 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1895 - 380 pages
...eternal mystery of the night? what poet shall ever exhaust, what painter worthily imitate, its splendors? Soon after midnight we found ourselves off" Port Sonachan...upon it for the narrow stronghold, and no more. A lew trees, stately in form and heavy wit.h foliage, stand to the east of the building, and the building... | |
 | Hammond Lamont - 1906 - 404 pages
...blackness by the heats of the long silent years.—ALEXANDER WILLIAM XINGLAKE in Eothen. ARDHONNEL Ardhonnel is an exquisite little island. There is just room enough upon it for the sturdy little castle, where the great Campbells lived long ago. A few trees, stately in form and heavy... | |
 | Hammond Lamont - 1906 - 394 pages
...blackness by the heats of the long silent years. — ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE in Eothen. ARDHONNEL Ardhonnel is an exquisite little island. There is just room enough upon it for the sturdy little castle, where the great Campbells lived long ago. A few trees, stately in form and heavy... | |
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... my note-book, intending at some future period to paint the castle as I saw it then. The moon was golden now, and near her setting ; she hung over the opposite shore of the lake, and laid a long, unquiet path of light across it. Her warm, low light... 