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" ... and 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... "
Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry ... - Page 182
by James Beattie - 1776 - 555 pages
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The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 20

Edmund Burke - 1794 - 610 pages
...the mournful dafhing of waves along the friths and lakes that interfeft the country ; the portentous noifes which every change of the wind, and every increafe...caverns ; the grotefque and ghaftly appearance of fnch a landfcapc by the light of the :uecm : objefts like thefe diffufe a gloom over the fancy, which...
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Annual Register, Volume 20

Edmund Burke - 1779 - 734 pages
...of waves along the friths and lakes that interfect the country ; the portentous noifes which everv change of the wind, and every increafe and diminution...caverns ; the grotefque and ghaftly appearance of Such a landfcape by the light of the moon : 7 objefts like thefe diffufe a gloom over the fancy, which...
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Select Scottish Ballads ...

John Pinkerton - 1783 - 482 pages
...mournful dafliing of waves * along the friths and lakes that interfed the country ; * the portentous noifes which every change of the ' wind, and every increafe and diminution of the wa. * ters is apt to raife in a lonely region full of echoes, ' and rocks, and caverns : the grotefque...
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 10

1780 - 550 pages
...lakes, that iiuerfeft the countty-, and the portentous noife>, which every change of the wind, anJ every increafe and diminution of the waters is apt to raife in a lonely region full of rocks, caverns, and echoes," are all circum ¡tances of a melancholy cad ; and though they are not...
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Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776 ...

William Gilpin - 1789 - 274 pages
...mournful dafhing of waves along the friths, and lakes, that interfect the country; and the portentous noifes, which every change of the wind, and every...waters is apt to raife in a lonely region full of rocks, caverns, and echoes," are all circumftances of a melancholy caft; and tho they are not entirely...
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The Stockton bee: or, Monthly miscellany

1793 - 430 pages
...BEE. mournful darning of waves along the frith* and lakes that interfeft the country ; the portentous noifes which every change of the •wind, and every increafe and diminution of the waters, is apt to raifein a lonely region, full of echoes and rocks and caverns; tb* grotefque and ghaflly appearance...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 20

1794 - 614 pages
...interfect the country; the portentous noifes which every change of the wind, and every increafe find diminution of the waters is apt to raife in a lonely region full of echoes and rpcks and caverns ; the grotefque and ghailly appearance of fuch a landfcape by the light of the moon...
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Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volumes 14-15

1799 - 528 pages
...that intcrfeft the country ; the portentous noifes which every change ofx the wind and every incrcafcd diminution of the waters is apt to raife in a lonely region, full of rocks and caverne ; the grotefque and ghailly appearance of fuch a landfcape by the light of the moon...
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Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 2

Natham Drake - 1800 - 510 pages
...noises which every change of the wind, and every increase and 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:—- r Objects like these...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 10

1807 - 522 pages
...of waves along the friths and Iskea that every where interfecl this country; the portentous founds, which every change of the wind, and every Increafe...and diminution of the waters, is apt to raife in a region full of rocks and hollow cliffi and csvetns ; the giotefque and ghalUy appearance of fuch a...
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