Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hill! What a brilliantly beautiful landscape lay before us! I do not wonder at people who go into ecstasies over it. It is not grand mountain scenery, but it is the perfection of natural beauty. But that afternoon, lying there on the topmost rock, with all that fair lake, with its hundreds of islands and inlets, stretched like a map before me, I could drink in none of the peacefulness of the scene. For I saw again that look upon Edmund Austen's face - that look that I have seen so often since; the look I cannot at all understand...
...looking at her lovely face when she said it, and I agreed with her. But she had been gazing northward at the "little hamlet lying white in its mountain-fold...
...does not have to hunt long amongst undergraduate poetry to find passages that are far more original than beautiful; one writer, for instance, calls swallows "volatile air-swimmers," - a painfully original metaphor. Another describes a mountain...
...mountain peak must wildly shriek...
JULIA. Flee as a bird to your mountain...