 ... solemn scene : behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath him : mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted with...  A Tour Through Cornwall, in the Autumn of 1808 - Էջ 121Richard Warner - 1809 - 363 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Richard Warner - 1802 - 318 էջ
...recolleftion of the ancient appropriation of the spotj " and awed our souls, " As if the very Genius of the place " Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread. " Stalk'd through his drear domain." Broome-Hall and Castle make pleasing obje&s through the vista from Mayburgh. Passing the old tower... | |
 | 1810 - 570 էջ
...druidical remains; _....-_» And aw'd our souls, As if the very Genius of the place, Himself appearM, and with terrific tread Stalk'd through his drear...where nothing met the eye around but nature in her primaeval rudeness ; vast rocks of granite starting out of the ground, of every form, and in every... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 404 էջ
...yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted with unhewn stone : they awe my soul, As if the very Genius of the place Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread Stalk'd through his drear domain. And yet, my friends, (If shapes like his be but the fancy's coinage) Surely there is a hidden power,... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 404 էջ
...yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted with unhewn stone : they awe my soul, As if the very Genius of the place Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread Stalk'd through his drear domain. And yet, my friends, (If shapes like his be but the fancy's coinage) Surely there is a hidden power,... | |
 | 1811 - 620 էջ
...yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted with unhewn stone: they awe my soul, As if the very genius of the place Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread Stalk'd through his drear domain. And yet, my friends, (If shapes like his be but the fancy's coinage) Surely there is a hidden power,... | |
 | 1822 - 694 էջ
...yawning caverns, this wide circus. Skirted with unhewn stone ; they awe my soul, As if the very genius of the place Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread Stalk'd through his drear domain — we could fancy that both these personages had come fresh from the study of the English garden.... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 564 էջ
...yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted with unhewn stone : they awe my soul, As if the very genius of the place Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread Stalk'd through his drear domain — we could fancy that both these personages had come fresh from the study of the English garden.... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 էջ
...yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted with unhewn stone : they awe my soul, As if the very genius of the place Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread Stalk'd through his drear domain. And yet, my friends (If shapes like his be but the fancy's coinage), Surely there is a hidden power... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 էջ
...yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted with unhewn stone. They awe my soul, As if the very Genius of the place Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread Stalk'd through his drear domain." We know of scarcely any thing finer than this from the sermons of Bishop Sherlock, which we now take... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 868 էջ
...yawning caverns, this wide circus. Skirted with unhewn stone : they awe my soul, As if the very genius of the place Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread Stalk'd through his drear domain. And yet, my friends (If shapes like his be but the fancy's coinage). Surely there is a hidden power... | |
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