Descriptions of Niagara: Selected from Various Travellers, with Original AdditionsThe Compiler, 1847 - 180 Seiten |
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... present day , of making our excursions for pleasure , mere races against time . No person should come to Niagara , for the first time , and leave the same day ; it is utterly impossible for one to conceive or realize its grandeur or ...
... present day , of making our excursions for pleasure , mere races against time . No person should come to Niagara , for the first time , and leave the same day ; it is utterly impossible for one to conceive or realize its grandeur or ...
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... present to hear and see for themselves . Captain Basil Hall remarks , " All parts of Niagara are on a scale which baffles every attempt of the imagination , and it were ridiculous therefore , to think of describing it ; the ordinary ...
... present to hear and see for themselves . Captain Basil Hall remarks , " All parts of Niagara are on a scale which baffles every attempt of the imagination , and it were ridiculous therefore , to think of describing it ; the ordinary ...
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... present attractions equal to this celebrated and beautiful island . The approach to it is from the American side , by means of a bridge of the most difficult and hazardous construction , which extends from the shore , 28 rods , to Bath ...
... present attractions equal to this celebrated and beautiful island . The approach to it is from the American side , by means of a bridge of the most difficult and hazardous construction , which extends from the shore , 28 rods , to Bath ...
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... present position , seven miles above , and will ulti- mately penetrate into Lake Erie , when another draining will take place of Erie , Huron , and Michigan - both which latter are also doubtless diminished basins - up to the Sault St ...
... present position , seven miles above , and will ulti- mately penetrate into Lake Erie , when another draining will take place of Erie , Huron , and Michigan - both which latter are also doubtless diminished basins - up to the Sault St ...
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... present constant draining by the St. Lawrence , and by evaporation , will shrink to minor pools , leaving , ultimately , their rich beds bare , to become the seats of civilization , and of a vast population . " These reflections might ...
... present constant draining by the St. Lawrence , and by evaporation , will shrink to minor pools , leaving , ultimately , their rich beds bare , to become the seats of civilization , and of a vast population . " These reflections might ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
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.