 Regions like this, which have come down to us rude and untouched from the beginning of time, fill the mind with grand conceptions, far beyond the efforts of art and cultivation. Impressed by such views of nature, our ancestors worshipped the God of nature...  Devonshire sketches, by Tickler - Sida 66efter George Philip R. Pulman - 1869Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 612 sidor
...statements of an obscure writer. When, in addition to the above remarks, he informs us that " these regions have come down to us rude and untouched from the beginning of time;" what other idea can be excited than that of sterility and desolation? What opinion can we form on the... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 614 sidor
...an obscure writer. When, in addition to the above remarks, he informs us that " these region&?have come down to us rude and untouched from the beginning of time;" what other idea can be excited than that of sterility and desolation ? What opinion can we form on... | |
 | Nicholas Toms Carrington - 1826 - 280 sidor
...ranges of uncultivated land ; " to which may be added, from Gilpin's remarks on Salisbury Plain : " Regions like this, which have come down to us rude...which gave them the highest notions of eternity." The writer of this note, speaking of his own feelings, has never traversed the Moor without having... | |
 | 1826 - 608 sidor
...like this,' says the Rev. Mr. Gilpin, speaking of the kindred scenery of the great Wiltshire Plain, ' which have come down to us rude and untouched ' from the beginning of time, fill the mind with grand concep' tions far beyond the efforts of art and cultivation.1 To endure a residence in such savage... | |
 | 1826 - 606 sidor
...like this,' says the Rev. Mr. Gilpin, speaking of the kindred scenery of the great Wiltshire Plain, ' which -have come down to us rude and untouched ' from the beginning of time, fill the mind with grand concep' tious far beyond the efforts of art and cultivation.' To endure a residence :in such savage... | |
 | Nicholas Toms Carrington, Noel Thomas Carrington - 1834 - 340 sidor
...ranges of uncultivated land ;" to which may be added, from Gilpin's remarks on Salisbury Plain : " Regions like this which have come down to us rude...which gave them the highest notions of eternity." Except the continual murmur of waters, and the hum of insects, of which the lower part of the atmosphere... | |
 | Samuel Rowe - 1848 - 348 sidor
...bounds are laid down at proximate, and nut as posittvefy j ascertained anfl : PERAMBULATION OF DARTMOOR. Regions like this, -which have come down to us rude...conceptions, far beyond the efforts of art and cultivation. GILFIN. ARTMOOR, whilst it forms in itself the most conspicuous and characteristic feature in the physical... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1851 - 324 sidor
...fancies. The word cleave signifies common or uncultivated land, and this of Lustleigh has apparently come down to us "rude and untouched from the beginning of time ;" withal it is so secluded, that were it not for the rocks, which serve the traveller as a landmark,... | |
 | Thomas Clifton Paris - 1851 - 312 sidor
...fancies. The word cleave signifies common or uncultivated land, and this of Lustleigh has apparently come down to us "rude and untouched from the beginning of time ;" withal it is so secluded, that were it not for the rocks, which serve the traveller as a landmark,... | |
 | William Long - 1876 - 288 sidor
...spring, under one's feet." (p. 9.) from the beginning of time, fill the mind with grand conceptions, fur beyond the efforts of art and cultivation. Impressed...nature, our ancestors worshipped the god of nature, in these boundless scenes, which gave them the highest conceptions of eternity. All the plain, at least... | |
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