 In its dimensions, its architecture, its arrangements, and ornaments, it is such a one as became the character and fortune of the man. It stands upon an elliptic plain, formed by cutting down the apex of a mountain ; and, on the west, stretching away...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 3801855Full view - About this book
 | 1827 - 684 pages
...formed by cutting down the apex of a mountain; and, on the West, stretching away to the North and the South, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a...extent of prospect, bounded only by the spherical fojm of the earth, in which nature seems to sleep in eternal repose, as if to form one of her finest... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pages
...formed by cutting down the apex of a mountain ; and, on the West, stretching away to the North and the South, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a...nature seems to sleep in eternal repose, as if to fnrrn one of her finest contrasts with the rude and rolling grandeur on the West . In the wide prospect,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 650 pages
...formed by cutting down the apes of a mountain ; and, on the west, stretching away to the north and the south, it com-"mands a view of the Blue Ridge for...repose, as if to form one of her finest contrasts wjlth the rude and rolling grandeur on the west. In the wide prospect, and scattered to the north and... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 658 pages
...formed by cutting down the apex of a mountain ; and, on the west, stretching away to the north and the south, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a...sleep in eternal repose. as if to form one of her fmest contrasts with the rude and rolling grandeur on the west. In the wide prospect, and scattered... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 772 pages
...formed by cutting down the apex of a mountain ; and, on the west, stretching away to the north and the south, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a...hundred and fifty miles, and brings under the eye one of tho boldest and most beautiful horizons in the world : while, on the cast, it presents an extent of... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...formed by cutting down the apex of a mountain ; and, on the West, stretching away to the North and the South, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a hundred and fifty miles, and brines under the eye one of the boldest and most beautiful horizons in the world : while on the East,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 pages
...Alleganies,—a hundred miles distant in some parts,—overreaching all the intervening mountains, commanding a view of the Blue Ridge for a hundred and fifty miles, and looking down upon an enchanting landscape, broad as the eye can compass, of intermingling villages... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...— a hundred miles distant in some parts, — overreaching all the intervening mountains, commanding a view of the Blue Ridge for a hundred and fifty miles, and looking down upon an enchanting landscape, broad as the eye can compass, of intermingling villages... | |
 | 1837 - 488 pages
...formed by cutting down the apex of a mountain ; and on the west, stretching away to the north and the south, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a...while, on the east, it presents an extent of prospect, boui.ded only by the spherical form of the earth, in which nature seems to sleep in eternal repose,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...formed by cutting down the apex of a mountain ; and, on the West, stretching away to the North and the South, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a...in eternal repose, as if to form one of her finest contrast's with the rude and rolling grandeur on the West. In the wide prospect, and scattered to the... | |
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