 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 pages
...selected. Their cottage was romantically situated between Inveruglas and the point of Firkin. To the left, amid a profusion of thickets, knolls, and crags, lay the bed of a broad mountain lake ; high hills, rocks, aud banks, waving with natural forests of oak and birch, formed the borders of... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1842 - 598 pages
...Grahams of the Hem."— Tales of a Grandfather, vol. ii., p. 317-19. * " To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wandered on its easterly course,...in its course under the influence of the sunbeams. High hills, rocks, and banks, waving with natural forests of hirch and oak, formed the borders of this... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1843 - 710 pages
...scene of natural romance and beauty as had never before greeted my eyes. To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wandered on its easterly course,...in its course under the influence of the sunbeams. High hills, rocks, and banks, waving with natural forests of birch and oak, formed the borders of this... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 728 pages
...scene of natural romance and beauty as had never before greeted my eyes. To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wandered on its easterly course,...in its course under the influence of the sunbeams. High hills, rocks, and banks, waving with natural forests of birch and oak, formed the borders of this... | |
 | American literature - 1835 - 638 pages
...scene of natural romance and beauty as had never before greeted my eyes. To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wandered on its easterly course,...beautiful detached hill, with all its garland of woods. **##*• It was under the burning influence of revenge that the wife of MacGregor commanded that the... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1845 - 572 pages
...Grandfather, vol. ii., p. 317-19. * " To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wandered on ita easterly course, surrounding the beautiful detached...in its course under the influence of the sunbeams. High hills, rocks, and banks, waving with natural forests of birch and oak, formed the borders of this... | |
 | Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 pages
...scene of natural romance and beauty as had never before greeted my eyes. To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wandered on its easterly course,...in its course under the influence of the sunbeams. High hills, rocks and banks, waving with natural forests of birch and oak, formed the borders of this... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...scene of natural romance and beauty as had never before greeted my eyes. To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wandered on its easterly course,...in its course under the influence of the sunbeams. High hills, rocks, and banks, waving with natural forests of birch and oak, formed the borders of this... | |
 | Scotland - 1851 - 704 pages
...Grahams of the Hens."—Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iL, pp. 317-19. * " To the left lay the valley, down, which the Forth wandered on its easterly course,...in its course under the influence of the sunbeams. High hills, rocks, and banks, waving with natural forests of birch and oak, formed the borders of this... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...scene of natural romanee and beauty as had never before grceted my eyes. To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wandered on its easterly course,...curled into tiny waves by the breath of the morning brceze, each glittering in its course under the influenee of the sunbeams. High hills, rocks, and banks,... | |
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... such a scene of natural romance and beauty as had never before greeted my eyes. To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wandered on its easterly course, surrounding the beautiful detached hill, with all its garland of woods. On the right,... 
