Tower Grove Park of the City of St. Louis: Review of Its Origin and History, Plan of Improvement, Ornamental Features, Etc. ; with IllustrationsR.P. Studley & Company, Printers, 1883 - 119 páginas |
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Página 49 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Página 69 - Asia. There is, indeed, something truly magnificent in this kind of amusement : it gives a nobler air to several parts of nature; it fills the earth with a variety of beautiful scenes, and has something in it like creation.
Página 113 - CERTIFY,"" that , who are personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed " to the foregoing instrument, appeared before me this day in person and acknowledged that they signed, sealed...
Página 69 - Plantations have one advantage in them which is not to be found in most other works, as they give a pleasure of a more lasting date, and continually improve in the eye of the planter. When you have finished a building, or any other undertaking of the like nature, it immediately decays upon your hands; you see it brought to its utmost point of perfection, and from that time hastening to its ruin.
Página 113 - In witness whereof, the said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal, the day and year first above written.
Página 20 - Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Página 20 - It is but opening the eye, and the scene enters. The colours paint themselves on the fancy, with very little attention of thought or application of mind in the beholder. We are struck, we know not how, with the symmetry of any thing we see, and immediately assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it.
Página 58 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 20 - A beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration ; and a description in Homer has charmed more readers than a chapter in Aristotle.
Página 113 - Bradly his wife who are personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument of writing as parties thereto, and acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.