The Alps; Or, Sketches of Life and Nature in the MountainsLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 407 strán (strany) |
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The Alps; Or, Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch Úplné zobrazenie - 1861 |
The Alps; Or, Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch Úplné zobrazenie - 1861 |
Časté výrazy a frázy
Alp horn Alpine roses amongst appearance ascent avalanche ban-forest beasts Bernese Oberland blocks boughs broad called cattle chalet chamois cliffs climb clouds colour cows creeping crevasses dangerous deep depths Engadine fall feet Finsteraarhorn foot forest glacier Glarus gneiss gorge Gothard granite grey Grimsel Grindelwald Grisons guides height herd Herr horse hospice Jungfrau lake limestone lively lofty look masses meadows Mont Blanc Monte Rosa moun mountain nagelfluh natural neighbouring névé night pass path peasant phenomenon pine plants primeval rain reached ridge rise road roar rocky rough round Rüfe ruins scarcely Senn shining side Simplon sink slopes snow snowy points Splügen stand steep stem stone storm strange stream summer summits thunder Tödi traveller trees Tyrol Unterwalden Valais valley vertical village walls of rock weather whilst whole wild wild-hay cutter wind winter wood
Populárne pasáže
Strana 39 - Mountains have fallen, Leaving a gap in the clouds, and with the shock Rocking their Alpine brethren ; filling up The ripe green valleys with destruction's splinters ; Damming the rivers with a sudden dash, Which crush'd the waters into mist, and made Their fountains find another channel — thus, Thus, in its old age, did Mount Rosenberg— Why stood I not beneath it ? C.
Strana 16 - Granite GRANITE IS a symbolic substance — it, in common with marble, is the historic stone. As amongst beasts the lion ranks as king, being the representative of noble qualities and physical power, — as amongst plants the oak presents a picture of firmness and endurance, of proud contempt of storm and weather, — so granite represents all that is unconquerable and unchangeable in the kingdom of dead inorganic matter : it is, in the narrow material sense, a substance of eternal duration.
Strana 185 - All words and descriptions,' says Herr Berlepsch, ' are insuffi' cient to paint this chaos, this complete dissolution, this universal, ' instantaneously-developed phenomenon of hurricane, earth' quake, landslip, and thunderstorm, uproar, flight, destruction, ' annihilation, accompanied by the crashing of the snow pressed ' together, the overwhelming roar of splintered trees, the hissing ' flight of rocks, and their sharp blows against the cliffs ; in short, 'an undefinable, deafening tumult, whose...
Strana 58 - Every mountain village has ban-forests if it is shut in by steep valley-walls, and therefore exposed to avalanches, falls of stones, or landslips. These ban-forests are kept up from motives of prudence, not from neglect of the forests on account of superabundance of wood. There are communes which, from bad management of their forests, are deficient in firewood, and have to buy it and bring it long distances from other common forests, while at the same time they have great banwoods immediately over...
Strana 58 - ... and the foremost ranks of trees would be cut down like stalks of straw. In a few decades of years a desolate heap of fragments of trees and rocks would appear instead of the protecting forest. The inhabitants of the Alps saw this necessity centuries ago, and therefore spared particular forests, placing them under the ' ban,' that is, declaring it unlawful to touch them.
Strana 59 - Vater, ist's wahr, daB auf dem Berge dort Die Baume bluten, wenn man einen Streich Drauf fiihrte mit der Axt?
Strana 16 - ... in the narrow material sense, a substance of eternal duration. Where monuments were to be erected for the most distant human races, visible pillars for the annals of history, — where Egyptian dynasties raised the colossal tombs of their kings in those pyramids which are still wondered at, on the borders of the desert, as the mightiest works of human power, — there the bold architect grasped the granite rock and thought that he had saved a scrap from the destruction that awaits everything...
Strana 371 - ... drag him thirty or forty paces over turf and rock till close to a precipice, where it fell down exhausted. Two or three bounds more would have dragged them both over it. Here, on the brink of the cliff, another struggle began after a second in a lake of blood. The hunter caught firm hold of a tough...
Strana 349 - Alpstock to the valley over the terrace-shaped ledges of rock. Certain signs announced to him whilst he was above that avalanche falls were to be expected. Many parts of the common route lay in the path of terror of these winter greetings. The awful death of being buried alive threatened him. Every moment's delay increased the danger. He took his part at once, commended his soul to heaven, and chose the least of two terrors. Any one who knows the ground...
Strana 176 - Lauine ;" in Tyrol " Lahne," in the Eomansch mountains " Lavigna." The name, as ordinarily written in civilised German, " Lawine," is hardly to be heard from the people. Philologists have already disputed about the origin and meaning of this word, and started strange game in the dark forest of conjectures : some bring in Latin, and declare that it can only come from the word, "labor, lapsus sum, labi...