 | Robert Anderson - 696 Seiten
...ever be regarded as an spicious to the literature of his country. " I sat down on a bank," he says, " such as a writer of romance might have delighted to...my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air was soft ; and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on... | |
 | James Boswell - 1994 - 450 Seiten
...as near as he comes to using it is when, describing a beautiful morning in the Hebrides, he writes, 'I sat down on a bank such as a writer of Romance would have been delighted to feign.' Boswell, by comparison, peppers his pages with the word, whether... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - 1997 - 450 Seiten
...Scotland as motivated by the silence of its landscape, empty of history and of cultural referents: "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... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 Seiten
...Highlands, a long, self-conscious, poetic passage sketches the time and place of the book's conception. "I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance...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... | |
 | Leith Davis - 1998 - 240 Seiten
...part of the country. Johnson describes the scene in which he f1rst thought of writing his narrative: I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance...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, on either side,... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1998 - 450 Seiten
...certainties, and consequencly gain more principles ot reasoning, and found a wider basis of analogy. . . . I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance...my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet, . . .Before me. and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 Seiten
...indicates both how close and how distant he was to something in or behind the passage we have just read: I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance...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... | |
 | Scottish Mountaineering Club - 1913 - 518 Seiten
...welcome the inspiration in the Lochaber glen which prompted the work. Here is his own account:— " I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance...to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my licud, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness,... | |
 | Everett Zimmerman - 2007 - 276 Seiten
...around Scotland, heading west from Fort Augustus to Glenelg, before he conceived of writing about it: "I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have been delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Caroline Jebb - 664 Seiten
...his record of that journey, such passages as these : — He is in a valley in the Highlands : — " I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance...my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air was soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on... | |
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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. 
