The Story of the Hills: A Book about Mountains for General ReadersMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 357 страница |
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... evidence of such sudden convulsions . The world is very old indeed , and rivers have been flowing much as we see them for ages and ages . A few thousand years is to the geologist but a short space of time ; and there can be no doubt ...
... evidence of such sudden convulsions . The world is very old indeed , and rivers have been flowing much as we see them for ages and ages . A few thousand years is to the geologist but a short space of time ; and there can be no doubt ...
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... evidences which the geologist can interpret as if they were written records . Then for some reason the climate became milder , the glaciers melted away , in Great Britain at least ; but these arctic plants were left behind , and ...
... evidences which the geologist can interpret as if they were written records . Then for some reason the climate became milder , the glaciers melted away , in Great Britain at least ; but these arctic plants were left behind , and ...
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... evidence in favour of the idea . Whether this is so or not , plant life on the mountains is almost entirely protected from the destroying hands of men with their ploughs and scythes , as well as from many grazing animals . As Mr. Ruskin ...
... evidence in favour of the idea . Whether this is so or not , plant life on the mountains is almost entirely protected from the destroying hands of men with their ploughs and scythes , as well as from many grazing animals . As Mr. Ruskin ...
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... evidence of a time , very far back , when Northern Europe was overrun by glaciers and snowfields so as to resemble in appearance and in climate the Greenland of the present day . This period is known to geologists as the " Great Ice Age ...
... evidence of a time , very far back , when Northern Europe was overrun by glaciers and snowfields so as to resemble in appearance and in climate the Greenland of the present day . This period is known to geologists as the " Great Ice Age ...
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... evidences of the action of water that a powerful impression of the importance of this agency was naturally made on their minds . They found rocks uniformly arranged in great layers which extended for long dis- tances , and containing ...
... evidences of the action of water that a powerful impression of the importance of this agency was naturally made on their minds . They found rocks uniformly arranged in great layers which extended for long dis- tances , and containing ...
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Страница 63 - 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 287 - 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 126 - ... 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.
Страница 126 - 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 126 - ... 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 306 - AMONG the hours of his life to which the writer looks back with peculiar gratitude, as having been marked by more than ordinary fulness of joy or clearness of teaching, is one passed, now some years ago, near time of sunset, among the broken masses of pine forest which skirt the course of the Ain, above the village of Champagnole, in the Jura.
Страница 126 - 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 66 - 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.
Страница 126 - Spirits could spin porphyry as we do grass, — 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. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love token ; but of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the wearied child his pillow.
Страница 63 - Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.