 | James Beattie - 1776 - 582 pàgines
...ghaftly appearance of fuch a landfcape by the light of the moon : — objects like thefe diffufe a gloom over the fancy, which may be compatible enough with...fail to tincture the thoughts of a native in the hour pf filence and folitude. If thefe people, notwithftanding their reformation in religion, and more frequent... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1778 - 514 pàgines
...ghaftly appearance of fuch a landfcape by the light of the moon : — objects like thefe diffufe a gloom over the fancy, which may be compatible enough with occafional and focial merriment, bnt cannot fail to tincture the thoughts of a native in the hour of filence and folitude. if thefe... | |
 | James Beattie - 1779 - 536 pàgines
...ghaftly appearance of fuch a landfcape by the light of the moon : — Objects like thefe diffufe a gloom over the fancy, which may be compatible enough with...notwithftanding their reformation in religion, and more frequent intercourfe with ftrangers, do ftill retain many 'of their old fuperftitions, we need n.ot doubt but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1779 - 734 pàgines
...fancy, which may be compatible enough with occasional and ibcial merriment, but cannot fail to tinfture the thoughts of a native in the hour of filence and folitude. If thefe people notwithstanding their reformation in religion, and more frequent intercourfe with Strangers, do Still... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1783 - 482 pàgines
...Qbjects like thefe diifufe a gloom over the ' fancy, which may be compatible enough with oc* cafional and focial merriment, but cannot fail to * tincture...of a native in the hour of ' filence and folitude.' And a little further ha ob. ferves, ' that the ancient highlanders of Scotland had * hardly any other... | |
 | 1791 - 822 pàgines
...fancy, which may he compatible enough with occafional and focial merriment, but cannot fail to imiture the thoughts of a native in the hour of filence and folitude. If thefe people, notwithllanding their reformation in religion, and more frequent intercourfe with ilrangcrs, do kill... | |
 | 1794 - 614 pàgines
...fometimes focial merriment, but cannot fail to tinfture the thoughts of a native in the hour of fiience and folitude. If thefe people notwithftanding their reformation in religion, and more frequent intercourfe with ftrangers, do ftill retain many of their old fuperilitions, we need not doubt but... | |
 | 1800 - 506 pàgines
...iMialily appearance of fuch * landfcape by the light of the moon : objcdis like thefe, difFufe a gloom over the fancy, which may be compatible enough with...occafional and focial merriment, but cannot fail to tinfture the thoughts of a native in the hour of filence and folitude If thefe people, notwithftanding... | |
 | Natham Drake - 1800 - 510 pàgines
...like these diffuse a gloom over the fancy, which may be compatible enough with occasional and social merriment, but cannot fail to tincture the thoughts of a native in the hour of silence and solitude. Let it be observed also, that the ancient highlanders of Scotland had hardly... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pàgines
...like these diffuse a gloom over the fancy, which may be compatible enough with occasional and social merriment, but cannot fail to tincture the thoughts of a native in the hour of silence and solitnde. — Most of their superstitions are of a melancholy cast. That second sight,... | |
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... diminution of the waters is apt to raise in a lonely region, full of echoes, and rocks, and caverns ; the grotesque and ghastly appearance of such a landscape by the light of the moon. Objects like these diffuse a gloom over the fancy, which may be... 
