 I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to 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...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Seite 262von Samuel Johnson - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 Seiten
...no trees to 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....I first conceived the thought of this narration." The Critical Keviewers, with a spirit and expression worthy of the subject, say, << We congratulate... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 Seiten
...no trees to 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....I first conceived the thought of this narration." The Critical Reviewers, with a spirit and expression worthy of the subject, say, " We congratulate... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 Seiten
...neighbouring huts, but I observed one black-haired man, who had been with us all along, calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude....either side, were high hills, which, by hindering my eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertain ment for itself Whether I spent the hour well,... | |
 | JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...no trees to 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....I first conceived the thought of this narration." The Critical Reviewers, with a. spirit and expression worthy of the subject, say, " We congratulate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 480 Seiten
...trees to 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....I first conceived the thought of this narration.' Johnson's Works, ix. 36. For my attempt to discover this stream, see Footsteps of Dr. Johnson in Scotland,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 Seiten
...trees to 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....entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour 1 Between the royal troops and some 3 Mr. Boswell, no doubt, saw the Spanish forces under Lord Seaforth,... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1907 - 668 Seiten
...his record of that journey, such passages as these : — He is in a valley in the Highlands : — " I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance...I first conceived the thought of this narration." — Remark here, in passing, the notes of the eighteenth century ; first, the reference of nature to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 542 Seiten
...trees to 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....entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour 1 Between the royal troops and some * Mr. Boswell, no doubt, saw the Spanish forces under Lord Seaforth,... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1915 - 228 Seiten
...no trees to 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....I first conceived the thought of this narration.' But his most eloquent passage, perhaps the bestknown prose sentence of any writer in the English language,... | |
 | William Prideaux Courtney - 1915 - 206 Seiten
...no trees to 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....the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether 1 spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.' But his... | |
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