...having heard and read so much about it — but the effect on me was disappointment. Looking towards (he setting sun, there lay, stretched out before my view,...admissible, with the day going down upon it: a few hirds wheeling here and there : and solitude and silence reigning paramount around. But the grass was...

...great blank; nutil it met the glowing sky, wherein it seemed to dip: mingling with its rich colors, and mellowing in its distant blue. There it lay, a...there, and solitude and silence reigning paramount aronnd. But the grass was not yet high ; there were bare black patches on the ground ; and the few...

...great blank, until it met the glowing sky, wherein it seemed to dip, mingling with its rich colors, and mellowing in its distant blue. There it lay, a...not yet high ; there were bare, black patches on the Aground ; and the few wild-flowers that the eye "could see were poor and scanty. Great as the picture...

...great blank, until it met the glowing sky, wherein it seemed to dip, mingling with its rich colors, y tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully...very new. Dombey, exulting in the long-looked for wild-flowers that the eye could see were poor and scanty. Great as the picture was, its very flatness...

...a vast expanse of level ground; unbroken, save by one thin line of trees, which scarcely amounto< i to a scratch upon the great blank; until it met the...there: and solitude and silence reigning paramount a round. But the grass was not yet high; there were bare black patches on the ground, and the few wild...

...pushed forward, and came upon the Prairie at sunset. It would be difficult to say why, or how—though it was possibly from having heard and read so much...There it lay, a tranquil sea or lake without water, if suoh a simile be admissible, with the day going down upon it: a few birds wheeling here and there:...

...great blank ; until it met the glowing sky, wherein it seemed to dip: mingling with its rich colors, and mellowing in its distant blue. There it lay, a...down upon it : a few birds wheeling here and there : acd solitude and silence reigning paramount around. But the grass was not yet high ; there were bare...

...strange landscape, known as Looking-Glass Prairie, would have on him, but Dickens was not impressed: "There it lay, a tranquil sea or lake without water, (if such a simile be admissible)." "I felt little of that sense of freedom and exhilaration which a Scottish heath inspires, or even our...

...Charles Dickens, whose 1842 American Notes records impressions of an extensive prairie near St. Louis: "Looking towards the setting sun, there lay, stretched...and solitude and silence reigning paramount around." The point is that presettlement Illinois had both woods and prairies; more important, it had big woods...

...The meal was delicious, Dickens reported, but the prairie itself was something of a disappointment: "There it lay, a tranquil sea or lake without water, if such a simile be admissable, with the day going down upon it: a few birds wheeling here and there: and solitude and...