 I left the shore and crossed the summit of a mountain that " battled o'er the deep," and which after an hour's ascension, I found sloped almost perpendicularly down to a bold and rocky coast, its base terminating in a peninsula, that advanced for near...  The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale - Page 56by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1808 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - British - 1850 - 476 pages
...fisherman, I left the shore and crossed the summit of a mountain, which, after an hour's ascen-ion, I found sloped almost perpendicularly down to a bold...description, arose a vast and grotesque pile of rocks, at once forming the scite and fortifications of the noblest mass of ruins on which my eye ever rested.... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish fiction - 1855 - 440 pages
...'tis all one ; here I am, and here I am likely to remain for some time, but whether a prisoner of war, taken up on a suspicion of espionage, or to be offered...formed the scite and fortifications of the noblest mass of ruins on which my eye ever rested. Grand even in desolation, and magnificent in decay— it... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 544 pages
...is all one; here I am, and here I ani likely to remain for some time, but whether a prisoner of war, taken up on a suspicion of espionage, or to be offered...grotesque pile of rocks, which at once formed the site and fortifications of the noblest mass of ruins on which my eye ever rested. Grand even in desolation,... | |
 | Stephen Regan - Literary Collections - 2004 - 628 pages
...carte du pays* laid out for me by the fisherman, I left the shore and crossed the summit of a mountain, which, after an hour's ascension, I found sloped almost...description, arose a vast and grotesque pile of rocks, at once forming the scite and fortifications of the noblest mass of ruins on which my eye ever rested.... | |
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