 ... 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, forced the mind to...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to ... - Page 284by James Boswell - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1775 - 552 pages
...Whether I fpent the hour well I know not ; for here I firft conceived the thought of this narration.' We congratulate the public on the event with which this quotation concludes, and are fully perfuaded that the hour in which the entertaining traveller conceived tliis narrative will be confidered... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 548 pages
...narration."— The Critical Reififwcri, with a fpirit and expreffion worthy of the fubject, fay, — " We congratulate the public on the event with which this quotation concludes, and are fully perfuaded that the hour in which the entertaining traveller conceived this narrative will be confitiered,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 546 pages
...We congratulate the public on the event with which rhia quotation concludes, and are fully perfuaded that the hour in which the entertaining traveller conceived this narrative will be confidered, by every reader of tafte, as a fortunate event in the annals of literature. Were it fuitable... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...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...worthy of the subject, say,—' We congratulate the publick on the event with which this quotation concludes, and are fully persuaded that the hour in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment reir itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at ease, and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear, yet the imaginations... | |
 | Philip Bracebridge Homer - 1804 - 230 pages
...the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether! spent the hourwell I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration." I imagine that the inn at Cluony has been built since the time of Dr. Johnson: indeed it is Ept properly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...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. We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear ; yet the imaginations... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1807 - 496 pages
...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." — The Critical Reviewers, with a spirit ani expression worthy of the subject, say, — " We congratulate the publick on the event with which... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...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. We were in this place at ease, and by choice, and had no evils tosuffer or to fear; yet the imaginations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...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. We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear; yet the imagina-tions... | |
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