| 1856 - 604 páginas
...better by florid description. Men only rhapsodize about Niagara and the ocean. My notes speak simply of the ' long ever-shining line of cliff, diminished...in solid glassy wall three hundred feet above the water-level, with an unknown unfathomable depth below it ; and its curved face, sixty miles in length... | |
| 1857 - 498 páginas
...aching limbs of suffering and weather-beaten men: " A face of glistening ice, sweeping in a long course from the low interior, the facets in front intensely...illuminated by the sun. But this line of cliff rose, in a solid glassy wall, three hundred feet above the water-level, with an unknown, unfathomable depth... | |
| Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 páginas
...attempt florid description. Men only rhapsodize about Niagara and the ocean. My notes speak simply of the ' long ever-shining line of cliff diminished...in solid glassy wall three hundred feet above the water-level, with an unknown, unfathomable depth below it ; and its curved face, sixty miles in length... | |
| 1856 - 702 páginas
...attempt florid description. Men only rhapsodize about Niagara and the ocean. My notes speak simply of the 'long ever-shining line of cliff diminished...illuminated by the sun.' But this line of cliff rose iu solid glassy wall three hundred feet above the water-level, with an unknown, unfathomable depth... | |
| Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1856 - 592 páginas
...by florid description. Men only rhapsodize about Niagara and the осени. My notes speak simply of the 'long ever-shining line of cliff, diminished...perspective ;' and, again, of ' the face of glistening iee, sweeping in a long curve from the low interior, the facets in front intensely illuminated by the... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 páginas
...better by florid description. Men only rhapsodise about Niagara and the oceau. My notes speak simply of the " long, ever-shining line of cliff diminished to a -well-pointed wedge in the perspective ;" aud again, of " the face of glistening ice, sweeping in a long curve from (he low interior, the... | |
| Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 524 páginas
...better by florid description. Men only rhapsodize about Niagara and the ocean. My notes speak simply of the " long ever-shining line of cliff diminished...in solid glassy wall three hundred feet above the water-level, with an unknown unfathomable depth below it; and its curved face, sixty miles in length... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1857 - 494 páginas
...better by florid description. Men only rhapsodize about Niagara and the ocean. My notes speak simply of the •' long, evershining line of cliff diminished...front intensely illuminated by the sun." But this Uue of clil! rowe in solid glassy wall three hundred feet above the water-level, with an unknown unfathomable... | |
| John Tillotson - 1869 - 368 páginas
...given a most interesting description : " I will not attempt a florid description. Men only rhapsodise about Niagara and the ocean. My notes simply speak...But this line of cliff rose in solid, glassy wall 300 feet above the water-level, with an unknown, unfathomable depth below it; and its curved face,... | |
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