 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 400 pages
...cogent. We therefore willingly difmounted and diverted ourfelves as the place gave us opportunity. I fat down on a bank, fuch as a writer of Romance might...here I firft conceived the thought of this narration. H-« ..... :..,: a .- .11 We were in this place at eafe and by r -*r choke, and had no evils to fuffer... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1775 - 664 pages
...filencc, and folitude., Before me, and on either fide, weic high hills, which by bin{ dering * . p Jering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itfelf. Whether I fpeot the hour well I knpw not j fog here 1 firft conceived the thought of this narration. ' We were... | |
 | James Boswell - 1785 - 548 pages
...manner. We had a confiderable circle my feet. The day was calm, the air foft, and all was ruder nefs, filence and folitude. Before me, and on either fide,...firft conceived the thought of this narration."— The Critical Reififwcri, with a fpirit and expreffion worthy of the fubject, fay, — " We congratulate... | |
 | James Boswell - 1785 - 546 pages
...We had a confiderable circle my feet. The day was calm, the air foft, and all was rudenefs, filencc and folitude. Before me, and on either fide, were...I firft conceived the thought of this narration." — The Critical Reviewers, with a fpirit and expreffion worthy of the fubjcft, fay — • " We congratulate... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 478 pages
...folitude. Before me, and on eitlier fide, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye fr»m fanging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itfelf. Whether I fpent the liour well, I know not; for here I firft conceived the thought of this narration." — The Critical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...cogent. We therefore willingly difmounted and diverted ourfelves as the place gave us opportunity. I fat down on a bank, fuch as a writer of romance might...ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for kfelf. Whether I fpent the hour well I know not ; for here I firft conceived the thought of this narration.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 258 pages
...rudencfs, lilcnce, and folitude. Before me, and on either fide, were highhilk, which, by hindering the rye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itfelf. Whether I fpei.t the hour well I know not ;. for here I firft conceived the thought of this narration. We were... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 pages
...soft, and all was rudenesSj silence* and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hilis, which, by 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... | |
 | 1802 - 510 pages
..." all was rudenefs, filence, and folitude. "• Before me, and on either fide, were high « hill», which, by hindering the eye from " ranging, forced the mind to find enter« uioment for ¡tfelf. Whether I fpeut the " hour well Иначи not; for here ZJrrJt " etHccivcd... | |
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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. 
