 An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her...  Types of Scenery and Their Influence on Literature - Page 49by Archibald Geikie - 1898 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished...in its original elemental state, or quickened only with -one sullen power of useless vegetation. It will very readily occur, that this uniformity of barrenness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished...usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disin. herited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests, is astonished...in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests, is astonished...in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests, is astonished...in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetatidri. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...nakedness, a little diversified, by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye, accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests, is astonished...extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that 6f matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed py\nature from her care, and disinherited of -her... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...nakedness, a little deversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished...in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. It will very readily occur, that this uniformity of barrenness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...nakedness, a little deversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished...incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left, in its original elemental state, or quickened... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished...in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. It will very readily occur, that this uniformity of bar?... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished...in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. It will very readily occur, that this uniformity of barrenness... | |
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