 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 400 trang
...wants no auxiliaries. Such a feat of hofpitality, amidft the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is...dance. In Raafay, if I could have found an Ulyfles, I had fancied a Phosacia. . • > DUNVEGAN, At Raafay, by good fortune, Alacleod, fo the chief of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 280 trang
...wants no auxiliaries. Such a feat of hofpitality, ainidfl the windc and waters, fills the imagination wi.th a delightful contrariety of images. Without...the rocky land, the beating billows and the howling fiorm : within is plenty and elegance,' beauty and gaiety, the fong and the dance. In Raafay, if I... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1775 - 552 trang
...te /6e Wejlern Ifiands of Scotland. 41 contrariety of images. Without is the rough, ocean and th« rocky land, the beating billows and the howling ftorm : within is plenty aud elegance, beauty and gaiety, the fong and the dance. In Raafay, if I could have found an Ulylfes,... | |
 | Donald MacNicol - 1779 - 392 trang
...he fays, page 149, " Such a feat of hofpitality, amidft the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is...elegance, beauty and gaiety, the fong and the dance." Page 154, " A Highland laird," he fays, " made a trial of his wife for a certain time, and if fhe did... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1785 - 400 trang
...wants no auxiliaries. Such a feat of hofpitality, amidft the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is...elegance, beauty and gaiety, the fong and the dance. In Raajay^ if I could have found an Ulyflls, I had fancied a Ph&acia. DUNVEGAN. • At Raafay, by good... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 trang
...wants no auxiliaries. Such a feat of hofpitality, amidft the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is...and the dance. In Raafay, if I could have found an UlyJ/es, I had fancied a Pb<eacia. • DUN V. EGA N. At Raafay, by good fortune, Macleod, fo the chief... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 550 trang
...wants no auxiliaries. Such a feat of hofpitality, amidft the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is...billows and the howling ftorm : within is plenty and dcgance, beauty and gaiety, the fong and the dance. WESTERN ISLANDS, &c. 395 dance. In Raafay, if I... | |
 | 1794 - 542 trang
...barrenéis and inclemency of weather without doors, in language lefs (uperb than the following : — " without, is the rough ocean and the rocky land ; the beating billows, and the howling ftormb : — within, is plenty and elegance ; beauty and gaity ; the long and the dance!" This is pretty:... | |
 | John Lanne Buchanan - 1794 - 308 trang
...delightful contrariety of images; without is the rough ocean, the rocky land, beating billows, and howling ftorm; within is plenty and elegance, beauty and gaiety, the fong and the dance. Our reception at Raarfay exceeded our expe&ation, pectation; we found nothing but civility, elegance,... | |
 | William Jones - 1799 - 488 trang
...nation at Raufay : " Such a feat of hofpitality amidft the winds "and waters fills the imagination with a delightful ** contrariety of images : without..." and the rocky land, the beating billows and the v howling ftorm : within is plenty and elegance, ** beauty and gaiety, the fong and the dance 1" —... | |
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Raasay has little that can detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is the... 
