 Raasay has little that can detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is the...  Works - Seite 260von Samuel Johnson - 1811Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 444 Seiten
...detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills...with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is jthe rough ocean and the rocky land, the beating billows and the howling storm : within is plenty and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 Seiten
...detain a traveller, except the laird and his family; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills...if I could have found an Ulysses, I had fancied a Phseacia. At Raasay, by good fortune, Macleod, so the chief of the clan is called, was paying a visit,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 Seiten
...detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills...if I could have found an Ulysses, I had fancied a Phaeacia. DUNVEGAN. At Raasay, by good fortune, Macleod, so the chief of the clan is called, was paying... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 Seiten
...detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills...if I could have found an Ulysses, I had fancied a Phseacia. At Raasay, by good fortune, Macleod, so the chief of the clan is called, was paying a visit,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 Seiten
...but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, tills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images....if I could have found an Ulysses, I had fancied a Phteacia. DUNVEGAN. At Raasay, by good fortune, Macleod, so the chief of tht clan is called, was paying... | |
 | George Anderson (of Inverness.), Peter Anderson - 1842 - 750 Seiten
...detain a traveller, except the Laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills...elegance, beauty and gaiety, the song and the dance. In Rasay, if I could have found an Ulysses, I had fancied a Phoeacia." ROUTE FIFTH.— DIVISION C. THE... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - 478 Seiten
...Sicilies, ii. 240, sect. 33. 59. Dr. Johnson thus speaks of his situation at Rausay : " Such a seat of hospitality amidst the winds and waters fills the...and elegance, beauty and gaiety, the song and the dancing !" Apply this to the state of a good man's mind amidst the troubles of the world, " rejoicing... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1860 - 452 Seiten
...savage barrenness of the island and the elegance and hospitality of Raasay House,, that he said, " In Raasay, if I could have found an Ulysses, I had fancied a Phceacia." . When we had run half way up Raasay we opened a noble arm of the sea on the left, the entrance... | |
 | 1875 - 930 Seiten
...of the chief, Macleod of Raasay. The doctor was charmed with his reception. " Without," he said, " is the rough ocean and the rocky land, the beating...if I could have found an Ulysses, I had fancied a Phaeacia." The land rental of that hospitable chieftain has been calculated at about ^250 a year. Last... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 Seiten
...detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills...song and the dance. In Raasay, if I could have found a Ulysses, I had fancied a Phaeacia. (.^AM<O DUNVEGAN. At Raasay, by good fortune, Macleod, so the... | |
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