| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clonds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover...their necks as well as I do, may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous : both vale and hill are covered... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover Cliff ; rbut just such hills as people, who love their necks as well a? 1 do, may venture to climb, and crags,... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing...their necks as well as I do may venture to climb, * At Burnham in Buckinghamshire. and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more... | |
| Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...is a little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing...their necks as well as I do may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous: Both vale and hill are covered... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover cliff; but jast such hillĀ» as people who love their necks as well as I do, may venture to climb, and crags that... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...isa little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing...Dover cliff; but just such hills as people who love TO MR. WALPOLE.' I SYMPATHIZE with you in the sufferings which you foresee are coming upon you. We... | |
| John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...is a little chaos of mountains and precipices : mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing...their necks as well as I do, may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous. Both vale and hill are covered... | |
| American periodicals - 1891 - 874 pages
...is a little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing...their necks as well as I do may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous. ... At the foot of one of... | |
| John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...is a little chaos of mountains and precipices : mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing...their necks as well as I do, may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous. Both vale and hill are covered... | |
| Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover Cliffs, but just such hills as people who love their necks as well as I do may. venture to climh, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous. Both vale and hill... | |
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