 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1798 - 366 pages
...fome romantic ftream, the murmurings of which lull him into a pleafing torpor. Half Numbering, he fees a variety of imaginary beings, which he believes to be real. Sometimes they refemble his traditionary idea of fairies, and fometimes they affuuie the appearance of his friends... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1844 - 682 pages
...heightened by the wild, solitary, and romantic scenes to which they are habitually accustomed. A Manxman, amid his lonely mountains, reclines by some romantic...murmurings of which lull him into a pleasing torpor. Half slumbering, he sees a variety of imaginary beings, which he believes to be real. Sometimes they... | |
 | Walter Cooper Dendy - 1845 - 482 pages
...and impression, but not a mystery. Among the denies of Snaefel, in Man, the belief is prevalent : " A Manksman amid his lonely mountains reclines by some...murmurings of which lull him into a pleasing torpor ; half slumbering, he sees a variety of imaginary beings, which he believes to be real. Sometimes they... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 pages
...that she was justly punished, and would never meddle with a hare again ! "A Manxman," says Robertson,* "amid his lonely mountains, reclines by some romantic...murmurings of which lull him into a pleasing torpor. Half slumbering, he sees a variety of imaginary beings which he believes to be real. Sometimes they... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 pages
...she was justly punished, and would never meddle with a hare again! " A Manxman," says Robertson,* " amid his lonely mountains, reclines by some romantic...murmurings of which lull him into a pleasing torpor. Half slumbering, he sees a variety of imaginary beings, which he believes to be real. Sometimes they... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1858 - 482 pages
...heightened by the wild, solitary, and romantic scenes to which they are habitually accustomed. A Manxman, amid his lonely mountains, reclines by some romantic...murmurings of which lull him into a pleasing torpor. Half slumbering, he sees a variety of imaginary beings, which he believes to be real. Sometimes they... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1858 - 426 pages
...by some romantic stream, the munnurings of which lull him into a pleasing torpor. Half slumbering, he sees a variety of imaginary beings, which he believes to be real. Sometimes they resemble his traditionary idea of fairies, and sometimes they assume the appearance of his friends... | |
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Manxman, amid his lonely mountains, reclines by some romantic stream, the murmurings of which lull him into a pleasing torpor. Half slumbering, he sees a variety of imaginary beings, which he believes to be real. Sometimes they resemble his traditionary... 