Travelling Sketches : in the North of Italy, the Tyrol, and on the Rhine.- (Heath's picturesque annual ; 1832)
Pagina 274 di 317
Autore:
Leitch, Ritchie / Leitch Ritchie
Luogo:
London
Editore:
Longman [u.a.]
Descrizione fisica:
IV, 256 S. : Ill.
Lingua:
Englisch
Commenti:
mit 26 Stahlstichen
Soggetto:
g.Oberitalien;f.Reisebericht ; <br>g.Tirol;f.Reisebericht
Segnatura:
II 185.432
ID interno:
240277
TIIE BRENNER BY LAMP-LIGHT. 227 She was about middle life, and of a slight and attenuated figure ; and her head was covered with a thick, black veil. We bent low as she passed; and, walking away, with a dim eye and a swelling heart, left her alone with her glorious and beloved dead. When we reached the main road again, we found the diligence waiting at the top of the pass. Here we saw the Eisak for the last time, leaping from the side of the mountain, near its source—a ravine clothed with dark
firs, in which the snow-waters of the Brenner are collected. The road, on beginning to descend, skirts along the margin of a little lake, the parent, we were told, of some fine trout, which are the staple dish at the inn-tables on both sides of the mountain. It was night before we completed the descent, and the effect of the lamp-light was singularly fine. The precipices, along the edge of which we seemed to stagger, were magnified till they resembled the wonders of the night-mare ; and, as the red