Everything in the neighbourhood of this city exhibits the appearance of life and cheerfulness. The purity of the air, the brillian...cy of the unspotted heavens, the crowd of moving vessels, shooting in various directions, up and down and across the bay and the far- stretching Hudson, and the forest of masts crowded round the quays and wharfs at the entrance of the East River. There is something in all this--in the very air you breathe, and the fair and moving scene that you rest your eye upon--which exhilarates the spirits and makes you in good humour with life and your fellow creatures. We approached these shores under a fervid sun, but the air, though of a higher temperature than I had ever before experienced, was so entirely free of vapor, that I thought it was for the first time in my life that I had drawn a clear breath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing could be more beautiful than our passage down the Hudson [River].... The change, the contrast, the ceaseless variety of be...auty, as you skim from side to side, the liquid smoothness of the broad mirror which reflects the scene, and most of all, the clear bright air through which you look at it; all this can only be seen and believed by crossing the Atlantic.... The magnificent boldness of the Jersey shore on the one side, and the luxurious softness of the shady lawns on the other, with the vast silvery stream that flows between them, altogether form a picture which may well excuse a traveller for saying, once and again, that the Hudson river can be surpassed in beauty by none on the outside of Paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!... Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The anorexic prefigures this culture in rather a poetic fashion by trying to keep it at bay. He refuses lack. He says: I lack noth...ing, therefore I shall not eat. With the overweight person, it is the opposite: he refuses fullness, repletion. He says, I lack everything, so I will eat anything at all. The anorexic staves off lack by emptiness, the overweight person staves off fullness by excess. Both are homeopathic final solutions, solutions by extermination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building high... Over the chained bay waters Liberty-- Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyesLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A stag of warrant, a stag, a stag, A runnable stag, a kingly crop,... Brow, bay and tray and three on top, A stag, a runnable stag.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »