 | Our own country - 1878 - 714 páginas
...from east to west covered with huge stones and fragments of stone among the fern that fills it; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all...rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge terrific mass." Overhanging the sea is "an upward crag, called by some the Castle, easy enough to scale and giving... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1879 - 146 páginas
...southern hill turfed covered with huge stones and fragments of stone among the fern that fills it; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all...rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge, terrific mass." The valley is not so solitary now, for it is traversed by a road ; but its turf is as green, its ferns... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1880 - 292 páginas
...southern hill turfed covered with huge stones and fragments of stone among the fern that fills it ; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all...rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge, terrific mass." The valley is not so solitary now, for it is traversed by a road ; but its turf is as green, its ferns... | |
 | 1880 - 566 páginas
...from east to west covered with huge stones and fragments of stones among the fern that fills it ; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all...reclining upon rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge and , terrific mass. A palace of the Preadamite kings, a city of the Anakim, must have appeared so... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1883 - 170 páginas
...fragments of stone among the fern that fills it; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all tuif and all soil, the very bones and skeleton of the earth...rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge, terrific mass." The valley is not so solitary now, for it is traversed by a road ; but its turf is as green, its ferns... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1883 - 170 páginas
...fragments of stone among the fern that fills it; the northern lidge completely bare, excoriated of all tuif and all soil, the very bones and skeleton of the earth...rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge, terrific mass." The valley is not so solitary now, for it is traversed by a road ; but its turf is as green, its ferns... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 468 páginas
...from east to west covered with huge stones and fragments of stones among the fern that fills it ; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all...reclining upon rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge and terrific mass. A palace of the Preadamite kings, a city of the Anakim, must have appeared so shapeless... | |
 | John Murray - 1895 - 434 páginas
...from east to west, covered with huge stones and fragments of stone among the fern that fills it ; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all...upon stone, a huge terrific mass. A palace of the pre\damite kings, a city of the Anakim, must have appeared so shapeless, and yet so like the ruins... | |
 | John Lloyd Warden Page - 1895 - 522 páginas
...from east to west, covered with huge stones and fragments of stone among the fern that fills it ; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all turf and all soil, the very bones and J skeleton of the earth ; rock reclining upon rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge, terrific mass.... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 263 páginas
...Southey describes the place thus : '. . . rock reclining upon rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge and terrific mass. A palace of the Preadamite kings, a...what had been shaped, after the waters of the flood subsided.'—Soulhey, by Ed. Dowden, p. 64. M. Emile Legouls (Early Life of Wordsworth, p. 431) compares... | |
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Imagine a narrow vale between two ridges of hills somewhat steep ; the southern hill turfed; the vale which runs from east to west covered with huge stones and fragments of stones among the fern that fills it ; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated... 
