Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D., 1773McGraw-Hill, 1961 - 520 pages |
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Page 85
... Johnson , " one of the songs of Ossian . " He then repeated these lines : Verse sweetens toil , however rude the sound . All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor , while she turns the giddy wheel around , Revolves the sad ...
... Johnson , " one of the songs of Ossian . " He then repeated these lines : Verse sweetens toil , however rude the sound . All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor , while she turns the giddy wheel around , Revolves the sad ...
Page 200
... Johnson's opinion . We then proceeded a little way farther , to the top of a ris- ing ground on which are the remains of what is said to have been the first residence of Leod , the ancestor of the MacLeods . We found a circular wall of ...
... Johnson's opinion . We then proceeded a little way farther , to the top of a ris- ing ground on which are the remains of what is said to have been the first residence of Leod , the ancestor of the MacLeods . We found a circular wall of ...
Page 267
... Johnson's curiosity to a keener pitch , as he was almost positive we were wrong , from the cursory view he had taken . " How the plague is it circular ? ” said he ; and back he went , and proceeded into it , and confuted us . This old ...
... Johnson's curiosity to a keener pitch , as he was almost positive we were wrong , from the cursory view he had taken . " How the plague is it circular ? ” said he ; and back he went , and proceeded into it , and confuted us . This old ...
Contents
APPENDIX Correspondence between Boswell and Lord Elibank | 405 |
TOPOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT | 452 |
INDEX | 489 |
Copyright | |
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