A hand-book for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont. [by J. Murray. 1st] -5th, 7th-10th, 12th, 14th-16th, 18th, 19th ed. [2 issues of the 18th ed. The 16th and 18th eds. are in 2 pt.].1874 |
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... walk at all should , if they have not too much luggage , only hire the horses to the head of the pass , as they will be of very little use on the descent . Each saddle has a flap or pillion attached , on which a knapsack or carpet - bag ...
... walk at all should , if they have not too much luggage , only hire the horses to the head of the pass , as they will be of very little use on the descent . Each saddle has a flap or pillion attached , on which a knapsack or carpet - bag ...
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... walk of 6 weeks , including 3 or 4 glacier passes with guide , a carriage - ride or two , and the expenses to and from England . This tramping up and down mountains in the heat of summer produces intense thirst , and drinking water does ...
... walk of 6 weeks , including 3 or 4 glacier passes with guide , a carriage - ride or two , and the expenses to and from England . This tramping up and down mountains in the heat of summer produces intense thirst , and drinking water does ...
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... walk , wash extensively with soap and hot water and change your linen . If at all fatigued , or if the circulation be hurried , lie down after washing and dressing , and try to sleep for a few minutes before dinner . When you have only ...
... walk , wash extensively with soap and hot water and change your linen . If at all fatigued , or if the circulation be hurried , lie down after washing and dressing , and try to sleep for a few minutes before dinner . When you have only ...
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... walk E. , and the still more elevated summit of the Hasenmatte ( Hare's- pasture ; 4754 ft . ) , 2 hours ' walk W. of the inn , command one of the finest distant prospects of the Alps . The great chain of snowy peaks is seen extending ...
... walk E. , and the still more elevated summit of the Hasenmatte ( Hare's- pasture ; 4754 ft . ) , 2 hours ' walk W. of the inn , command one of the finest distant prospects of the Alps . The great chain of snowy peaks is seen extending ...
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... walk from Schinznach - les - Bains , also called Habs- burger Bad , a much frequented water- ing - place . The establishment , under the direction of M. Moser , consists of an hotel and pension with 350 beds and 160 baths . 200 persons ...
... walk from Schinznach - les - Bains , also called Habs- burger Bad , a much frequented water- ing - place . The establishment , under the direction of M. Moser , consists of an hotel and pension with 350 beds and 160 baths . 200 persons ...
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Página 181 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction : once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Página 191 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay...
Página 191 - And then there was a little isle, (•>) Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view ; A small green isle, it seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing, Of gentle breath and hue.
Página 430 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Página 87 - Ye toppling crags of ice ! Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws down In mountainous o'erwhelming, come and crush me ! I hear ye momently above, beneath, Crash with a frequent conflict ; but ye pass, And only fall on things that still would live ; On the young flourishing forest, or the hut And hamlet of the harmless villager.
Página 181 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Página 83 - The torrent is in shape curving over the rock, like the tail of a white horse streaming in the wind, such as it might be conceived would be that of the ' pale horse ' on which Death is mounted in the Apocalypse.
Página 181 - Heights which appear as lovers who have parted In hate, whose mining depths so intervene, That they can meet no more, though broken-hearted! 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 all winters, — war within themselves to wage.
Página 181 - 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...
Página 191 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away...