 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; but here I first conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suifer or to fear ; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; but here I first conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had 'to evils to suffer or to fear ; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at...imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untraveUed wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens, a flattering... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 pages
...entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at...imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravellcd wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens, a flattering... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin DeCosta - 1869 - 236 pages
...evil to fear, he' nevertheless says, that " the imaginations excited by an unknown and mitruveiled : wilderness, are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens,—a flattering notion of eelf-suflicioncy, a placid indulgence of voluntary delusions, a secure... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration. " We were in this place...solitude of parks and gardens, a flattering notion of self sufficiency, a placid indulgence of voluntary delusions, a secure expansion of the fancy, or a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 pages
...entertainment for itself- Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at...wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial snlitnHe nf parks and gar.tj.ejs, a flattering notion of self-sufficiency, a placid indulgence of voluntary... | |
 | Nancy Langston - 1995 - 420 pages
...particularly brutal day, he wrote: "the sensations excited on this occasion and by the view of an unknown & untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens." A romanticized wild nature was all very well when viewed from afar, "for there one is apt to indulge... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1995 - 558 pages
...— The sensations excited on this occasion, and by the view of an unknown & untravelled wildernefs, are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens , for there one is apt to indulge a flattering notion of self sufficiency, as well as a placid indulgence... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1998 - 450 pages
...encertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration. We were in this place at...ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to tear; yet the imaginations exciied by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such... | |
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We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... 
