 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...attend to her voice, not because they do not understand it. IV. ICOLMKILL. — We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | William King Tweedie - 1840 - 278 pages
..."That man is little to be envied .... whose piety does not grow warmer among the ruins of lona .... that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." We have said little regarding the encouragement... | |
 | William Howitt - 1840 - 540 pages
...through every summer, a company like this descends on this barren strand, to behold what Johnson calls, " that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion." A more interesting or laudable excursion, the... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1840 - 476 pages
...like these that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage ; — ' We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...regions ; whence savage clans, and roving barbarians * We refer the reader to Pennant's Towr through Scotland, and Johnson's Tour to the Hebrides, for further... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1840 - 286 pages
...o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quench 'd is his lamp of varied lore, 1 [" We were DOT treading that illustrious island, which was 'Once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage oana and roving harharians derived the henefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To ahstract... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1841 - 410 pages
...Though peal'd the bells from the holy pile With long and measured toll;1 1 [" We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 pages
...records the emotions excited in the breast of Dr. Johnson by the prospect of lona. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion wonld... | |
 | James Wilson - 1842 - 562 pages
...later all must be partakers, should have changed or chilled a feeble human heart. This region of ruins, once the " luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," is indeed a solemn place, though now too well... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction New Series VOL.IV - 1843 - 458 pages
...in our opmion, you know, the finest in all the Johnsonian declamations : — "We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1843 - 558 pages
...writers, is tile meaning of the term lona.— See Cornel!'* Tan,- in the JligUamh, t "We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions. That man is little lo be envied, whore pnlriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
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We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion... 
