The Alps, Switzerland and the North of Italy: With Numerous EngravingsAlexander Montgomery, 1854 - 633 sidor |
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... carried on , by the resistless flow of this icy stream , with a solemn slowness that eludes our unaided senses , and filled me with an admiration almost to awe ; whilst I foresaw with lively interest the definite and satisfactory know ...
... carried on , by the resistless flow of this icy stream , with a solemn slowness that eludes our unaided senses , and filled me with an admiration almost to awe ; whilst I foresaw with lively interest the definite and satisfactory know ...
Sida 14
... carry ; this was fastened round my waist by a strong girdle . I fancy that at the moment this long barometer got beneath and across me , for the girdle suddenly broke , and I made a sort of bound as I fell ; and so , instead of ...
... carry ; this was fastened round my waist by a strong girdle . I fancy that at the moment this long barometer got beneath and across me , for the girdle suddenly broke , and I made a sort of bound as I fell ; and so , instead of ...
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... carried along the sides of the mountains , the remains of which have often been noticed . A village above the road , called Passy , is supposed to be of Roman origin , and here many antiquities have been found . The hill on which Passy ...
... carried along the sides of the mountains , the remains of which have often been noticed . A village above the road , called Passy , is supposed to be of Roman origin , and here many antiquities have been found . The hill on which Passy ...
Sida 50
... carrying away alike its trees and produce . Some idea of their destructive force may be gained from the channel they have formed for themselves , filled as it is with large rounded masses of rock and stone . All these go to swell the ...
... carrying away alike its trees and produce . Some idea of their destructive force may be gained from the channel they have formed for themselves , filled as it is with large rounded masses of rock and stone . All these go to swell the ...
Sida 54
... carry barrels of wine from spot to spot ; and hence , to avoid interruption in their course , they keep as far as the road will allow , from the rugged walls of projecting rocks along which they have to pass . But the sagacity of the ...
... carry barrels of wine from spot to spot ; and hence , to avoid interruption in their course , they keep as far as the road will allow , from the rugged walls of projecting rocks along which they have to pass . But the sagacity of the ...
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Aargau Aiguille Alpine Alps ancient appearance Appenzell arches ascent Austrian avalanches Bâle beautiful beneath Berne Bernese Bormio bridge called canton century chain châlets chamois Chamouni church clouds colour crevasses crossed danger dark deep descending distance elevation emperor Engadine extremity fall feet Finsteraarhorn foot forests France French Freyburg Geneva glacier Glarus Grindelwald Grisons guides height hospice hundred inhabitants Italy Jungfrau Jura labour lake lake of Lucerne league length lofty Lucerne magnificent marble Martigny mass miles Mont Blanc mountains narrow neighbouring Neuchâtel palace party pass passage peaks plain precipice reached remarkable Rhine Rhone rising river road rock says scarcely scene Schwitz seen Servoz side Simplon slope snow soon spot steep stone stream summit Swiss Switzerland torrent town traveller traversed trees Unterwalden Valais valley Valteline Vaud Venice village walls whole wind wood Zurich Zwingle
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Sida 15 - 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.
Sida 49 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
Sida 210 - Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven. The century-living crow, Whose birth was in their tops, grew old and died Among their branches, till, at last, they stood, As now they stand, massy, and tall, and dark, Fit shrine for humble worshipper to hold Communion with...
Sida 277 - 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.
Sida 48 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful form ! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in...
Sida 28 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake," With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Sida 29 - 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.
Sida 29 - Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand : For here, not one, but many, make their play, And fling their thunder-bolts from hand to hand, Flashing and cast around : of all the band, The brightest through these parted hills hath forked His lightnings, — as if he did understand, That in such gaps as desolation worked, There the hot shaft should blast whatever therein lurked.
Sida 210 - 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.
Sida 48 - Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. 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...