Stand for half an hour beside the fall of Schaffhausen, on the north side, where the rapids are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends unbroken, in pure polished velocity, over the arching rocks at the brow of the cataract, covering them with... Cook's tourist's handbook to Switzerland - Página 172por Cook Thomas and son, ltd - 1874 - 223 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1861 - 462 páginas
...the north, side where the rapids are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends, unbroken, in pure polished velocity, over the arching rocks...— so swift that its motion is unseen except when a foam globe from above darts over it like a falling star ; and how the trees are lighted above it under... | |
| Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 páginas
...on the north side where the rapids are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends, unbroken, in pure, polished velocity, over the arching rocks...so swift, that its motion is unseen except when a foam globe from above it, darts over it like a falling star ; and how the trees are lighted above it... | |
| 1853 - 442 páginas
...on the north side where the rapids are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends, unbroken, in pure, polished velocity, over the arching rocks...so swift, that its motion is unseen except when a foam globe from above it, darts over it like a falling star ; and how the trees are lighted above it... | |
| John Ruskin - 1857 - 502 páginas
...the violpnt falling PABT II. rapids are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends, unbroken, in pure polished velocity, over the arching rocks...thick, so swift that its motion is unseen except when a foam globe from above darts over it like a falling star ; and how the trees are lighted above it under... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 páginas
...on the north side where the rapids are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends, unbroken, in pure, polished velocity, over the arching rocks...— so swift that its motion is unseen except when a foam globe from above darts over it like a falling star ; and how the trees are lighted above it under... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 páginas
...on the north side where the rapids are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends, unbroken, in pure, polished velocity, over the arching rocks...— so swift that its motion is unseen except when a foam globe from above darts over it like a falling star ; and how the trees are lighted above it under... | |
| John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 páginas
...on the north side where the rapids are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends, unbroken, in pure, polished velocity, over the arching rocks...cataract, covering them with a dome of crystal twenty feet thick—so swift that its motion is unseen except when a foam globe from above darts over it like a... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 páginas
...on the north side where the rapids are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends, unbroken, in pure polished velocity, over the arching rocks...with a dome of crystal twenty feet thick, so swift 25* that its motion is unseen except when a foam globe from above darts over it like a falling star... | |
| Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 páginas
...the north side, where the rapids are long, and watch how the vault of wafer fir,t bends, unbroken, in pure polished velocity, over the arching rocks...them with a dome of crystal twenty feet thick, so •/A iff that its motion is unseen except when a foam-globe from above darts over it like a falling... | |
| Frederick Swartz Jewell - 1867 - 276 páginas
...on the north side where the rapids are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends, unbroken, in pure polished velocity, over the arching rocks...cataract, covering them with a dome of crystal twenty feet thick,—so swift that its motion is unseen except when a foam-globe from above darts over it like... | |
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