The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq, Volume 1John Murray, 1834 - 316 pages |
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... charms of nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their bright aërial tints ; her valleys , teeming with wild fertility ; her tremendous cataracts , thundering in ...
... charms of nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their bright aërial tints ; her valleys , teeming with wild fertility ; her tremendous cataracts , thundering in ...
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... charms of storied and poetical association . There were to be seen the masterpieces of art , the refinements of highly cultivated society , the quaint peculiarities of an- cient and local custom . My native country was full of youthful ...
... charms of storied and poetical association . There were to be seen the masterpieces of art , the refinements of highly cultivated society , the quaint peculiarities of an- cient and local custom . My native country was full of youthful ...
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... charms , which in other countries she lavishes in wild solitudes , are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life . They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces , and spread them , like witchery , about their rural abodes ...
... charms , which in other countries she lavishes in wild solitudes , are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life . They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces , and spread them , like witchery , about their rural abodes ...
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... charms ; but the British poets have lived and revelled with her , they have wooed her in her most secret haunts , they have watched her minutest caprices . A spray could not tremble in the breeze a leaf could not rustle to the ground- a ...
... charms ; but the British poets have lived and revelled with her , they have wooed her in her most secret haunts , they have watched her minutest caprices . A spray could not tremble in the breeze a leaf could not rustle to the ground- a ...
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... charm , however , of English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it . It is associated in the mind with ideas of order , of quiet , of sober , well - established principles , of hoary usage and reverend custom . Every ...
... charm , however , of English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it . It is associated in the mind with ideas of order , of quiet , of sober , well - established principles , of hoary usage and reverend custom . Every ...
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