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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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e-times full of that intense repose of dazzlinglight which one, without ever havingseen them, knows to be on canvases ofTurner. Tlien, again, it is amber-hued,or tinged with soft blue, graduated to pur-ple shadows on the horizon. Duringthe greater part of the year the cloud skyis one of strongly outlined forms; thegreat white cumuli diift over, with everymajesty of design and grace of grouping;but there come, in milder seasons, manydays wiien one may see three cloud beltsin the heavens at the same time, the low-est far, far away, and the highest brush-ing softly, as it w^ere, past the very domeof the inviolable blue. You turn your eyethen downward to see the light wander-ing wistfully among the low distant hills,and the sweet tremulous shadows crossingthe summer meadows with timid cadences.It is a beautiful country; the Kentuckyskies are not the cold, hard, brilliant, hid-eous things that so many writers on natureamong us broadly style American skies(usually meaning New England skieSj
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KEiNTUCKY RIVER, FROM HIGH BRIDGE. however), as contrasted with skies Eu-ropean. They are at times ineffablywarm in tone and tender in hue, giving-aerial distances magical and fathomlessabove, and throwing down upon thevaried soft harmonious greens of thelandscape below, upon its rich brownsand weathered grays and whole schemeof terrene colors, a flood of radiance as 372 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. bountiful and transfiguring as it is chas-tened and benign. But why make a description of the blue-grass region of Kentucky ? What onesees may be only what he feels—may beonly intricate affinities between natureand self that were developed long ago, andhave become too deep to be viewed as re-lations or illusions. What two humanbeings find the same things in the face ofa third, or in natures ? Descriptions ofscenery are notoriously disappointing tothose Whose taste in landscape is differ-ent, or who have little or no sentiment forpure landscape beauty at all. So one com-ing hither might

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