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id: 32823
author: Howard, William
title: Narrative of a Journey to the Summit of Mont Blanc
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  HOWARD, M. D._ Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crown'd him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. _ Boissons] NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE Summit of Mont Blanc, MADE IN JULY, 1819.


id: 45642
author: Morris, Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest)
title: The Lake of Lucerne
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  Thus Lucerne gains in surprise and mystery what it loses in simple graciousness; is dramatic and startling where other lakes are tranquil and merely soothing; and is certainly, to sum up, the most splendid and magnificent lake in the Alps, if not the most dignified and beautiful. II Those who approach Lucerne directly by the railway fitly approach the most dramatic of lakes by the most dramatic of vestibules. Of all this class of lake, then--lakes of the transition--Lucerne is at once the most complex in shape, the least comprehensible in bulk, and the most immediately mountainous in character.


id: 45560
author: Morris, Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest)
title: The Lake of Geneva
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summary:
  If you want to realize the aspect of old Geneva properly, before the advent of the railway and the hordes of modern trippers, you should study the curious model now preserved in the splendid new Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, in the Rue des Casemates. Some museums of this sort are distinctly dismal; but this at Geneva is so rich in this particular direction, and so admirably marshalled, that even those who are little interested in origins will not regret an hour's loss of sunshine on lake and hill.


id: 18565
author: Howells, William Dean
title: A Little Swiss Sojourn
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  Post-office, Villeneuve_ _ He wore the Genevan bands and gown, and represented in that tabernacle of the ancient faith the triumph of the Religion with an effectiveness that was heightened by the hectic brightness of his gentle, spiritual eyes; and he preached a beautiful sermon from the beautiful text, Suffer little children, teaching us that they were the types, not the models, of Christian perfection.


id: 33122
author: Le Mesurier, W. H.
title: An Impromptu Ascent of Mont Blanc
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  _ MONT BLANC FROM THE BRÉVENT, SHEWING THE ROUTE 13 THE GLACIER DES BOSSONS 18 THE CABANE ON THE GRANDS MULETS 26 MONT BLANC FROM THE COL DE BALME 42 COMING DOWN THE GLACIER DES BOSSONS 50 DIAGRAM SHEWING THE RELATIVE HEIGHTS OF MONT BLANC AND SNOWDON 56 MAP OF ROUTES TO CHAMONIX 72 _CHAPTER I._ And thou, fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains, Why are ye beautiful? On a delightful evening in the month of July, 1881, table d'hôte being over, my friend S---- and myself were seated under the verandah of the hotel d'Angleterre at Chamonix; there were many others besides ourselves, chiefly English and Americans, grouped in parties, some taking their coffee, others smoking, and all devoting their attention to the summit of Mont Blanc whose diadem of snow was being warmed in colour if not in reality by the last rays of the setting sun. These graceful spires are of warm tinted rock, and here and there streaks of snow are to be seen in the crevices and gullies which are shaded from the sun.


id: 46074
author: Gribble, Francis Henry
title: Lausanne
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summary:
  It was to Madame de Charrière herself that Benjamin Constant first confided the impression that Madame de Staël had made upon him. As a matter of fact it came to a quick end when the lover met Madame de Staël.


id: 43639
author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
title: Our Little Swiss Cousin
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  There were many little girls, all in white, their yellow hair hanging in long braids. Carl, she went on, for his mother had told her his name, do you ever carve little houses to look like this one?


id: 22255
author: De Koven, Anna
title: The Counts of Gruyère
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  Among them, Count Pierre de Gruyère, refusing an enormous indemnity for losses at the hands of the Bernois and as ever faithful to his order and to Savoy, took his place with other nobles of his house. Undeterred by this defeat and continually menaced by the incursions of the Bernois, Count Pierre de Gruyère successfully held them in check, and, no less wise as ruler than he was valorous in war, enlarged the power and extent of his domain by political and matrimonial alliances with the great Romand families of Blonay, Grandson and Oron, as well as with the warlike La Tour Chatillons of the Valais, and with the powerful Wissenbourgs and the semi-royal Hapsburg-Kibourgs of eastern Switzerland.


id: 22377
author: Abbott, Jacob
title: Rollo in Switzerland
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  Now, Rollo, said Mr. George, I have got a great deal to do to-day, and there are our passports to be stamped. Very well, said Rollo. You may make inquiries of any body you please, said Mr. George, except your father and mother.


