Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain RangesD. Douglas, 1902 - 315 páginas |
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Página 217 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh, there is sweetness in the mountain air And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Página 231 - A land of old, upheaven from the abyss By fire, to sink into the abyss again ; Where fragments of forgotten peoples dwelt, And the long mountains ended in a coast Of ever-shifting sand, and far away The phantom circle of a moaning sea.
Página 151 - the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, Save from one gradual solitary gust, Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had hut one wave.
Página 196 - These great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of clouds, choirs of streams and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars,' but form where the savage grandeur, the strength, and the vastness of the mountains is
Página 161 - terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering motion, and sending forth to the winds an appalling
Página 120 - At midnight The moon arose : and lo ! the ethereal cliffs Of Caucasus, whose icy summits shone Among the stars like sunlight, and around Whose caverned base the whirlpools and the waves Bursting and eddying irresistibly Rage and resound for ever.
Página 235 - but I am too lazy to find the context :— ' So eagerly with horrid voice the Fiend Cries " Fore ! " as he o'er the far bunker drives The errant ball ; it with the setting sun Dropp'd from the zenith like a falling star, Alas ! untruly urged, it lies in Hell.
Página 48 - It will readily occur that this uniformity of barrenness can afford little amusement to the traveller ; that it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks, heaths, and waterfalls, and that these journeys are useless labours which neither impregnate the imagination nor inform the understanding.
Página 49 - Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so it might be ; and if it were so it would be ; but as it isn't, it ain't. That 's logic.