The Development of the Feeling for Nature: In the Middle Ages and Modern TimesB. Franklin, 1905 - 376 pages |
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... Lake of Thun , and Gregory of Tours notes that the land- slip in 563 at the foot of the Dent du Midi , above the point where the Rhine enters the Lake of Geneva , was a dreadful event . Not only was the Castle of Tauretunum overwhelmed ...
... Lake of Thun , and Gregory of Tours notes that the land- slip in 563 at the foot of the Dent du Midi , above the point where the Rhine enters the Lake of Geneva , was a dreadful event . Not only was the Castle of Tauretunum overwhelmed ...
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... Lake of Geneva . As a boy he loved to leave the city and rove in the country . He describes how once on a Sunday in 1728 he wandered about , forgetting the time . ' Before me were fields , trees , flowers ; the beautiful lake , the hill ...
... Lake of Geneva . As a boy he loved to leave the city and rove in the country . He describes how once on a Sunday in 1728 he wandered about , forgetting the time . ' Before me were fields , trees , flowers ; the beautiful lake , the hill ...
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... lake , and no other , is absolutely necessary ; a firm friend , an amiable ... Lake of Bienne . So far as he knew , no other traveller had paid any attention ... Geneva , because the rocks and woods come nearer to the water ; but they are ...
... lake , and no other , is absolutely necessary ; a firm friend , an amiable ... Lake of Bienne . So far as he knew , no other traveller had paid any attention ... Geneva , because the rocks and woods come nearer to the water ; but they are ...
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... Lake of Geneva . St Preux says : ' The nearer I drew to Switzerland , the greater were my emotions . That instant in which I dis- covered the Lake of Geneva from the heights of Jura , was a moment of ecstasy and rapture . The sight of ...
... Lake of Geneva . St Preux says : ' The nearer I drew to Switzerland , the greater were my emotions . That instant in which I dis- covered the Lake of Geneva from the heights of Jura , was a moment of ecstasy and rapture . The sight of ...
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... Lake of Geneva , and Mont Blanc , he said : The view was so great , man's eye could not grasp it . ' He wrote of his feelings with perfect openness to Frau von Stein , and these letters extended farther back than those from Switzerland ...
... Lake of Geneva , and Mont Blanc , he said : The view was so great , man's eye could not grasp it . ' He wrote of his feelings with perfect openness to Frau von Stein , and these letters extended farther back than those from Switzerland ...
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Page 177 - Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease: Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me But hope of orphans, and unfather'd fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute: Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer, That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.
Page 336 - From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 331 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Page 331 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Page 332 - And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee!
Page 338 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is; What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The...
Page 10 - Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty." "Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:" "Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his hariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 11 - They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 168 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing...
Page 337 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.