 | Richard Porson, George Tierney - 1784 - 360 pages
...fcattered on each fide, the murmuring of the purling ftream, and the warbling of a thoufand birds, ftruck my imagination as powerfully as my fenfes ; but at...appeared as if I had been the firft mortal who had ever penetrated into thisdefert fpot. Being fei fed with ailonifhment, and tranfportcd at fo unexpedted... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...imagination as powerfully as my senses ; but at the same time I thought myself in the most wild and solitary place in nature, and I appeared as if I had been the first person who had ever penetrated into this wild and desert spot. Being seized with astonishment... | |
 | Jonathan Lamb - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 358 pages
...it, St. Preux feels he has dropped from the clouds: "I thought myself in the most wild and solitary place in nature, and I appeared as if I had been the first mortal who had ever penetrated into this desart spot . . . seized with astonishment, and transported... | |
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... my imagination as powerfully as my fenfes ; but at the fame time I thought myfelf in the moft wild and folitary place in nature, and I appeared as if I had been the firil mortal who had ever penetrated into this dcfart fpot. 