[40] Dr. Johnson, “Works,” IX, 35. Cf. also Dr. Johnson’s remark to Boswell, “He said, he would not wish not to be disgusted in the Highlands; for that would be to lose the power of distinguishing, and a man might then lie down in the middle of them. He wished only to conceal his disgust.” See also his answer to the question, “How do you like the Highlands?” “The question seemed to irritate him, for he answered, ‘How, Sir, can you ask me what obliges me to speak unfavorably of a country where I have been hospitably entertained? Who _can_ like the Highlands? I like the inhabitants very well.’”--Boswell’s “Life of Johnson,” V, 317, 377. [41] Hutchinson, “Excursion to the Lakes,” pp. 11, 17. [42] Waller, “To My Lord Admiral.” [43] Waller, “Story of Phoebus and Daphne.” [44] Marvell, “Upon the Hill and Grove at Billbarrow.” [45] Milton, “A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV.” [46] Veitch calls attention to the fact that Shakspere showed little if any delight in mountains, and that Milton went over Switzerland without bringing back an image of the Alps which he thought fit to preserve.--“Nature in Scottish Poetry,” I, 107. [47] Dryden, “The Indian Emperor.” [48] Blackmore, “The Creation,” iii, 409. [49] John Philips, “Cyder,” i, 106. [50] Yalden, “To Sir Humphrey Mackworth.” [51] Prior, “Solomon,” i, 52. [52] Pope, “The Temple of Fame.” [53] Pope, “On St. Cecilia’s Day.” [54] Pope, “Windsor Forest,” l. 210. [55] Tickell, “Oxford,” l. 441. [56] Parnell, “To Mr. Pope,” l. 83. [57] Dr. Akenside, “Pleasures of the Imagination,” ii, 274 (first version). [58] This indifference to mountains or dislike of them was not a new thing. For further illustrations see Perry, “English Literature of the Eighteenth Century,” pp. 144–48. Humboldt, “Kosmos,” Book II, p. 16, says: “Von dem ewigen Schnee der Alpen, wenn sie sich am Abend oder am frühen Morgen röthen, von der Schönheit des blauen Gletscher-Eises, von der grossartigen Natur der schweizerischen Landschaft ist keine Schilderung aus dem Alterthum auf uns gekommen: und doch gingen ununterbrochen Staatsmänner, Heerführer, und in ihrem Gefolge Litteraten durch Helvetien nach Gallien. Alle diese Reisenden wissen nur über die unfahrbaren scheusslichen Wege zu klagen; das Romantische der Naturscenen beschäftigte sie nie.... Silius Italicus ... beschreibt die Alpengegend als eine schrecken-erregende vegetationslose Einöde, während er mit Liebe alle Felsen-schluchten Italiens und die buschigen Ufer des Liris (Garigliano) besingt.”