From the glassy surface, emerge huge rocks, crowned with arbutus, displaying its bright greeii leaves of gayest verdure, blended with its scarlet fruit and snowy blossoms. Some immense islands lift their bare and craggy summits high above others, from... The traveller's guide through Ireland - Page 199by Joseph Robertson (of Edinburgh.) - 1806Full view - About this book
| George Holmes - Ireland - 1801 - 238 pages
...Sicily ; and there too, it is never its bright green leaves of gayest verdure, blended with its scarlet fruit and snowy blossoms. Some immense islands lift...are mostly bold and steep, abounding with the most surprizing variety of shrubs and plants. known, but as a frutex or shrub ; whereas, in the rock parts... | |
| English literature - 1802 - 610 pages
...displaying its bright green leaves of gayest verdure, blended with its scarlet fruit and snowy blor,soms. Some immense islands lift their bare and craggy summits...are mostly bold and steep, abounding with the most surprizing variety of shrubs and plants." p. izo. This description, perhaps a little poetically elevated,... | |
| 1801 - 432 pages
...crowned with arbutus, displaying its bright greeii leaves of gayest verdure, blended with its scarlet fruit and snowy blossoms. Some immense islands lift...are mostly bold and steep, abounding' with the most surprizing variety of shrubs and plants. . Here spring the living herbs profusely wild O'er all the... | |
| Thomas Costley - English literature - 1897 - 404 pages
...leaves of gayest verdure, blended with its scarlet fruit and snowy blossoms. Some immense islands left their bare and craggy summits high above others, from...fantastical shapes the boatmen have named them, one, the man-of-war ; another, the 325 4 so on, according as there is a resemTHE LAKES OF KILLARNET. A wicrocrosm,... | |
| Thomas Costley - English literature - 1897 - 378 pages
...leaves of gayest verdure, blended with its scarlet fruit and snowy blossoms. Some immense islands left their bare and craggy summits high above others, from...fantastical shapes the boatmen have named them, one, the man-of-war ; another, the 325 church, and so on, according as there is a resemblance." THE LAKES OF... | |
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