The Alps, Switzerland, and the North of ItalyJ. Cassell, 1854 - 633 sider |
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Side 10
... rock , they tumble down with a loud but peculiar crash , and in falling are broken up into many thousand pieces , which , when viewed from afar , resemble the cataract of a torrent . This is one of the most extraordinary and grandest ...
... rock , they tumble down with a loud but peculiar crash , and in falling are broken up into many thousand pieces , which , when viewed from afar , resemble the cataract of a torrent . This is one of the most extraordinary and grandest ...
Side 11
... rock ; -first with a common pencil , and afterwards indented in the rock with a chisel , above which a mark was made with red paint , to which the date was affixed . ” On the 27th of June , 1842 , Mr. Forbes made his first observation ...
... rock ; -first with a common pencil , and afterwards indented in the rock with a chisel , above which a mark was made with red paint , to which the date was affixed . ” On the 27th of June , 1842 , Mr. Forbes made his first observation ...
Side 12
... rock , over- whelming and destroying not merely houses but villages , and uprooting entire forests of trees . In the spring it is , therefore , necessary to take special precautions in the passes of the Alps . Thus , if a pistol be ...
... rock , over- whelming and destroying not merely houses but villages , and uprooting entire forests of trees . In the spring it is , therefore , necessary to take special precautions in the passes of the Alps . Thus , if a pistol be ...
Side 34
... rock , and after consider- able toil arrive at Sepay , consisting of two houses and a cabaret , which is the inn ... rocks below which the Sarine murmurs in deep abysses , bordered with an admirably rich and vigorous vegetation , all the ...
... rock , and after consider- able toil arrive at Sepay , consisting of two houses and a cabaret , which is the inn ... rocks below which the Sarine murmurs in deep abysses , bordered with an admirably rich and vigorous vegetation , all the ...
Side 35
... rock to another , over a chasm 900 feet in width , and at the elevation of 160 feet above the river Sarine , which flows in the bed of this rocky ravine . Thus instead of the steep and dangerous acclivity which long existed , Freyburg ...
... rock to another , over a chasm 900 feet in width , and at the elevation of 160 feet above the river Sarine , which flows in the bed of this rocky ravine . Thus instead of the steep and dangerous acclivity which long existed , Freyburg ...
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Aiguille Alpine Alps appeared ascent Austrian avalanches Bâle beautiful beneath Bernard Berne Bernese Bormio bridge called canton century chain châlets chamois Chamouni chasm church colour Courmayeur crevasses crossed danger dark deep Desaix descending distance elevation emperor Engadine extremity fall feet Finsteraarhorn foot forests formed France French Geneva glacier Glarus Grindelwald Grisons guides height Hospice hundred inhabitants Italy Jungfrau Jura labour lake league length lofty magnificent marble Martigny mass Mer de Glace miles Mont Blanc Mont Velan mountains narrow night party pass passage path peaks plain precipice ravine reached remarkable Rhine Rhone ridges rise river road rock says scarcely scene scenery Schwitz seen Servoz side slope snow soon spot steep stone stream summit Swiss Switzerland torrent tower town traveller traversed trees Valais valley Valteline vast Vaud Venice village walls whole wind Zurich
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Side 17 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Side 283 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Side 51 - Who sank thy sunless pillars deep in earth? Who filled thy countenance with rosy light? Who made thee parent of perpetual streams? And you, ye five wild torrents fiercely glad! Who called you forth from night and utter death, From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever?
Side 51 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Side 51 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain—- Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who...
Side 214 - That run along the summit of these trees In music ; thou art in the cooler breath That from the inmost darkness of the place Comes, scarcely felt ; the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh moist ground, are all instinct with thee. Here is continual worship ; nature here, In the tranquillity that thou dost love, Enjoys thy presence.
Side 31 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Side 378 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Side 50 - Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile, wast blending with my Thought, Yea, with my Life and Life's own secret joy: Till the dilating Soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passing — there As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven!
Side 548 - And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe...