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" From the mountains on every side rivulets descended that filled all the valley with verdure and fertility, and formed a lake in the middle, inhabited by fish of every species, and frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water.... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson ... - Page 200
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 2

History - 1762 - 578 pages
...lively, •corren, and harmonious. It has however in a few places an air too cxaft and ftudied. The fides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diveffified with flowers ; every blail (hook fpices The ideas which travellers have from the recks,...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...fide, and fell with dreadful noife from * precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The fides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diverfified with flowers; etery blaft {hook fpices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits upon...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...fide, and fell with dreadful noife from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The fides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diverfified with flowers ; every blaft fhook fpices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...fide, and f*-U with dreadful noife from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The fides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diverfified w'uh flowers ; every blafl (hook fpices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits...
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...fide, and fell with dreadful noife from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The fides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diverfified with flowers ; every blaft fhook fpices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits...
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The Wandering Islander, Or, The History of Mr. Charles North

Charles Henry Wilson - 1792 - 286 pages
...fide, and fell 'with 'dreadful noife from precipice to precipice, till it was heard .no more. The fides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diyerfified with flowers ; every blaft fhook fpices from the rocks, and -every month dropped fruits...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy ...

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...fide, and fell with dreadful noife from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The fides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diverfified with flowers ; every blaft fhook fpices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 21

English literature - 1759 - 760 pages
...with dreadful nolle from ptccipke to precipice 3fill it was heard no mare. :'.).u< ..ouui The fides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diverlin-.l with Bowei s; every Wall (hook ! pices from ih_ rocks, and every momh dropped fruits Upon...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...fide, and fell with dreadful noife from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The fides of the mountains were covered with. trees, the banks of the brooks were diverfified with flowers ; every blaft (hook fpices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 2

History - 1802 - 522 pages
...but with these die, inhabited by fish of every species, and frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This la.ke discharged...dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and defects, perhaps no book ever inculcated a purer and sounder morality ; no book -ever made a morejust...
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