Marvels of Creation: Volcanoes and Their PhenomenaT. Nelson, 1867 - 128 Seiten |
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Seite 127 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Seite 37 - I cannot give you a more exact description of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine tree, for it shot up a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches...
Seite 37 - ... at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders.
Seite 12 - JEtna glow. The Cyclops here their heavy hammers deal ; Loud strokes, and hissings of tormented steel, Are heard around ; the boiling waters roar, And smoky flames through fuming tunnels soar.
Seite 40 - But grill as well has heat and whatever gods there were have blistered feet.) Vesuvius cover'd with the fruitful vine, Here flourish'd once, and ran with floods of wine: Here Bacchus oft to the cool shades...
Seite 51 - Is to the foot of thund'ring ^Etna join'd. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down. Oft liquid lakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the fiery springs that boil below. Enceladus, they say, transfix'd by Jove, With blasted limbs came tumbling from above ; And, where he fell, th' avenging father drew This flaming...
Seite 51 - By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high ; } By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, > And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky.
Seite 126 - O'er ten square leagues his far-diverging heads ; Or in one trunk entwists his tangled form, Looks o'er the clouds, and hisses in the storm.
Seite 58 - These words the Cyclop's burning rage provoke; From the tall hill he rends a pointed rock; High o'er the billows flew the massy load, And near the ship came thundering on the flood. It almost brush'd the helm, and fell before: The whole sea shook, and refluent beat the shore...
Seite 40 - Lacedaemon more. Now piles of ashes, spreading all around, In undistinguished heaps deform the ground, The gods themselves the ruined seats bemoan, And blame the mischiefs that themselves have done.