The Alps

The Alps

The loads carried by the women are enormous in size, what they are in weight I don't know; but many of them are larger than those shown in the picture. One load I measured was twice the height of the woman. JOHN RUSKIN, in a fine and famous passage, describes the effect of a first view of the Alps upon a young and sensitive mind. He was at Schaffhausen with his parents. "We must have spent some time in town-seeing," he writes, "for it was drawing towards sunset when we got up to some sort of garden promenadewest of the town, I believe; and high above the Rhine, so as to command the open country across it to the south and west. At which open country of low undulation, far into bluegazing as at one of our own distances from Malvern of Worcestershire, or Dorking of Kent,suddenlybeholdbeyond! There was no thought in any of us for a moment of their being clouds. They were clear as crystal, sharp on the pure horizon sky, and already tinged with rose by the sinking sun. Infinitely beyond all [2] that we had ever thought or dreamed,the seen walls of lost Eden could not have been more beautiful to us; not more awful, round heaven, the walls of sacred Death. It is not possible to imagine, in any time of the world, a more blessed entrance into life, for a child of such a temperament as mine." ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 39542
Author: Conway, William Martin
Release Date: Apr 27, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: McCormick, A. D. (Arthur David), 1860-1943