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.].1838 |
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Page xvii
... danger - in the difficult pass , in the midst of the snow- storm , or among the gaping clefts of the glaciers . It is in such situations that their knowledge of the mountains , their experience of the weather , their strong arm and ...
... danger - in the difficult pass , in the midst of the snow- storm , or among the gaping clefts of the glaciers . It is in such situations that their knowledge of the mountains , their experience of the weather , their strong arm and ...
Page xxii
... danger , and the head relieved from the vertigo which the sudden sight of a pre- cipice is otherwise apt to produce . It is scarcely necessary to repeat the caution against " drinking cold water " or cold milk , when heated ; but the ...
... danger , and the head relieved from the vertigo which the sudden sight of a pre- cipice is otherwise apt to produce . It is scarcely necessary to repeat the caution against " drinking cold water " or cold milk , when heated ; but the ...
Page xxiii
... danger . Avoid , sedulously , stopping for the night near the embouchure of a river , where it empties itself into a lake . The morasses and flat land , created by the deposits of the river , are the hotbeds of malaria , and inevitably ...
... danger . Avoid , sedulously , stopping for the night near the embouchure of a river , where it empties itself into a lake . The morasses and flat land , created by the deposits of the river , are the hotbeds of malaria , and inevitably ...
Page xlv
... danger during snow - storms . As near as possible to the summit of the pass a Hospice is generally erected , usually occupied by a band of charitable monks , as in the case of the Great St. Bernard , the Simplon , Cenis , St. Gothard ...
... danger during snow - storms . As near as possible to the summit of the pass a Hospice is generally erected , usually occupied by a band of charitable monks , as in the case of the Great St. Bernard , the Simplon , Cenis , St. Gothard ...
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... danger . Bells are also rung at such times that the sound may aid when the sight fails . The morning after a fall of snow labourers and peasants are assembled from all sides to shovel it off from the road . Where it is not very deep it ...
... danger . Bells are also rung at such times that the sound may aid when the sight fails . The morning after a fall of snow labourers and peasants are assembled from all sides to shovel it off from the road . Where it is not very deep it ...
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Page 148 - 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.
Page 291 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Page 139 - 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, Flashing and cast around: of all the band, The brightest through these parted hills hath fork'd His lightnings, — as if he did understand, That in such gaps as desolation work'd, There the hot shaft should blast whatever therein lurk'd.
Page 139 - 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.
Page 146 - But this is not all ; the feeling with which all around Clarens, and the opposite rocks of Meillerie, is invested, is of a still higher and more comprehensive order than the mere sympathy with individual passion ; it is a sense of the existence of love in its most extended and sublime capacity, and of our own participation of its good and of its glory : it is the great principle of the universe, which is there more condensed, but not less manifested ; and of which, though knowing ourselves a part,...
Page 143 - 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.
Page 139 - 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 ! And this is in the night : most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for
Page 293 - They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 144 - Je dirais volontiers à ceux qui ont du goût et qui sont sensibles : « Allez à Vevay, visitez le pays, examinez les sites, promenez-vous sur le lac, et dites si la nature n'a pas fait ce beau pays pour une Julie, pour une Claire, et pour un Saint-Preux, mais ne les y cherchez pas.
Page 146 - And innocently open their glad wings, Fearless and full of life : the gush of springs, And fall of lofty fountains, and the bend Of stirring branches, and the bud which brings The swiftest thought of beauty, here extend, Mingling, and made by Love, unto one mighty end.