 | 1843 - 628 páginas
...tree- Ben Wevis rose to the west, white with the yet unwasted snows of winter, and as sharply defined in the clear atmosphere as if all its sunny slopes...hills ; all above was white, and all below was purple. I returned to the quarry convinced that a very exquisite pleasure may be a very cheap one, and that... | |
 | 1850 - 638 páginas
...tree. Бen Wevis rate to the west white with the yet unwasted snows of winter, and as sharpiy defined in the clear atmosphere as if all its sunny slopes...retiring hollows had been chiselled in marble. A line of •now ran along the opposite hills ; all above was white and all below was purple. — Old Red SandHone,... | |
 | 1848 - 916 páginas
...tree. Ben AVevis rose to the west, white with the yet unwashed snows of winter, and as sharply defined in the clear atmosphere, as if all its sunny slopes...and all below was purple. They reminded me of the story, in which an old artist is described as tasking the ingenuity of his future son-in-law, by giving... | |
 | 1850 - 580 páginas
...tree. Ben Wevis rose to the west white with the yet unwasted snows of winter, and as sharply defined in the clear atmosphere as if all its sunny slopes...hills ; all above was white and all below was purple." — Old Bed Sandstone, pp. 6, 7. In raisins; from its bed the large mass of strata which the gunpowder... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz - 1899 - 372 páginas
...every side, like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben Wevis roee to the west, white with the yet unwastcd snows of winter, and as sharply denned in the clear...; all above was white, and all below was purple." — Old Bed Sandstone, pp. 6, 7. In raising from its bed the large mass of strata which the gunpowder... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 324 páginas
...in the clear atmosphere as if all its sunny slopes and the blue retiring-hollows had been chiseled in marble. A line of snow ran along the opposite hills; all above was white and all below was purple. — Old Red Sandstone, pp. 6, 7. In raising from its bed the large mass of strata which the gunpowder... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 páginas
...1854.] 164 [Feb., if all it* sunny slopes and blue retiring hollows had been chiselled in marble. Л way of that which bad ... I returned to the quarry, convinced that a very exquisite pleasure may be a very cheap, one, and... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1856 - 376 páginas
...column of smoke. It rose straight on the line of a plummet for more than a thousand yards ; and then, as reaching a thinner stratum of air, spread out equally...hills; all above was white, and all below was purple." — Old Red Sandstone, pp. 6, 7. In raising from its bed the large mass of strata which the gunpowder... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 páginas
...tree. Ben Wyvis rose to the west, white with the yet unwasted snows of winter, and as sharply defined in the clear atmosphere, as if all its sunny slopes...is described as tasking the ingenuity of his future son-in-Uw, by giving him as a subject for his pencil a flower-piece composed of only white flowers,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1858 - 456 páginas
...Ben VVevis rose to the west, white with the yet unwasted snows of •winter, and as sharply defined in the clear atmosphere, as if all its sunny slopes...marble. A line of snow ran along the opposite hills ; nil above was white, and all below was purple. They reminded me of the pretty French story, in which... | |
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... column of smoke. It rose straight as the line of a plummet for more than a thousand yards, and then, on reaching a thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side, like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben... 
