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Էջ 92 - Only for a short time, however; the silver sphere soon cleared the mountain, and bore away through the tinted sky. The motion was quite visible, and resembled that of a vast balloon. As the day approached its end the scene assumed the most sublime aspect. All the lower portions of the mountains were deeply shaded, while the loftiest peaks, ranged upon a semicircle, were fully exposed to the sinking sun. They seemed pyramids of solid fire, while here and there long stretches of crimson light drawn...
Էջ 95 - ... open spaces, and at various turns, an almost uninterrupted view of the valley of Chamouni ; but on arriving at Montanvert the scene changes. Instead of a valley and fields, we find ourselves on the brink of a precipice hanging over a scene worthy of the Arctic regions, a large sea of ice and snow. "It seems as if the waves of the ocean had, during a tempest, been seized by the giant hand of Winter, and fixed indelibly in the fantastic positions they had assumed. Around extends a rampart of colossal...
Էջ 89 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if the cold pavement were a sod, By Bonivard! — may none those marks efface, For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Էջ 89 - ... its left are the entrances of the Rhone, and opposite are the heights of Meillerie, and the range of Alps above Bovinet and St. Gingo. Near it, on a hill behind, is a torrent ; below it, and washing its walls, the lake has been fathomed to the depth of eight hundred feet of French measure : within it is a range of dungeons, in which the early reformers, and subsequently prisoners of state, were confined. Across one of the vaults is a beam, black with age, on which, it is said, the condemned persons...
Էջ 89 - Hof, close to the bridge — new and good; beds, 2f. ; breakfast, 21'.; tea, If.; — Hotel des Marchands, near the church, also good.) This town, the capital of Canton Freyburg, is situated on a promontory formed by the windings of the. Saarine (Saane). Many of the houses stand on the very edge of the precipice overhanging the river, and their quaint architecture, the long line of embattled walls stretching up hill and down dale, varied by the chain of feudal watch-towers, and gateways of the ancient...
Էջ 91 - ... the Swiss guards, who may be said to have suffered martyrdom in defence of their master, the King of France, at the beginning of the French Revolution. " It is a magnificent work of art, admirable in conception and execution." It is cut in high relief on the face of the living rock, and represents a lion wounded by a spear and dying, yet still seeking to protect the shield of France. The figure is of immense size, 28 ft.
Էջ 88 - From crag to crag, the rattling peaks among, Leaps the live thunder — not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue ; And Jura answers, through his misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, that call to her aloud.
Էջ 107 - A good idea of the building may be formed by placing the pointed half of a large turnip upon the middle of a board, with four smaller ones at the corners.
Էջ 43 - ... from the Rhine, with which it communicates by canal, in the midst of a rich and beautiful country. It is divided into an upper and a lower town, is well built, in the Dutch fashion, and surrounded by walls. It has a fine old castle, partly built on a commanding rock, in which Anne of Cleves, one of the wives of Henry VIII., was born, and which is now converted into public offices. In the collegiate church, which dates from the 14th c., are some good monuments to the counts of Cleves. C. has manufactures...