 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 σελίδες
...did the loveliest phases of natural scenery elicit his admiration. Writing of Loch Ness, he says : It will very readily occur that this uniformity of barrenness can afford very little amusemeut to the traveler; that it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks and heath and waterfalls... | |
 | John Veitch - 1887 - 368 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 favours, and left in its original elemental state ; or quickened only with one... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1894 - 394 σελίδες
...mistake, and accordingly he proceeds to moralise in this fashion : ' It will readily occur,' he says, ' that this uniformity of barrenness can afford very...that it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks, heaths, and waterfalls, and that these journeys are useless labours, which neither impregnate the imagination... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1895 - 216 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. — Ibid. Much more vivid are the following : And a breezy, goose-skinned, blue-nosed, red-eyed, stonytoed,... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1895 - 220 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 quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation.—Ibid. Much more vivid are the following : And a breezy, goose-skinned, blue-nosed, red-eyed,... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 328 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."3 In the same year Hutchinson deprecates the "dreary vicinage of mountains and inclement skies"... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 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."s In the same year Hutchinson deprecates the "dreary vicinage of mountains and inclement skies"... | |
 | James Cameron Lees - 1897 - 954 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." We will not follow our distinguished tourist to the Hebrides ; we will only notice that his remarks... | |
 | Norman Collie - 1902 - 410 σελίδες
...Western Highlands of Scotland : ' It will readily occur that this uniformity of barrenness can afford little amusement to the traveller ; that it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks, heaths, and waterfalls, and that these journeys are useless labours which neither impregnate the imagination... | |
 | McGill University - 1903 - 440 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...dismissed by Nature from her care, and disinherited by her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless... | |
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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... 
