| Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - 522 pages
...has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrait to the fore ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven »Kinder, ihe prefents to your eye, through the cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an... | |
| William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 pages
...given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contraft to the fore ground ; it is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain, being cloven afunder, prefents to the eye, through the cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 pages
...finiíhing which nature has given to. the picture, is of a very different character. It is a, true contrail to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful,...wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven afunder, me prefents to your eye, through the cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...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...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... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...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...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... | |
| Francis Hall - 1818 - 944 pages
...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 tre" mendous. For the mountain being cloven " asunder, she presents to your eye, through " the cleft,... | |
| Francis Hall - 1818 - 344 pages
...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 delighfful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to... | |
| Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 pages
...But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. It is as placid...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... | |
| Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - 1828 - 478 pages
...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...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... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 pages
...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...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... | |
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