A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and The Alps of Savoy and Piedmont

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J. Murray, 1865 - 500 стор.

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Сторінка 178 - 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 168 - 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...
Сторінка 77 - 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.
Сторінка lxiii - ... existence, it has made its own; — often weighty burdens, devoid of beauty or value, — at times precious masses, sparkling with gems or with ore. Having at length attained its greatest width and extension, 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.
Сторінка 173 - 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 berccau, 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.
Сторінка 53 - In another place, a child two years old was found unhurt, lying on its straw mattress upon the mud, without any vestige of the house from which he had been separated. Such a mass of earth and stones rushed at once into the lake of Lowertz, although 5 m.
Сторінка 171 - Passed through a fine and flourishing country, but not mountainous. In the evening reached Aubonne (the entrance and bridge something like that of Durham), which commands by far the fairest view of the Lake of Geneva ; twilight ; the Moon on the Lake ; a grove on the height, and of very noble trees. Here Tavernier (the eastern traveller) bought (or built) the Chateau, because the site resembled and equalled that of Erivan (a frontier city of Persia) ; here he finished his voyages, and I this little...
Сторінка 77 - It is not noon— the Sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Сторінка 52 - ... of September, a large rock became loose, and in falling raised a cloud of black dust. Toward the lower part of the mountain, the ground seemed pressed down from above ; and when a stick or a spade was driven in, it moved of itself.
Сторінка 27 - This magnificent firstclass Hotel, recently constructed and elegantly furnished in the newest and most fashionable style, surrounded by Gardens, justifies the preference accorded to it by Families and Gentlemen, for the splendour and comfort of its apartments, its excellent cuisine, and the care and attention shown to all who honour the Hotel with their patronage. Large and small apartments, and single rooms at moderate charges. Private restaurant, splendid coffee-rooms, saloons, reading and smoking...

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