Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... green pastures , dotted with chalets , and covered with cows , which filled the air with the incessant tinkle of their bells . Beyond was the majestic architecture of the Alps , with its capitals and western bastions flushed with the ...
... green pastures , dotted with chalets , and covered with cows , which filled the air with the incessant tinkle of their bells . Beyond was the majestic architecture of the Alps , with its capitals and western bastions flushed with the ...
Pagina 8
... green Alp . This we breasted , regardless of the path , until we reached the chalets of the Roththal . We did not yet see the par- ticular staircase up which Lauener proposed to lead us , but we inspected minutely the battlements to our ...
... green Alp . This we breasted , regardless of the path , until we reached the chalets of the Roththal . We did not yet see the par- ticular staircase up which Lauener proposed to lead us , but we inspected minutely the battlements to our ...
Pagina 60
... green , roses faded from ladies ' cheeks ; while puzzled children yelled intermittently in the grasp of the demon which had newly taken possession of them . One rare pale maiden sat right in the line of the spray , and bore the violence ...
... green , roses faded from ladies ' cheeks ; while puzzled children yelled intermittently in the grasp of the demon which had newly taken possession of them . One rare pale maiden sat right in the line of the spray , and bore the violence ...
Pagina 63
... green , while among the meadows at their feet gleamed the rushing Rhine . • The zenith was blue , but the thick stratum of horizontal air invested the snowy peaks with a veil of translucent haze , through which their vast and spectral ...
... green , while among the meadows at their feet gleamed the rushing Rhine . • The zenith was blue , but the thick stratum of horizontal air invested the snowy peaks with a veil of translucent haze , through which their vast and spectral ...
Pagina 67
... green meadows as sediment behind ; and through these meadows now flows the stream of the Aar . Imagination is This was written soon after Mr. Buckle's Royal Institution lecture , which I thought a piece of astonishing rhetoric , but of ...
... green meadows as sediment behind ; and through these meadows now flows the stream of the Aar . Imagination is This was written soon after Mr. Buckle's Royal Institution lecture , which I thought a piece of astonishing rhetoric , but 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...