Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... mountain stream making soft music by the explosion of its bubbles . I was once tempted aside to climb a rounded eminence , where I lay for an hour watching the augmenting glory of the mountains . The scene at hand was perfectly pastoral ...
... mountain stream making soft music by the explosion of its bubbles . I was once tempted aside to climb a rounded eminence , where I lay for an hour watching the augmenting glory of the mountains . The scene at hand was perfectly pastoral ...
Pagina 30
... mountain too has a sort of prestige of invincibility which is not without its influence on the mind , and almost leads one to expect to encounter some new and unheard - of source of peril upon it : 30 [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... mountain too has a sort of prestige of invincibility which is not without its influence on the mind , and almost leads one to expect to encounter some new and unheard - of source of peril upon it : 30 [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
Pagina 31
... mountains and glaciers of the Oberland , he belongs by race and character to a class of men of whom the Laueners , Melchior Anderegg , Bortis , Christian Almer , Peter Bohren , are also examples -- a type of mountain race , having many ...
... mountains and glaciers of the Oberland , he belongs by race and character to a class of men of whom the Laueners , Melchior Anderegg , Bortis , Christian Almer , Peter Bohren , are also examples -- a type of mountain race , having many ...
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... mountain , Bennen's countenance fell visibly , and he became somewhat gloomy ; the mountain was almost white with fresh - fallen snow . Nur der Schnee furcht mich , ' he replied to our enquiries . The change was indeed great from my ...
... mountain , Bennen's countenance fell visibly , and he became somewhat gloomy ; the mountain was almost white with fresh - fallen snow . Nur der Schnee furcht mich , ' he replied to our enquiries . The change was indeed great from my ...
Pagina 35
... mountain , and I don't think his ideas of our success were ever very sanguine . We were to start before 3 A.M. on Monday morn- ing , August 20 ; and the short period for sleep thus left us was somewhat abridged in my own case , not so ...
... mountain , and I don't think his ideas of our success were ever very sanguine . We were to start before 3 A.M. on Monday morn- ing , August 20 ; and the short period for sleep thus left us was somewhat abridged in my own case , not so ...
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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...