 ... against the precipitous faces of the bergs; now lifting them nearly to their summit, then forcing them again far beneath their water-line, and sometimes rending them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. Sublime...  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 479edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | 1848 - 444 pages
...them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different...towing with the boats impossible; and our situation was the more painful and embarrassing from our inability to make any effort to avoid the dreadful calamity... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1848 - 856 pages
...into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. " Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different...towing with the boats impossible, and our situation was the more painful and embarrassing, from our inability to make any effort to avoid the dreadful... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1848 - 214 pages
...into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. " Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different...towing with the boats impossible, and our situation was more painful and embarrassing from our inability to make any effort to avoid the dreadful calamity... | |
 | 1848 - 626 pages
...points. "Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different circumstance!5, to us it was awful, if not appalling. For eight hours we had been gradually drilling towards what to human eyes appeared inevitable destruction ; the high waves and deep rolling... | |
 | 1849 - 1118 pages
...into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. " Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different...awful if not appalling. For eight hours we had been drifting towards what to the human eye appeared inevitable destruction ; the high waves and deep rolling... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pages
...them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different...not appalling. For eight hours we had been gradually drifiing towards what to human eyes appeared inevitable destruction : the high waves and deep rolling... | |
 | World - 1852 - 588 pages
...them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different circumstances, to us it Awful enwas awiul, if not appalling. For eight hours we had been gradually drifting towards what to... | |
 | Alfred Elwes - 1872 - 306 pages
...them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different...appeared inevitable destruction ; the high waves and deep rolling3 of our ships rendered towing with the boats impossible, and our situation the more painful... | |
 | Carl Adolf Buchheim - 1868 - 296 pages
...them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different...inevitable destruction ; the high waves and deep rolling 3 of our , ships rendered towing with the boats impossible, and our situation the more painful and... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1870 - 422 pages
...them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different...and deep rolling of our ships rendered towing with boats impossible, and our situation the more painful and embarassing from our inability to make any... | |
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