 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 páginas
...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, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour 1 Between the royal troops and some 3 Mr. Boswell, no doubt, saw the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 páginas
...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, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1907 - 668 páginas
...calm, the air was soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, 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 thought of this... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1915 - 228 páginas
...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, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.'... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 742 páginas
...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, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not, for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.... | |
 | 1921 - 874 páginas
...ripple of the burn. But Johnson found no pleasure in the place. "Before me," he wrote in his journal, "were high hills which by hindering the eye from ranging forced the mind to find entertainment for itself." The remainder of this portion of the Journal is in the same vein — the best that can be... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 páginas
...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, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.... | |
 | William Chase Greene - 1923 - 358 páginas
...humanism, like that of Samuel Johnson, who wrote in his Journal, of the Scotch Highlands, "Before me were high hills which by hindering the eye from ranging forced the mind to find entertainment for itself." Wordsworth wrote of his visit to these same Highlands, thirty years later, that his object... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 páginas
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, sileqge. and solitude. Before me, and on either side, 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 thought of this narration.... | |
 | Arthur McDowall - 1925 - 196 páginas
...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, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not, for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.... | |
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Before me, and on either side, 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 thought of this narration. 
