Harry and Lucy Concluded Author:Maria Edgeworth Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: view from her, exclaimed, "The sea! the seaK' She stood for some moments in silence, beside her brother, looking at the vast extent of water, far as her sight... more » could reach, bounded only by the sky. They were now standing on the sands of the shore. It was a still evening, the tide was ebbing, the sun setting, and there was a long bright light upon the water; while the green and white waves, curling gently over each other, moved on continually. " How beautiful it is !" exclaimed Lucy. " How grand ! Harry, is not it more beautiful and grander than you expected? Is not it, Harry?" " Infinitely," said Harry. " But hush, I want to look, and to listen to it." Lucy stood beside her brother a little while longer, and then ran back to the house to call her mother to look at it, before the red sun should be quite set. Her mother came, and they found Harry still on the same spot, fixed in admiration. Hismother seemed to know what he felt and thought, and to sympathise with him just as he wished. At first in silence, then expressing for him in words, that for which he could not find utterance. The ideas of boundless extent, duration, power; the feelings of admiration, astonishment, and awe, which create the sense of the sublime. While his soul was under this strong impression, his mother seized the proper moment to raise his thoughts still higher, from the ideas of immeasurable extent, duration, and power, to that Power by which the ocean, the sun, the earth, and we ourselves, were created, and are preserved. The impression made on the minds of Harry and Lucy was never effaced. By sunrise next morning, Harry was on the sea shore. At the stated hours he was constantly there to watch the coming in and going out of the tide. This regular ebbing and flowing of the sea excited such...« less