Memorials of a Tour on the Continent: To which are Added Miscellaneous PoemsW. Pickering, 1845 - 311 páginas |
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... Mont Blanc without attempting the pas- sage from Chamonix to Courmayeur by the Col du Géant . Accordingly , on the 30th of July I signified my wishes to the Chef des guides at Chamonix , who readily appointed three guides to accompany ...
... Mont Blanc without attempting the pas- sage from Chamonix to Courmayeur by the Col du Géant . Accordingly , on the 30th of July I signified my wishes to the Chef des guides at Chamonix , who readily appointed three guides to accompany ...
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... Mont Blanc , five times to the Col du Géant . ) Michel Coutet ( never up Mont Blanc , twice to the Col du Géant . ) David Simon ( three times up Mont Blanc , never to the Col du Géant . ) Jean Edward Devouassoud ( once up Mont Blanc ...
... Mont Blanc , five times to the Col du Géant . ) Michel Coutet ( never up Mont Blanc , twice to the Col du Géant . ) David Simon ( three times up Mont Blanc , never to the Col du Géant . ) Jean Edward Devouassoud ( once up Mont Blanc ...
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... Mont Blanc now appeared on our right in a rocky opening by the side of the glacier ; and I stood in mute surprise to see how astonishingly diminished in height it now appeared , and how close to us ; yet in reality it was more than six ...
... Mont Blanc now appeared on our right in a rocky opening by the side of the glacier ; and I stood in mute surprise to see how astonishingly diminished in height it now appeared , and how close to us ; yet in reality it was more than six ...
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... Mont Fréty , on the side towards Piedmont . Here , if any unhappy being should chance to slide down , he would be precipitated over the edge of the serac , into the crevasse ; or , possibly , he might shoot right over it , into blank ...
... Mont Fréty , on the side towards Piedmont . Here , if any unhappy being should chance to slide down , he would be precipitated over the edge of the serac , into the crevasse ; or , possibly , he might shoot right over it , into blank ...
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... Mont Blanc , with its dependant glaciers , and precipitous buttresses and outworks ; in truth , a sublime and wonderful sight . Below , lies the Allée Blanche ; further , amidst a wilderness of Alps , not fewer than five enormous peaks ...
... Mont Blanc , with its dependant glaciers , and precipitous buttresses and outworks ; in truth , a sublime and wonderful sight . Below , lies the Allée Blanche ; further , amidst a wilderness of Alps , not fewer than five enormous peaks ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ancient Apennine appear ascent beauty beneath BETCHWORTH breath bright Casa del Bosco Catania Chamonix child cliff cloud Col du Géant cold colour Courmayeur crevasses Daguerrotype dark dear descended Devouassoud earth effect Etna EXTRACT FROM MANUSCRIPT fire Florence flowers fresco gaze Géant Genevieve glacier glorious golden grace guides hand hast heard heart heaven height hills hour hues John Herschel La Verna lava light look MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL marble Maurice Mont Blanc Monte Nuovo morning mountain Naples Nature night Nisida Note o'clock o'er ocean once painting passed picture Pisa river Mole rocks round scene scenery sculpture serac shade shore sight slope snow song SONNET soul sound spirit stars statue stone stood stream summit sweet sweet oblivion thee thine things thou thoughts truth turn twas vapours Venice voice walk weather whilst wild wind wing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 175 - You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 127 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Página 175 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...
Página 182 - ... che nella capitale; tutte queste doti vere ed uniche di quel fortunato e libero paese, mi rapirono...
Página 158 - ... if what has happened in the case of sculpture, had likewise happened in regard to their paintings, and we had the good fortune to possess what the ancients themselves esteemed their master-pieces, I have no doubt but we should find their figures as correctly drawn as the Laocoon, and probably...
Página 158 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance, and hath preserved you in the great danger...
Página 170 - ... virginis est verae facies, quam vivere credas et, si non obstet reverentia, velle moveri: ars adeo latet arte sua. miratur et haurit pectore Pygmalion simulati corporis ignes.
Página 182 - ... in queste tante diramazioni della pubblica felicità, provenienti dal miglior governo. Onde, benché io allora non ne studiassi profondamente la costituzione, madre di tanta prosperità, ne seppi però abbastanza osservare e valutare gli effetti divini.
Página 174 - Sir, the year growing ancient, — Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter, — the fairest flowers o...
Página 133 - ... scramble up to the base of a small column of ice, that communicated with a sort of platform, on which there was firm, though scanty standing room, and whence the bridge might be immediately reached. The ice column looked insecure ; and the more so, from the quantity of brilliantly white fresh-fallen snow that had lodged against it. Its firmness, however, was put to the proof by blows with an ice pole, and it was partially cleared of the fresh snow. Devouassoud then cautiously cut steps round...