 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1805 - 686 pages
...of stone, torn or sunk from the precipice by some great convulsion of nature, nature, lie scattered in the most irregular confusion. These solid masses are of such a ponderous magnitnde, that they form eminences of the most capricious shapes; while the intermediate spaces become... | |
 | Henry Smithers - Poetry, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...in this interval of rock and water, colossal fragments of stone, torn or sunk from the precipice, by some great convulsion of nature, are scattered below...high eminences of the most capricious shapes, while their intermediate spaces become deep vallies, in which houses are built, and even ashes and elms are... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...scattered in the most irregular confusion. These masses are of such ponderous magnitude, that they form eminences of the most capricious shapes; while the intermediate spaces become deep valleys, in wkich houses are built, and even ash and elm trees are seen to flourish, sheltered from the storms... | |
 | Visitor - 1841 - 278 pages
...in this interval of rock and water, colossal fragments of stone, torn or sunk from the precipice by some great convulsion of nature, are scattered below...high eminences of the most capricious shapes, while their intermediate spaces become deep valleys, in which houses are built, and even ashes and elms are... | |
 | Edwin Lee - 1848 - 238 pages
...Iu this interval of rock and water, colossal fragments of stone, torn or sunk from the precipice by some great convulsion of nature, are scattered below...irregular confusion. These solid masses are of such ponderous magnitude that they form high eminences of the most capricious shapes, while their intermediate... | |
 | Edwin Lee - 1854 - 298 pages
...In this interval of rock and water, colossal fragments of stone, torn or sunk from the precipice by some great convulsion of nature, are scattered below...irregular confusion. These solid masses are of such ponderous magnitude that they form high eminences of the most capricious shapes, while their intermediate... | |
 | W. Kidd - 1830 - 254 pages
...in this interval of rock and water, colossal fragincuts of stone, torn or sunk from the precipice by some great convulsion of nature, are scattered below...high eminences of the most capricious shapes, while their intermediate spaces become deep valleys, in which houses are built, and even ashes and elms are... | |
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... at the distance of more than a mile from the sea: in this interval of rock and water, colossal fragments of stone, torn or sunk from the precipice by some great convulsion of nature, are scattered below in the most irregular confusion. These solid... 