 | Kristina Straub - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 260 pages
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration"... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - History - 1997 - 450 pages
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. . . . [H]ere I first conceived the thought of this narration" (p. 40). If the Journey is framed... | |
 | Leith Davis - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 240 pages
...day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to f1nd entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived... | |
 | Mary Poovey - Mathematics - 1998 - 450 pages
...whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet, . . .Before me. and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to fnid encertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived... | |
 | Kevin Hart - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 254 pages
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.... | |
 | Scottish Mountaineering Club - Mountaineering - 1913 - 518 pages
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration."... | |
 | Everett Zimmerman - Literary Collections - 2007 - 276 pages
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration"... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Caroline Jebb - 664 pages
...calm, the air was soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this... | |
 | 130 pages
...ripple of the burn. But Johnson found no pleasure in the place. "Before me", he wrote in his journal, "were high hills which by hindering the eye from ranging forced the mind to find entertainment for itself". The remainder of this portion of the Journey is in the same vein — the best that can be... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1902 - 1076 pages
...day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me and on either side were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration."... | |
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Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration. 
