...landscape, especially when keen winds succeed the rain, which are apt to produce coldness, spottiness, and an unmeaning or repulsive detail in the distance,...abates ; the lights and shadows are more delicate ; the colouring is richer and more finely harmonized ; and, in this season of stillness, the ear being unoccupied,...

...months, — I might say — even years. One of these favoured days sometimes occurs in spring time, when that soft air is breathing over the blossoms...abates ; the lights and shadows are more delicate ; the colouring is richer and more finely harmonized ; and, in this season of stillness, the ear being unoccupied,...

...mouths, — I might say — even years. One of these favoured days sometimes occurs in spring time, when that soft air is breathing over the blossoms...abates ; the lights and shadows are more delicate ; the colouring is richer and more finely harmonized ; and, in this season of stillness, the ear being unoccupied,...

...months, — I might say — even years. One of these favoured days sometimes occurs in spring time, when that soft air is breathing over the blossoms...abates ; the lights and shadows are more delicate ; the colouring is richer and more finely harmonized ; and, in this season of stillness, the ear being unoccupied,...

...Buchanan with his beautiful Ode to the first of May ; the air, which, in the luxuriance of his fancy, ho likens to that of the golden age, — to that which...abates ; the lights and shadows are more delicate ; the colouring is richer and more finely harmonised; and, in this season of stillness, the ear being unoccupied,...

...there are, for the lover of nature, days which are worth whole months, I might say even years. ... It is in autumn that days of such affecting influence...abates; the lights and shadows are more delicate; the colouring is richer and more finely harmonised; and in this season of stillness, the ear being unoccupied,...

...described in language of such delicate truth and beauty as only a long and intimate love can inspire: "It has been said that in human life there are moments...abates; the lights and shadows are more delicate; the colouring is richer and more finely harmonized; and, in this season of stillness, the ear being unoccupied,...

...the banks of Lethe ; to the air which is to salute beatified spirits when expiatory fires shall Lave consumed the earth with all her habitations. But it...abates ; the lights and shadows are more delicate ; the colouring is richer and more finely harmonized ; and, in this season of stillness, the ear being unoccupied,...

...canopy of leaden and shapeless clouds, is, as far as it allows things to be seen, equally disagreeable. affirm, that in the climate of England there are,...abates ; the lights and shadows are more delicate ; the colouring is richer and more finely harmonised ; and, in this season of stillness, the ear being unoccupied,...

...Buchanan with his beautiful Ode to the First of May ; the air which, in the luxuriance of his fanc3-, lie likens to that of the golden age, — to that which...abates ; the lights and shadows are more delicate ; the colouring is richer and more finely harmonized ; and, in this season of stillness, the ear being unoccupied,...