 | JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 σελίδες
...thought of in the year 1715, when there was a line in a song, "And aw the brave M'Craas are coming."* well, I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration. " The Critical Reviewers, with a spirit and expression worthy of the subject, say, — "We congratulate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 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 ;...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... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1907 - 668 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." — Remark here, in passing, the notes of the eighteenth century ; first, the reference of nature to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 542 σελίδες
...thought of in the year 1715, when there was a line in a song, " And aw the brave M'Craas are coming." • well, I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration." The Critical Reviewers, with a spirit and expression worthy of the subject, say, — "We congratulate... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1915 - 228 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.' But his most eloquent passage, perhaps the bestknown prose sentence of any writer in the English language,... | |
 | William Prideaux Courtney - 1915 - 206 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.' But his most eloquent passage, perhaps the bestknown prose sentence of any writer in the English language,... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 742 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,...here I first conceived the thought of this narration. The mountains, which inspired him as a rule with no images except those of want and danger, had caught... | |
 | Robert William Chapman - 1920 - 166 σελίδες
...streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. . . . Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration. Another placid interval occurred at Inch Kenneth, when they sailed among the islands at night : The... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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 ;...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... | |
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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,... 
