Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... blue of heaven and the peaks of the mountains ; then closing up again , and hiding in their dismal folds the very posts which stood at a distance of ten paces from the hotel door . The effects soon became exceedingly striking , the muta ...
... blue of heaven and the peaks of the mountains ; then closing up again , and hiding in their dismal folds the very posts which stood at a distance of ten paces from the hotel door . The effects soon became exceedingly striking , the muta ...
Pagina 46
... blue hills spread far away into Italy . I walked along the little arête , and sat down ; it was only broad enough for the foot , and in perfectly cold blood even this perhaps might have appeared uncomfortable . Turning to look at ...
... blue hills spread far away into Italy . I walked along the little arête , and sat down ; it was only broad enough for the foot , and in perfectly cold blood even this perhaps might have appeared uncomfortable . Turning to look at ...
Pagina 57
... blue , being illuminated solely by the reflected light of the sky ; the summit of the moun- tain , on the contrary , was crimson , being illuminated by transmitted light . The contrast of both was finer than I can describe . About ...
... blue , being illuminated solely by the reflected light of the sky ; the summit of the moun- tain , on the contrary , was crimson , being illuminated by transmitted light . The contrast of both was finer than I can describe . About ...
Pagina 63
... blue , but the thick stratum of horizontal air invested the snowy peaks with a veil of translucent haze , through which their vast and spectral outlines were clearly seen . As we rolled on towards Thun the haze thickened , while dense ...
... blue , but the thick stratum of horizontal air invested the snowy peaks with a veil of translucent haze , through which their vast and spectral outlines were clearly seen . As we rolled on towards Thun the haze thickened , while dense ...
Pagina 81
... blue- green sea . Beyond is the range which divides the Valais from Italy . Sweeping round , the vision meets an aggregate of peaks which look , as fledg- lings to their mother , towards the mighty Dom . Then come the repellent crags of ...
... blue- green sea . Beyond is the range which divides the Valais from Italy . Sweeping round , the vision meets an aggregate of peaks which look , as fledg- lings to their mother , towards the mighty Dom . Then come the repellent crags of ...
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Æggischhorn afterwards Aletsch glacier Aletschhorn Alps appearance arête ascent atmosphere avalanche barrier base beautiful Bel Alp Bennen blue bottom Breuil Carrel chasm cliff climbed climber clouds Col du Géant colour companion couloir crags crevasses crossed dark deep descended erosion fall feet Finsteraarhorn fissures foot formed freezing frozen Glace Glacier du Géant gorge green Grindelwald halted heat heaven heights Helmholtz Jungfrau lake Lauener ledge length light liquid looked mass Matterhorn melted Mer de Glace Monte Rosa moraine morning Morteratsch Morteratsch glacier motion mould mountain névé night observed passed peak pieces of ice Pontresina portion precipice pressure rays reached regelation rendered Rhone ridge river rocks rope round seemed séracs shadow side slope snow snow-field soon steep stones summit surface temperature theory thought turned Tyndall Val Tournanche valley vapour vertical weather Weisshorn wind Zermatt
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Pagina 460 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Pagina 292 - Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force; for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any definition which omits life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue.
Pagina 190 - Ever young, ever mighty — with the vigor of a thousand worlds still within him — the real sculptor was even then climbing up the eastern sky. It was he who raised aloft the waters which cut out these ravines; it was he who planted the glaciers on the...
Pagina 291 - I tried to look at this universal cloud, containing within itself the prediction of all that has since occurred ; I tried to imagine it as the seat of those forces whose action was to issue in solar and stellar systems, and all that they involve. Did that formless fog contain potentially the sadness with which I regarded 458 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. the Matterhorn ? Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home...