Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: With One Hundred Engravings, Volumen2Cummings, Hilliard & Company, 1823 |
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... rocks , and about 16 miles below Geneva it passes under ground , for the space of 12 rods . THE LOIRE . The Loire rises in the southeast part of France , among the mountains of the Cevennes . In the first half of its course , it flows ...
... rocks , and about 16 miles below Geneva it passes under ground , for the space of 12 rods . THE LOIRE . The Loire rises in the southeast part of France , among the mountains of the Cevennes . In the first half of its course , it flows ...
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... rocks , forming a number of pretty cas- cades , and overshadowed , on each side , by trees ; the whole conspiring to ... rock is the cavern in which the fountain rises . It is overhung and surrounded by huge rocks and mountains ; the ...
... rocks , forming a number of pretty cas- cades , and overshadowed , on each side , by trees ; the whole conspiring to ... rock is the cavern in which the fountain rises . It is overhung and surrounded by huge rocks and mountains ; the ...
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... rock , which quite conceals it ; through this rock the water filters , gushing out at its base in innumerable little streams . Such is the ordinary state of the fountain ; but when in the spring the snows of the mountains melt , the ...
... rock , which quite conceals it ; through this rock the water filters , gushing out at its base in innumerable little streams . Such is the ordinary state of the fountain ; but when in the spring the snows of the mountains melt , the ...
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... rock to rock , and frequently form beautiful cascades . About three miles from Martigny in Valais is the celebrated and beautiful cataract of Pisse - Vache , the perpendicular height of which is stated from 200 to 300 feet . Near Lauter ...
... rock to rock , and frequently form beautiful cascades . About three miles from Martigny in Valais is the celebrated and beautiful cataract of Pisse - Vache , the perpendicular height of which is stated from 200 to 300 feet . Near Lauter ...
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... rock to interrupt its glaring whiteness . The view from the summit is immense , extending to a distance of more than 150 miles around ; but it is not so beautiful as that enjoyed from mountains of smaller eleva- tion , because the ...
... rock to interrupt its glaring whiteness . The view from the summit is immense , extending to a distance of more than 150 miles around ; but it is not so beautiful as that enjoyed from mountains of smaller eleva- tion , because the ...
Términos y frases comunes
Africa Altai mountains ancient animal Antiparos appearance Arabs Asia beautiful breadth built Cairo called capital celebrated character chiefly China Chinese Christian church Circassians classes cloth colour complexion consists contains covered Customs desert distance dress edifices Egypt elevated Europe European extremely eyes feet high feet in height female Goitres habits hair Hindoos Hottentots houses inhabitants interior islands labour lake Lisbon lofty magnificent Mahometan manner marble marriage miles in length Mode of Living Mont Blanc monuments mosques mountains natives Niger Nile Nubia ornaments Ostiaks palace Persia persons pillars Pitcairn's Island plain Plate Polygamy Pompeii Pompey's Pillar principal pyramid rank religion remarkable resemble rises river rock round ruins says seen side silk singular situated slaves Society islands sometimes stone streets summit temple Thebes tion town trade travellers trees Turks upwards Vale of Tempe walls wear whole women
Pasajes populares
Página 37 - 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, LXIII.
Página 50 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 50 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Página 31 - Honour, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth obtains, Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffic round the land ; From courts to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Página 49 - Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford But man and steel, the soldier and his sword...
Página 31 - To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn ; and France displays her bright domain. Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please...
Página 132 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? Gone, — glimmering through the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and passed away, — is this the whole?
Página 285 - Before I had learned from the note the name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye.
Página 121 - Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers, is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
Página 122 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...