 ... composure, which characterizes the landscape of a cultivated country ; it was the deathlike stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye, or...  The Edinburgh annual register - Seite 3441823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1821 - 712 Seiten
...presence of man, gave a partial cheerfulness to this part of the prospect; and the snund of voicei, which during the cold weather could be heard at a...desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such indeed was the want of ob. jects to afford relief to the eye, or amusement to the mind, that a... | |
 | 1821 - 818 Seiten
...and then to break the silence which reigned around us, a silence far different from that peaceable composure, which characterizes the landscape of a...desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye, or amusement to the mind, that a... | |
 | 1821 - 488 Seiten
...then to break the silence which reigned around us, — a silence far different from that peaceable composure which characterizes the landscape of a cultivated...desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or amusement to the mind, that a... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 Seiten
...and then to break the silence which reigned around us, a silence far different from that peaceable composure which characterizes the landscape of a cultivated...desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or amusement to the mind, that a... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 Seiten
...and then to break the silence which reigned around us, a silence far different from that peaceable composure which characterizes the landscape of a cultivated...desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or amusement to the mind, that a... | |
 | 1821 - 464 Seiten
...which reigned around us, — a silence far different from that peaceable composure which characterises the landscape of a cultivated country ; it was the...desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such indeed was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or amusement to the mind, that a stone... | |
 | 1823 - 784 Seiten
...such as to induce contemplation, which had, perhaps, more of melancholy than of any other feelfng. Not an object was to be seen, on which the eye could...was the excessive intensity of the cold. From the 6th November to the 22d April, the thermometer was constantly below zero. The average of November was... | |
 | 1823 - 400 Seiten
...then to break the silence which reigned around us, — a silence far different from that peaceable composure which characterizes the landscape of a cultivated country ; it was the deathlike stilness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 Seiten
...which reigned around us, — a silence fer different from that peaceable composure which characterises the landscape of a cultivated country ; it was the...desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such indeed was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or amusement to the mind, that a stone... | |
 | Edinburgh cabinet library - 1830 - 456 Seiten
...and then to break the silence which reigned around us ; a silence far different from that peaceable composure which characterizes the landscape of a cultivated...desolation, and the total absence of animated existence." PARRY. During the winter at Melville Island, people were At length the sun reappears above the horizon... | |
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