It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as one gazed around; and the pure mountain air was most refreshing. All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils. The Literary World - Page 1351877Full view - About this book
| 1877 - 1004 pages
......The air is glorious ami clear, but icy cold.' ' It was so cfilm,' says the Queen in her Journal, ' and so solitary, it did one good as one gazed around, and the pure moontain air was most refreshing. All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1868 - 844 pages
...which the Dee winds, with beautiful wooded hills, which reminded us very much of the Thiirmgerwald. It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as...looks much more prosperous and • cultivated than at Laggan. Then the soil is delightfully dry. We walked beside the Dee, a beautiful, rapid stream, which... | |
| Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - 1868 - 310 pages
...which the Dee winds, with beautiful wooded hills, which reminded us very much of the Thuringerwald. It was so calm and so solitary, it did one good as...looks much more prosperous and cultivated than at Laggan. Then the soil is delightfully dry. We walked beside the Dee, a beautiful, rapid stream, which... | |
| Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - 1868 - 258 pages
...which the Dee winds, with beautiful wooded hills, which reminded us very much of the Thuringer-wald. It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as...turmoils. The scenery is wild, and yet not desolate ; and everything looks much more prosperous and cultivated than at Laggan. Then the soil is delightfully... | |
| 1868 - 606 pages
...which the Dee winds, with beautiful wooded hills, which reminded us very much of the Thiiringerwald. It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as...turmoils. ' The scenery is wild, and yet not desolate; and everything looks much more prosperous and cultivated than at Laggan. Then the soil is delightfully... | |
| 1868 - 624 pages
...which the Dee winds, with beautiful wooded hills, which reminded us very much of the Thiiringerwald. It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as...turmoils. ' The scenery is wild, and yet not desolate. Then the soil is delightfully dry. We walked beside the Dee, a beautiful, rapid stream, which is close... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1868 - 612 pages
...which the Dee winds, with beautiful wooded hills, which reminded us very much of the Thuringerwald. It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as...turmoils. ' The scenery is wild, and yet not desolate. Then the soil is delightfully dry. We walked beside the Dee, a beautiful, rapid stream, which is close... | |
| 1868 - 612 pages
...which the Dee winds, with beautiful wooded hills, which reminded us very much of the Thiiringerwald. It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as...and its sad turmoils. 'The scenery is wild, and yet uot desolate; and everything looks much more prosperous and cultivated than at Laggan. Then the soil... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1868 - 828 pages
...which the Dee winds, with beautiful wooded hills, which reminded us very much of the Thuringerwald. It was so calm, and so solitary, it did one good as...freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world nnd its sad turmoils. "The scenery is wild, and yet not desolate; and every thing looks much more prosperous... | |
| 1868 - 844 pages
...wrote of the ' beautiful wooded hills ' which reminded her and the Prince ' of the Thiiringerwald.'1 ' It was so calm and so solitary, it did one good as...refreshing. All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and make one forget the world and its sad turmoils.' Of a few such precious hours these pages are the records.... | |
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