The Pedestrian in France and SwitzerlandG. P. Putnam & Company, 1853 - 312 頁 |
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ancient appeared Arreau arrived ascended Avranches Bayonne beautiful beheld blue Breton bridge Brittany Bruges building café called Carcassonne castle Cère Chamouni CHAPTER church clothes clouds color commenced costume crossed curious dark descended diligence distance door dreary dressed entered feet flowers France French Freyburg Gend'arme girl glacier grand ground Harfleur head heard height hill horse Hospice hour houses Huelgoat knapsack lake Laruns leaving lofty Lütschine Marseilles Martigny Mer de Glace mist Mont Mont Blanc Morlaix morning mountains narrow nearly night Oleron passed peaks picturesque pretty promenade Pyrenees Quimper rain reached rest river road rock rolled roof Rosporden route Saumur scenery seated seen side smoke snow soon steep stone stream streets summit Switzerland tains towers town traveller trees ugly vale valley village walk walls wind wished woman women wood youth
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第 207 頁 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
第 302 頁 - He listened and looked, — it was only the cat; But the Bishop he grew more fearful for that, For she sat screaming, mad with fear, At the army of rats that were drawing near. For they have swum over the river so deep, And they have...
第 302 頁 - Another came running presently, And he was pale as pale could be, "Fly! my Lord Bishop, fly," quoth he, "Ten thousand rats are coming this way — The Lord forgive you for yesterday!" "I'll go to my tower on the Rhine...
第 302 頁 - And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls by thousands they pour, And down through the ceiling and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below ; And all at once to the bishop they go. They have whetted their teeth against the stones, And now they pick the bishop's bones ; They gnaw'd the flesh from every limb, For they were sent to do judgment on him.
第 302 頁 - And in at the windows and in at the door, And through the walls helter-skelter they pour, And down from the ceiling and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the Bishop they go.
第 235 頁 - A glacier is an imperfect fluid, or a viscous body which is urged down slopes of a certain inclination by the mutual pressure of its parts.
第 302 頁 - For she sate screaming, mad with fear, At the army of rats that were drawing near. For they have swum over the river so deep, And they have...
第 234 頁 - Alps, which flows into the higher valleys, pressed down by its own weight. Henceforth the ice-stream, like the river, moves onward steadily by day and night, and even in the winter, though its progress is slower, " The glacier's cold and restless mass Moves onward day by day.
第 236 頁 - Heavendescended in its origin, it yet takes its mould and conformation from the hidden womb of the mountains which brought it forth. At first, soft and ductile, it acquires a character and firmness of its own, as an inevitable destiny urges it on its onward CREVAiSES.
第 237 頁 - ... it yields groaning to its fate, and still travels forward seamed with the scars of many a conflict with opposing obstacles. All this while, although wasting, it is renewed by an unseen power, — it evaporates, but is not consumed. On its surface it bears the spoils which, during the progress of existence, it has made its own ; often weighty burdens devoid of beauty or value, at times precious masses, sparkling with gems or with ore.