A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and The Alps of Savoy and PiedmontJ. Murray, 1865 - 500 стор. |
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Alpine Alps ancient Aosta ascend avalanches bank Basle baths beautiful Berne Bernese Briançon bridge called canton carriage carriage-road castle châlets Chambéry Chamouni chapel char-road church Coire Courmayeur crossed descending diligence distance excursion fall feet foot forest formed French Geneva glacier Glarus gorge Grindelwald height hill horses Hospice Hotel hour houses Inhab inhabitants Inns Küssnacht lake lake of Lucerne Lauterbrunnen leads Linth Lucerne Macugnaga Martigny miles Mont Blanc Monte Rosa moun mountain mules nearly Neuchâtel opposite pass path peaks pedestrian picturesque Ponte Post precipices Railway ravine reached Rhine Rhone ridge Rigi river road rock Roman route Savoy scene scenery Schwytz seen side Simplon Sion situated slope snow Splügen spot Stat steamer steep stone stream summit Swiss Switzerland tains Thal thence tion torrent town traveller traversed upper Valais valley village Visp walk Zermatt Zürich
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Сторінка 177 - Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The stillness of their aspect in each trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue...
Сторінка 174 - 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...
Сторінка 319 - Sublime, but neither bleak nor bare Nor misty, are the mountains there, — Softly sublime, profusely fair ! Up to their summits clothed in green And fruitful as the vales between They lightly rise And scale the skies, And groves and gardens still abound, For where no shoot Could else take root The peaks are shelved and terraced round...
Сторінка 184 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
Сторінка 176 - 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...
Сторінка 141 - The music of the cows' bells (for their wealth, like the patriarchs', is cattle) in the pastures, which reach to a height far above any mountains in Britain, and the shepherds shouting to us from crag to crag, and playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible, with the surrounding scenery, realized all that I have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence : — much more so than Greece or Asia Minor, for there we are a little too much of the sabre and...
Сторінка lxiii - ... commanding admiration by its beauty and power, waste predominates over supply, the vital springs begin to fail ; it stoops into an attitude of decrepitude ; it drops the burdens, one by one, which it had borne so proudly aloft ; its dissolution is inevitable. But as it is resolved into its elements, it takes all at once a new, and livelier, and disembarrassed form ; — from the wreck of its members it arises,
Сторінка 186 - 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.
Сторінка 56 - In the mean time the unfortunate father, who, with much difficulty, had saved himself and two children, wandered about till daylight, when he came among the ruins to look for the rest of his family. He soon discovered his wife, by a foot which appeared above ground : she was dead, with a child in her arms. His cries, and the noise he made in digging, were heard by Marianne, who called out.
Сторінка 46 - D'HOTE at 4frs. In consequence of the Proprietors having contracted with the Bordeaux and Burgundy wine growers for supplies of their best wines, qualities of the first vintages may be had at this hotel at moderate prices. Since the Hotel has been in the hands of new proprietors instead of a company, the reduction they have made in the prices precludes them from paying fees to the cab and coach drivers at the Railway Station.