 waving their leaves. They exhibit very little variety ; being almost wholly covered with dark heath, and even that seems to be checked in its growth. What is not heath is nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep....  Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland - Pàgina 48per Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 412 pàginesPrevisualització limitada - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 pàgines
...expect to produce many fish. The rapidity of the -wintry deluge sweeps them away, and the scant!. ness of the summer stream would hardly sustain them above...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, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pàgines
...and even that seems to be checked in its growth. What is not heath is nakedness, a little deversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An...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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pàgines
...colours of nature. " The hills exhibit very little variety, being almost wholly covered with dark heath. What is not heath is nakedness, a little diversified...is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form, or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 pàgines
...have called a naked rock, but the guides, who had better eyes, and were acquainted with the phaenomena of the country, declared it to be snow. It had already...incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature L from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 pàgines
...in England, wandering in the water. Of the hills, many may be called with Homer's Ida, abundant hi springs ; but few can deserve the epithet which he...astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterili ty. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 572 pàgines
...These channels, which seem so much wider than the water that they convey would naturally require, arc formed by the violence of wintry floods, produced...sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of fornwor usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its... | |
 | 1865 - 538 pàgines
...Homer's Ida, abundant in springs ; but few can deserve the epithet which he bestows upon Pelion, of waving their leaves. They exhibit very little variety,...and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by the wide extent of hopeless sterility."1 Some of the lovers of mountain scenery maintain that it has... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1895 - 352 pàgines
...appears checked in its growth. What is not heath is nakedness — a little diversified now and then by a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed...repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility." What a contrast there is between the pompous stupidity of this southern philosopher and the intense... | |
 | 1875 - 932 pàgines
...visit in August, must have been in the full glory of heather, Johnson observes of the mountains, " They exhibit very little variety, being almost wholly...repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility." This feeling is to some extent shown even by Sir Walter Scott, as already noticed. " Sublime but sad,"... | |
 | Charles Underwood Dasent - 1877 - 238 pàgines
...diversified by now and then a stream- rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and wavy harvests, is astonished and repelled by this wide...sterility. The appearance' is that of matter incapable of further usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its... | |
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