 ... from ledge to ledge with the regularity of a water-clock ; the ripple of the waves as they broke on the rocky points of the shore, or softly kissed its pebbly margin ; and the voice of the tiny stream, that gliding down a dark, deep, and almost hidden...  The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America - Page 147by Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 944 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American literature - 1835 - 1074 pages
...and almost hidden channel in the rocks, disappeared, and welling up again in the centre of the turfv slope, stole over it, and trickled down the lower...favourite retreat, and as such is a monument of his ;..-• and love of nature. The spring is now enclosed in a marble rioed with his who lay extended... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 328 pages
...that, gliding down a dark, deep, and almost hidden channel in the rocks, disappeared,' and welling up again in the centre of the turfy slope, stole over...Tradition has named this little green shelf on the rocks " Kosciusko^s Garden;" but as no traces have been discovered of any other than nature's plantings,... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1836 - 612 pages
...sentinels levelled their guns at her, in token not to proceed ; and she in return dropped her head, raided her hands deprecatingly, and passed on unmolested....than nature's plantings, it was probably merely his favorite retreat, and as such is a monument of his taste and love of nature. " The spring is now enclosed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 pages
...of the spring sun, as he rose in the heavens, casting behind him a soft veil of light clouds, shorn: on the gray rocks, freshening herbage, and still disrobed...than nature's plantings, it was probably merely his favorite retreat, and as such is a monument of his taste ami love of nature. " The spring is now enclosed... | |
 | 1844 - 668 pages
...disappeared, and welling up again in the centre of the turfy slope, store over it, and trickled 'l»»n the lower ledge of granite to the river. Tradition has named this little green shelf on the rocks "Koxiusko's Garden ;" but as no truces have been discovered of any other than nature's planting, it... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...the turfy slope, stole over it, and trickled down the lower ledge of granite to the river. Trad1tion has named this little, green shelf on the rocks, "...than Nature's plantings, it was probably merely his favorite retreat, and, as such, is a monument of his taste and love of nature. JOHN NEAL. 1793-- (Manual,... | |
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