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And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur int ...
Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the n ...
The fact that Romans once inhabited her reflects no little dignity on Nature herself; that from some particular hill the Roman onc ...
Other roads do some violence to Nature, and bring the traveler to stare at her, but the river steals into the scenery it traverses ...
But we still remember ... above all, the cool, free aspect of the wild apple trees, generously proffering their fruit to us, thoug ...
The attention of those who frequent the camp-meetings at Eastham is said to be divided between the preaching of the Methodists and ...
The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; ea ...
Those Maine woods differ essentially from ours. There you are never reminded that the wilderness which you are threading is, after ...
The sight of one of these frontier houses, built of these great logs, whose inhabitants have unflinchingly maintained their ground ...
Perhaps our own woods and fields,--in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,--with the primitiv ...
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