 The sun shone brightly, and the rainbows seen from various parts were very beautiful. One at the bottom of a fine but furious fall was very pleasant ; there it remained motionless, whilst the gusts and clouds of spray swept furiously across its place...  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Page xxxviiiby Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1869Full view - About this book
 | 1868 - 472 pages
...places too strong to stand against. The sun shone brightly, and the rainbows seen from various points were very beautiful. One at the bottom of a fine but...storm of passions sweeping across it, and though it mi^ht fade and revive, still it held on to the rock, as in hope and giving hope. And the very drops,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1868 - 444 pages
...above the cataract. "It remained motionless," says one who had been watching such a rainbow, " while the gusts and clouds of spray swept furiously across...sweeping across it, and though it might fade and revive, it clung to the rock as in hope and giving hope. And the very drops which in the whirlwind of their... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 210 pages
...places too strong to stand against. The sun shone brightly, and the rainbows seen from various points were very beautiful. One at the bottom of a fine but...pleasant, — there it remained motionless, whilst the guste and clouds of spray swept furiously across its place and were dashed against the rock. It looked... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...the rainbows seen from varions points were very beautiful. One at the bottom of a fine but furions fall was very pleasant, — there it remained motionless whilst the gusts and clonds of spray swept furiously across its place and were dashed against the rock. It looked like a... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1870 - 512 pages
...against. The sun shone brightly, and the rainbows seen from various points were very beautiful. 1841. One at the bottom of a fine but furious fall was very ^ET. 49. pleasant : there it remained motionless whilst the gusts and clouds of spray swept furiously... | |
 | John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 244 pages
...almost too strong to stand against. The sun shone brightly, and the rainbows seen from various points were very beautiful. One at the bottom of a fine but...like a spirit strong in faith and steadfast in the taidst of the storm of passions sweeping across it; and though it might fade and revive, still it held... | |
 | John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 234 pages
...almost too strong to stand against. The sun shone brightly, and the rainbows seen from various points were very beautiful. One at the bottom of a fine but...fall was very pleasant. There it remained motionless, while the gusts and clouds of spray swept furiously across its place, and were dashed against the rock.... | |
 | John Hall Gladstone - 1873 - 204 pages
...almost too strong to stand against. The sun shone brightly, and the rainbows seen from various points were very beautiful. One at the bottom of a fine but...rock. It looked like a spirit strong in faith and stedfast in the midst of the storm of passions sweeping across it ; and though it might fade and revive,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 202 pages
...places too strong to stand against. The sun shone brightly, and the rainbows seen from various points were very beautiful. One at the bottom of a fine but furious fall was very pleasant,—there it remained motionless, whilst the gusts and clouds of spray swept furiously across... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1889 - 474 pages
...before the falls of theGiessbach. ' The sun shone brightly, and the rainbows seen from various points were very beautiful. One, at the bottom of a fine...was very pleasant — there it remained motionless while the gusts of cloud and spray swept furiously across its place, and were dashed against the rock.... | |
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