Mountaineering in 1861: A Vacation TourLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 - 105 sider |
Fra bogen
Side 89
... walls And snowy summits old in story , The long light shakes across the lakes , And the wild cataract leaps in glory . ' the grey UT time is advancing , and I am growing old ; over my and here and there amid my whiskers , left ear ...
... walls And snowy summits old in story , The long light shakes across the lakes , And the wild cataract leaps in glory . ' the grey UT time is advancing , and I am growing old ; over my and here and there amid my whiskers , left ear ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
Æggischhorn Aletsch Aletsch glacier Aletschhorn Alphubel Alpine amid ancient glacier Andermatten arête Ascent atmosphere avalanche beauty Bel Alp Benen bergschrund bottom boulders Breithorn Breuil chamois CHAPTER chasm cliff climbing cloud couloir crags crest crevasses cross débris deep descend edge EDWARD WHYMPER eyes face feet flanking GAULI GLACIER Graian Alps Grimsel Grimsel Pass halt heaven height Herr Kirchet ledge LESLIE STEPHEN light looked Lyskamm Macugnaga Maps mass Matterhorn MEYRINGEN mind miracle Mont Pelvoux Monte Rosa Monte Viso moraine Moro motion moun mountain Nature Oberland object observed pass paused peaks Pelvoux pines pinnacle precipice pyramid Randa reach Rhone ridge Riffel river rocks rope round Schreckhorn schrund side Sketches sliding slope snow soon steep stones stream summit surface Theodule thought tion trees turned URBACHTHAL valley Valpelline vapour vertical Weisshorn Wenger wind Zermatt
Populære passager
Side 7 - Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told : Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old. Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow, And through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.
Side 89 - And strows her lights below, And deepens on and up! the gates Roll back, and far within For me the Heavenly Bridegroom waits, To make me pure of sin. The sabbaths of Eternity, One sabbath deep and wide— A light upon the shining sea— The Bridegroom with his bride!
Side 83 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Side 56 - WE had been ten hours climbing from our bivouac to the summit, and it was now necessary that we should clear the mountain before the close of day. Our muscles were loose and numbed, and unless extremely urged declined all energetic...
Side 37 - Thus the principle referred to teaches us that the Italian wind, gliding over the crest of the Matterhorn, is as firmly ruled as the earth in its orbital revolution round the sun ; and that the fall of its vapour into clouds is exactly as much a matter of necessity as the return of the seasons. The dispersion, therefore, of the slightest mist by the special volition of the Eternal, would be as much a miracle as the rolling of the Rhone over the Grimsel precipices, down the valley of Hasli to Meyringen...
Side 25 - And the mystic seasons' dance; And thief-like step of liberal hours Thawing snow-drift into flowers. O, wondrous craft of plant and stone By eldest science wrought and shown! "Happy," I said, "whose home is here! Fair fortunes to the mountaineer! Boon Nature to his poorest shed Has royal pleasure-grounds outspread.
Side 1 - Lady's Tour round Monte Rosa; with Visits to the Italian Valleys of Anzasca, Mastalone, Camasco, Sesia, Lys, Challant, Aosta, and Cogne : In a Series of Excursions in the Years 1S50, 1S56, 1S5S.
Side 61 - Weisshorn from this side, except by one of its aretes. At any moment the mountain side may be raked by a fire as deadly as that of cannon.
Side 45 - ... the summits together. An intensely illuminated geranium flower seems to swim in its own colour, which apparently surrounds the petals like a layer, and defeats by its lustre any attempt of the eye to seize upon the sharp outline of the leaves. A similar effect was here observed upon the mountains ; the glory did not seem to come from them alone, but seemed also effluent from the air around them.