The Story of the Hills: A Book about Mountains for General ReadersMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 357 страница |
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... rise , and the hills seem more majestic than ever . Later on , as the full moon appears from behind a bank of cloud , those wonderful moonlight effects may be seen which must be familiar to all who know the mountains as they are in ...
... rise , and the hills seem more majestic than ever . Later on , as the full moon appears from behind a bank of cloud , those wonderful moonlight effects may be seen which must be familiar to all who know the mountains as they are in ...
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... rise radiant in the rosy light above the now darkening world . From east to west in succession . the splendour fades away from one point after another , and the vast shadow of the earth is rapidly drawn across the whole vault of heaven ...
... rise radiant in the rosy light above the now darkening world . From east to west in succession . the splendour fades away from one point after another , and the vast shadow of the earth is rapidly drawn across the whole vault of heaven ...
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... rise . Perhaps it would be found that the rugged outlines of the Boeotian hills had no small share in the framing of Hesiod's graphic story of that primeval warfare wherein the combatants fought with huge rocks , which , darkening the ...
... rise . Perhaps it would be found that the rugged outlines of the Boeotian hills had no small share in the framing of Hesiod's graphic story of that primeval warfare wherein the combatants fought with huge rocks , which , darkening the ...
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... rising among the Scandinavian fiords , tempered in France by various encounters with elements of Arabian , Italian , Pro- vençal , or other Southern poetry , and then reacting upon Southern England ; while other forms of the same rude ...
... rising among the Scandinavian fiords , tempered in France by various encounters with elements of Arabian , Italian , Pro- vençal , or other Southern poetry , and then reacting upon Southern England ; while other forms of the same rude ...
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... rise into regions where the atmospheric pressure is less ; and as every gas or vapour loses heat in the act of expansion , they undergo a further cooling from this cause also . We have now learned that the cooling process is brought ...
... rise into regions where the atmospheric pressure is less ; and as every gas or vapour loses heat in the act of expansion , they undergo a further cooling from this cause also . We have now learned that the cooling process is brought ...
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Страница 120 - When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave.
Страница 120 - ... as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace.
Страница 120 - Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin,— laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest.
Страница 301 - ... their rude and changeful ways among her rocks. Patiently, eddy by eddy, the clear green streams wind along their well-known beds; and under the dark quietness of the undisturbed pines, there spring up, year by year, such company of joyful flowers as I know not the like of among all the blessings of the earth.
Страница 120 - ... on the trembling stones to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom...
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