Pen and Pencil Sketches of Faröe and Iceland: With an Appendix Containing Translations from the Icelandic and 51 Illustrations Engraved on Wood by W. J. LintonLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 - 315 ページ |
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Althing appeared Arcturus ashes basaltic basin beautiful Biarni blue boat boiling called chasm chiefly church cloth clouds coast colour Copenhagen crater Danish dark deck deep distance earthquakes English eruption Fair Isle farm Faröe Faroe Islands Faröese feet fiord fire fish French friends Geyser green Greenland Haycock height Heimskringla Hekla Hildur hills horses Iceland inhabitants island Jökul Kötlugjá land lava light LÖGBERG look Mackinlay miles morning mountains night north-west Norway numerous o'clock Odin Old Nick old Norse plain ponies Professor Chadbourne pumice resembling Reykjanes Reykjavik ride rising river rocks round running Sæmund sail sand seemed seen Seydisfiord sheep Shetland ship shore side sketch skua slope smoke Snæfell snow specimens steam steamer stone Strokr syssel Thingvalla Thorshavn thou told turf valley volcanic Westmanna whole wild wind winter wonder Zöga
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36 ページ - Soon shalt thou find a summer home and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
18 ページ - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
191 ページ - ... waters, was condensed in the cooler regions of the atmosphere, and descended in floods, that deluged the fields and consolidated the ashes into a thick black crust. A fall of snow in the middle of June, and frequent showers of hailstones of unusual magnitude, accompanied with tremendous thunder-storms tearing up huge fragments of rock and rolling them down into the plains, completed the scene of desolation. The grass and other plants withered, and became so brittle that the weight of a man's...
9 ページ - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness ? Think of it: The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fathoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath.
36 ページ - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
198 ページ - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, " Place me in the barge,
130 ページ - The season's difference ; as the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Ev'n till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, This is no flattery ; these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
128 ページ - Who can stand before His indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him.
174 ページ - ... hundred and eighty miles; at other times the air was so filled with smoke and ashes that the adjacent parishes were enveloped in total darkness. Between these alternations of light and obscurity, vast red-hot globes were thrown to a great height, and broken into a thousand pieces. The following night presented one of the most awful and sublime spectacles imaginable. An unremitting noise, like that produced by the discharge of heary artillery, was heard from the volcano.
307 ページ - Gudrid, the widow of Thorstein (son of Erik the Red), who had died the year before in an unsuccessful expedition to Vineland. Accompanied by his wife, who encouraged him to this voyage, and by a crew of 160 men on board...