Peter Parley's Book of Curiosities: Natural and Artificial : Illustrated with One Hundred EngravingsRichardson, Lord & Holbrook, and Waitt & Dow, 1832 - 224 pages |
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Page 115
... columns , float by the astonished spectators . These icebergs are the creation of ages , and annually increase by the falling of snows , and of rain , which instantly freezes , and more than repairs the loss occasioned by the heat of ...
... columns , float by the astonished spectators . These icebergs are the creation of ages , and annually increase by the falling of snows , and of rain , which instantly freezes , and more than repairs the loss occasioned by the heat of ...
Page 116
... columns , forty feet high , and two hundred and fifty - six in number . They are surmounted with one hundred and ninety - two statues of saints , each eleven feet in height . In the centre an Egyptian obelisk , nearly eighty - four feet ...
... columns , forty feet high , and two hundred and fifty - six in number . They are surmounted with one hundred and ninety - two statues of saints , each eleven feet in height . In the centre an Egyptian obelisk , nearly eighty - four feet ...
Page 117
... columns . Over the portico , which is supported by pillars eigh- teen feet in circumference , are the statues of our Saviour and the twelve apostles ; and there is also a fine balco- ny , where the popes are crowned , in view of the ...
... columns . Over the portico , which is supported by pillars eigh- teen feet in circumference , are the statues of our Saviour and the twelve apostles ; and there is also a fine balco- ny , where the popes are crowned , in view of the ...
Page 118
... columns of marble , porphyry , and granite , the gigantic supporters of the dome . In the niches there are numer- ous colossal statues of saints , at least thirteen feet high . The walls are inlaid with a variety of precious stones ...
... columns of marble , porphyry , and granite , the gigantic supporters of the dome . In the niches there are numer- ous colossal statues of saints , at least thirteen feet high . The walls are inlaid with a variety of precious stones ...
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... columns supporting a por- tico over the entrance , also composed of marble . Three staircases lead from the first to the second sto- ry . The principal of these is in the centre , with marble steps ; and round the top of it is a ...
... columns supporting a por- tico over the entrance , also composed of marble . Three staircases lead from the first to the second sto- ry . The principal of these is in the centre , with marble steps ; and round the top of it is a ...
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Page 144 - But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below.
Page 178 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head ach.
Page 176 - Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before. And when on the earth he sunk to sleep, If slumber his eyelids knew, He lay where the deadly vine doth weep Its venomous tear and nightly steep The flesh with blistering dew!
Page 177 - He saw the lake, and a meteor bright Quick over its surface play'd— " Welcome," he said,
Page 71 - In his domesticated state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested. He whistles for the dog ; Caesar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master. He squeaks out like a hurt chicken ; and the hen hurries about, with hanging wings and bristled feathers, clucking to protect her injured brood. The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity.
Page 178 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven!
Page 60 - Wara billi billi\" ("A very large lion!") said he, and made signs for me to ride away. But my horse was too much fatigued; so we rode slowly past the bush from which the animal had given us the alarm. Not seeing anything myself, however, I thought my guide had been mistaken, when the Foulah suddenly put his hand to his mouth, exclaiming, "Soubah an allahi\
Page 68 - ... change of seasons; as, in a few minutes, he can pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the higher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal cold; and from thence descend, at will, to the torrid or the arctic regions of the earth.
Page 32 - I am going to yield thee up ? To Europeans, who will tie thee close, — who will beat thee, — who will render thee miserable. Return with me, my beauty, my jewel, and rejoice the hearts of my children.
Page 177 - And the boat return'd no more. But oft, from the Indian hunter's camp, This lover and maid so true Are seen at the hour of midnight damp. To cross the Lake by a fire-fly lamp, And paddle their white canoe ! TO THE MARCHIONESS DOWAGER OF DONEGALL.