The American Travellers' Guides: Hand-books for Travellers in Europe and the East, Being a Guide Through Great Britain and Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, Tyrol, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Spain, and Portugal, Volumen13,Parte3;Volumen17,Parte3Fetridge & Company, 1874 |
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... mountain excursions , es- pecially in feeling your way in crossing glaciers to guard against crevasses , in sliding down icy hills , and descending steep mountains . The best are made of ash , and should be strong enough to bear a heavy ...
... mountain excursions , es- pecially in feeling your way in crossing glaciers to guard against crevasses , in sliding down icy hills , and descending steep mountains . The best are made of ash , and should be strong enough to bear a heavy ...
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... mountains and lakes , a land of valleys teeming with vegetation , a land of glaciers , torrents , and waterfalls is situated in the very heart of the Eu- ropean continent . Its greatest length is about 200 miles , and breadth 156 ...
... mountains and lakes , a land of valleys teeming with vegetation , a land of glaciers , torrents , and waterfalls is situated in the very heart of the Eu- ropean continent . Its greatest length is about 200 miles , and breadth 156 ...
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... mountain chains and Alpine valleys ; the remainder is a high plain , thirteen hun- dred feet above the level of the sea , situated between Lakes Constance and Geneva . The principal lakes of Switzerland are Constance , Geneva , Zurich ...
... mountain chains and Alpine valleys ; the remainder is a high plain , thirteen hun- dred feet above the level of the sea , situated between Lakes Constance and Geneva . The principal lakes of Switzerland are Constance , Geneva , Zurich ...
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... mountains capped with snow , and covering an extent of over one hundred miles , may be had : The Breven , near ... mountain region , but pur- sues different courses to different seas , the one emptying its waters in the Atlantic ...
... mountains capped with snow , and covering an extent of over one hundred miles , may be had : The Breven , near ... mountain region , but pur- sues different courses to different seas , the one emptying its waters in the Atlantic ...
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... mountains which brought it forth . At first soft and ductile , it acquires a character and firmness of its own as an inevitable destiny urges it on The height of this mountain is estimated from 15,730 to 15,760 feet by different ...
... mountains which brought it forth . At first soft and ductile , it acquires a character and firmness of its own as an inevitable destiny urges it on The height of this mountain is estimated from 15,730 to 15,760 feet by different ...
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Página 675 - And this is in the night. — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee! How the lit lake shines, — a phosphoric sea! And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again, 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Página 675 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Página 836 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
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Página 675 - Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings ! ye, With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful ; the far roll Of your departing voices is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless, — if I rest. But where of ye, O tempests ! is the goal ? Are ye like those within the human breast ? Or do ye find, at length, like eagles, some high nest...
Página 682 - ... them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they? We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill, — yet, strange to tell! In quiet we had learned to dwell, — My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what we are : — even I Regained my freedom with a sigh.
Página 837 - Came thro' the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred When can their glory fade?
Página 681 - It was at length the same to me Fettered or fetterless to be, I learned to love despair. And thus when they appeared at last, And all my bonds aside were cast, These heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage, — and all my own...
Página 681 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count — I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote...
Página 675 - Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand : For here, not one, but many, make their play, And fling their thunderbolts from hand to hand...