 It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild 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...  The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ... - Page 1321788Full view - About this book
 | Jedidiah Morse - United States - 1792 - 522 pages
...prefents to your eye, through the cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite diilance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from...the breach, and participate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately compofcs itfelf; and that way too the road happens actually to lead. You crofs the... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...the mountain, being cloven afunder, prefents to the eye, through the cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite diftance, in the plain...the breach and participate of the calm below. Here the eye "Ultimately cqmpofes itfelf; and that way too, the road actually leads. You crofs the Potomack... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...mountain being cloven afunder, me prefents to your eye, through the cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite diftance in the plain...the breach and participate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately compofes itfelf ; and that way too the road happens actually to lead. You crofs... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1802 - 452 pages
...prefents to the eye, through the cleft, a fraail catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite d'ftanse, in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from...the breach and participate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately compoies itfelf ; and that way too, the road aihially leads. ^You crçfs the Patoroak... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...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 breach and participate of the calm below- Here th'e eye ultimately composes itself;... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...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 breach and participate of the calm below. This scene is worth a voyage across the... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 564 pages
...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 breach and " participate of the calm below. Here the " eye ultimately composes itself;... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 344 pages
...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 the breach and participate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately composes itself;... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1819 - 592 pages
...cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at " an infinite distance in the plain country, in" viting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult " roaring around, to pass through the breach " and participate of the calm below. Here the " eye ultimately composes itself;... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...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 breach, and participate of the calm helow. Here the eye ultimately composes itself... | |
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