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At last America is in my view; a dreary waste of white barren sand, and melancholy, nodding pines. In the course of many miles, no cheerful cottage has blest my eyes. All seems dreary, savage and desert; and was it for this such sums of money, such streams of British blood have been lavished away? Oh, thou dear land, how dearly hast thou purchased this habitation for bears and wolves. Dearly has it been purchased, and at a price far dearer still it will be kept. My heart dies within me, while I view it.

—Schaw,Janet   b.c.1730

Baedeker is astonishingly enduring; travellers can use nineteenth-century editions with confidence, providing they take some elementary precautions. Many hotels will long since have disappeared, and the prices will be somewhat different, but if Baedeker says'On leaving the tunnel, the best view is on the right', it probably still is, unless somebody has shifted the mountain, and his descriptions of sceneryand where to go to see it at its best are still valid, as ispracticallyall of his potted history.

—Levin, (Henry) Bernard

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

—Campbell,Thomas

Quot homines tot sententiae: suo quoique mos. Thereareasmanyopinions astherearepeople: eachhas his own view.

—Terence full name PubliusTerentius Afer

Gertie recommended her to adopt the habit of not magnifying grievances; if you wanted to view trouble, you could take opera-glasses, but you should be careful to hold them the wrong way round.

—Ridge,W(illiam) Pett

All great poetry gives the illusion of a view of life.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

This is the prospect from the watershed, and when the traveller reaches it, it is a good thing to take an hour's leisure and lookout on the visible portions of the journey, since never in one's life can one seethe same view twice.

—Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine

My point of view has sadly changed. For now, should all the books in the world be laid before me, my problem would be how many of them I could avoid. Most books are like that.

—Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose

I have covered boxing, promoted boxing, watched it, thought about it, and after long reflection I cannot find a single thing that isgood about it either from the point of view of participant or spectator.

—Gallagher, Noel

A Room with aView.

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

   Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge¤  ome¤  trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense¤  e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.

—Pascal, Blaise

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

—Dryden,John

   'The Art of Being Ruled'might be described from some points of view as an infernal Utopia. Rather than custom, it feels more like an invocation to an unknown deity when Cubans get together†they hold a suspenseful silence until any voice is heard saying or singing something that has nothing to do with the purpose of the meeting.

—Lezama Lima,Jose¤

If you are not the lead dog, the view never changes.

—Anonymous

But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

—Milton,John

Witness this new-made world, another heav'n From heaven gate not far, founded in view On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with stars Numerous, and every star perhaps a world Of destined habitation.

—Milton,John

Scientific discoveryand scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of them without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

—Planck, Max Karl Ernst