Switzerland: Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for this Work, Volume 1George Virtue, 1836 |
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... the landscape . The Jura , unlike the other and loftier mountains of Switzerland , is clothed from base to summit with luxuriant pine forests . Here , you observe them advancing in isolated promontories and outposts ; there , grouped.
... the landscape . The Jura , unlike the other and loftier mountains of Switzerland , is clothed from base to summit with luxuriant pine forests . Here , you observe them advancing in isolated promontories and outposts ; there , grouped.
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... summit presents one of the boldest features in the Jura . Here , at an immense elevation above the valley , a new world opened upon us , and we unexpectedly found ourselves on the almost perpendicular side of the mountain . The pine ...
... summit presents one of the boldest features in the Jura . Here , at an immense elevation above the valley , a new world opened upon us , and we unexpectedly found ourselves on the almost perpendicular side of the mountain . The pine ...
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... summit was invested approached nearer to that of the ruby , and gradually diminished as we gazed , till at length it entirely disappeared and left the cold cloudless summit starting up in an isolated , snowy mass , into the liquid ...
... summit was invested approached nearer to that of the ruby , and gradually diminished as we gazed , till at length it entirely disappeared and left the cold cloudless summit starting up in an isolated , snowy mass , into the liquid ...
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... summit , observed by Mr. Bakewell a few years since , appeared to threaten a renewal of the catastrophe of 1751 . Leaving Servoz , the road winds pleasantly through groves of fir to the Pont de Petissier . Here another long ascent ...
... summit , observed by Mr. Bakewell a few years since , appeared to threaten a renewal of the catastrophe of 1751 . Leaving Servoz , the road winds pleasantly through groves of fir to the Pont de Petissier . Here another long ascent ...
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... summit ; and that the height of the snow and ice , estimated from the source of the Arveron to the summit , cannot be less than 12,000 feet perpendicular- nearly three times the height of Snowdon , in North Wales ! The entire height of ...
... summit ; and that the height of the snow and ice , estimated from the source of the Arveron to the summit , cannot be less than 12,000 feet perpendicular- nearly three times the height of Snowdon , in North Wales ! The entire height of ...
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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...