| 1893 - 844 pàgines
...expected. He christened that grim continent " tinLand of Desolation," and he quaintly declares that "the irksome noise of the ice and the loathsome view of the shore bred strange conceits among us." Nevertheless, with his indomitable pluck, he pushed on, making friends with the natives, and there... | |
| Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1921 - 622 pàgines
...the country of the old Norse colony-, was sighted, and Davis named it the "Land of Desolation": for "the irksome noise of the ice and the loathsome view of the shore bred strange conceits among us." This was on the east side. Davis considered that he was well to the westward of the Frieslanda of Zeno,... | |
| A. C. Seward - 1922 - 158 pàgines
...in the latter part of the sixteenth century described Greenland as a land of desolation, and added: 'The irksome noise of the ice and the loathsome view of the shore bred strange conceits among us.' Shelley's lines, From the most gloomy glens Of Greenland's sunless clime, ARCTIC VEGETATION 61 though... | |
| 1922 - 378 pàgines
...the latter part of the sixteenth century described Greenland as a land of desolation, and added : " The irksome noise of the ice and the loathsome view of the shore bred strange conceits among us." Shelley's lines : " From the most gloomy glens Of Greenland's sunless clime," though applicable to... | |
| Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1921 - 624 pàgines
...the country of the old Norse colony, was sighted, and Davis named it the "Land of Desolation": for "the irksome noise of the ice and the loathsome view of the shore bred strange conceits among us." This was on the east side. Davis considered that he was well to the westward of the Frieslanda of Zeno,... | |
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