The Parents' Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction, Band 8Smith, Elder and Company, 1858 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
AMUSEMENT animal appearance Ashburn Farm asked Arthur asked Richard balloon barometer beautiful body Bourne buried called Clara cloth colour common snake covered curious danger Edward eggs England eruption escape exclaimed fangs feet fire Fred garden gently George glad glass Godfrey Green ground Harmer HARRIET MARTINEAU height Herculaneum holes inches iron John Rayner JOHN RUSKIN kill kind lava live look mamma mercury mercury falls Misenum mother Mount Vesuvius mountain Nautilus never NUMA POMPILIUS observed Oliver papa paper pieces Pliny Pliny the Younger poison Pompeii Price Rajah replied Charles replied his father RICHARD DOYLE Romans Sabines seen shell side skeletons skin slow-worm snails sofas spider stones and cinders storm supposed sure surface tabellæ tell things told tube Turk uncle vapour viper volcano wall warm weather wish wolf-spiders young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 144 - My mother strongly conjured me to make my escape at any rate, which, as I was young, I might easily do : as for herself, she said, her age and corpulency rendered all attempts of that sort impossible. However she would willingly meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion of mine. But I absolutely refused to leave her, and taking her by the hand, I led her on : she complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for retarding my...
Seite 145 - At length a glimmering light appeared, which we imagined to be rather the forerunner of an approaching burst of flames, as in truth it was, than the return of day. However, the fire fell at a distance from us : then again we were immersed in thick darkness, and a heavy shower of ashes rained upon us, which we were obliged every now and then to shake off, otherwise we should have been crushed and buried in the heap.
Seite 140 - ... in danger not only of being a-ground by the sudden retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments which rolled down from the mountain, and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped to consider whether he should return back again ; to which the pilot advising him, Fortune, said he, befriends the brave; Carry me to Pomponianus.
Seite 145 - Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family ; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying ; some lifting their hands to the gods; but the greater part...
Seite 231 - In that awful night, but for the little tube of mercury which had given the warning, neither the strength of the noble ship, nor the skill and energies of the commander, could have saved one man to tell the tale.
Seite 145 - The ashes now began to fall upon us, though in no great quantity. I turned my head, and observed behind us a thick smoke, which came rolling after us like a torrent. I proposed, while we had yet any light, to turn out of the high road, lest she should be pressed to death in the dark by the crowd that followed us.
Seite 141 - ... view of it, and indeed extremely near, if it should in the least increase, he was determined to put to sea as soon as the wind should change.
Seite 139 - He was at that time with the fleet under his command at Misenum. On the 24th of August, about one in the afternoon, my mother desired him to observe a cloud which appeared of a very unusual size and shape. He had just returned from taking the benefit of the sun*, and after bathing himself in cold water, and taking a slight repast, was retired to his study.
Seite 143 - Campania ; but they were so particularly violent that night, that they not only shook everything about us, but seemed indeed to threaten total destruction. My mother flew to my chamber, where she found me rising, in order to awaken her. We went out into a small court belonging to the house, which separated the sea from the buildings.