... the view all around me was wild and terrific, the moon rose about ten at night, and though in, her third quarter, gave sufficient light to shew the waste and wilderness by which we were surrounded : the peak and the upper regions which we had yet... The Monthly Magazine - Seite 461814Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Edmund Burke - 1815 - 858 Seiten
...to shew the waste and wilderness by which we were surrounded : the peak and the upper regions which we had yet to ascend towered awfully above our heads,...studded with innumerable stars, while the valleys of Orotava were hidden from our view by a thin veil of light fleecy clouds, that floated far beneath... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1815 - 702 Seiten
...to shew the waste and wilderness by which we were surrounded : the peak and the upper regions which we had yet to ascend, towered awfully above our heads,...studded with innumerable stars, while the valleys of Orotava .were hidden from our view by a thin veil of light fleecy clouds, that floated far beneath... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1815 - 1026 Seiten
...to show the waste and wilderness by which we were surrounded : the peak and the upper regions which we had yet to ascend towered awfully above our heads,...studded with innumerable stars, while the valleys of Orotava were hidden from our view by a thin veil of light fleecy clouds, that floated far beneath... | |
| 1815 - 670 Seiten
...to shew the waste and wilderness by which we were surrounded : the peak and the upper regions which we had yet to ascend, towered awfully above our heads,...studded with innumerable stars, while the valleys of Orotava were hidden from our view by a thin veil of light fleecy clouds, that floated far beneath... | |
| 1815 - 822 Seiten
...the mountains that hnd appeared of snch a height in the morning, and liad cost us a day's labour 10 climb, lay stretched as plains at our feet ; from...studded with innumerable stars, while the valleys of Orotava were hidden from our view by a thin veil of light fleecy clouds, that floated far beneath... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 Seiten
...upper regions which we bad yrt to ascend, towered awfully above our r«ads, while, below, the mountain* that had appeared of such a height in the morning,...studded with innumerable stars, while the valleys of Orotava were hidden from our view by a thin veil of light fleecy clouds, that floated far beneath... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 Seiten
...our right. many !• broom. \utumn. All I id had reu t night, .• The an hour, t of the •r pas; such a height in the morning, and had cost us a day's...studded with innumerable stars, while the valleys of Orotava were hidden from our view by a thin veil of light fleecy clouds, that floated far beneath... | |
| Abraham Thompson Lowe - 1831 - 232 Seiten
...show the waste and wilderness by which we were surrounded. 17. " The Peak and the upper regions which we had yet to ascend, towered awfully above our heads,...studded with innumerable stars, while the valleys of Orotava were hidden from our view by a thin veil of fleecy clouds that floated far beneath the elevated... | |
| 1815 - 596 Seiten
...wilderness by which we were surrounded : the peak and the upper regions which we had yet to asceml towered awfully above our heads, while below, the...day's labour to climb, lay stretched as plains at our fee« : tioni the uncommon rarity of the atmosphere the whole vault of heaven appeared studded with... | |
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