Home Authors and Home Artists: Or, American Scenery, Art, and LiteratureLeavitt and Allen, 1852 - 196 pages |
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... Alleghanies interpose between the monotonous districts of the Atlantic shores and the great plains of the west . We are of opinion that as civilization advances , and the husbandman has brought his lands to the highest state of ...
... Alleghanies interpose between the monotonous districts of the Atlantic shores and the great plains of the west . We are of opinion that as civilization advances , and the husbandman has brought his lands to the highest state of ...
Page 64
... Alleghanies and the semi - sterile steppes that are known in this part of the world as the great prairies . Lombardy , teeming as she is with population , vines , and all the productions of a fertile soil , in the possession of millions ...
... Alleghanies and the semi - sterile steppes that are known in this part of the world as the great prairies . Lombardy , teeming as she is with population , vines , and all the productions of a fertile soil , in the possession of millions ...
Page 97
... Alleghanies - is that delightful region lying between them and the Delaware . The mountains , in their passage through the State , deflect gradually from their northern course and curve in the arc of a grand circle towards its eastern ...
... Alleghanies - is that delightful region lying between them and the Delaware . The mountains , in their passage through the State , deflect gradually from their northern course and curve in the arc of a grand circle towards its eastern ...
Page 100
... Alleghanies still possess a fresh and picturesque beauty of their own . They are never monotonous , even where , as in the southern part of the State , they are drawn into long parallel ridges of level outline , inclosing broad valleys ...
... Alleghanies still possess a fresh and picturesque beauty of their own . They are never monotonous , even where , as in the southern part of the State , they are drawn into long parallel ridges of level outline , inclosing broad valleys ...
Page 101
... Alleghanies , if it has no such imposing sweeps of landscape and cannot afford such exciting passages of travel , is more broken and rugged . The regularity of the chain ceases ; the mountains are more involved and irregular , and many ...
... Alleghanies , if it has no such imposing sweeps of landscape and cannot afford such exciting passages of travel , is more broken and rugged . The regularity of the chain ceases ; the mountains are more involved and irregular , and many ...
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Page 44 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 31 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 30 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ? The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields...
Page 139 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 31 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Page 1 - To me, who from thy lakes and mountain-hills, Thy clouds, thy quiet dales, thy rocks and seas, Have drunk in all my intellectual life, All sweet sensations, all ennobling thoughts, All adoration of the God in nature, All lovely and all honourable things, Whatever makes this mortal spirit feel The joy and greatness of its future being?
Page 19 - Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 4 - I feel almost at times as I have felt In happy childhood; trees, and flowers, and brooks, Which do remember me of where I dwelt Ere my young mind was sacrificed to books, Come as of yore upon me, and can melt My heart with recognition of their looks; And even at moments I could think I see Some living thing to love— but none like thee.
Page 70 - Champlain, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The...
Page 73 - They float our summer sky with clouds of gorgeous tints or fleecy whiteness, and send down cooling showers to refresh the panting earth and keep it green. Our seasons are all poetical ; the phenomena of our heavens are full of sublimity and beauty. Winter with us has none of its proverbial gloom. It may have its howling winds, and thrilling frosts, and whirling snowstorms; but it has also its long intervals of cloudless sunshine, when the snow-clad earth gives redoubled brightness to the day...