The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through CreationW.S. Orr, 1848 - 803 pagini |
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Pagina 217
... rock , many thousand tons in weight , hang from the beetling steep of the mountains , threatening destruction on all below - not always a vain apprehension . After the winter season , many of these huge masses have been launched ...
... rock , many thousand tons in weight , hang from the beetling steep of the mountains , threatening destruction on all below - not always a vain apprehension . After the winter season , many of these huge masses have been launched ...
Pagina 218
... rocks were falling on all sides , and we narrowly escaped destruction . I myself twice saw large blocks of rock pass with dreadful velocity through the line of people , and between two of them not four feet apart . At half - past two I ...
... rocks were falling on all sides , and we narrowly escaped destruction . I myself twice saw large blocks of rock pass with dreadful velocity through the line of people , and between two of them not four feet apart . At half - past two I ...
Pagina 226
... rocks are frequent . " Now the naked rock " says Humboldt , describing its characteristics , " appears to view perfectly smooth and level , which the traveller may pass over for days together without meeting even a grain of sand , where ...
... rocks are frequent . " Now the naked rock " says Humboldt , describing its characteristics , " appears to view perfectly smooth and level , which the traveller may pass over for days together without meeting even a grain of sand , where ...
Pagina 240
... rocks , caverns are relatively fewer than in the later deposits , while the oldest masses of the granite and gneiss ... rock crystal . Similar vacuities occur in the gneiss of the Pine mountain in the neighbourhood of Wiesenthal , but ...
... rocks , caverns are relatively fewer than in the later deposits , while the oldest masses of the granite and gneiss ... rock crystal . Similar vacuities occur in the gneiss of the Pine mountain in the neighbourhood of Wiesenthal , but ...
Pagina 241
... rock . According to the mea- surements of Sir Joseph Banks , the cave from the rock without is 371 feet 6 inches ; the breadth at the mouth , 53 feet 7 inches ; the height of arch at the mouth , 117 feet 6 inches ; depth of water at the ...
... rock . According to the mea- surements of Sir Joseph Banks , the cave from the rock without is 371 feet 6 inches ; the breadth at the mouth , 53 feet 7 inches ; the height of arch at the mouth , 117 feet 6 inches ; depth of water at the ...
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Pagina 689 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Pagina 552 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Pagina 74 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Pagina 571 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Pagina 326 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Pagina 180 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Pagina 574 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Pagina 536 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Pagina 692 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Pagina 288 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? — a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might.