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The perfect solemn stillness of mountain solitudes - broken only by the distant tinkle of the cattle - bells left far below , soothes his spirit and encourages the dreamy feeling of repose which succeeds to active exertion .
The perfect solemn stillness of mountain solitudes - broken only by the distant tinkle of the cattle - bells left far below , soothes his spirit and encourages the dreamy feeling of repose which succeeds to active exertion .
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Why do our aspirants for mountain honours not attempt the almost untrodden snows of Monte Viso and Mont Pelvoux , of the Aletschhorn and Fletschhorn , of the Tödi and the Bernina ? Even at Chamouni , if they want a difficult feat not on ...
Why do our aspirants for mountain honours not attempt the almost untrodden snows of Monte Viso and Mont Pelvoux , of the Aletschhorn and Fletschhorn , of the Tödi and the Bernina ? Even at Chamouni , if they want a difficult feat not on ...
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under our feet pinnacles on which we have always hitherto gazed upwards with admiration and awe ; to trace the ice - stream from its very birthplace in the mountain - cleft to its point of dissolu- tion amongst the warm verdure of the ...
under our feet pinnacles on which we have always hitherto gazed upwards with admiration and awe ; to trace the ice - stream from its very birthplace in the mountain - cleft to its point of dissolu- tion amongst the warm verdure of the ...
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Odyssea London 1849 | 80 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 101 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1857 |
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