 An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 250by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left...readily occur, that this uniformity of barrenness can aflbrd very little amusement to the traveller; that it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disin. herited of her favours, left in its original elemental state,...it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks, and heath, and waterfalls ; and that these journies are useless labours, which neither impregnate the imagination,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness ; dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours; left...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness ; dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours; left...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness ; dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours; left...or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetatidri. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that 6f matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed py\nature from her care, and disinherited of -her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quick. cnea quly with, one sullen power of useless vegetation^ Regions mountainous and wild, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left...it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks, and heath, and waterfalls ; and that these journeys are useless labours, which neither impregnate the imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left,...it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks, and heath, and waterfalls ; and that these journeys are useless labours, which neither impregnate the imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left...it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks, and heath^ and waterfalls ; and that these journeys are useless labours, which neither impregnate the imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left...It will very readily occur, that this uniformity of bar? renness can afford very little amusement to the traveller ; that it is easy to sit at home and... | |
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