Descriptions of Niagara: Selected from Various Travellers, with Original AdditionsThe Compiler, 1847 - 180 Seiten |
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... greater than all the steam - engines of Great Britain , or sufficient to set in motion all the artificial machinery on the face of the globe ! I then descended by means of a spiral staircase , and stood below the Table Rock . This view ...
... greater than all the steam - engines of Great Britain , or sufficient to set in motion all the artificial machinery on the face of the globe ! I then descended by means of a spiral staircase , and stood below the Table Rock . This view ...
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... greater . The cave itself , is the ne plus ultra of wonders ; a visit to which , no person of sufficient nerve , ought to omit . Ladies and gentlemen can very often , when the wind blows down the river , pass a con- siderable distance ...
... greater . The cave itself , is the ne plus ultra of wonders ; a visit to which , no person of sufficient nerve , ought to omit . Ladies and gentlemen can very often , when the wind blows down the river , pass a con- siderable distance ...
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... greater here than anywhere else , will enable him to appreciate the following beautiful and graphic lines of Brainard , -especially as there is always , in the afternoon , when the sun shines , a very bright rainbow visible directly ...
... greater here than anywhere else , will enable him to appreciate the following beautiful and graphic lines of Brainard , -especially as there is always , in the afternoon , when the sun shines , a very bright rainbow visible directly ...
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... greater volumes , and the rush of the rapids , the foam of the cataract , the rising clouds of mist from its feet , and the roar of its thunder , seemed to us all on a grander scale than ever . We lingered to enjoy this unequalled ...
... greater volumes , and the rush of the rapids , the foam of the cataract , the rising clouds of mist from its feet , and the roar of its thunder , seemed to us all on a grander scale than ever . We lingered to enjoy this unequalled ...
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... greater part of the evening on Table Rock , which overhangs the deep basin into which the Horse - Shoe Fall descends on the Canada side , when you may stand within a few feet of the very edge of the cataract , see its ceaseless torrent ...
... greater part of the evening on Table Rock , which overhangs the deep basin into which the Horse - Shoe Fall descends on the Canada side , when you may stand within a few feet of the very edge of the cataract , see its ceaseless torrent ...
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Descriptions of Niagara: Selected from Various Travellers, with Original ... William Barham Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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abyss American Fall American side ascending awful bank beautiful beneath boat bridge Brock's Monument Buffalo Canada side cascade cataract cave cavern Chippewa cliffs clouds colour cross deep delight descending distance dreadful earth edge Falls of Niagara feel felt ferry flood foam foot Fort Erie Fort Schlosser gaze Goat Island grandeur gulf heard height Horse-Shoe Fall Hotel hour hundred feet imagination immense impression Lake Erie Lake Ontario leagues leap length Lewiston Lockport look magnificent majesty mass mighty mighty Falls miles mind mist Moss islands nature Navy Islands never Niagara river NIAGARA.-BY night o'er object pass perpendicular precipice prodigious rainbows rapids rising roar rushing scene scenery seemed seen sheet of water shore sight sound spot spray staircase stream sublime Table Rock thee thou thunder torrent travellers trees trembling vast village visitors Welland Canal whirlpool whole width wind wonder
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Seite 27 - Then, when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect, and the enduring one - instant and lasting - of the tremendous spectacle, was Peace. Peace of Mind, tranquillity, calm recollections of the Dead, great thoughts of Eternal Rest and Happiness: nothing of gloom or terror.
Seite 28 - I think in every quiet season now, Still do those waters roll and leap, and roar and tumble, all day long ; still are the rainbows spanning them a hundred feet below ; still, when the sun is on them, do they shine and glow like molten gold ; still, when the day is gloomy, do they fall like snow...
Seite 160 - Tis meet for them To touch thy garment's hem, and lightly stir The snowy leaflets of thy vapor wreath. For they may sport unharmed amid the cloud, Or listen at the echoing gate of heaven, Without reproof. But as for us, it seems Scarce lawful, with our broken tones, to speak Familiarly of thee. Methinks, to tint Thy glorious features with our pencil's point, Or woo thee to the tablet of a song, Were profanation. Thou dost make the soul A wondering witness of thy majesty, But as it presses with delirious...
Seite 102 - When, if a sudden gust of wind arise, The brittle forest into atoms flies; The crackling wood beneath the tempest bends, And in a spangled shower the prospect ends...
Seite 37 - THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from his hollow hand, And hung his bow upon thine awful front ; And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's .. sake, The sound of many waters ; and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks.
Seite 42 - Thou cloth'd the fertile field, with herb, and fruit, and seed, For him, the woods, the lakes, the seas, supply his hourly need. Around — on high — or far — or near — the Universal Whole Proclaims Thy glory, as the orbs in their fixed courses roll ; And from Creation's grateful voice, the hymn ascends above, While heaven re-echoes back to Earth, the chorus,
Seite 34 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Seite 33 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely, been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Seite 34 - Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, a matchless cataract...
Seite 157 - Have lit their beacons, and the vales below Send up a welcoming : no song of birds, Warbling to charm the air with melody, Floats on the frosty breeze ; yet Nature hath The very soul of music in her looks ! The sunshine and the shade of poetry.