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... nature have escaped the author ; these , however painful they may be to his eye , will hardly , he trusts , be consi- dered by liberal criticks as unpardonable blemishes in a writer , who for the first time has had occasion to exercise ...
... nature have escaped the author ; these , however painful they may be to his eye , will hardly , he trusts , be consi- dered by liberal criticks as unpardonable blemishes in a writer , who for the first time has had occasion to exercise ...
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... nature has given to America , cast into the shade , the comparatively diminutive beauties , of Italian scenery . Vineyards , and plantations of olives , make but a poor figure , when compared with the rich verdure , of our interminable ...
... nature has given to America , cast into the shade , the comparatively diminutive beauties , of Italian scenery . Vineyards , and plantations of olives , make but a poor figure , when compared with the rich verdure , of our interminable ...
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... nature has poured out her riches on the soil of the new world ; and he is unable to reconcile the gene- ral appearance of Tuscany , and Romagna , with the idea of a country , on which nature has be- stowed her gifts with lavish ...
... nature has poured out her riches on the soil of the new world ; and he is unable to reconcile the gene- ral appearance of Tuscany , and Romagna , with the idea of a country , on which nature has be- stowed her gifts with lavish ...
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... nature is still as youthful as in the golden age , and , as if she delighted to dis- play her creative energy , and her imperishable dominion on the very spot where time has le- velled the structures of art ; the ruins of pala- ces and ...
... nature is still as youthful as in the golden age , and , as if she delighted to dis- play her creative energy , and her imperishable dominion on the very spot where time has le- velled the structures of art ; the ruins of pala- ces and ...
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... nature , and that colossal greatness , by which she has dis- tinguished the features of the new , from those of the old continent , divert the attention from her more delicate and concealed charms . Untu- tored by art , she riots with a ...
... nature , and that colossal greatness , by which she has dis- tinguished the features of the new , from those of the old continent , divert the attention from her more delicate and concealed charms . Untu- tored by art , she riots with a ...
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