A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and The Alps of Savoy and PiedmontJ. Murray, 1867 - 500 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
Alpine ancient ascent Austrian avalanches Baden bank Basle baths beautiful Berne Bernese Bernese Alps Bienne bridge Brienz called canton carriage carriage-road castle châlets Chamouni chapel char-road church Coire Constance crossed descending diligence distance English excursions fall feet Flüelen foot formed French Geneva glacier Glarus gorge Grimsel Grindelwald height high Alps hill horses Hotel houses Inhab Inns Interlaken Jungfrau Jura Krone Küssnacht lake of Lucerne Lake of Zürich Lauterbrunnen Limmat Linth Meyringen miles Mont Blanc moun mountain Mürren nearly Neuchâtel Olten pass path peaks picturesque precipices Railway reached Reuss Rhine Rhone ridge Rigi river road rock route Sarnen scenery Schaffhausen Schwytz seen side Sion slope snow Soleure spot Stat steamer steep stone summit Swiss Switzerland tains Thal thence Thun torrent Töss town traveller traversed upper Valais valley village walk walls Zürich
Popular passages
Page 170 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Page 175 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the skv was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 171 - Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The stillness of their aspect in each trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue...
Page 144 - And there — oh ! sweet and sacred be the name ! — Julia — the daughter, the devoted — gave Her youth to Heaven ; her heart, beneath a claim Nearest to Heaven's, broke o'er a father's grave. Justice is sworn 'gainst tears, and hers would crave The life she lived in; but the judge was just, And then she died on him she could not save. Their tomb was simple, and without a bust, And held within their urn one mind, one heart, one dust.
Page 77 - The torrent is in shape curving over the rock, like the tail of a white horse streaming in the wind, such as it might be conceived would be that of the ' pale horse ' on which Death is mounted in the Apocalypse.
Page 179 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar— for 'twas trod Until his very steps have left a trace, Worn as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 170 - At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page lix - ... value, — at times precious masses, sparkling with gems or with ore. Having at length attained its greatest width and extension, commanding admiration by its beauty and power, waste predominates over supply, the vital springs begin to fail ; it stoops into an attitude of decrepitude ; it drops the burdens, one by one, which it had borne so proudly aloft ; its dissolution is inevitable.
Page 179 - A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left: Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp...
Page 177 - Not on those summits solely, nor alone In the still cave and forest; o'er the flower His eye is sparkling, and his breath hath blown, His soft and summer breath, whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.