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I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child. - A Tour on the Continent--Via Mala [Rhine River] Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. - Painting [Shadows] Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed. The clouds o'er their summits they calmly did rest, And hung on the ether's invisible breast; Than the vapours of earth they seemed purer, more bright,-- Oh! could they be clouds? 'Twas the necklace of night. - The Iteriad--Sunset at Low-Wind [Sunset] Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two months together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity. - The True and Beautiful--The Sky [Sky] The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. - True and Beautiful--Sculpture [Sculpture]
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