Marvels of Creation: earth and sea [by W.H.D. Adams]. |
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Marvels of Creation: Earth and Sea [By W.H.D. Adams] William Henry Davenport Adams Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Marvels of Creation: Earth and Sea by W.H.D. Adams William Henry Davenport Adams Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alps ANTIPAROS Archipelago Atlantic atolls avalanche awful barrier reef basaltic beautiful beneath berg Bernese Oberland billows boat boiling breadth Calabria called Cape carbonic acid cataract cave cavern centre channel coast coral islands crystal deep depth descent desert distance Earth and Sea earthquake elevation fall fathoms feet high fissures flow foam frozen glacier glittering grandeur Grindelwald Gulf Stream heat height hollow huge hundred hyænas Icebergs igneous Isle Jokul lagoon Lake land latitude lava leaps less Lisbon lofty Mer de Glace mighty miles moraine mountains mysterious narrow natural occur ocean perpendicular Polar precipice reader recesses region rise river roar rolling ruin sand scene shock shore side Sir James Ross snow snow-line snowy Somerville South spray stalactite stalagmite sublime suddenly surf surface terrible thunder tides tion traveller traverses trees tropical undulation valley vapour vast velocity Victoria Falls violent volcanic waves whole wind wonder
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 97 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter; There with a light and easy motion The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea, And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea...
Seite 121 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 114 - Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, a matchless cataract...
Seite 110 - Then, when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect, and the enduring one - instant and lasting - of the tremendous spectacle, was Peace. Peace of Mind, tranquillity, calm recollections of the Dead, great thoughts of Eternal Rest and Happiness: nothing of gloom or terror.
Seite 111 - I think in every quiet season now, still do those waters roll and leap, and roar and tumble, all day long ; still are the rainbows spanning them, a hundred feet below. Still, when the sun is on them, do they shine and glow like molten gold. Still, when the day is gloomy, do they fall like snow...
Seite 50 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Seite 31 - To awe the earth and brave the skies ! From some aspiring mountain's crown How dearly do I love, Giddy with pleasure to look down ; And from the vales to view the noble heights above...
Seite 48 - Samun caresses you like a lion with flaming breath. Around lie drifted sand-heaps upon which each puff of wind leaves its trace in solid waves, flayed rocks, the very skeletons of mountains, and hard, unbroken plains, over which he who rides is spurred by the idea that the bursting of a waterskin or...
Seite 116 - The entire falls are simply a crack made in a hard basaltic rock from the right to the left bank of the Zambesi, and then prolonged from the left bank away through thirty or forty miles of hills. If one imagines the Thames filled with low tree-covered hills immediately beyond the tunnel, extending as far as Gravesend, the bed of black basaltic rock instead of London mud, and a fissure made therein from one end of the tunnel to the other down through the keystones of the arch, and prolonged from the...
Seite 29 - And his light scrip contain'da scanty store ; A fan of painted feathers in his hand, To guard his shaded face from scorching sand. The sultry sun had...