Nose, with a solitary eagle wheeling about it; while beyond, mountain succeeded to mountain, until they seemed to lock their arms together, and confine this mighty river in their embraces. There was a feeling of quiet luxury in gazing at the broad, green... English country gentlemen - Page 191by Washington Irving - 1835Full view - About this book
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...river in their embraces. There was a feeling of quiet luxury in gazing at the broad, green bosoms 20 here and there scooped out among the precipices; or...transparent in the yellow sunshine. In the midst of my admiration, I remarked a pile of 25 bright, snowy clouds peering above the western heights. It was... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...river in their embraces. There was a feeling of quiet luxury in. gazing at the broad, green bosoms 20 here and there scooped out among the precipices; or...beetling bluff, and their foliage all transparent iu the yellow sunshine. 25 bright, snowy clouds peering above the western heights. It was succeeded... | |
| Josiah Conder - Canada - 1829 - 466 pages
...forest, away into the deep summer sky. To the right strutted forth the bold promontory of Anthony's Nose with a solitary eagle wheeling about it ; while...high in air, nodding over the edge of some beetling bluffs, and their foliage all transparent in the yellow sunshine." •)• The Dunderberg (or, as Dr.... | |
| Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 396 pages
...forest, away into the deep summer sky. To the right strutted forth the bold promontory of Anthony's Nose with a solitary eagle wheeling about it ; while...high in air, nodding over the edge of some beetling bluffs, and their foliage all transparent in the yellow sunshine."! The Dunderberg (or, as Dr. Dwight... | |
| American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...spirits with the contemplation of Cicero. Scenery in the Highlands on the River Hudson. — IRVING. IN the second day of the voyage they came to the Highlands....woodlands high in air, nodding over the edge of some heetling bluff, and their foliage all transparent in the yellow sunshine. In the midst of his admiration,... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...over height, forest over forest, away into the deep summer sky. To the right strutted forth thsbold promontory' of Antony's Nose, with a solitary eagle...their foliage all transparent in the yellow sunshine. 3. In the midst of my admiration, I remarked a pile of bright snowy clouds peering above the western... | |
| Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...mountain succeeded to mountain, until they seemed to lock their arms together, and confine this might}' river in their embraces. — There was a feeling of...their foliage all transparent in the yellow sunshine. ,3. In the midst of my admiration, I remarked _a pile of bright snowy clouds peering above the western... | |
| Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...gave a shout of command, there were airy tongues that mocked it from every cliff. 2. I gazed about me in mute delight and wonder, at these scenes of nature's...their foliage all transparent in the yellow sunshine. 3. In the midst of my admiration, I remarked a pile of /bright snowy clouds peering above the western... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...me in mute delight and wonder, at these scenes of nature's magnificence. To the left the Duuderberg reared its woody precipices, height over height, forest...their foliage all transparent in the yellow sunshine. 3. In the midst of my admiration, I remarked a pile of bright snowy clouds peering above the western... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...mountain succeeded to mountain, until they seemed to lock their arms together, and confine this 20 mighty river in their embraces. There was a feeling...bluff, and their foliage all transparent in the yellow sun25 shine. It was succeeded by another, and another, each seemingly pushing onwards its predecessor,... | |
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