 When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits,...  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - Page 54de Washington Irving - 1822 - 393 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 362 pages
...Every change of season, every change" of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some changes in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains,...landscape is cloudless they will gather -a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 pages
...change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
 | Cecil R. Roseberry - 1982 - 344 pages
...change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 pages
...being stamped on a Waterloo Medal, or a Queen Anne's Farthing. These fairy mountains. C\ T /"hoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 pages
...change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
 | 1998 - 272 pages
...less opposing of civilization. In describing the Catskills, "these fairy mountains," Irving wrote: "When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed...landscape is cloudless they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
 | Thomas Locker, Candace Christiansen - 1998 - 40 pages
...west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. . . . When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
 | Paul Downes - 2002 - 255 pages
...change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
 | Ian Marshall - 2003 - 292 pages
...surrounding country," mountains of "magical hues and shapes" that serve "as perfect barometers," for "when the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed...landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up... | |
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