Switzerland: Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for this Work, Band 1George Virtue, 1836 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Airolo Alpine Alps already ancient appearance Appenzell ascent Austrian avalanche Basle baths beautiful Bern Bishop of Sion bridge Campodolcino canton canton of Uri castle cataract celebrated century Chamouni chasm Chiavenna church commands Confederates Constance continued council danger descend district effect favour fearful fertility fête foam forests fresh Fribourg Geneva glaciers Glaris gorge Gothard granite Grisons height hour hundred feet inhabitants Jura labour lake latter leagues length Lucern luxuriant magnificent Martigny masses Mont Blanc mountains native natural night numerous observed pass pastures patriotic picturesque pines population possession precipices present remarkable Rhine Rhone rich river road rocks Roman route rushed scene scenery Schwyz Simplon snow Soleure Splügen stranger striking sublime summer summit Swiss Switzerland Tamina territory thousand thunder Ticino torrent tower town traveller trees troops Unterwalden upwards valley vast Vaud village waters whole wild Zurich
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 84 - Lo, humbled in dust, I relinquish my pride: From doubt and from darkness thou only canst free,* " And darkness and doubt are now flying away, No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn. So breaks on the traveller, faint, and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom! On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Seite 32 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Seite 33 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Seite 32 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, GOD!
Seite 32 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God!
Seite 32 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Seite 97 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Seite 41 - 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...
Seite 26 - 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 5 - Still where they were, steadfast, immovable ; ' Who first beholds the Alps — that mighty chain Of Mountains, stretching on from east to west, So massive, yet so shadowy, so ethereal, As to belong rather to Heaven than Earth...