Frondes agrestesG. Allen, 1880 - 184 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Abarim Albert Durer Alpine Alps angels banks beauty behold beneath blue breath cast cerned chariot of fire cliffs clouds colour creatures crests dark death deep delight dust earth edge eternal everlasting fading fall fear feel feet fields firmament flakes flowers foam foot FRONDES gathered gentians glacier glory God's Goethe grace grass green grey ground heart heaven hills hollow human imagine infinite Israel lake leaves lichen lifted light look Martigny masses meadows mica midst mind mist Mont Blanc moss mountain nature never noble passage passing pastures peaks perfect perpetual pines plain pleasure present Psalm purple quiet rain ravines reader rest rise river rock sandstone scenes Schaffhausen seen sentimental literature shadows slopes snow soft Soldanella Alpina spirit spring stone strange stream strength strong river summit sweet tence things thoughts tion torrents trees unto valley wave wild wind words
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Página 148 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Página 113 - For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Página 38 - Who saw the dance of the dead clouds where the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves? All has passed unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary. And yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, nor in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not...
Página 37 - ... too bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food;" it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity...
Página 35 - it is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him, and teaching him, than in any other of her works, aud it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
Página 55 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Página 62 - I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Página 132 - Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a minute, quietly, its narrow sword-shaped strip of fluted green. Nothing, as it seems there, of notable goodness or beauty. A very little strength, and a very little tallness, and a few delicate long lines meeting in a point, — not a perfect point neither.. but blunt and unfinished, by no means a creditable or appa rently much cared for example of Nature's workmanship; maae, as it seems, only to be trodden...
Página 169 - Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth than the solitary extent of the Campagna of Rome under evening light. Let the reader imagine himself for a moment withdrawn from the sounds and motion of the living world, and sent forth alone into this wild and wasted plain. The earth yields and crumbles beneath his foot, tread he never so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men. The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly in...
Página 50 - And then you shall hear the fainting tempest die in the hollow of the night, and you shall see a green halo kindling on the summit of the eastern hills, brighter — brighter yet, till the large white circle of the slow moon is lifted up among the barred clouds, step by step, line by line ; star after star she quenches with her kindling light, setting in their stead an army of pale, penetrable, fleecy wreaths in the heaven, to give light upon the earth, which move together, hand in hand, company...