 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 ページ
...the same observation, but without its occurring to either of them to be alarmed at the circumstance. The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge...misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire, and falling monarch. Still, however, his dying splendour gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 328 ページ
...the same observation, but without its occurring to either of them to be alarmed at the circumstance. The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge...misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch. Still, however, his dying splendor gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation... | |
 | George Henry Duncan Mathias - 1867 - 292 ページ
...by the narrow escape of the chief characters from death. It is too good not to be quoted at length : "The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge...accumulation of towering clouds through which he had traveled the livelong day, and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 268 ページ
...the verdant freshness of a younger growth of branches. — Baneroft. through which he had traveled the livelong day; and which now assembled on all sides,...misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch. — Scott. 22. It is, therefore, a certain and a very curious fact, that the representative,... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 ページ
...died at his seat of Abbotsford, Sept. 21, 1832, and is buried at Dryburgh. 1. Sunset in a Storm. , THE sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge...misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch. Still, however, his dying splendour gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 ページ
...the same observation, but without its occurring to either of them to be alarmed at the circumstance. The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge...sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empirt and falling monarch. Still, however, his dying splendor gave a sombre magnificence to the massive... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 ページ
...the same observation, but without its occurring to either of them to be alarmed at the circumstance. The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge...misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch. Still, however, his dying splendor gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation... | |
 | John Wilson - 1870 - 722 ページ
...transformation." The third is a passage equally well known, but hardly less beautiful, from the Antiquary. "The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge...misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire, and falling monarch. Still, however, hit dying splendour gave a sombre magnificence to th» massive congregation... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1874 - 436 ページ
...the sunset preceding the storm there so grandly delineated. ' The sun was now resting his huge disc upon the edge of the level ocean, and gilded the accumulation...misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch. Still, however, his dying splendour gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 ページ
...last tide had risen considerably above the usual water mark. The sun was now resting his huge disk on the edge of the level ocean, and gilded the accumulation...misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling throne. Still, however, his dying splendour gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation... | |
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The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge of the level ocean, and gilded the accumulation of towering clouds through which he had travelled the livelong day, and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking... 
