| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1806 - 370 pages
...suggested by Charlevoix's striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi. " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them: afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 348 pages
...CHARLEVOIX'S striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi • — " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 344 pages
...suggested by CHAKLEVOIX'S striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi :—" I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....much of the same breadth, each about half a league j but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems to enter the Mississippi like a conqueror, through... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 340 pages
...suggested by Charlevoix's striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi ' I believe this is the finest confluence in the world. The two rivers are much ui the sam? lireadth, each about hal1 a league ; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems... | |
| James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 568 pages
...discoveries in North America, and who was in America in 1724, says of this confluence of the rivers, "I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them. Afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down... | |
| James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...discoveries in North America, and who was in America in 1724, says of this confluence of the rivers, " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them. Afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pages
...believe this is the finest confluence in the world. Tile two livers are mucli of the same breadlh, each about half a league ; but the Missouri is by...like a conqueror, through which it carries its white \vaves to the opposite shore without mixing thorn : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1840 - 394 pages
...dreams sublime, Which all their miracles of light reveal To heads that meditate and hearts that feel ? a league ; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid,...white waves to the opposite shore, without mixing them : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite... | |
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1840 - 414 pages
...suggested by Charlevoix's striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi. " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....rivers are much of the same breadth, each about half But mind, immortal mind, without whose ray, This world's a wilderness and man but clay, Mind, mind... | |
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1840 - 398 pages
...dreams sublime, Which all their miracles of light reveal To heads that meditate and hearts that feel ? a league ; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid,...white waves to the opposite shore, without mixing them : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi,"which it never loses again, but carries quite... | |
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