| Henry Rowley - 1866 - 556 páginas
...though they had been squeezed through the earth's crust in a semi-liquid state. Everywhere about us were Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world. As the sun set the clearness of the atmosphere brought out the outlines of Morumbala with great distinctness,... | |
| 1866 - 408 páginas
...stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the sotith, huge Ben-venue Down on the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, — The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar; While on the north, through middle... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 páginas
...stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben-venue Down on the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled,— The fragments of an earlier world; A wildcring forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar; While on the north, through middle... | |
| Wonders - 1866 - 400 páginas
...square, lie huddled together and scattered like the small pebbles which form the beds of torrents : ' Crags, knolls, and mounds confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world." The Gave, compressed, turned aside, divided by the ruins which all its force and fury will not enable... | |
| Edinburgh Geological Society - 1870 - 450 páginas
...more appropriately and literally applied than in the description of this granitic table-land — " Crags, knolls, and mounds confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world" One glen above Loch Neldricken presents a very remarkable aspect from this peculiar cleavage. Its sides... | |
| Geological Society of Glasgow - 1868 - 290 páginas
...the ordinary observer, these scenes seem monuments of primeval chaos and convulsion. He sees in these Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world, and in these deep glens and lochs, traces of yawning rents and chasms which were burst asunder when... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 páginas
...stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High un the south, huge lieu venue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; Л wildenng foiv-t feathered <MT His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 530 páginas
...stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben-venue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar ; While on the north, through middle... | |
| William Henry Hamilton Rogers - 1869 - 218 páginas
...of deep, narrow, tortuous combes, convoluting round bigh coniform hills of differing shape : — " Crags, knolls, and mounds confusedly hurled The fragments of an earlier world, And mountains that like giants stand To sentinel enchanted land." The villages forming the place are... | |
| Walter Scott - 1869 - 336 páginas
...stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Ben Venue M Down on the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled. The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle... | |
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