 | English poetry - 1788 - 708 pages
...prefsnts to your eyr, through the 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
...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 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
...prefents to the eye, through the 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
...prefents to your eye, through the 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
...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 riot and tumult roaring around, to pafs through the breach and participate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately compoies itfelf... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Arithmetic - 1830 - 306 pages
...is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain, being cloven asunder, presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch...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 the breach... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Canada - 1830 - 360 pages
...delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to our eye through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue...an infinite distance in the plain country; inviting yon, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach, and participate... | |
 | Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 362 pages
...delightful, as that is 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 dis. tance in the plain country; inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around,... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...through the cleft, a small catch a Me-phit'-ic, poisonous, noxious. c Un-du-la'-tlons, wavln» motions. of smooth blue horizon," at an infinite distance in...inviting you as it were from the riot and tumult roaring round, to pass through the breach, and participate of the calm below. 4. Here the eye ultimately composes... | |
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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... 
