Switzerland: Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for this Work, Volume 1George Virtue, 1836 |
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... less minuteness ; but , as it often happens that the most striking natural scenery is not the most celebrated in history , it has been thought necessary , at times , to dwell longer on certain localities than their merely picturesque ...
... less minuteness ; but , as it often happens that the most striking natural scenery is not the most celebrated in history , it has been thought necessary , at times , to dwell longer on certain localities than their merely picturesque ...
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... less tinted with melancholy , and the proud memorials of the past exhibited in humiliating contrast with the present . In both the human mind , half divested of its original attributes , groans under the pressure of despotism , or ...
... less tinted with melancholy , and the proud memorials of the past exhibited in humiliating contrast with the present . In both the human mind , half divested of its original attributes , groans under the pressure of despotism , or ...
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... less distinct appear to advance ; those in advance , to increase in magnitude , till the dwarf seems to shoot up into the stature of the giant , and every step gives additional life and prominence to the landscape . The Jura , unlike ...
... less distinct appear to advance ; those in advance , to increase in magnitude , till the dwarf seems to shoot up into the stature of the giant , and every step gives additional life and prominence to the landscape . The Jura , unlike ...
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... less kindly region . Higher still , cataract and avalanche claim undisputed possession : man retires from the vain and ineffectual struggle , and the process of vegetation is suspended . The chaos of the Alps commences , and numerous ...
... less kindly region . Higher still , cataract and avalanche claim undisputed possession : man retires from the vain and ineffectual struggle , and the process of vegetation is suspended . The chaos of the Alps commences , and numerous ...
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... less of fault than merit , and seems neither unbecoming nor inexcusable . Mentally , men are all more or less subject to the influence of external nature ; and the mind of him who lives under the shadow of Mont Blanc , may be reasonably ...
... less of fault than merit , and seems neither unbecoming nor inexcusable . Mentally , men are all more or less subject to the influence of external nature ; and the mind of him who lives under the shadow of Mont Blanc , may be reasonably ...
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Switzerland: Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for ..., Volume 2 William Henry Bartlett,William Beattie Visualização completa - 1836 |
Switzerland: Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for ..., Volume 2 William Henry Bartlett,William Beattie Visualização completa - 1836 |
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Airolo Alpine Alps already ancient appearance Appenzell ascent Austrian avalanche Basle baths beautiful Bern Bishop of Sion bridge Campodolcino canton canton of Uri castle cataract celebrated century Chamouni chasm Chiavenna church commands Confederates Constance continued council danger descend district effect favour fearful fertility fête foam forests fresh Fribourg Geneva glaciers Glaris gorge Gothard granite Grisons height hour hundred feet inhabitants Jura labour lake latter leagues length Lucern luxuriant magnificent Martigny masses Mont Blanc mountains native natural night numerous observed pass pastures patriotic picturesque pines population possession precipices present remarkable Rhine Rhone rich river road rocks Roman route rushed scene scenery Schwyz Simplon snow Soleure Splügen stranger striking sublime summer summit Swiss Switzerland Tamina territory thousand thunder Ticino torrent tower town traveller trees troops Unterwalden upwards valley vast Vaud village waters whole wild Zurich
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Página 84 - Lo, humbled in dust, I relinquish my pride: From doubt and from darkness thou only canst free,* " And darkness and doubt are now flying away, No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn. So breaks on the traveller, faint, and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom! On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Página 32 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Página 33 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Página 32 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, GOD!
Página 32 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God!
Página 32 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Página 97 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Página 41 - Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted, Love was the very root of the fond rage, Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed ; Itself expired, but leaving them an age Of years...
Página 26 - Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all 'things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, a matchless cataract...
Página 5 - Still where they were, steadfast, immovable ; ' Who first beholds the Alps — that mighty chain Of Mountains, stretching on from east to west, So massive, yet so shadowy, so ethereal, As to belong rather to Heaven than Earth...