Swiss pictures, drawn by E. Whymper, Volume 2541878 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ALETSCH GLACIER Alpine amongst ascent avalanches beautiful beneath Bernard Berne Bernese Oberland bright Calvin canton castle CASTLE OF CHILLON cataract châlets Chamouni church cliffs colour Courmayeur crags Croz dark deep distance fall Farel feet flowers foam forests Gemmi glacier glorious gorge grandeur green Grimsel height hospice hour Jungfrau labours Lake of Geneva Lake of Lucerne LAUTERBRUNNEN Leukerbad light look Lord Macugnaga magnificent Martigny masses Matterhorn Meyringen mighty miles Mont Blanc Monte Moro Monte Rosa morning mountain sides Neufchâtel night overhanging pass pastor path peaks picturesque pine precipice railway ravine reached Rhine Rhone glacier Rhone Valley RIGI rise river road roar rock round route says scene scenery Schaffhausen seems seen shadows Simplon slopes snow snowy solemn steep sublimity summit Swiss Switzerland Taugwalder thunder torrent tourist town traveller vast village walls waters WEISSTHOR Wengern Alp Wetterhorn whole wild winds Zermatt
Populaire passages
Pagina 171 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Pagina 195 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Pagina 76 - ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay ; Yet shall some tribute...
Pagina 71 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt seaweed Clings to the marble of her palaces.
Pagina 47 - Look up and see the sun as a bridegroom richly dressed, and greatly pleased, coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race...
Pagina 184 - 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, oh tempests ! is the goal ? Are ye like those within the human breast? Or do ye find, at length, like eagles, some high nest?
Pagina 184 - 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!
Pagina 76 - ... a confusion of delight, amidst which the breasts of the Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themselves 287 far into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been frost-bound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst.
Pagina 196 - I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live : I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Pagina 76 - She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away.