 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...paradise of the Leasowes, where, as Johnson tells us in his grand resounding prose, he set himself ' to point his prospects, to diversify his surface,...wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and fancy as made his little domain the envy of the great and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 786
...Johnson, ь wu excited his delight in real pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind hi« waters; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...excited his [Shen stone's] delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance. He began to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, aud to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy as made his little domain the... | |
 | William George Fretton - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...Leasowes, and from this time forth, according to that great caliph in literature, Dr. Johnson, began to " point his prospects, to diversify his surface,...wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the skilful; a place... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 428
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 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 842
...hisown care and management, and he began from this lime, as Johnson characteristically describes it, ' to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wiml his waters; which he did with such judgment and fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance ; he began from this time to point his prosperts, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters; which he did with su_h judgment and such fancy as made his little domain the envy of the great and the admiration of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...was in fashion in his time. In his Life of his contemporary Shenstone, he tells how that poet ' began to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters.' — Works, viii. 409. 1. 12. accommodations. See ante, p. 168, note on p. 60, 1. 20. P. 87, 1. 2. Bassa.... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...ambition of rnral elegance ; he began from this time to point his prospects. to diversify his snrface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with snch jndgmentand snch fancy as made his little domain the envy of the great and the admiratton of the... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...produce. Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance ; he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify...walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgmentand such fancy as made his little domain the envy of the great and the admiration of the skilful;... | |
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Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters... 
