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ALETSCH GLACIER Alpine amongst ascent avalanches beauty Bernard Berne Bernese Oberland bright Calvin canton castle châlets Chamouni church cliffs clouds colour Courmayeur crags Croz dark deep distance district face fall Farel feet flowers forests Gemmi gorge grandeur green Grimsel height hospice hour Interlachen Jungfrau labours Lake of Geneva Lake of Lucerne LAUTERBRUNNEN Leukerbad light look Lord Macugnaga magnificent Martigny masses Matterhorn Meyringen mighty miles Mont Blanc Monte Rosa morning mountain sides Neufchâtel night ORMONT-DESSUS overhanging pass pastor path peaks Pennine Alps perpendicular picturesque pine precipice railway ravine reached Rhine Rhone glacier Rhone Valley ridge RIGI rise river road roar rock round route says scene scenery Schaffhausen seemed seen shadows Simplon slopes snow snowy solemn soul stand steep sublimity summit Swiss SWISS-ITALIAN LAKES Switzerland Taugwalder Thou thunder torrent tourist town traveller vast village walls waters whole wild winds Zermatt
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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 186 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 186 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
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 134 - It is not noon— the Sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Page 2 - But the feeding of the rivers, and the purifying of the winds, are the least of the services appointed to the hills. To fill the thirst of the human heart for the beauty of God's working — to startle its lethargy with the deep and pure agitation of astonishment — are their higher missions.
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 204 - I came out presently on the edge of the ravine: the solemn murmur of its waters rose suddenly from beneath, mixed with the singing of the thrushes among the pine boughs; and, on the opposite side of the valley, walled all along as it...
Page 98 - Douglas was placed next, and old Peter, the strongest of the remainder, after him. I suggested to Hudson that we should attach a rope to the rocks, on our arrival, at the difficult bit, and hold it, as we descended, as an additional protection. He approved the idea, but it was not definitely settled that it should be done.