 | 1821 - 702 str.
...Johnson experienced a similar excitement. " 1 sat down," says the author of the Rambler, " on a bank such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 str.
...willingly dismounted, and diverted ourselves as the place gave us opportunity. I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 str.
...willingly dismounted, and diverted ourselves as the place gave us opportunity. I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 str.
...willingly dismounted, and diverted ourselves as the place gave us opportunity. I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 str.
...Johnson, in his Journey, thus beautifully deseril** his situation here : " I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 654 str.
...which he first conceived the notion of his own account of his wanderings. ' I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 str.
...which he first conceived the notion of his own account of his wanderings. ' I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 str.
...Johnson, in his Journey, thus beautifully describes hU situation here : " I sat down on a bank, such rborn trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulel streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft,... | |
 | 1882 - 844 str.
...shows touches of the true feeling. Thus of Auchnasheel he observes : — I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 str.
...parents all happy. The poor M'Croas, scribes his situation here : " I sat down on a bank, such as « writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft,... | |
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I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. 
