 | 1826 - 570 páginas
...stillness, of that motionless torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial ; of anything, in short, but life. 'In the very silence there is...wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken.' — pp. 40, 41. The amusements of the men were varied on this occasion by the introduction... | |
 | 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 - 644 páginas
...stillness, of that motionless torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial ; of anything, in short, but life. In the very silence there is a...wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken.' — pp.40, 41. As affording some amends for external deficiencies, their comforts... | |
 | Sir William Edward Parry - 1826 - 264 páginas
...inanimate stillness, of that motionless torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial; of anything, in short, but life. In the very silence there is a...wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken. As this general description of the aspect of nature would suit alike each winter... | |
 | 1826 - 738 páginas
...motionless torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial, of anything, in short, but life. IB the very silence there is a deadness with which a...wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken." Pp. 40, 41. The principal novelties were- the adoption of monthly masquerades, and... | |
 | Sir William Edward Parry - 1826 - 400 páginas
...in short, but 1824. " " " ' October. life. In the very silence there is a deadness with which a ^-v^ human spectator appears out of keeping. The presence...wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken. As this general description of the aspect of nature would suit alike each winter... | |
 | 1826 - 644 páginas
...short, but life. In the very silence there is a deadness with which a human spectator appears nut tf keeping. The presence of man seems an intrusion on...wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken.' — pp.40, 41. As affording some amends for external deficiencies, their comforts... | |
 | 1827 - 462 páginas
...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...an intrusion on the dreary solitude of this wintry desart, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken. Captain Parry's remarks on the effects... | |
 | Sir William Edward Parry - 1828 - 350 páginas
...deadness with which a human spectator appears out of keeping. The presence of OF A NOBTH-WEST PASSAGE. 35 man seems an intrusion on the dreary solitude of this...even its native animals have for awhile forsaken. As this general description of the aspect of nature would suit alike each winter we have passed in... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1829 - 580 páginas
...idea of inanimate stillness, of that motionless torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial. In the very silence there is a deadness with which...wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken." It was therefore as necessary as ever to apply some stimulus to the mind of the... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1829 - 1136 páginas
...congenial. In the very silence there is a deadness with which a human spectator appears ' out of keep* ing? The presence of man seems an intrusion on the dreary...wintry desert, which even its native animals have for a while forsaken." It was therefore as necessary as ever to apply some stimulus to the mind of the... | |
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... 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 inanimate stillness, of that motionless torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial ; of anything,... 
