I am sure I do not know why the beauty of Monte Carlo should not satisfy more than it does. The bluest of all seas is nowhere blue...r than when you see it between the marble balustrades of the long white terrace before the casino, palms are nowhere greener than in that high garden which the mountain screen from every unkind breath, no colours could be more rich and various than those of the red and purple Alps that tower up behind the town, on whose summit such violent thunderstorms gather and break. But for me, at least, there was not at all the pleasure I had anticipated in this dazzling white and blue, these feathery palms and ragged Alps. ...I had a continual restless feeling that there was nothing at all real about Monte Carlo; that the sea was too blue to be wet, the casino too white to be anything but pasteboard, and that from their very greenness the palms must be cotton. ... in atmosphere and spirit the entire kingdom of Monaco is an extension of the casino.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth... With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay,... And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass; When Juliana came, and she, What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The body in the grave is like the tree in winter; they conceal their greenness under a show of dryness.... We too must wait for th...e springtime of the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All accounts agree in affirming that this part of the Cape was comparatively well wooded a century ago. But notwithstanding the gr...eat changes which have taken place in these respects, I cannot but think that we must make some allowance for the greenness of the Pilgrims in these matters, which caused them to see green. We do not believe that the trees were large or the soil was deep here. Their account may be true particularly, but it is generally false. They saw literally, as well as figuratively, but one side of the Cape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we returned ... a Province man was betraying his greenness to the Yankees by his questions. Why Province money won't pass her...e at par, when States' money is good at Fredericton,--though this, perhaps, was sensible enough. From what I saw then, it appears that the Province man was now the only real Jonathan, or raw country bumpkin, left so far behind by his enterprising neighbors that he didn't know enough to put a question to them. No people can long continue provincial in character who have the propensity for politics and whittling, and rapid traveling, which the Yankees have, and who are leaving the mother country behind in the variety of their notions and inventions. The possession and exercise of practical talent merely are a sure and rapid means of intellectual culture and independence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But thou beneath the sad and heavy line Of death, doth waste all senseless, cold, and dark;... Where not so much as dreams of light may shine, Nor any thought of greenness, leaf, or bark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,... Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »