 | 1835 - 312 trang
...JOHNSONIANA : No. II. LOCAL EMOTION; OR, DR. JOHNSON'S EXCLAMATIONS ON LANDING AT ICOMKILL. " WE are now treading that illustrious island, which was once...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if... | |
 | 1835 - 454 trang
...beautiful reflections on visiting lona ?—'* We were now treading that illustrious island, which was ouce the luminary of the Caledonian regions ; whence savage...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion, would be impossible, if... | |
 | 1835 - 272 trang
...lona, affords unquestionable proof. " We were now treading that illustrious island, which wag onco tho luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if... | |
 | 1836 - 282 trang
...tho more Though from afar, his steps adore ! [Abridged from BISIIOI- MAST'S Bril'uh ICOI.MKILL. — We were now treading that illustrious island, which...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 trang
...Johnson's celebrated allusion to this subject, that we close our remarks by inserting the passage. — ":We were now treading that illustrious island, which...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage dans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract... | |
 | 1837 - 236 trang
...of the finest in the English language, and spirit-stirring to those visiting the spot — " We are now treading that illustrious island, which was once...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 792 trang
...no question that lona deserves the eloquent compliment bestowed upon it hy Dr. Johnson, of being " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." But there is also truth in what another elegant writer, Doctor Macculloeh,... | |
 | 740 trang
...prefer." But busy memory called up the celebrated pasRage in Dr. Johnson's " Tour to the Hebrides" : " We were now treading that illustrious island which...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 trang
...was after a visit to this spot in the eighteenth century that Dr. Johnson thus eloquently wrote : ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which...roving barbarians derived the Benefits of knowledge, and the blessngs of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be mpossible if it... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 trang
...Tour to the Western Islands," on occasion of his arrival at Icolmkill, the ancient lona : — " We are now treading that illustrious island, which was once...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if... | |
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WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion... 
