| Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 612 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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...conceptions, far beyond the efforts of art and cultivation. Impressed by such views of nature, our ancestors worshipped the God of nature in those boundless scenes,... | |
| 1826 - 608 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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...conceptions, far beyond the efforts of art and cultivation. Impressed by such views of nature, our ancestors worshipped the God of nature in those boundless scenes,... | |
| Samuel Rowe - 1848 - 348 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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,... | |
| George Philip R. Pulman - 1869 - 152 стор.
...Were they not simple sun worshippers, or is not what a writer has written nearer the truth ? — " Regions like this, which have come down to us rude...conceptions far beyond the efforts of art and .cultivation. Impressed by such views of nature, our ancestors worshipped the God of Nature in those boundless scenes,... | |
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