which gives character even to the tamest of land scapes, the effect approaches near to enchantment. This path used to bu... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1845 - 572 pages
...which can gratify the eye and the imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied—so exciting by its intricacy, and yet so sublime— is...exchanged with partial brilliancy, which gives character even to the tamest of landscapes, the effect approaches near to enchantment. This path used to be my... | |
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