 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1849 - 544 pages
...scenery where precipitous crag, infinite abyss, and roaring surge unite to awaken stern and sublime emotions ; on the contrary, the gentle loveliness...equal to the peninsula of Shawmut, covered with mighty forest-trees, and, at that day, untenanted by a human being, — although but a short time afterwards... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1888 - 500 pages
...within its forest- crowned hills, decorated with its necklace of emerald islands, with its dark-blue waters gilded with the rays of the western sun, and...to the peninsula of Shawmut,. covered with mighty forest-trees, and at that day untenanted by a human being, although but a short time afterwards it... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1884 - 500 pages
...were, from the bosom of the ocean, cool, dripping, sparkling, and fresh from the hand of its Creator. gentle and pleasing forms. Immediately at his feet...equal to the peninsula of Shawmut, covered with mighty forest-trees, and at that day untenauted by a human being, although but a short time afterwards it... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1884 - 500 pages
...jewels of civilization, and unpolluted by its thousand crimes, — springing, as it were, from tho bosom of the ocean, cool, dripping, sparkling, and...equal to the peninsula of Shawmut, covered with mighty forest-trees, and at that day untenanted by a human being, although but a short time afterwards it... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1901 - 502 pages
...within its forest-crowned hills, decorated with its necklace of emerald islands, with its dark-blue waters gilded with the rays of the western sun, and...equal to the peninsula of Shawmut, covered with mighty forest-trees, and at that day unteuanted by a human being, although but a short time afterwards it... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1910 - 510 pages
...within its forest- crowned hills, decorated with its necklace of emerald islands, with its dark-blue waters gilded with the rays of the western sun, and...equal to the peninsula of Shawmut, covered with mighty forest-trees, and at that day untenanted by a human being, although but a short time afterwards it... | |
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The bay, secluded within its forest-crowned hills, decorated with its necklace of emerald islands, with its dark blue waters gilded with the rays of the western sun, and its shadowy forests of unknown antiquity, expanding into infinite depths around,... 