 Had Loch Lomond been in a happier climate, it would have been the boast of wealth and vanity to own one of the little spots which it incloses, and to have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the gazer...  Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal - Pàgina 14per Scottish Mountaineering Club - 1913Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pàgines
...been preserved, as the original I have reason to suppose is lost. BOSWELL. See ante, iii. 500. 1 ' The islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust...thickets nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness.' Johnson's Works, ix. 156. pleased Oct. 27.] Forms of prayer. 4'5 pleased with the scene, which is so... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 pàgines
...Spots which it encloses, and to have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust him at his approach, when he finds, instead of sort lawns and shady thickets, nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness, Where the loch discharges... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 pàgines
...spots which it incloses, and to have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust...thickets, nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness. Where the loch discharges itself into a river called the Leven, we passed a night with Mr Smollet,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 pàgines
...spots which it incloses, and to. h»re employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust...thickets, nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness*. Where the ]och discarges itself into a river, called the Leven, we passed a night with Mr. Smollet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pàgines
...spots which it incloses, and to have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust...thickets, nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness. Where the loch discharges itself into a river called the Leven, we passed a night with Mr. Smollet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pàgines
...spots which it incloses, and to have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust...thickets, nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness. Where the loch discharges itself into a river called the Leven, we passed a night with Mr. Smollel,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pàgines
...spots which it encloses, and to have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust...thickets, nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness. Where the loch discharges itself into a river called the Leven, we passed a night with Mr. Smollet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pàgines
...have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the pazcr at a distance, disgust him at his approach, when .he...thickets,' nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness. Where the loch discharges itself into a river called the Lc,ctJi, we passed a night with Mr. Smollet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 pàgines
...spots which it incloses, and to have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust...thickets, nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness. Where the loch discharges itself into a river called the Leven, we passed a night with Mr. Smollet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pàgines
...spots which it incloses, and to have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust...thickets, nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness. Where the loch discharges itself into a river called the Leven, we passed a night with Mr. Smollet,... | |
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