Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: And Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1924 - 511 páginas |
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... side , and parted from the land by a very narrow channel on the other . It has its name and its colour from the dung of innu- merable sea - fowls , which in the Spring chuse this place as convenient for incubation , and have their eggs ...
... side , and parted from the land by a very narrow channel on the other . It has its name and its colour from the dung of innu- merable sea - fowls , which in the Spring chuse this place as convenient for incubation , and have their eggs ...
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... side to a height which produced the idea of insurmountable confinement . The interception of all lateral light caused a dismal gloom . Round us was a perpendicular rock , above us the distant sky , and below an unknown profundity of ...
... side to a height which produced the idea of insurmountable confinement . The interception of all lateral light caused a dismal gloom . Round us was a perpendicular rock , above us the distant sky , and below an unknown profundity of ...
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... side of the choir , the chapter - house , which is roofed with an arch of stone , remains entire ; and on the south side , another mass of building , which we could not enter , is preserved by the care of the family of Gordon ; but the ...
... side of the choir , the chapter - house , which is roofed with an arch of stone , remains entire ; and on the south side , another mass of building , which we could not enter , is preserved by the care of the family of Gordon ; but the ...
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... side the horses , of which they were the owners . One of them was a man of great liveliness and activity , of whom his companion said , that he would tire any horse in Inverness . Both of them were civil and ready - handed . Civility ...
... side the horses , of which they were the owners . One of them was a man of great liveliness and activity , of whom his companion said , that he would tire any horse in Inverness . Both of them were civil and ready - handed . Civility ...
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... side , and partly , as is supposed , by springs at the bottom . Its water is remarkably clear and pleasant , and is imagined by the natives to be medicinal . We were told , that it is in some places a hundred and forty fathom deep , a ...
... side , and partly , as is supposed , by springs at the bottom . Its water is remarkably clear and pleasant , and is imagined by the natives to be medicinal . We were told , that it is in some places a hundred and forty fathom deep , a ...
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Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Boswell's Journal ... Samuel Johnson Vista de fragmentos - 1948 |
Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: And Boswell's Journal ... Samuel Johnson Vista de fragmentos - 1961 |
Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: And Boswell's Journal ... Samuel Johnson Vista de fragmentos - 1930 |
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Página 132 - We were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Página 133 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
Página 176 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Página 33 - 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 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.
Página 168 - He was afflicted with a bodily disease which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking.
Página 220 - ... have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
Página 181 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 340 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 1 - I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey by finding in Mr Boswell a companion whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
Página 41 - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.