The Story of the Hills: A Book about Mountains for General ReadersMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 357 страница |
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... thick that it was almost as dark as night . A violent thunder- storm and torrents of rain followed , lasting from two to six o'clock in the evening . The rivulets all became torrents ; the stream flowing through the town was so choked ...
... thick that it was almost as dark as night . A violent thunder- storm and torrents of rain followed , lasting from two to six o'clock in the evening . The rivulets all became torrents ; the stream flowing through the town was so choked ...
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... thick to disappear in about a couple of hours , and produces in twenty - four hours a greater effect than the sun does in fifteen days . There is a Swiss proverb which rather pro- fanely says : " If the Föhn does not blow , the golden ...
... thick to disappear in about a couple of hours , and produces in twenty - four hours a greater effect than the sun does in fifteen days . There is a Swiss proverb which rather pro- fanely says : " If the Föhn does not blow , the golden ...
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... thickness would mount up to an enormous extent . It is reckoned that on the Alps the average yearly fall of snow is thirty - three feet . In the course of a century , therefore , the height of these moun- tains would be increased by ...
... thickness would mount up to an enormous extent . It is reckoned that on the Alps the average yearly fall of snow is thirty - three feet . In the course of a century , therefore , the height of these moun- tains would be increased by ...
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... thick layer of stones and earth more than three hundred feet thick , and by obstructing the course of the stream of Lizerne , formed the three lakes of Derborence . In like manner the Bernina , the Dent du Midi , THE MATTERHORN . FROM A ...
... thick layer of stones and earth more than three hundred feet thick , and by obstructing the course of the stream of Lizerne , formed the three lakes of Derborence . In like manner the Bernina , the Dent du Midi , THE MATTERHORN . FROM A ...
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... thick . In five minutes one of the most fertile valleys in Switzerland was changed to a stony desert . Three whole villages , six churches , 120 houses , 200 stables or châlets , 225 head of cattle , and much land were buried under the ...
... thick . In five minutes one of the most fertile valleys in Switzerland was changed to a stony desert . Three whole villages , six churches , 120 houses , 200 stables or châlets , 225 head of cattle , and much land were buried under the ...
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Страница 57 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures...
Страница 281 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story ; The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
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...
Страница 300 - Ain, above the village of Champagnole, in the Jura. It is a spot which has all the solemnity, with none of the savageness, of the Alps, where there is a sense of a great power beginning to be manifested in the earth, and of a deep and majestic concord in the rise of the long, low lines of piny hills...
Страница 62 - As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.