 | English essays - 1821 - 712 pages
...dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such indeed was the want of ob. jects to afford relief to the eye, or amusement to the mind, that a sione of more than usual size appearing above the snow, in the direction in which we were going, immediately... | |
 | Science - 1821 - 476 pages
...stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such indeed was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or...were going, immediately became a mark on which our ejes -were unconsciously fixed, and towards which we mechanically advanced. " Dreary as such a scene... | |
 | Scotland - 1821 - 618 pages
...stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye, or...fixed, and towards which we mechanically advanced. " Dreary as such a scene must necessarily be, it could not, however, be said to be wholly wanting in... | |
 | Science - 1821 - 464 pages
...stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such indeed was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or...fixed, and towards which we mechanically advanced. " Dreary as such a scene must necessarily be, it could not, however, be said to be wholly wanting in... | |
 | England - 1821 - 818 pages
...stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye, or...fixed, and towards which we mechanically advanced. " Dreary as such a scene must necessarily be, it could not, however, be said to be wholly wanting in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or...usual size appearing above the snow, in the direction to which we were going, immediately became a mark, on which our eyes were unconsciously fixed, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or...usual size appearing above the snow, in the direction to which we were going, immediately became a mark, on which our eyeswere unconsciously fixed, and towards... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or amusement to the mind, that a --tone of more than usual size appearing above the snow, in the direction in which we were going, immediately... | |
 | 1822 - 524 pages
...stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of 'animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye, or...fixed, and towards which we mechanically advanced. ' Dreary as such a scene must necessarily be, it could not, however, be said to be wholly wanting in... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1823 - 400 pages
...stilness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or...fixed, and towards which we mechanically advanced.' — (Journal, pp. 124-125.) THOMSON has a magnificent description of these icy regions, with an affecting... | |
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... the landscape of a cultivated country ; it was the death-like stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or amusement to the mind, that a... 
