 It is but changing one's position, for which a quarter of an hour's riding is sufficient, and the scene is cast into a new form ; it is varied by so many new lines and new disclosures of land and water, that it no longer appears to be the same thing.  The visitor's guide to the watering places - Page 128by Visitor - 1841Full view - About this book
 | John Sturch - 1778 - 78 pages
...almoft perpetual fucceflion of hills and dales which covers the face of it, creates fuch a wopderfii' variety of breaks and openings, that the eye of the...traveller is continually entertained with new and furprifing landfcapes of natuic's exqu file painting. It is here the love, of novelty and variety,.... | |
 | George Brannon - 1831 - 260 pages
..." The almost perpetual succession of hills and dales which cover the Isle of Wight, creates such a variety of breaks and openings, that the eye of the...traveller is continually entertained with new and surprizing landscapes of Nature's exquisite painting. It is here that the love of novelty and variety,... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - Europe - 1840 - 588 pages
...openings, that the eye of the traveller is continually entertained with surprising landscapes of nature's painting. It is here that the love of novelty and...natural to the mind of man, is most highly gratified : it is but changing one's position, for which a quarter of an hour's riding is sufficient, and the... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - Europe - 1840 - 476 pages
...openings, that the eye of the traveller is continually entertained with surprising landscapes of nature's painting. It is here that the love of novelty and...natural to the mind of man, is most highly gratified ; it is but changing one's position, for which a quarter of an hour's riding is sufficient, and the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...by tasteless fashion, could achieve To mar mir Nature's lineaments divine," has now disappeared, and the eye of the traveller is continually entertained with new and surprising landscapes, as if of nature's own exquisite painting, upon which he can dwell with feelings of unmingled pleasure,... | |
 | Edwin Lee - 1848 - 238 pages
...deservedly termed the Garden of England, is very salubrious ; the face of the country is agreeably diversified ; and the almost perpetual succession...entertained with new and surprising landscapes of Nature's painting. It is but changing one's position, for which a quarter of an hour's riding is sufficient,... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...into a new form. The almost perpetual succession of hills and dales which cover it, creates such a variety of breaks and openings, that the eye of the...surprising landscapes of Nature's exquisite painting. Here the love of novelty and variety, so natural to the mind of man, is most highly gratified, and... | |
 | Edwin Lee - 1854 - 298 pages
...been deservedly termed the Garden of England, is very salubrious; the face of the country is agreeably diversified; and the almost perpetual succession of...entertained with new and surprising landscapes of Nature's painting. It is but changing one's position, for which a quarter of an hour's riding is sufficient,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 538 pages
...tasteless fashion, could achieve To mar lidr Nature's lineaments divine," has now disappeared, and the eye of the traveller is continually entertained with new and surprising landscapes, as if of nature's own exquisite painting, upon which he can dwell with feelings of unmingled pleasure,... | |
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