 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Nicholas Biddle - 1814 - 518 pagina’s
...of the purest foam across the river. The scene which it presented was indeed singularly beauftful, since without any of the wild irregular sublimity of the lower falls, it combined all the regular elegances which the fancy of a painter would select to form a beautiful waterfall. The eye had scarcely... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pagina’s
...rushes rapidly down, leaving behind it a spray of the purest foam across the river. The sceue which it presented was indeed singularly beautiful, since,...fancy of a painter would select to form a beautiful waterfall. The eye had scarcely been regaled with this charming prospect, when, at the distance of... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pagina’s
...rushes rapidly down, leaving behind it a spray of the purest foam across the river. The scene which it presented was indeed singularly beautiful, since,...the wild, irregular sublimity of the lower falls, it comhined all the regular elegancies which the fancy of a painter would select to form a beautiful waterfall.... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - 1815 - 460 pagina’s
...without any of the wild irregular sublimity of the lower falls, it combined all the regular elegances which the fancy of a painter would select to form . a beautiful waterfall. The eye had scarcely been regaled with this charming prospect, when at the distance of half... | |
 | 1816 - 658 pagina’s
...rushes rapidly down, leaving behind it a spray of the purest foam across the river. The scene which it presented was indeed singularly beautiful, since without any of the wild irregular sublirm'ty of the lower falls, it combined all the elegances which the fancy of a painter would select... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - 1817 - 460 pagina’s
...rushes rapidly down, leaving behind it a spray of the purest foam across the river. The scene which it presented was indeed singularly beautiful, since without...fancy of a painter would select to form a beautiful water-fall. The eye had scarcely been regaled with this charming prospect, when at the distance of... | |
 | Edinburgh gazetteer - 1822 - 802 pagina’s
...ruslxi rapidly down, leaving behind it a spray of the purest foam across the river. The scene which it presented was indeed singularly beautiful, since,...without any of the wild irregular sublimity of the lower faili, it combined all the regular elegances whirh the fancy of a painter would select to form a beautiful... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pagina’s
...a precipice of fifty feet. Captain Lewis describes this cataract as singularly beautiful, combining all the regular elegancies which the fancy of a painter would select to represent an elegant waterfall. At the distance of a quarter of a mile, is another cataract, nineteen... | |
 | 1835 - 538 pagina’s
...a spray of the purest foam. The •cene which it presented," add the travellers who explored it, " was, indeed, singularly beautiful, since without any...sublimity of the lower falls, it combined all the regular elegances •which the fancy of a painter would select, to form a beautiful waterfall." From the falls,... | |
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The scene which it presented was indeed singularly beautiful, since without any of the wild irregular sublimity of the lower falls, it combined all the regular elegances which the fancy of a painter would select to form a beautiful waterfall. 
