"The Eagle's Nest" in the Valley of Sixt: A Summer Home Among the Alps : Together with Some Excursions Among the Great Glaciers |
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Aiguille Verte Aiguilles Aiguilles Rouges Alpine Alps amongst ascent Bas Giffre beautiful Bellin beneath Bérard bergschrund bilberry Bonneville Bréven Buet cascade chalets Chamouni Champéry climb cold crag crevasse d'Anterne d'Erin dark débris deep Dent descended Dioza distance Evolena excursion Fer à Cheval Ferpêcle fossils Gorner Glacier Gornergrat grand half half-past height hour Jacques Balmat la Combe Lac de Gers light lofty look lower Lyskamm magnificent marmite mass Matterhorn mile mist Moccand Moëd Mont Blanc Mont Rouan Monte Rosa morning mountain nearly o'clock passed pastures path peak Planpraz pleasant Pointe de Salles portion precipices range ravines reached ridge Roches Moutonnées rock round Samoëns scene scenery seemed seen Servoz side slopes snow spot steep stone stream summit thousand feet Tinneverges torrent traveller trees Val d'Illiez valley of Sixt village walk weather wild wind wood Zermatt
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Page xi - These beauteous forms Through a long absence have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft. in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration...
Page 236 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page xi - Of aspect more sublime : that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world. Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood. In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and...
Page 223 - I praised the sun, whose chariot rolled On wheels of amber and of gold; I praised the moon, whose softer eye Gleamed sweetly through the summer sky And moon and sun in answer said, 'Our days of light are numbered!
Page 325 - Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers: a Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Edited by JOHN BALL, MRIA, FLS, President of the Alpine Club.
Page 325 - The Old Glaciers of North Wales and Switzerland. By AC RAMSAY, FRS and GS, Local Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and Professor of Geology in the Government School of Mines. Reprinted from Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers; with Map and 14 Woodcuts.
Page 68 - Unknown to them ; but it is beautiful ; And if a man should plant his cottage near, Should sleep beneath the shelter of its trees, And blend its waters with his daily meal, He would so love it that in his death-hour Its image would survive among his thoughts : And therefore, my sweet MARY, this still Nook, With all its beeches, we have named from You ! 1800.
Page 30 - His marvellous preservation had transformed him. Thenceforth he held himself for an exempted And privileged being, and, as if he were Incapable of dizziness or fall, He ran along the unsteady rope of life. But now our destinies drove us asunder : He paced with rapid step the way of greatness, Was Count, and Prince, Duke-regent, and Dictator.
Page 325 - Woodcuts, may still be had, price 21s. Also the EIGHT Swiss MAPS, accompanied by a Table of the HEIGHTS of MOUNTAINS, 3s.
Page 327 - Blanc from the Jura is superior. The aim and end of the Alpine Club is a noble one. By its publications it enables different individuals among its members, by the simple and faithful account of their mountaineering experiences, to combine a record whose testimony will be of especial value to science, besides provoking in our youth a noble emulation, and giving them a taste for the higher kinds of relaxation. Any member, however humble, who is satisfied, without...