 | 1835 - 430 pages
...tree, a shrub or any object in the immense expanse, but the wilderness of grass and flowers ; \vhile at another time, the prospect is enlivened by the...carpet of delicate green, and especially if the sun is just rising from behind a distant swell of the plain, and glittering upon the dew-drops, no scene can... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...tree, a shrub or any object in the immense expanse, but the wilderness of grass and flowers ; while at another time, the prospect is enlivened by the...solitary tree, which stands alone in the blooming desert. thing like the cooing of the dove, but resembling still more the sound produced by passing a rough... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1851 - 726 pages
...its carpet of verdure and flowers, its undulating surface and fringes of timber. If it be in spring, the young grass has just covered the ground with a carpet of delicate green. When the eye roves off the plain to the groves or points of timber, these are also found to be in this... | |
 | James Hall - Mississippi River Valley - 1848 - 282 pages
...tree, a shrub, or any object in the immenseexpanse, but the wilderness of grass and flowers ; while at another time, the prospect is enlivened by the...solitary tree, which stands alone in the blooming desert. Y3 If it be in the spring of the year, and the young grass has just covered the ground with a carpet... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...tree, a shrub, or any object in the immense expanse, but the wilderness of grass and flowers ; while at another time, the prospect is enlivened by the...are seen interspersed like islands, or the solitary treo, which stands alone in the blooming desert. If it is in the spring of the year, and the young... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Geography - 1851 - 552 pages
...extent, its verdure and flowers, its undulating surface and fringes of timber. If it be in the spring, the young grass has just covered the ground with a carpet of delicate green. When the eye roves off the plain to the groves or points of timber, these are also found to be, in... | |
 | John Frost - Biography - 1854 - 664 pages
...tree, a shrub, or any objedt in the immense expanse, but the wilderness of grass and flowers ; while at another time, the prospect is enlivened by the...solitary tree, which stands alone in the blooming desert. " The gaiety of the prairie, its embellishments, and the absence of the gloom and savage wildness of... | |
 | Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...wilderness of grass and flowers ; while at another lime, the prospect is enlivened by the groves that are seen interspersed like islands, or the solitary...carpet of delicate green, and especially if the sun is just rising from behind a distant swell of the plain, and glittering upon the dew drops, no scene can... | |
 | Eli Bowen - History - 1855 - 444 pages
...wilderness of grass and flowers ; while at another time, the prospect is enlivened by the -groves which arc seen interspersed like islands, or the solitary tree...desert. If it be in the spring of the year, and the yonng grass has just covered the ground with a carpet of delicate green, and especially if the sun... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...tree, a shrub, or any object in the immense expanse, but the wilderness of grass and flowers ; while at another time the prospect is enlivened by the groves,...solitary tree, which stands alone in the blooming deport. 3. If it be in the spring of the year, aud the young grass has just covered the ground with... | |
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... the far perspective, like the dim shore when beheld at a distance from the ocean. The eye sometimes roams over the green meadow, without discovering a tree, a shrub, or any object in the immense expanse, but the wilderness of grass and flowers... 
