 | 1812 - 352 sivua
...said to exhale from the surface of lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighboring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful....which is no sooner touched, than it becomes dust and bitter ashes." In addition to its physical horrors, the region around is said to be more perilous,... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814 - 428 sivua
...said to exhale from the surface of lake Asphaltites, nor from auy neighbouring .mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful....from the narrative of its deceitful allurements and ireadJy influence. " Beautiful frmi," say they, " grows upon its shores, which is no sooner touched,... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814 - 430 sivua
...said to exhale from the surface of lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful....shrink from the narrative of its deceitful allurements anddeadly influence. " " Beautiful fruit," say they, " grows upon its shores, which is nu sooner touched,... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 sivua
...said to exhale from the surface of lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful....which is no sooner touched, than it becomes dust and bitter ashes." In addition to its physical horrors, the region around is said to be more perilous,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 sivua
...said to exhale from the surface of Lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful....concerning it by the inhabitants of the country, who all ,spt'ak of it with terror, seeming to shrink from the narrative of its deceitful allurements •and... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 sivua
...position, the shores of the lake of Geneva, opposite to Vevay and Lausanne. Every thing about it is in the highest degree grand and awful. Its desolate,...of its deceitful allurements and deadly influence. A passion for the marvellous has thus affixed, for ages, false characteristics to the sublimest associations... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 630 sivua
...nearly nineteen. A profound silence, awful as death, hangs over the lake : and " its desolate though majestic features are well suited to the tales related concerning it by die inhabitants of the country, who аЦ speak of it with terror."4 3. The Great Seer, mentioned in... | |
 | 1826 - 298 sivua
...exhale from the surface of Lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every VOL. II. Q thing about it was in the highest degree grand and awful....which is no sooner touched than it becomes dust and bitter ashes." In addition to its physical horrors, the region around is said to be more perilous,... | |
 | John Dymock, Thomas Dymock - 1833 - 964 sivua
...sulphuretted hydrogen, and the water has a similar odour. El very thing about it, says a late traveller, is in the highest degree grand and awful. Its desolate,...deadly influence. Beautiful fruit, say they, grows on its shores, which on being touched beconiH.4 dust and bitter ashes. This fruit is the Solamim Melongena,... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 sivua
...said to exhale from the surface of Lake Ast phaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful....which is no sooner touched, than it becomes dust and bitter ashes." In addition to its physical horrors, the region around is said to be more perilous,... | |
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Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful. Its desolate, although majestic features, are well suited to the tales related concerning it by the inhabitants of the country, who all speak of it with terror, seeming to shrink from the... 
