 | 1826 - 722 Seiten
...dreary monotonous whiteness — not merely for days or weeks, but fur more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture...of man seems an intrusion on the dreary solitude of tliis wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken." Pp. 40, 41. The principal... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 854 Seiten
...dreary monotonous whiteness — not merely for days or weeks, but for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture...dreary solitude of this wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken.' — pp. 40, 41. As affording some amends for external... | |
 | Sir William Edward Parry - 1826 - 264 Seiten
...dreary monotonous whiteness — not merely for days or weeks, but for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture...dreary solitude of this wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken. As this general description of the aspect of nature would... | |
 | 1826 - 570 Seiten
...dreary monotonous whiteness, — not merely for days or weeks, hut for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture...dreary solitude of this wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken.' — pp. 40, 41. The amusements of the men were varied... | |
 | 1826 - 644 Seiten
...dreary monotonous whiteness — not merely for days or •weeks, but for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture...is a deadness with which a human spectator appears nut tf keeping. The presence of man seems an intrusion on the dreary solitude of this wintry desert,... | |
 | Sir William Edward Parry - 1826 - 400 Seiten
...dreary monotonous whiteness — not merely for days or weeks, but for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture...have nothing congenial; of anything, in short, but 1824. " " " ' October. life. In the very silence there is a deadness with which a ^-v^ human spectator... | |
 | 1826 - 738 Seiten
...dreary monotonous whiteness — not merely for days or weeks, but for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture calculated to impress upon the mind an idea of itmnimate stillness, of that motionless torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial, of anything,... | |
 | 1827 - 462 Seiten
...monotonous whiteness, — not merely for days or weeks, but for more than half a year together. W hichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture calculated...• which our feelings have nothing congenial — of any thing, in short, but life. In the very silence there is a deadness with which a human spectator... | |
 | Sir William Edward Parry - 1828 - 350 Seiten
...dreary monotonous whiteness—not merely for days or weeks, but for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture...spectator appears out of keeping. The presence of OF A NOBTH-WEST PASSAGE. 35 man seems an intrusion on the dreary solitude of this wintry desert, which... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1829 - 580 Seiten
...dreary monotonous whiteness, not merely for days and weeks, but for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned it meets a picture...torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial. In the very silence there is a deadness with which a human spectator appears ' out of keeping' The... | |
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... even in some of no slight severity, is occasionally diversified by a thaw, which at once gives variety and comparative cheerfulness to the prospect. But here, when once the earth is covered, all is dreary monotonous whiteness, not merely for days... 
