| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 Seiten
...published in IS05, entitled, Monumens Celtiques. Perhaps the singularly happy faculty thatgentleman possessed, of seeing things in a new and extraordinary...country, we arrived at a spot about a mile from the sea-shore, where this curious Celtic antiquity remains a monument at once of the power and insufficiency... | |
| 1821 - 604 Seiten
...Monumens Cdtiques. Perhaps the singularly happy faculty thatgentleman possessed, of seeing things in anew and extraordinary way, might have greatly magnified,...country, we arrived at a spot about a mile from the sea-shore, where this curious Celtic antiquity remains a monument at once of the power and insufficiency... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 Seiten
...de Laborde has, since M. Cambray, published some engravings of Carnac, representing the stones mucb larger than they really are, but they are mere dwarfs...country, we arrived at a spot about a mile from the sea-shore, where this curious Celtic antiquity remains a monument at once of the power and insufficiency... | |
| 1836 - 600 Seiten
...Letters written during a Tour in Normandy and Brittany, London, 1820, 4to., p. 256 et seq. : — ' We hired a cabriolet, and left Auray early this morning...through a desolate and wild country, we arrived at n spot about a mile from the sea-shore, where this curious Celtic antiquity remains, a monument at... | |
| 1836 - 528 Seiten
...Normandy and Brittyay, London, 1820, 4to., p. 256 et seq.: — ' We hired a cabriolet, and Itf. Anray early this morning; besides the driver, a man accompanied us, who walked by the side of tbe voiture, in order to rendei his assistance in preventing it from being upset by the large, loose,... | |
| Sir Francis Palgrave - 1922 - 500 Seiten
...too vulgar for so great a mind. " How much are we indebted to him, for his so ingeniously com" paring the English to that nation of paper lanterns, the...country, we " arrived at a spot about a mile from the sea-shore, where this " curious Celtic antiquity remains a monument at once of the "power and insufficiency... | |
| Sir Francis Palgrave, Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Geoffrey Palgrave Barker - 500 Seiten
...too vulgar for so great a mind. " How much are we indebted to him, for his so ingeniously com" paring the English to that nation of paper lanterns, the...loose, and broken rocks that " strewed the way, and He in confused heaps about the road. After " travelling three leagues through a desolate and wild country,... | |
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