"With departing Venus, large to the last, and shining even to the edge of the horizon, the vast dome presents at this moment, such a spectacle !"

"— I write this, 11 A. m., shelter'd under a dense oak by the bank, where I have taken refuge from a sudden rain."

"Go and sit in a grove or woods, with one or more of those voiceless companions, and read the foregoing, and think."