 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 Seiten
...powers. The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts ; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform. There were no traces of inhabitants,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 Seiten
...powers. The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts ; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform. There were no traces of inhabitants,... | |
 | Edward Burt - 1815 - 312 Seiten
...thoughts of the beholder ; he is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain and how little he can perform."* These letters having attained, by peculiar circumstances, a consequence above that which belongs to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 Seiten
...upon the thoughts ; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little...rude pile of clods called a summer hut, in which a herdsman had rested in the favourable seasons. Whoever had been in the place where I then sat, unprovided... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 Seiten
...powers. •The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger ; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts ; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform. There were no traces of inhabitants,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 Seiten
...phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger ; the evils of dereliction rush vipon the thoughts ; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform. There were no traces of inhabitants,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 Seiten
...powers. The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger ; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts ; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform. There were no traces of inhabitants,... | |
 | Edward Allen Talbot - 1824 - 848 Seiten
...powers. The phantoms which " haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger.; " the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; " man is made unwillingly...how " little he can sustain, and how little he can per" form !" At the foot of the cataract, this beautiful passage occurred to my mind; and I thought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 Seiten
...powers. The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger ; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts ; man is made unwillingly acquainted...rude pile of clods called a summer hut, in which a herdsman had rested in the favourable seasons. Whoever had been in the place where I then sat, unprovided... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 Seiten
...on either the eye from 'V ^»»V ^ AIV.-UTCM n^t «rv» the his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little...were no traces of inhabitants, except, perhaps, a nulc pile of clods, called a summer hnt, in which a herdsman had rest in the favourable seasons. Whoever... | |
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The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shews him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can... 
