 ... mire and water, and met not a single soul for two miles together with whom he could exchange a word. He cannot deny that, looking round upon the dreary region, and seeing nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats...  Works - Page 174by Samuel Johnson - 1811Full view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon him, and wished himself again sate at home. One comfort he had, which was to consider that none of his friends were in the same distress,... | |
 | 1803 - 196 pages
...nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with? inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon...suffered more than for himself ; he could not forbear to consider how happily the Idler is settled in an easier condition, who, surrounded like him with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscnred by logs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon...is settled in an easier condition, who, surrounded Hke him with terrou'rs, could have done nothing but lie down and die. Amidst these reflections he came... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon...settled in an easier condition, who surrounded like him with terrors could have done nothing but lie down and die^ Amidst these reflections he came to a town,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 416 pages
...nothing but bleak fields, and naked trees, bills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon him, and wished himself again safe at home." Travch of Will Marvel, Idler, No. 49. IT was in the beginning of the month of November, \7*—, when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon...settled in an easier condition, who, surrounded like him with terrours, could have done' nothing but lie down and die. Amidst these reflections he came to a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon...settled in an easier condition, who, surrounded like him with terrors, could have done nothing but lie down and die. Amidst these reflections he came to a town,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 pages
...nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and fiats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon...settled in an easier condition, who, surrounded like him with terrors, could have done nothing but lie down and die. Amidst these reflections he came to a town,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 246 pages
...nothing but-bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by togs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon him, and wished himself again safe at home... Travels of WHL MARVEL, /t/fer, N°4g. IT was in ihe beginning of the month of November, 17 —, when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon...settled in an easier condition, who, surrounded like him with terrours, could have done nothing but lie down and die. Amidst these reflections he came to a... | |
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