| Phineas Garrett - 1879 - 784 Seiten
..." lo, the desert smiled !" Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace, and decorates it with every romantic embellishment...him all the secrets and mysteries of nature. Peace, tranquillity, and innocence shed their mingled delights around him. And, to crown the enchantment of... | |
| Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 454 Seiten
...lo, the desert smiled ! " Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace, and decorates it with every romantic embellishment...him all the secrets and mysteries of nature. Peace, tranquility, and innocence shed their mingled delights around him. And, to crown the enchantment of... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 Seiten
...embellishment of fancy. A shrubbery that Shenstone mi^lit have envied blooms around him. Miihic that niinht have charmed Calypso and her nymphs is his. An extensive library spreads its treasi res before him. A philosophical apparatus offers to him all the secrets ana mysteries of Nature.... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 Seiten
...country to lind quiet in ours. Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace, and decorates it with every romantic embellishment...Shenstone might have envied, blooms around him; music, which might have charmed Calypso and her nymphs, is his; an extensive library spreads its treasures... | |
| 1884 - 780 Seiten
..." lo, the desert smiled !" Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace, and decorates it with every romantic embellishment...him all the secrets and mysteries of nature. Peace, tranquillity, and innocence shed their mingled delights around him. And, to crown the enchantment of... | |
| Charles Coppens - 1885 - 318 Seiten
...' lo ! the desert smiled.' Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace, and decorates it with every romantic embellishment...extensive library spreads its treasures before him," etc., etc. (Amer. Eloq., ii. p. 467). § 2. Reasoning. 224. By reasoning we mean that process of the... | |
| Charles Coppens - 1885 - 320 Seiten
...' lo ! the desert smiled.' Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace, and decorates it with every romantic embellishment...extensive library spreads its treasures before him," etc., etc. (Amer. Eloq., ii. p. 467). § 2. Reasoning. 224. By reasoning we mean that process of the... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1887 - 476 Seiten
...and lo, the desert smiled ! Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace, and decorates it with every romantic embellishment...extensive library spreads its treasures before him. A WHO IS BLANNEUHASSETT? 41 philosophical apparatus offers to him all the secret mysteries of nature.... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 Seiten
...and lo, the desert smiled ! Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace, and decorates it with every romantic embellishment...him all the secrets and mysteries of nature. Peace, tranquillity and innocence shed their mingled delights around him. And to crown the enchantment of... | |
| James Parton - 1892 - 444 Seiten
...and lo, the desert smiled! Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace and decorates it with every romantic embellishment...him. Music, that might have charmed Calypso and her n3Fmphs, is his. An extensive library spreads its treasures before him. A philosophical apparatus offers... | |
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