Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... light of the lowering sun . I mightily enjoyed the hour . There was health in the air and hope in the mountains , and with the consciousness of augmenting vigour I quitted my station , and galloped down the Alp . I was soon amid the ...
... light of the lowering sun . I mightily enjoyed the hour . There was health in the air and hope in the mountains , and with the consciousness of augmenting vigour I quitted my station , and galloped down the Alp . I was soon amid the ...
Pagina 11
... light clouds scud swiftly over it , and snow - dust is scattered in the air . There is storm on the heights , which our guides affirm has turned the day against us . I cast about in my mind to meet the difficulty , and enquire whether ...
... light clouds scud swiftly over it , and snow - dust is scattered in the air . There is storm on the heights , which our guides affirm has turned the day against us . I cast about in my mind to meet the difficulty , and enquire whether ...
Pagina 16
... lights , and Lauener once more pierced the air with his tremendous whoop . We were heard . Lights were sent towards us , and an additional half - hour placed us under the roof of Herr Wellig , the active and intelligent proprietor of ...
... lights , and Lauener once more pierced the air with his tremendous whoop . We were heard . Lights were sent towards us , and an additional half - hour placed us under the roof of Herr Wellig , the active and intelligent proprietor of ...
Pagina 36
... light touches the first peak westward of us ; the air is wonderfully calm and still , and for to - day , at all events , we have good weather , without that bitter enemy the north wind ; but a certain opaque look in the sky , long ...
... light touches the first peak westward of us ; the air is wonderfully calm and still , and for to - day , at all events , we have good weather , without that bitter enemy the north wind ; but a certain opaque look in the sky , long ...
Pagina 49
... snow is sliding by , first slowly , then faster ; keep well out of the track of it , for underneath is a hard polished surface , and if your foot chance to light there , off you 1860 ] 49 THE MATTERHORN - FIRST ASSAULT .
... snow is sliding by , first slowly , then faster ; keep well out of the track of it , for underneath is a hard polished surface , and if your foot chance to light there , off you 1860 ] 49 THE MATTERHORN - FIRST ASSAULT .
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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...