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Alpine Alps ancient avalanches beautiful Bern Bernese blue Bonivard Byron called Calvin Canton castle Castle of Chillon cathedral Century Cervin Chamonix charming château Chillon church climb clouds Coppet crags Dent du Midi Duke eyes famous feet filled France French Geneva Gibbon glaciers Grand height hundred meters inhabitants Jorat Jura Juste Olivier Lake Leman Lake of Geneva Landoldt Lausanne light live look Lucerne Madame Madame de Staël magnificent mighty Mont Blanc moun mountains Neuchâtel never night once passed peak Pilatus precipices Professor Rhône river rocks Roman Rousseau Saint Savoy says seems seen shore side snow spell stone storm summit Suvórof Swiss Switzerland tains tell thou thousand tion took torrent towers town valley Vaud Vevey Veytaux village Visp Voltaire walk walls whole wind wonderful wrote Zürich
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Page 142 - the light Of a dark eye in woman I 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, Hack to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 328 - 0, struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky or when they sink: Companion of the morning-star at dawn, Thyself Earth's rosy star and of the dawn Go-herald: wake, O wake, and utter praise!
Page 142 - changed! and such a change! O night And storm and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as in the light Of a dark eye in woman I 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,
Page 329 - eyes suffused with tears, Solemnly seemest, like a vapory cloud, To rise before me — Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of incense from the Earth! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch! tell thou the silent sky And tell the stars and tell yon rising sun Earth with her thousand voices praises God!' "
Page 321 - may be able to tell them what things are worthy to be seen in the country where they go, what acquaintances they are to seek, what exercises or discipline the place yieldeth; for else young men shall go hooded and look abroad little.
Page 78 - the erudition of Mile. Curchod were the theme of universal applause. The report of such a prodigy awakened my curiosity; I saw and loved. I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance.
Page 323 - advised in his answers than forward to tell stories, and let it appear that he doth not change his country manners for those of foreign parts but only prick in some flowers of that he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country.
Page 453 - " It is not noon — the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column, O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And flings its lines of foaming light along And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The giant steed, to be bestrode by Death As told in the Apocalypse.
Page 332 - There many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct with many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. Yet not a city but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rolls its perpetual stream; vast pines are strewing
Page 453 - as might be conceived would be that of the ' pale horse ' on which Death is mounted in the Apocalypse. It is neither mist nor water but a something between both; its immense height (nine hundred feet) gives it a wave, a curve, a spreading here, a condensation there, wonderful and indescribable.