as to the one object in the world that would not disappoint. as he boasts to have done, "up the Vatican stairs, into the Pope's presence, in my old boots," I felt here it looks really well enough, I felt, and was inclined, as you suggested, to give my approbation Approbation is approval. or the infant Mercury, up to everything from the cradle, as you please to take it.Įven such a familiarity, worthy of Jonathan, our national hero, in a prince's palace, or "stumping" Stumping is to travel around making political speeches. After spying about some time, he found it could only be the sunset, and looking, too, a moment, he said approvingly "that sun looks well enough " a speech worthy of Shakspeare's Cloten, Cloten is a character in Cymbeline, a rather doltish fellow. A little cow-boy, trudging along, wondered what we could be gazing at. Long ago, I was looking from a hill-side with a friend at one of the finest sunsets that ever enriched this world. had given me a clear notion of the position and proportions of all objects here I knew where to look for everything, and everything looked as I thought it would. When I first came I felt nothing but a quiet satisfaction. It is very sublime, giving the effect of a spiritual repetition through all the spheres. This is some effect of the wind, causing echoes to the thundering anthem. It is in this way I have most felt the grandeur-somewhat eternal, if not infinite.Īt times a secondary music rises the cataract seems to seize its own rhythm and sing it over again, so that the ear and soul are roused by a double vibration. Awake or asleep, there is no escape, still this rushing round you and through you. an indefatigable Indefatigable is to persist tirelessly. creation all other forms and motions come and go, the tide rises and recedes, the wind, at its mightiest, moves in gales and gusts, but here is really an incessant, Incessant is to be unpleasantly ceaseless. For here there is no escape from the weight of a perpetual Perpetual is never ending or changing. My nerves, too much braced up by such an atmosphere, do not well bear the continual stress of sight and sound. We have not been fortunate in weather, for there cannot be too much, or too warm sunlight for this scene, and the skies have been lowering, with cold, unkind winds. Having "lived one day" we would depart, and become worthy to live another. Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily. So great a sight soon satisfies, making us content with itself, and with what is less than itself. We have been here eight days, and I am quite willing to go away. "It is good to be here," is the best as the simplest expression that occurs to the mind. Yet I, like others, have little to say where the spectacle is, for once, great enough to fill the whole life, and supersede thought, giving us only its own presence. Since you are to share with me such foot-notes as may be made on the pages of my life during this summer's wanderings, I should not be quite silent as to this magnificent prologue to the, as yet, unknown drama. Governor Everett Receiving the Indian Chiefs.Arched Rock from the Water (Illustration)."Great God! how great is thy goodness,…."Keep thy soul so that thou mayst, bear it in thy hands.…".Rolling Prairie of Illinois (Illustration)."Death \ Opens her sweet white arms, and whispers Peace ….Prairie and Log Cabin in the Distance (Illustration).
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