Two Essays - Pencilings Of Beauty In Nature And Art; The Magnificence Of The Universe, And The Extent Of Life In It (1865) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: arrangement of the flowery tribes is almost miraculous; these must be sometimes sought after; but the colouring of them is obvious to every eye, and is not more constantly before our sight than it is exquisitely perfect. But step abroad where the wildings of nature shelter themselves beneath the green bank, or twine their garlands along the copse, gem the sides of the swelling hills, or festoon the surface of the rock, and look upon Nature in her more extended aspects. The landscape abounds with the pleasing in form and grateful in colour, although the exceeding richness I have spoken of passes out of view, or is softened by prevailing tints of a more sober character. One great charm of rural scenery is the variety which continually presents itself. All forms are graceful?all colours are pleasing to the eye; and as we pass from scene to scene, new combinations of these keep up the interest of the mind and supply a most agreeable refreshment. Now we descend into the vale, and the clustering trees cast their shadows across it and shut out the distant view; now the scene opens upon meadows and fields stretching far away until the purple hills enclose them?the river winding its way along, reflecting the groves on its banks or the sky above it, until its further course is hidden from the eye. Pass from this lowland scenery to the wilder domains of nature, and beauty is there also, but rising into sublimity. The narrow pass alongwhich the foaming cataract hurries, its sides formed of walls of rock rising almost perpendicularly to an immense height, mountains overhanging these and stretching onward range beyond range until the extreme distance loses itself in the more distant sky?a higher beauty attends us here, and gives the imagination a freer scope to indulge its dreams. As the po...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Edward Whitfield
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	120
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-94909-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-120-94909-2
Barcode:	9781120949097

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