Frondes AgrestesG. Allen, 1904 - 184 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abarim Alpine Alps angels asso banks beauty behold beneath blue breath cast cataract cerned chariot of fire cliffs clouds colour creatures crests dark death deep delight dust earth edge eternal everlasting fading fall fear feel feet fields firmament flakes flowers foam foot FRONDES gathered gentians glacier glory God's Goethe gossamer grass green grey ground heart heaven hills hollows human imagine infinite Israel lake leaves lichen lifted light look Martigny masses meadows mica midst mind mist Mont Blanc moss mountain nature ness never noble passage passing pastures peaks perfect perpetual pines plain pleasure present Psalm purple quiet rain ravines reader rest rise river rock sandstone scenes Schaffhausen seen sentimental literature shadows slopes snow soft Soldanella Alpina spirit spring stone strange stream strength strong river summit sweet things thoughts tion torrents trees unto valley wave wild wind words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 55 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Seite 96 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Seite 38 - Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain ? Who saw the dance of the dead clouds when the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves...
Seite 146 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Seite 62 - I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Seite 131 - Consider what we owe merely to the meadow grass, to the covering of the dark ground by that glorious enamel, by the companies of those soft, and countless, and peaceful spears.
Seite 51 - ... the whole heaven — one scarlet canopy, — is interwoven with a roof of waving flame, and tossing, vault beyond vault, as with the drifted wings of many companies of angels ; and then, when you can look no more for gladness, and when you are bowed down with fear and love of the Maker and Doer of this, tell me. who has best delivered this His message unto men ! V 1 Vignette to Campbell's Last Man.
Seite 61 - The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Seite 36 - ... of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Seite 47 - Stand upon the peak of some isolated mountain at daybreak, when the night mists first rise from off the plains, and watch their white and lake-like fields as they float in level bays and winding gulfs about the islanded summits of the lower hills, untouched yet by more than dawn, colder and more quiet than a windless sea under the moon of midnight ; watch when the first sunbeam is sent upon the silver channels, how the foam of their undulating surface parts and passes away ; and down...