 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 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 on... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...his forefathers in the followingenthusiastic, yet not exaggerated terms : — " A very little above the source of the Leven, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr Smollett, ' so «m bosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. The... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 554 pages
...home of his forefathers in the following enthusiastic, yet not exaggerated terms; "A very little above xclaimed, in a tone of surprise and affright, oak wood that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. The lake approaches, on... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr Smollet, 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 di Gardi, Albano, De Vico, Bolsena and Geneva, and, upon my honour, I prefer Loch... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - English fiction - 1836 - 430 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the frith at Dunbritton. A very little abov« its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr. Smollett, so imbosomed in an oak wood that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...curiosity, from the quality and form of the rock, as from the nature of its situation. A very little above easant hours again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here ! I would not (the late commissary), so embosomed in oak wood, that we did not perceive it till we were within fifty... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1903 - 542 pages
...vol. VII, p. 302. - • Ibid, vol. VII, p. 332. - ' Ibid. vol. VII, p. 386. lake [= Longh Lornond], 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 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 wilhin fifty yards of the door. The lake approaches on... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 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 on... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 1048 pages
...curiosity, from the quality and form of "the rock, as from the nature of its situation. A very little above the source of the Leven, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr. Smollett (the late commissary), so embosomed in oak-wood, that we did not perceive it till we were within fifty... | |
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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. 
