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" An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and Journey - Σελίδα 249
των Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
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J. H. Robinson (surgeon.) - 1822 - 442 σελίδες
...pastures, and waving harvests, is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth,...

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 σελίδες
...pastures and waving harvests, is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen pfcwer of useless vegetation. It will very readily occur, that this uniformity of barrenness can afford...

The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Τόμος 99

1829 - 712 σελίδες
...The morning business had almost brought me to Johnson's opinion of Highland scenery, who says that " the appearance is that of matter incapable of form...care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its origU 1829.] Fall of the Ottoman Empire prophecied. mil elemental state, or quickened only with one...

The Gentleman's Magazine, Τόμος 99,Μέρος 2;Τόμος 146

1829 - 738 σελίδες
...disinherited of her favours, left in its origU 1829.] Fall of tht Ottoman Empire propiiecled. lial elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation ;" but Lochlomond made amends in the evening. In the morning 1 was up at sunrise, and on board a steamer...

The Gentleman's Magazine, Τόμος 146

1829 - 720 σελίδες
...brought me to Johnson's, opinion of Highland scenery, who says that " the appearance is that of nutter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care, and di-nn-, hcrited of her favour*, left in it* origiual elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen...

Littell's Living Age, Τόμος 266

1910 - 862 σελίδες
...rocks intercept every prospect"; upon Dr. Johnson's pronouncement, after his tour In the Highlands, that "this uniformity of barrenness can afford very little amusement to the traveller"; upon Bishop Berkeley's confession that, when he crossed the Cenis, he was "put out of humor by the...

On the Theory and Practice of Painting in Oil and Water Colours, for ...

Theodore Henry Fielding - 1846 - 302 σελίδες
...pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care, disinherited of her favour, and left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen...

A few notes on cruelty to animals; on the inadequacy of penal law, on ...

Ralph Fletcher - 1846 - 120 σελίδες
...pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care, disinherited of her favour, and left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen...

A grammar of the English language, ed. by L. Schmitz

Charles Underwood Dasent - 1877 - 238 σελίδες
...repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance' is that of matter incapable of further usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elements, or quickened only with some sullen power of useless vegetation. It will very readily occur...

Samuel Johnson

Leslie Stephen - 1879 - 224 σελίδες
...Boswell remarks, cared much for "rural beauties." Johnson says quaintly on the shores of Loch Ness, " It will very readily occur that this uniformity of...amusement to the traveller ; that it is easy to sit at homo and conceive rocks and heath and waterfalls; and that these journeys are useless labours, which...




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