I should have felt little desire to seek elsewhere its gratification, for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with their bright aerial tints; her valleys,... A Graded List of Common Words Difficult to Spell - Էջ 741891 - 88 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 էջ
...broad, deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean ; her trackless forests, where vsgetation puts forth all its magnificence ; her skies, kindling...for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.' We pass over ' The Voyage,' which is a little too^ne. The first occasion on which the eye of an American... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 520 էջ
...mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with ff.-<VuKv4heir bright aerial tin;..-; her valleys, teeming with ^ . wild fertility; her...for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery. ut Europe held forth all the charms of storied and poetical association. There were to be seen the... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - 1836 - 340 էջ
...following passage from Washington Irving's " Account of Himself" — where, speaking of America, he says, " Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver ; her...for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery." Neither can it, I think, be denied that the exclamation of a French traveller, in the gorge of the... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 էջ
...magnificence' ; her skies', kindling with the magick of summer clouds and glorious sunshine' : — n6', never need an American' . . look beyond his own country...sublime and beautiful of natural scenery'. But Europe' . . holds forth all the charms of storied and poetical association'. There are to be seen the master-pieces... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 էջ
...its magnificence; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine ; — DO, never need an American look beyond his own country...beautiful of natural scenery. But Europe held forth the charms of storied aud poeticai association. There were to be seen the masterpieces of art, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 էջ
...have felt little desire to seek elsewhere its gratification : for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes,...beautiful of natural scenery. But Europe held forth the charms of storied and poetical association. There were to be seen the masterpieces of art, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 էջ
...should have felt little desire to seek elsewhere its gratification: for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes,...beautiful of natural scenery. But Europe held forth the charms of storied and poetical association. There were to be seen the masterpieces of art, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 550 էջ
...have felt little desire to seek elsewhere its gratification : for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes,...beautiful of natural scenery. But Europe held forth the charms of storied and poetical association. There were to be seen the masterpieces of art, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 546 էջ
...should have felt little desire to seek elsewhere its gratification: for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes,...beautiful of natural scenery. But Europe held forth the charms of storied and poetical association. There were to be seen the masterpieces of art, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1850 - 534 էջ
...more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains, with then- bright aerial tints ; her valleys, teeming with wild...beautiful of natural scenery. But Europe held forth the charms of storied and poetical association. There were to be seen the masterpieces of art, the... | |
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