 ... and clothed for the most part with forests of beech and pine, that extended themselves down to the very edge of the water. The lake was as smooth as crystal, and the arching precipices that inclosed it gave a peculiar solemnity to the gloom. As we...  Fleetwood: Or, The New Man of Feeling - Page 162by William Godwin - 1805 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...it gave a peculiar solemnity to the gloom. As vre passed near the chapel of Tell, the bell happened to toll forth, as if for a funeral. The sound was...continued for about fifteen minutes, and then ceased. 4 We were attended by only two rowers and a steersman, labourer* in the corn fields and garden of M.... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1805 - 566 pages
...we paííed near the chapel of Tell the bell happened to toll forth, as if for a funeral; the found was full, the effect melancholy ; each reverberation...this continued for about fifteen minutes and then ceafed." (Pp. 135, 186.) This is a very good and irnpreffive defcription ; it gives, what is frequently... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 574 pages
...we palTed near the chapel of Tell the bell happened to toll forth, as if for a funeral ; the found was full, the effect melancholy ; each reverberation...rocks; this continued for about fifteen minutes and theiiceafed." (Pp. 185, 186.) This is a very good and impreflive description ; it give's, what is frequently... | |
 | William Godwin - Fiction - 2000 - 550 pages
...it gave a peculiar solemnity to the gloom. As we passed near the chapel of Tell, the bell happened to toll forth, as if for a funeral. The sound was...labour, and we glided in silence over the water. We had been so busied in action and conversation during the whole morning, that the stillness which now succeeded... | |
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