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" 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,... "
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Page 66
by Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 288 pages
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 52

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1775 - 664 pages
...mind to find entertainment for itfelf. Whether I fpeot the hour well I knpw not j fog here 1 firft conceived the thought of this narration. ' We were in this place at eafe and by choice, and had no evils to fufFer or to fear -, yet the imaginations excited by the view...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, Volumes 1-2

Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 280 pages
...mind to find entertainment for itfelf. Whether I fpent the hour well I know not ; for here I firft conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place .at eafe and by choice, and had no evils to fuffer or to fear ; yet the imaginations excited by the view...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...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...I first conceived the thought of this narration.' The Critical Reviewers, with a spirit and expression worthy of the subject, say,—' We congratulate...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Political tracts. Political essays ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 550 pages
...the mind to find entertainment for itfelf. Whether I fpent the hour well I know not; for here I firft conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at eafe and by choice, and had no evils to fuffer or to fear; yet the imaginations excited by the view...
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Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...the mind to find entertainment for kfelf. Whether I fpent the hour well I know not ; for here I firft conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at eafe and by choice, and had no evils to fuffer or to fear; yet the imaginations excited by the view...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pages
...mind to find entertainment for itfelf. Whether I fpent the hour well I know not ; for here I firft conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at eafe and by choice, and had no evils to fuffer or to fear ; yet the imaginations excited by the view...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pages
...mind to find entertainment for itfelf. Whether I fpent the hour well I know not ; for here I firft conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at eafe and by choice, and had no evils to fuffer or to fear ; yet the imaginations excited by the view...
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Observations on a short tour made in the summer of 1803 to the western ...

Philip Bracebridge Homer - 1804 - 230 pages
...the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether! spent the hourwell I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration." I imagine that the inn at Cluony has been built since the time of Dr. Johnson: indeed it is Ept properly...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 pages
...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 ;...to fear ; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1807 - 496 pages
...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 T first conceived the thought of this narration." — The Critical Reviewers, with a spirit ani expression...
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