 After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 2871849Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alicia Moore, Wandering Artist - 1846 - 680 Seiten
...vhich commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." VESTIGES OF PALACES. 293 It is to the successive conquests of Savoy... | |
 | Mrs Robert Moore - 1846 - 336 Seiten
...-which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." It is to the successive conquests of Savoy and Berne that the paucity... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 Seiten
...which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | Charles Maybury Archer - 1848 - 292 Seiten
...which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." At a little inn at Morges, about two miles distant from Lausanne,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1848 - 410 Seiten
...which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." This remarkable passage throws open the feelings of the inner man... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 Seiten
...which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 Seiten
...acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, tho lake, and mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected...emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps tho establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 Seiten
...which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent." He then subjoins two facts, of rare occurrence truly in the composition of so elaborate an achievement.—1.... | |
 | 1892 - 688 Seiten
...evening, I gazed, as Gibbon had done, upon the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent. So had it been on that summer night when Edward Gibbon laid down... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1851 - 1038 Seiten
...of the country, the lake, and the mountain«. The air was températe, the sky was serene, the bilver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and...establishment of my fame. But my pride was ¡ soon humbled, anda sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of... | |
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