The High Alps of New Zealand: Or, A Trip to the Glaciers of the Antipodes with an Ascent of Mount Cook

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Macmillan and Company, 1883 - 350 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 294 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face...
Sayfa 177 - From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Sayfa 21 - Morte d'Arthur.— SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. "It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
Sayfa 162 - Ye Ice-falls ! ye that from the Mountain's brow Adown enormous Ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless Torrents ! silent Cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full Moon? Who bade the Sun Clothe you with Rainbows ? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands...
Sayfa 1 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them? Is not the love of these deep in my heart With a pure passion? should I not contemn All objects, if compared with these?
Sayfa 221 - 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.
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Sayfa 25 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Sayfa 217 - Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all!

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