id: 39651
author: Fox, Frank
title: Switzerland
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summary:
  Sir Martin Conway describes Swiss Alpine glaciers as of the medium type, lying as they do half-way between the Arctic and tropical extremes. Are you not satisfied to know that nearly all the poets and philosophers who have written about the mountains seem to be agreed on this point when they refer to it at all; and that few have written about mountains without making some reference to the noble nature of mountain peoples? _S._ To tell you the truth, I am not quite satisfied.


id: 11179
title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2
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sentence: 2061
flesch: 70
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  To say that one can count dozens of glaciers, that he can see fifty summits, that Monte Rosa, the Lyskamm, the Twins, the Breithorn, the Matterhorn, the Dent Blanche, the Weisshorn, with many other mountains of the Valais and Oberland form a complete circle of snow peaks, may establish the geography of the place but it does not convey any but the faintest picture of the sublime grandeur of the scene.... From the Schwarzsee (8,495 feet, where there is an excellent hotel), there is a fine survey of the Matterhorn, and also a splendid panorama, on three sides, one view up the glaciers toward the Monte Rosa, another over the valley to the Dent Blanche and other great peaks, and still another to the far distant Bernese Oberland.


id: 12404
title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1
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sentence: 2060
flesch: 68
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summary:
  The Norixberg theory will serve to illustrate the incredible quantity of misplaced ingenuity which both of old times and in the present has been wasted in trying to explain the inexplicable. Once more we have to cross the Pegnitz, whose banks are overhung by quaint old houses.


id: 45097
author: Prime, Samuel Irenæus
title: Letters from Switzerland
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summary:
  If plenty of mountain water and mountain air will make sick people well, here is a fine place for them to come and be cured. For a month we had been on and under the mountains of Switzerland; gazing successively upon higher and yet higher heights; and when the Jungfrau, and Mount Rosa, and other of the lesser kings of the country had stood before us, we could not believe that any other could be a monarch in the midst of such mountains as these.


id: 39542
author: Conway, William Martin, Sir
title: The Alps
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  There is a gorgeous range of snow mountains with every effect of cloud and sunshine that the eye can desire, displayed about and upon them, yet the climber finds with dismay that his heart is cold. It has been proved that snow mountains are a specially suitable subject for such art.


id: 42758
author: Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.
title: True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old
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sentence: 2827
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  If the peak is well known, as is, say, the Matterhorn, he will have heard from other guides which routes have been followed, and will know that if he desires to take his traveller up the ordinary way he must go past the Schwarz-see Hotel, and on to the ridge which terminates in the Hörnli, making for the hut which he has seen from below through the telescope. Melchior was born a guide, as he was born a gentleman, and no one who has had the pleasure of his acquaintance can fail to be impressed by his tact and wonderful sweetness of disposition, which have enabled him to work smoothly and satisfactorily with other guides, who might well have felt some jealousy at his career of unbroken success.


id: 43314
author: Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.
title: Adventures on the Roof of the World
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  here was good snow at last, only requiring at most a couple of slashes with the adze end of the axe for each step. True, the summit had seemed close enough when the last break in the swirling clouds had enabled us to catch a glimpse of what still towered above; but our experience of Swiss snow mountains was long enough to make us sceptical as to apparent tops, and possibly the Caucasian giants were as prone to deceive as the human pigmies that crawled and burrowed at their bases.


id: 35068
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age
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  One may make short trips to Blonay, and even up Pelerin, if he is fond of stiff climbing, and there are wandering little roads that thread cozy orchard lands and lead to secluded villages tucked away in what seem forgotten corners of a bygone time. But I may hint to the conservative motorist that below the Seine, in the neighborhood of the Luxembourg Gardens, about where the rue de Vaugirard crosses the Boulevard St. Michel, he will find choice little hotels, with rooms very moderate indeed.


id: 39695
author: Hug, Lina
title: The Story of Switzerland
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  At once a group of Zurich men turned up with some loaves, and presently the whole party fell to eating the _Milchsuppe_ right merrily. A legion of Swiss _emigrés_ abroad collected by Roverea, at Vaudois, who had sided with Bern in the previous struggle, joined the Austrian army.


# ent

id: 42758
sid: 2386
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type: ORG
entity:
  d'être engagè avec votre compatriote et de ne pouvoir vous accompagner dans vos conquetes mais dès qu'on a donnè sa parole


