The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and PoetryCrosby, Nichols,, 1860 - 403 pages |
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... grass , or mountain splendor , which Nature offers . If a man could own all the landscape canvas which the first painters of the world . have colored , it would not be a tithe so rich an endowment , as if Providence should quicken his ...
... grass , or mountain splendor , which Nature offers . If a man could own all the landscape canvas which the first painters of the world . have colored , it would not be a tithe so rich an endowment , as if Providence should quicken his ...
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... grass but low savins , which they went upon the top of sometimes , but a Josselyn's Voyages , p . 135. " The Indians gave them the name of Agiocochook . " Belknap , N. H. iii . p . 31. There are one or two other , so called , Indian ...
... grass but low savins , which they went upon the top of sometimes , but a Josselyn's Voyages , p . 135. " The Indians gave them the name of Agiocochook . " Belknap , N. H. iii . p . 31. There are one or two other , so called , Indian ...
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... grass , very steep all the way . At the top is a plain about 3 or 4 miles over , all shat- tered stones , and upon that is another rock or spire , about a mile in height , and about an acre of ground at the top . At the top of the plain ...
... grass , very steep all the way . At the top is a plain about 3 or 4 miles over , all shat- tered stones , and upon that is another rock or spire , about a mile in height , and about an acre of ground at the top . At the top of the plain ...
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... grass man - high unmowed , uneaten , and uselessly withering ; " and " within these valleys spacious lakes or ponds well stored with fish and beavers ; the original of all the great rivers in the countrie , " † which , add only the ...
... grass man - high unmowed , uneaten , and uselessly withering ; " and " within these valleys spacious lakes or ponds well stored with fish and beavers ; the original of all the great rivers in the countrie , " † which , add only the ...
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... grass on the plain . The spaces between the rocks in the second zone , and on the plain , are filled with spruce and fir , which , perhaps , have been grow- ing ever since the creation , and yet many of them have not attained a greater ...
... grass on the plain . The spaces between the rocks in the second zone , and on the plain , are filled with spruce and fir , which , perhaps , have been grow- ing ever since the creation , and yet many of them have not attained a greater ...
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Page 289 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 89 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves. And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of nature which song is the best...
Page 168 - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 396 - Winds thwarting winds bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream...
Page 171 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Page 197 - He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Page 58 - The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Page 170 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 89 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 182 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.