 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...all sorts of crimes were very frequent during that horrible anarchy. By the side of the high road ' ' A very little above the source of the Leven, on the...see it till we were within fifty yards of the door.' Humphry Clinker, Letter of Aug. 28. ' Boswell himself was at times one of 'those absurd visionaries.'... | |
 | 1820 - 254 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the Frith at Dunbritton. A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron belonging...see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have seen the Lugo di Garda, Albano, De Vico, 15olss.mii, and Geneva, and, upon my honour, I prefer... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 254 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the Frith at Dunbritton. A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron belonging...see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have seen the Lago di Garda, Albano, De Vico, Bolsena, and Geneva, and, upon my honour, I prefer... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 584 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the frith at Dunbritton. A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging...see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have seen the Lago di Gardi, Albano, De Vico, Bolsena, and Geneva, and, upon my honour, I prefer... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 282 pages
...forefathers in enthusiastic yet not exaggerated terms in ' Humphry Clinker.' ' A very little ahove the source of the Leven, on the Lake, stands the house...Cameron, belonging to Mr. Smollett, so embosomed in an oak-wood that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. The lake approaches on... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the frith at Dunbritton. A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging...see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have seen the LagodiGardi, Albano, De Vico, Bolsena, and Geneva, and, upon my honour, I prefer Loch... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1825 - 260 pages
...Smollett is the subject of this memoir, Tobias Smollett (baptized Tobias-George) was born in 1721, in the old house of Dalquhurn, in the valley of Leven, in,...Cameron, belonging to Mr. Smollett,* so embosomed in an oakwood that we did not see it till we were within fifty * The late Commissary Sqnollett. yardr of... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - 1831 - 472 pages
...murmuring over a bed of pebbles, till it joins the frith at Dunbritton. A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr. Smollett, so embosomed in an oak-wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. I have seen the Lago... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 pages
...Leven, not only in the beautiful Ode addressed to his parent stream, but in the Expedition of Humphry Clinker, where he mentions the home of his forefathers...stands the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr Smollett, 1 so embosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pages
...Expedition of Humphry Clinker, where he mentions the home of his forefathers in the followingenthusiastic, yet not exaggerated terms : — " A very little above...the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr Smollett, ' so Ğm bosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. The... | |
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A very little above its source, on the lake, stands the house of Cameron, belonging to Mr. Smollett, so embosomed in an oak wood, that we did not see it till we were within fifty yards of the door. 
