The Scenery of England and the Causes to which it is DueMacmillan, 1902 - 534 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ancient angles bank beach beds Cader Idris Cambrian Carboniferous Limestone Chalk Channel clay cliff coast contain Cotteswolds course deep deltas denudation deposits depth Derbyshire Diagram Drift earth East 67th Street Edge elevation England Eocene escarpment fault feet folds fracture Geikie Geog Geol geological Glacial glacier Gneiss gradually Granite gravel Grit ground hard height Hence hills Humber igneous igneous rocks Ingleborough instance islands Isle Jour Lake District land lava less Lias Lulworth Cove masses miles Millstone Grit moraine Moreover mountains North Wales ocean Old Red Sandstone Oolite origin Ouse pebbles Pennine period plain present probably Proc Quar rain Red Sandstone ridge rise river river-valleys rocks sand scenery sea-level Severn shingle shore showing side Silurian Skiddaw slope Snowdon stones strata stream summit surface Surv synclinal terraces Thames thickness upper valley volcanic waves Weald Yorkshire
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 45 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Seite 117 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves...
Seite 117 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll [ Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Seite 86 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...
Seite 378 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Seite 464 - Scotch fir, holly, furze, and the heath ; and by way of relief to them, only brows of brown fern, sheets of yellow boggrass, and here and there a leafless birch, whose purple tresses are even more lovely to my eye than those fragrant green ones which she puts on in spring. Well : in painting as in music, what effects are more grand than those produced by the scientific combination, in endless new variety, of a few simple elements? Enough for me is the one purple birch ; the bright hollies round its...
Seite 446 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year; and I think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
Seite 457 - And yet the fancy may linger, without blame, over the shining meres, the golden reed-beds, the countless waterfowl, the strange and gaudy insects, the wild nature, the mystery, the majesty— for mystery and majesty there were— which haunted the deep fens for many a hundred years.
Seite 117 - Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou ; — Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow : Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou now.
Seite 495 - Lapworth's double folds are all true causes seems probable. What is doubtful is whether any extensive trace of their influence can be discerned in the present distribution of land and water. A map of the world in early Cambrian times might show the influence of these pre-geological incidents; but their geographical effects seem to have been obliterated by the changes of geological times.