 The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry.  Works - Página 283por Samuel Johnson - 1811Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Hookham Frere - 1926 - 156 páginas
...antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian prince, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains of which...a cavern that passed under a rock of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry. The outlet of the cavern... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 258 páginas
...antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abissinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of...a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry. The outlet of the cavern... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 286 páginas
...passage, by which it could be entered, was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human...industry. The outlet of the cavern was concealed by a thick wood, and the mouth which opened into the valley was closed with gates of iron, forged by the... | |
 | 1881 - 474 páginas
...antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian Princes was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of...a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature, or of human industry. The outlet of the cavern... | |
 | 1907 - 506 páginas
...antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. 1 The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it... | |
 | Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Randi Reppen - 1998 - 324 páginas
...antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara. surrounded on every side by mountains. OF...a cavern THAT passed under a rock. OF WHICH it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry. The outlet of the cavern... | |
 | Richard Joseph Snader - 1998 - 358 páginas
...royal children, we find a more extreme version of Berington's isolated geography. Johnson's valley is "surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part"; the only entrance is a constantly guarded cavern "closed with gates of iron."2 More direct echoes turn up when... | |
 | Rene J. Cappon - 2003 - 108 páginas
...leave alone. Two examples from Samuel Johnson: "It is not improbably, that Shakespeare put ..." and "The only passage, by which it could be entered, was a cavern ..." Somebody took the trouble to count overwrought punctuation in a letter by Lord Chesterfield, valued... | |
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