 For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through...  Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817 - Page 221by Francis Hall - 1819 - 421 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1788 - 708 pages
...cleft, a (mall catch uf I'mooth blue horizon, at an infinite diftance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pafs through the breach, and participate of the calm below. Here (he eye ultimately coinpofes itfelf;... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - United States - 1792 - 522 pages
...cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite diilance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pafs through the breach, and participate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately compofcs itfelf;... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite diftance, in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pafs through the breach and participate of the calm below. Here the eye "Ultimately cqmpofes itfelf;... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite diftance in the plain country, inviting you as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around to pafs through the breach and participate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately compofes itfelf... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1802 - 452 pages
...cleft, a fraail catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite d'ftanse, in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pafs through the breach and participate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately compoies itfelf... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring...th'e eye ultimately composes itself; and that way to the road happens actually to lead- You cross the Patowmac above the junction, pass along its side... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite'distance in the plain country, inviting you as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around,...through the breach and participate of the calm below. This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge,... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around,...pass through the breach, and participate of the calm helow. Here the eye ultimately composes itself ; and that way too the road happens actually to lead.... | |
 | Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - Pensacola (Fla.) - 1828 - 478 pages
...cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring...too the road happens actually to lead. You cross the Potomac above the junction, pass along its side through the base of the mountain for three miles, its... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and par ticipate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately composes itself; and that way, too, the road... | |
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