The Scenery-shower, with Word-paintings of the Beautiful, the Picturesque, and the Grand in Nature ...W.D. Ticknor & Company, 1844 - 119 páginas |
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... snow - drift , softening under the subtle heat , is made to distil into nutriment for this emerald child of the sun , and it em- braces its dying nurse with its tender contrast of beauty . Now a witching stripe is traced from where the ...
... snow - drift , softening under the subtle heat , is made to distil into nutriment for this emerald child of the sun , and it em- braces its dying nurse with its tender contrast of beauty . Now a witching stripe is traced from where the ...
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... snow . The prismatic atoms of the surface reflect the star - beams , and spread a darkling magnificence , as a carpet fit for the tread of upright man , with his face toward heaven , and more than ever realizing the honor and glory with ...
... snow . The prismatic atoms of the surface reflect the star - beams , and spread a darkling magnificence , as a carpet fit for the tread of upright man , with his face toward heaven , and more than ever realizing the honor and glory with ...
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... snow upon the prepared and waiting ground . Its damp feathery dabs come down quite perpen- dicularly in the motionless air . You can al- most count a hundred of them before they stop , they are so bulky and slow . Look up , and how ...
... snow upon the prepared and waiting ground . Its damp feathery dabs come down quite perpen- dicularly in the motionless air . You can al- most count a hundred of them before they stop , they are so bulky and slow . Look up , and how ...
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... snow , as on the smooth plate of an engraver . Such occasionally is the first picture in the exhibi- tions of winter . Is it not worth asking out- door boyhood to pause before , and leading more sedentary girlhood to the window , to ...
... snow , as on the smooth plate of an engraver . Such occasionally is the first picture in the exhibi- tions of winter . Is it not worth asking out- door boyhood to pause before , and leading more sedentary girlhood to the window , to ...
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... snow is in blush , as delicate and lovely as the cheek of young and healthy innocence . Again , there is a grandeur in the fierce snow storm , which it is better to feel and en- joy , than to cower over a fire , thinking noth- ing about ...
... snow is in blush , as delicate and lovely as the cheek of young and healthy innocence . Again , there is a grandeur in the fierce snow storm , which it is better to feel and en- joy , than to cower over a fire , thinking noth- ing about ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration amid Andrews Norton Autumn azure bard beauty beholding beneath blue breeze bright canopy carpet CHAPTER charm cliffs cloud cut river deep delicate discipline distance earth fancy fences fleece foliage Franconia Notch gaze geant genius glory glows grace grandeur green grey heart heaven herbage hill horizon hues infinite inner temple interest landscape leap lift light look loveliness magnificence morning mountains ness objects observed painted pastime pause peculiar pencil perceptions perfect perhaps picture picturesque pleasure poet present rainbows repose rich rill rock rolling deep romance round scene scenery SCENERY-SHOWER scenic scud shades sight snow sort soul specta spectacle spirit spread stand stand up tall stars stateliness streams sweet sweet dreams tacle taste thee Thou tillage tion trees ture twilight Vales vapor verdure Wachusett Mountains waking dream wall WARREN BURTON Widener Library wild winter witchery wood word-paintings WORDSWORTH
Passagens conhecidas
Página 19 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Página 1 - Heaven In every breast hath sown these early seeds Of love and admiration, yet in vain, Without fair Culture's kind parental aid...
Página 11 - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contain'd no tomb,— And glowing into day...
Página 23 - The sooty films that play upon the bars Pendulous, and foreboding in the view Of superstition prophesying still Though still deceived, some stranger's near approach.
Página 13 - Beauty — a living presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal forms Which craft of delicate spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Página 41 - Earth has not a plain So boundless or so beautiful as thine ; The eagle's vision cannot take it in : The lightning's wing, too weak to sweep its space, Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the music of the spheres, Can see themselves at once.
Página 26 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Página 41 - Thou tak'st thy moods and wear'st her colours on Thy faithful bosom ; morning's milky white, Noon's sapphire, or the saffron glow of eve ; And all thy balmier hours, fair Element, Have such divine complexion — crisped smiles, Luxuriant heavings, and sweet whisperings, That little is the wonder Love's own Queen From thee of old was fabled to have sprung...
Página 50 - THE NEW MOON. WHEN, as the garish day is done, Heaven burns with the descended sun, 'Tis passing sweet to mark, Amid that flush of crimson light, The new moon's modest bow grow bright, As earth and sky grow dark. Few are the hearts too cold to feel A thrill of gladness o'er them steal, When first the wandering eye Sees faintly, in the evening blaze, That glimmering curve of tender rays Just planted in the sky. The sight...