 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 σελίδες
...ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; but here I first conceived the thought of this narration....to fear ; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 σελίδες
...the hour well I know not ; for here_I first conceived the thought of this narration. We were in tlus place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer...to fear ; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 σελίδες
...hills, which, bv hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment feriut". MTiether I spent the hour well, I know not ; for here I first conceived ii>c thought of this narration." The Critical Rcvicwers, with a spirit and expression worthy of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 654 σελίδες
...were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not...first conceived the thought of this narration.' We shall string together a few of Sir Walter Scott's contributions to this part of the undertaking ; and... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 σελίδες
...which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether 1 spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration." The Constitution of the United States is drawn up and subscribed at Philadelphia, by the Convention,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 σελίδες
...were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not •, for here t first conceived the thought of this narration.' We shall string together a few of Sir Walter Scott's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 σελίδες
...were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not...I first conceived the thought of this narration." The Critical Reviewers, with a spirit and expression worthy of the subject, say, " We congratulate'... | |
 | 1882 - 844 σελίδες
...were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not, for here I first conceived the notion of this narrative. It was a considerable number of years before the above descriptions were... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 σελίδες
...were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not ; for here 1 first conceived the thought of this narration." The Crifiral Reviewers, with a spirit and expression... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 σελίδες
...were high hills, which, by hindering the ere from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not...I first conceived the thought of this narration-" The Critical Reviewers, with a spirit and expression worthyof the subject, say, "We congratulate the... | |
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I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills which, by hindering the eye from ranging,... 
