The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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... eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway , and , when the winds beat with violence , must enjoy all the terrifick grandeur of the tempestuous ocean . I would not for my amusement wish for a storm ; but as storms ...
... eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway , and , when the winds beat with violence , must enjoy all the terrifick grandeur of the tempestuous ocean . I would not for my amusement wish for a storm ; but as storms ...
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... eyes to the Buller , or Bouilloir of Buchan , which no man can see with indif- ference , who has either sense of danger , or delight in rarity . It is a rock perpendicularly tubulated , united on one side with a high shore , and on the ...
... eyes to the Buller , or Bouilloir of Buchan , which no man can see with indif- ference , who has either sense of danger , or delight in rarity . It is a rock perpendicularly tubulated , united on one side with a high shore , and on the ...
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... eyes . But we visited the place at an unseasonable time , and found it divested of its dignity and terrour . Nature never gives every thing at once . A long continuance of dry weather , which made the rest of the way easy and de ...
... eyes . But we visited the place at an unseasonable time , and found it divested of its dignity and terrour . Nature never gives every thing at once . A long continuance of dry weather , which made the rest of the way easy and de ...
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... eyes , and were acquainted with the phænomena of the country , declared it to be snow . It had already lasted to the ... eye or imagination of the passenger , as it makes either a spectacle or an obstruction , it must be reckoned from ...
... eyes , and were acquainted with the phænomena of the country , declared it to be snow . It had already lasted to the ... eye or imagination of the passenger , as it makes either a spectacle or an obstruction , it must be reckoned from ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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