Through the Dolomites from Venice to ToblachG. Allen, 1896 - 232 páginas |
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... scientific attention to them — M . Dolomieu , a famous French mineralogist . Their rocks are composed of carbonate of lime and carbonate of magnesia , A and are akin to bitter spar or pearl spar . CHAPTER INTRODUCTION bach CHAPTER.
... scientific attention to them — M . Dolomieu , a famous French mineralogist . Their rocks are composed of carbonate of lime and carbonate of magnesia , A and are akin to bitter spar or pearl spar . CHAPTER INTRODUCTION bach CHAPTER.
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... rocks . Yet there is nothing hard or crude about them . All their colours are modified and softened by a peculiar soft grayish - white tint . The mountains look as if powdered with some substance less hard and cold than freshly fallen ...
... rocks . Yet there is nothing hard or crude about them . All their colours are modified and softened by a peculiar soft grayish - white tint . The mountains look as if powdered with some substance less hard and cold than freshly fallen ...
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... rock have been heaped so as to act as a pro- tecting breakwater . Such bulwarks are needed , for after heavy rains ... rocks and stones . They are called cavaletti , and are used to check the current , or to change its direction when it ...
... rock have been heaped so as to act as a pro- tecting breakwater . Such bulwarks are needed , for after heavy rains ... rocks and stones . They are called cavaletti , and are used to check the current , or to change its direction when it ...
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... rocks on the left bank now rise in height and abruptness until they become sheer cliffs , 800 feet high , whose curved sides show traces of glacier action . The line , leaving now for a short distance the Piave Valley , bends round an ...
... rocks on the left bank now rise in height and abruptness until they become sheer cliffs , 800 feet high , whose curved sides show traces of glacier action . The line , leaving now for a short distance the Piave Valley , bends round an ...
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... rock , called the Gusella del Vescovà , and we could see the sharp outline of Mount Peron . In the opposite direction pleasant walks and drives can be had either down the Piave , in the direction of Mel , or up its left bank . Choosing ...
... rock , called the Gusella del Vescovà , and we could see the sharp outline of Mount Peron . In the opposite direction pleasant walks and drives can be had either down the Piave , in the direction of Mel , or up its left bank . Choosing ...
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Página 18 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 19 - How many a year, my Asolo, Since — one step just from sea to land — I found you, loved yet feared you so — For natural objects seemed to stand Palpably fire-clothed!
Página 19 - The objection that such a word nowhere occurs in the works of the Cardinal is hardly important — Bembo was too thorough a purist to conserve in print a term which in talk he might possibly toy with: but the word is more likely derived from a Spanish source. I use it for love of the place, and in requital of your pleasant assurance that an early poem of mine first attracted you thither — where and elsewhere, at La Mura as C& Alvisi, may all happiness attend you!
Página viii - seem to have been built for the human race, as at once their schools and cathedrals; full of treasures of illuminated manuscript for the scholar, kindly in simple lessons for the worker, quiet in pale cloisters for the thinker, glorious in holiness for the worshipper.
Página 101 - Miiller, and at our request accompanied us to the scene of the occurrence, a field on the slope of a hill, about a mile and a half...
Página 179 - It is heavy work, and it takes from an hour to an hour and a half to husk the rice for one meal.