 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 páginas
...raise far nobler emotions than the mere picturesque is capable of exciting. ' The roaring of torrents, after heavy rains, and when the wind favours its transmission,...prognostic of rain, and often strikes the ear even at three miles' distance. This majestic sound applies to the rivers generally, when swollen and agitated,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 páginas
...raise far nobler emotions than the mere picturesque is capable of exciting. ' The roaring of torrents, after heavy rains, and when the wind favours its transmission,...prognostic of rain, and often strikes the ear even at three miles' distance. This majestic sound applies to the rivers generally, when swollen and agitated,... | |
 | Nicholas Toms Carrington, Noel Thomas Carrington - 1834 - 340 páginas
...imagination of the traveller." t "> •$-*: NOTE 4, Page 9. . ••.•• Of the hoarse waterfall. leap The roaring of torrents in the Moor, after heavy rains,...have never heard this impressive music in a wild and soli. tary district. It is occasionally louder by night than by day, which the peasants consider as... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1839 - 486 páginas
...Whose grandeur fills the wild. . . p. 60. " The roaring of torrents in the moor, after heavy rains, is sublime to a degree inconceivable by those who...impressive music in a wild and solitary district." — Notes to Carrington's Dartmoor. And here we are happy to have it in our power to offer a simple... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1851 - 324 páginas
...Ossian, " red through the siony vale comes down the stream of the hill." " The roaring of these torrents after heavy rains, and when the wind favours its transmission,...degree inconceivable by those who have never heard their impressive music in a wild and solitary district." There are two streams on the moor, which indicate... | |
 | Thomas Clifton Paris - 1851 - 312 páginas
...Ossian. " red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill." " The roaring of these torrents after heavy rains, and when the wind favours its transmission,...degree inconceivable by those who have never heard their impressive music in a wild and solitary district." There are two streams on the moor, which indicate... | |
 | Thomas Clifton Paris - 1856 - 332 páginas
...the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill." "The roaring of these torrents after heavy rain, and when the wind favours its transmission, is sublime...degree inconceivable by those who have never heard their impressive music in a wild and solitary district." There are two streams on the moor, which indicate... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1878 - 194 páginas
...rains, running redly through the ' stony vales.' The roaring of these torrents, when angry and swollen, is sublime to a degree inconceivable by those who have never heard the wild impressive music of untamed Nature. " The tors are remarkable for their quaint fantastic outlines,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1887 - 408 páginas
...the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill." " The roaring of these torrents after heavy rain, and when the wind favours its transmission, is sublime...degree, inconceivable by those who have never heard their impressive music in a wild and solitary district." There are stream-names on the moor, which... | |
 | John Murray - 1895 - 434 páginas
...the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill." "The roaring of these torrents after heavy rain, and when the wind favours its transmission, is sublime...degree, inconceivable by those who have never heard their impressive music in a wild and solitary district." There are stream-names on the moor, which... | |
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The roaring of these torrents after heavy rains, and when the wind favours its transmission, is sublime to a degree inconceivable by those who have never heard their impressive music in a wild and solitary district. 