 | 1833 - 424 páginas
...the utility of impressive scenes and occasions to be forgotten. " That man," it has been well said, " is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon ? " Whose love of the sublime and beautiful would not be quickened amidst the ruins of Athens or of... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 280 páginas
...before the mind in its better hours, and then vanish away for ever, before the breath of the world. If " that man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, and whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona," surely he... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 páginas
...us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue ! That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on D 6 the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." True and... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 268 páginas
...before the mind in its better hours, and then vanish away for ever, before the breath of the world. If " that man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, and whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona," surely he... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1821 - 422 páginas
...mind in its 52 ' betters hours, and then vanish away for ever, before the breath of the world. If " that man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, and whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona," surely he... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 páginas
...us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. Amongst the... | |
 | Alice O. Howell - 1988 - 220 páginas
...set foot on their island. But the spirit of Columba never left the place, and Johnson was to remark: "That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." We walked pensively southward and then... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 páginas
...Druidical origin. It is in reference to all these remains of ancient religion that Johnson exclaims, 'That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer amid the ruins of lona.' In the 'Lord of the... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 páginas
...conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground that has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona? (p. 148) With its references to the past... | |
 | Ronald Ferguson, Ron Ferguson - 1998 - 196 páginas
...build their own byres and dykes. Even in its state of dissolution, lona moved Dr Johnson, who observed: That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. Another visitor was Sir Walter Scott,... | |
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That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. 
