The District School as it was: Scenery-showing, and Other WritingsPress of T. R. Marvin, 1852 - 364 pagina's |
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Pagina 213
... September . The calmness and southwestern softness of our In- dian summer , with all its " pomp of hues , " could hardly reconcile him to our frosty nights . As the cold season advanced , he began to grow desperate .
... September . The calmness and southwestern softness of our In- dian summer , with all its " pomp of hues , " could hardly reconcile him to our frosty nights . As the cold season advanced , he began to grow desperate .
Pagina 217
... hues . Such was the scene which broke with the suddenness of enchantment on the young man's vision . He would scarcely have been more astonished and enraptured had he fallen asleep in our dismal north , and awaked to gaze on the flowery ...
... hues . Such was the scene which broke with the suddenness of enchantment on the young man's vision . He would scarcely have been more astonished and enraptured had he fallen asleep in our dismal north , and awaked to gaze on the flowery ...
Pagina 219
... mind , and with such hues As clothe the All - mighty Spirit when he makes Spirits perceive his presence ! " - Coleridge . то GEORGE B. EMERSON , ESQ . , PRESIDENT OF SCENERY-SHOWING, IN WORD-PAINTINGS OF THE BEAUTIFUL,
... mind , and with such hues As clothe the All - mighty Spirit when he makes Spirits perceive his presence ! " - Coleridge . то GEORGE B. EMERSON , ESQ . , PRESIDENT OF SCENERY-SHOWING, IN WORD-PAINTINGS OF THE BEAUTIFUL,
Pagina 225
... hues , lights , shades , proportions - come into clearer and clearer distinctness ; indeed they seem to move vis- ibly out , as it were , into the nearer presence of the sight , as coveting to be observed and to confer en- joyment ...
... hues , lights , shades , proportions - come into clearer and clearer distinctness ; indeed they seem to move vis- ibly out , as it were , into the nearer presence of the sight , as coveting to be observed and to confer en- joyment ...
Pagina 233
... more broadly , and glows and glows , varying its hues almost while you wink . Perhaps tufts and bars , or fleecy curtains of cloud , add a garniture of bewitching tinges . At length the 20 * IN WORD - PAINTINGS . 233.
... more broadly , and glows and glows , varying its hues almost while you wink . Perhaps tufts and bars , or fleecy curtains of cloud , add a garniture of bewitching tinges . At length the 20 * IN WORD - PAINTINGS . 233.
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Pagina 239 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Pagina 243 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Pagina 223 - Heaven In every breast hath sown these early seeds Of love and admiration, yet in vain, Without fair Culture's kind parental aid...
Pagina 272 - 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.
Pagina 232 - And living as if earth contained no tomb, — And glowing into day: we may resume The march of our existence...
Pagina 282 - THOU who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face/ Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.
Pagina 137 - I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am in a state of grate bliss, and trust these lines will find you injoyin the same blessins.
Pagina 289 - Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead : and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder, power to speak of him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Pagina 239 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Pagina 277 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture : I can see Nothing to loathe in nature, save to be A link reluctant in a fleshly chain...