Swiss Pictures: Drawn with Pen and PencilReligious Tract Society, 1881 - 206 pages |
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Swiss Pictures: Drawn with Pen and Pencil Samuel Manning,Edward Whymper,Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) No preview available - 2015 |
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ALETSCH GLACIER Alpine Alps amongst ascent Basle beauty Bernard Berne Bernese Oberland bright Calvin châlets Chamouni church cliffs clouds colour Courmayeur crags Croz dark deep distance district face fall Farel flowers FOREST CANTONS Gemmi glacier gorge grandeur green Grimsel height hospice hour Jungfrau labours Lake of Geneva Lake of Lucerne Leukerbad light look Lord Macugnaga magnificent Martigny masses Matterhorn mighty miles Mont Blanc Monte Rosa morning mountain sides Neufchâtel night overhanging pass pastor path peaks Pennine Alps picturesque pine forests precipice Protestant railway ravine reached Rhine Rhone glacier Rhone Valley ridge Rigi rise river road roar rock round route says scene scenery Schaffhausen Schreckhorn seemed seen shadows sight Simplon slopes snow snowy solemn soul stand steep sublimity summit Swiss Switzerland Taugwalder Thou thousand feet Thun thunder torrent tourist town traveller vast village walls waters Wetterhorn whole wild winds Zermatt
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Page 187 - Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings! ye, With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful; the far roll Of your departing voices, is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless, — if I rest. But where of ye, O tempests! is the goal? Are ye like those within the human breast? Or do ye find at length, like eagles, some high nest?
Page 171 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 51 - Look up and see the sun as a bridegroom richly dressed, and greatly pleased, coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race...
Page 187 - Now, where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between Heights which appear as lovers who have parted In hate, whose mining depths so intervene That they can meet no more, though broken-hearted!
Page 128 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 206 - Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty: who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 187 - Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted, Love was the very root of the fond rage Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed : Itself expired, but leaving them an age Of years all winters, — war within themselves to wage.
Page 102 - For more than two hours afterwards I thought almost every moment that the next would be my last ; for the Taugwalders, utterly unnerved, were not only incapable of giving assistance, but were in such a state that a slip might have been expected from them at any moment.
Page 19 - ... and how, ever and anon, startling you with its white flash, a jet of spray leaps hissing out of the fall like a rocket, bursting in the wind and driven away in dust, filling the air with light ; and how, through the curdling wreaths of the restless crashing abyss below, the blue of the water, paled by the foam in its body, shows purer than the sky through white rain-cloud...
Page 92 - Having at length attained its greatest width and extension, commanding admiration by its beauty and power, waste predominates over supply, the vital springs begin to fail, it stoops into an attitude of decrepitude. It drops the burdens, one by one, which it had borne so proudly aloft: its dissolution is inevitable. But as it is resolved into its elements, it takes all at once a new, and livelier, and disembarrassed form ; from the wreck of its members it arises another, yet the same...