File:Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War (1886) (14759844041).jpg

Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors:
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
*^J^%;i^t Kr-.fi II Till. IIIOSON rHOM CLAKIiMONT. every suggestion of the want and wretched-ness, the cruelty, ojjpression, and strife whichsociety acknowledges as its shame, but itsmotive is inVefreshing contrast to the devour-ing ambition, the strenuous energy, the eager-ness, the adventure, the spirit of jjrogrcss whichthe same civilization boastsofas itsdistinguish- ing glory. To the imagination it suggests thesimplicity, the dignity, the innocence, the con-servatism, the freedom, the quietness, the con-temjilative leisure of the ideal pastoral life;and while it i;osseHses the mind it is a signalrelief from the wear and weariness, the strainand pressure, the turbulence and discontent, RIVERSIDE PARK. 913
Text Appearing After Image:
The fierce confederate stormOf sorrow barricadoed evermoreWithin the walls of cities. The restful charm of Central Park has adeeper reason than the marked antithesis tophysical conditions of rigid confinement be-tween walls of stone and upon streets of stone,which is offered by its broad rural views, itsjpenness and airiness and spacious skies. Inipite of the salient scenery about it, its narrowlirnits and originally rugged surface, it em-bodies with rare success the tranquilizing pas-:oral idea. Its scant meadow-land is notj.enced off by well-defined boundaries to ad-^ertise its meagerness, but is allowed to flowground wooded knolls and lose itself in grassy^alcoves which wind among the trees and leadthe fancy onward with fair promise of broaderfields beyond. Even the bolder features ofthe park and its passages of sylvan pic-turesqueness are all subordinate to its centralpurpose, which they emphasize by shading andcontrast. The rising tide of population willsoon sweep quite around it

Note About Images