 | Mark Aloysius Tierney - 1834 - 382 pagina’s
...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..." would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona."" And yet, what were even Marathon without the tale that still can people it with its armies — " the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 436 pagina’s
...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...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. JOHNSON. P. 18, 1. 12. And watch and meep in ELOISA'S cell. The Paraclete, founded by Abelard, in Champagne.... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 pagina’s
...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 spots in Australia which have been "dignified by bravery," and over which one would have... | |
 | Alice O. Howell - 1988 - 220 pagina’s
...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...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." We walked pensively southward and then turned west along the road to the Hill of the Angels from which... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pagina’s
...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...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona" (journey 148). Boswell quotes this passage reverently "as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 pagina’s
...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...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona! [JWI 123-24] The reverence for the religious heritage of lona Johnson shares with Martin. But both... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pagina’s
...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...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona? (p. 148) With its references to the past and the classics, this writing exemplifies a form of that... | |
 | Ronald Ferguson, Ron Ferguson - 1998 - 196 pagina’s
...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...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. Another visitor was Sir Walter Scott, who described the inhabitants as being in the last state of poverty... | |
 | Leith Davis - 1998 - 240 pagina’s
...own account: "That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plan of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona\" (5: 334). Boswell presents Johnson and himself as conjoined in patriotism and piety. Not only... | |
 | Harriet Guest - 2000 - 362 pagina’s
...indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." The extreme admiration Banks and Boswell felt for this passage was, I imagine, a response to the rapidity,... | |
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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. 
