Annals of Some Remarkable Aerial and Alpine Voyages1832 |
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Seite 24 - Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
Seite 105 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Seite viii - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Seite 110 - Owls move in a buoyant manner, as if lighter than the air ; they seem to want ballast. There is a peculiarity belonging to ravens that must draw the attention even of the most incurious — they spend all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish ; and, when they move from one place to another frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling to the ground.
Seite 31 - ... the whole became an extended white floor of cloud, the upper surface being smooth and even. Above this white floor he observed, at great and unequal distances, a vast assemblage of thunder clouds, each parcel consisting of whole acres in the densest form : he compares their form and appearance to the smoke of pieces of ordnance, which had consolidated as it were into masses of snow, and penetrated through the upper surface or white floor of common clouds, there remaining visible and at rest....
Seite 112 - ... was secured in such a manner under the pigeon's wing as not to impede its flight; and her feet were bathed in vinegar, with a view to keep them cool, and prevent her being tempted by the sight of water to alight, by which the journey might have been prolonged, or the billet lost.
Seite 31 - The perspective appearance of things to him was very remarkable. The lowest bed of vapour that first appeared as cloud was pure white, in detached fleeces, increasing as they rose ; they presently coalesced, and formed, as he expresses it, a sea of cotton, tufting here and there by the action of the air in the undisturbed part of the clouds.
Seite 24 - tis to cast one's eyes so low ! I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Turn me down headlong.' From a precipice like this let the admiring world be told, that these two men were launched to swim in air — or meet inevitable death; and from this precipice, to the rapturous astonishment of thousands of spectators, these bold adventurers floated safe in the atmosphere, buoyed up by a power lighter than air itself. The sight was truly sublime, the spectators were all eyes, and...
Seite 70 - ... bridges. We enjoyed this scenery for about 15 minutes, and, at a quarter before four o'clock, entered a dense cloud, which completely shut us out from all sight of the earth ; at this time we could sensibly perceive the balloon to be rising. When we had soared through this cloud, my son observed...
Seite 70 - I never experienced before, our height could not be less, in my calculation, than five miles. The late right hon. Mr. Windham, about thirty years ago, indeed experienced a similar attack in his ears, though we had not then ascended above two miles and a half; but from my best observations, calculated upon former experience, we must have been about that height. My son soon after found the same effect, though in a much slighter degree. " By the various currents of air, and the renewed motion of the...