 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 332 str.
...stretching itself out beneath in a form, which, to a romantic imagination, may be supposed to represent that of a dragon; now, a noble arm of the •sea, with...varied with hill, dale, and rock, and skirted by the varied and picturesque ridge of the Pentland Mountains. But as the path gently circles around the base... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 350 str.
...stretching itself out beneath in a form, which, to a romantic imagination, may be supposed to represent that of a dragon ; now, a noble arm of the sea, with its...varied with hill, dale, and rock, and skirted by the varied and picturesque ridge of the Pentland Mountains. But as the path gently circles around the base... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 348 str.
...fair and fertile champaign country, varied with hill, dale, and rock, and skirted by the varied and picturesque ridge of the Pentland Mountains. But as...composed as it is of these enchanting and sublime subjects, changes at every step, and presents them blended with or divided from each other, in every... | |
 | Thomas Moule, William Westall - 1830 - 250 str.
...sea, with its rocks, isles, and distant shores, and boundary of mountains ; and now a fine and fertile country, varied with hill, dale, and rock, and skirted...Pentland mountains ; but as the path gently circles round the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these enchanting and sublime subjects,... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1832 - 388 str.
...sea, with its rocks, isles, and distant shores, and boundary of mountains ; and now a fine and fertile country, varied with hill, dale, and rock, and skirted by the picturesque ridge of the PenUand mountains ; but as the path gently circles round the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed... | |
 | James Johnson - 1834 - 262 str.
...itself out beneath, in a form, which, to a romantic imagination, may be supposed to represent that of a DRAGON;— now, a noble arm of the sea, with...the picturesque ridge of the Pentland mountains." In my mind, the first simile has too much of the animal, and too little of the spiritual, for a " MODERN... | |
 | William Beattie - 1800 - 498 str.
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 | William Beattie - 1838 - 306 str.
...stretching itself out beneath in a form which, to a romantic imagination, may be supposed to represent that of a dragon — now a noble arm of the sea, with its...the picturesque ridge of the Pentland mountains. But in illustration of " mine own romantic town," Dr. James Johnson has employed a still more recent simile.... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 str.
...are painted the arms of the which, to a romantic imagination, maybe supposed to represent that ofa dragon ; now a noble arm of the sea, with its rocks,...by the picturesque ridge of the Pentland Mountains. Hut as the path gently circles around the base of the cliffs, the prospect, composed as it is of these... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 698 str.
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The prospect, in its general outline, commands a close-built, high-piled city, stretching itself out beneath in a form which, to a romantic imagination, may be supposed to represent that of a dragon; — now a noble arm of the sea, with its rocks, isles,... 
