| Tobias Smollett - 1794 - 610 pages
...the blue mountains, as the clouds here and there difclofed, the imagination (forming an indiftinft but awful idea of what was concealed, by what was...delight. Though the profpeft before me was in the highcft degree magnificent, it feenu da fcene of magnificent defolation. The abrupc precipice and inacceffible... | |
| 1794 - 612 pages
...of the blue mountains, as the clouds here and there difclofed, the imagination (forming an indilVmil but awful idea of what was concealed, by what was...felt was allied rather to terror than delight. Though theprofpeft before me was in the higheft degree magnificent, it feemed a fcene of magnificent defolation.... | |
| Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 644 pages
...the blue mountains, as the clouds here and there disclosed, the imagination (forming an indistinct but awful idea of what was concealed, By what was thus partially displayed) was filled with admiration and' wonder. Yet the sensation which I felt was allied rather... | |
| John Riland - 1827 - 270 pages
...southern side of Jamaica by sea, and beholding from afar the ridges of the blue mountains. ' The sensation which I felt was allied rather to terror than delight. Though the prospect before me was in the highest degree magnificent, it seemed a scene of magnificent desolation.... | |
| James Bell - 1832 - 750 pages
...of the Blue Mountains as the clouds here and there disclosed, the imagination (forming an indistinct but awful idea of what was concealed, by what was thus partially displayed), was filled with admiration and wonder. Yet the sensation I felt was allied rather to terror... | |
| Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 444 pages
...of the blue mountains as the clouds here and there disclosed, the imagination, forming an indistinct but awful idea of what was concealed by what was thus partially displayed, was filled with admiration and wonder. Yet the sensation which I felt was allied to terror... | |
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