Older inventions had vast improvements made on them.
I would say that these lines suggest a sense of space with resonating power. You can see that they speak of freedom and liberty, and the vastness of space in the forest and the desert.
According to Dickens's description, Scrooge is cold through and through. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to represent Scrooge's nature. ... Scrooge is stingy with his money and will not even allow his clerk Bob Cratchit to have a decent fire to warm him on Christmas Eve
