 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...and tremendous. 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 the... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 944 pages
...tre" mendous. 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... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 344 pages
...and tremendous. 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 Ihe plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...and tremendous. 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 the... | |
 | Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - Pensacola (Fla.) - 1828 - 478 pages
...and tremendous. 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 the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...wild and tremendous. For the mountain, being cloven asunder, 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 the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...wild and tremendous. For the mountain, being cloven asunder, 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 the... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Arithmetic - 1830 - 306 pages
...wild and tremendous. For the mountain, being cloven asunder, presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain cor.ntry, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Canada - 1830 - 360 pages
...wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to our eye through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country; inviting yon, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...and tremendous. 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 the... | |
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But the distant finishing which Nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents... 
