 But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous.  The Yale Literary Magazine - Page 2821836Full view - About this book
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - 522 pages
...the moft , powerful . powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreffion. But the dißant Imifhing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrait to the fore ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 pages
...beds by the moft powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreffion : but the cliftant finiftiing which) nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contraft to the fore ground ; it is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 pages
...the moil powerful powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreflron. But the diítant finiíhing which nature has given to. the picture, is of a very different character. It is a, true contrail to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression. But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different-character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 944 pages
...and " avulsion from their beds by the most " powerful agents of nature, corroborate " the impression. But the distant finishing " which nature has given...is as placid " and delightful, as that is wild and tre" mendous. For the mountain being cloven " asunder, she presents to your eye, through " the cleft,... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 344 pages
...disrupture and avulsion from their beds- by fhe most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression. But the distant finishing' which nature has given...true contrast to the foreground-. It is as placid and delighfful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1819 - 592 pages
...and avulsion " from their beds by the most powerful agents " of nature, corroborate the impression. But " the distant finishing which nature has given...It " is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as <c placid and delightful, as that is wild and tre" mentions. For the mountain being cloven " asunder,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate this impression. But the distant finishing, which nature has given...character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. That is as placid and delightful, as this is wild and tremendous. For the mountain, being cloven asunder,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate this impression. But the distant finishing, which nature has given...character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. That is as placid and delightful, as this is wild and tremendous. For the mountain, being cloven asunder,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 362 pages
...disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by flie most powerful agents of Nature, corroborate the impression. But the distant finishing which Nature has given to...the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to our eye through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite dis. tance in the plain... | |
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