... boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure ; her broad deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean ; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence ; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious... The European Magazine, and London Review - Page 4051820Full view - About this book
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...; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine : — no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime...be seen the masterpieces of art, the refinements of highly cultivated society, the quaint peculiarities of ancient and local custom. My native country... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
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| 1820 - 870 pages
...special desire to visit Europe. The reasons for this preference are shortly, but finely stated. лл Europe held forth all the charms of storied and poetical...be seen the masterpieces of art, the refinements of highly cultivated society, the quaint peculiarities of ancient and local custom. My native country... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 402 pages
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| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
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| Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
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| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
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| Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 pages
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| Clement Carlyon - Physicians - 1836 - 340 pages
...magnificence ; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine ; no, never need an American look beyond his own country 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... | |
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