Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... hand was perfectly pastoral ; 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 ...
... hand was perfectly pastoral ; 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 ...
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... hand and foot such hold as to render the steepest places the pleasantest of all . I often emerged from the gloom of the trees upon lovely bits of pasture— bright emerald gems set in the bosom of the woods . It appeared to me surprising ...
... hand and foot such hold as to render the steepest places the pleasantest of all . I often emerged from the gloom of the trees upon lovely bits of pasture— bright emerald gems set in the bosom of the woods . It appeared to me surprising ...
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... hand . A gleam of satis- faction crossed his features as he eyed me on my perch . He manifestly enjoyed being called to the rescue , and exhorted me to keep quite still . He worked up towards me , and in less than half an hour had hold ...
... hand . A gleam of satis- faction crossed his features as he eyed me on my perch . He manifestly enjoyed being called to the rescue , and exhorted me to keep quite still . He worked up towards me , and in less than half an hour had hold ...
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... hand , I felt that there were perils at home for intellectual men greater even than those ' which then surrounded us —foes , moreover , which inspire no manhood by their attacks , but shatter alike the architect and his house After by ...
... hand , I felt that there were perils at home for intellectual men greater even than those ' which then surrounded us —foes , moreover , which inspire no manhood by their attacks , but shatter alike the architect and his house After by ...
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... place and made an accurate sketch of it , I immediately called upon him . With the most obliging promptness he placed his sketches in my hands , gave me a 18 [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS . DISASTER ON THE COL DU GÉANT.
... place and made an accurate sketch of it , I immediately called upon him . With the most obliging promptness he placed his sketches in my hands , gave me a 18 [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS . DISASTER ON THE COL DU GÉANT.
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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...