The Hand-book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont: Including the Protestant Valleys of the WaldensesJ. Murray, 1811 - 517 sidor |
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... rock , 2 or 3 ft . high , instead of steps . Sometimes they are covered with broken fragments , between which they ... rock on the other ; and here the mule in- variably walks on the very verge of the precipice a habit derived from the ...
... rock , 2 or 3 ft . high , instead of steps . Sometimes they are covered with broken fragments , between which they ... rock on the other ; and here the mule in- variably walks on the very verge of the precipice a habit derived from the ...
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... rock . The only plants that grow are dry lichens , which seem intended but to keep up the semblance of vegetation , and to per- petuate nature's cheerful hues of green . The rare- fied air is icy cold , and exercise and quick motion are ...
... rock . The only plants that grow are dry lichens , which seem intended but to keep up the semblance of vegetation , and to per- petuate nature's cheerful hues of green . The rare- fied air is icy cold , and exercise and quick motion are ...
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... rock tottering over them , and torrents thundering below . Where the steep and hard surface of the cliff has left not an inch of space for a goat to climb along , they are conducted upon high terraces of solid masonry , or through a ...
... rock tottering over them , and torrents thundering below . Where the steep and hard surface of the cliff has left not an inch of space for a goat to climb along , they are conducted upon high terraces of solid masonry , or through a ...
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... rock , is pasture - land . The wealth of the people , like that of the patriarchs of old , in a great measure , lies in cattle and their produce , on which account the pastoral life of the Swiss deserves some attention . The bright ...
... rock , is pasture - land . The wealth of the people , like that of the patriarchs of old , in a great measure , lies in cattle and their produce , on which account the pastoral life of the Swiss deserves some attention . The bright ...
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... rock below it . Indeed the German word Gletscher comes from glitschen , to glide . Hugi , in one of his journeys , found his way under a glacier , by following the bed of a dried - up torrent which passed below it . He wan- dered about ...
... rock below it . Indeed the German word Gletscher comes from glitschen , to glide . Hugi , in one of his journeys , found his way under a glacier , by following the bed of a dried - up torrent which passed below it . He wan- dered about ...
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A Hand-Book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont ... John Murray (Firm) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1838 |
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Airolo Alpine Alpnach Alps ancient ascend Austrian avalanches bank Basle baths batz beautiful Berne Bernese Bienne bridge Brieg built called canton carriage carriage-road castle chalet chapel church Coire Constance cross descending diligence distance English miles fall feet Flüelen foot formed France French Freyburg Gall Geneva glacier Glarus gorge Gotthard Grindelwald Grisons ground height hill horses Hospice inhabitants inns Jura Küssnacht lake lake of Lucerne Lausanne Lauterbrunnen Limmat Linth Lucerne Martigny Meyringen Mont Blanc mountain nearly neighbouring Neuchâtel opposite pass pastures path peaks picturesque precipice reached Reuss Rhine Rhone Righi rises river road rock Roman ruins scenery Schwytz seen shore side Simplon situated slope snow Splügen spot stands steep stone stream stunden summit Swiss Switzerland table d'hôte Tamina Thal Thun Ticino torrent tower town traveller traversed Unterwalden valley Vaud Vevey village walk Wallenstadt walls Zurich
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Sida 209 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Sida 205 - Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings! Ye! With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful ; the far roll Of your departing voices, is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless, — if I rest. But where of ye, oh tempests ! is the goal ? Are ye like those within the human breast? Or do ye find, at length, like eagles, some high nest?
Sida 203 - 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 204 - 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 li - 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...
Sida 204 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Sida 215 - But this is not all ; the feeling with which all around Clarens, and the opposite rocks of Meillerie, is invested, is of a still higher and more comprehensive order than the mere sympathy with individual passion ; it is a sense of the existence of love in its most extended and sublime capacity, and of our own participation of its good and of its glory : it is the great principle of the universe, which is there more condensed, but not less manifested ; and of which, though knowing ourselves a part,...
Sida 204 - 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 thunderbolts from hand to hand, Flashing and cast around : of all the band, The brightest through these parted hills hath...
Sida 202 - Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted, Love was the very root of the fond rage Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed ; Itself expired, but leaving them an age...
Sida 219 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day; Sounding o'er our heads it...