Part 74

Use the gen. of the def. art.; form, +Gestalt+, f.

+gescheitelt+; on the forehead = in the middle. Use the attributive construction.

and falling = which fell.

+voll.+

+kurz geschoren.+

that — illuminations, +daß der Gesichtstypus in den Abbildungen+.

+bestimmen.+

+Zeitalter+, m., i.e. epoch.

wherein = in which.

‘early’, here = first.

Lord = Saviour, +Heiland+, m.

Use the active voice with ‘man’. Comp. S. 4, N. 4.

+so pietätvoll.+

+bis auf.+

Say ‘were first (+zuerst+) made (+an´fertigen+)’.

Section 96.

THE GLACIERS AT SUNSET.

At a distance these glaciers, as I have said before, look like frozen rivers (S. 26, N. 3); when one approaches nearer, or when they press downward into the valley, they look like immense crystals and pillars of ice piled together in every conceivable form. The effect of this pile of ice, lying (S. 48, N. 6) directly in the lap of green grass and flowers, is quite singular. Before we had entered the valley, the sun had gone down; the sky behind the mountains was clear, and it seemed for a few moments as if darkness was rapidly coming on. But in a few moments commenced a scene of transfiguration, more glorious than anything I had witnessed yet. The cold, white, dismal fields of ice gradually changed into hues of the most beautiful rose colour. A bank of white clouds, which rested above the mountains, kindled and glared, as if some spirit of light had entered into them.

+bei+, contracted with the dat. of the def. art.

Comp. S. 26.

Place the words ‘as — before’ at the head of the whole passage; ‘at a distance’, in +der Entfernung+. For the constr. see App. § 15.

‘to look like’, here ‘+ähnlich sehen+’, which requires the dat.

The clause ‘when — nearer’ may be briefly rendered by ‘+in der Nähe+’, i.e. ‘close by’.

+hinein´dringen.+

+abwärts.+

‘to look’ may here be rendered by +aus´sehen+, to avoid repetition; ‘like’ must then be turned by ‘+wie+’.

To render ‘pillars of ice’ form a comp. n. analagous to ‘ice-pillars’.

to pile together, +auf´schichten+; use the attributive constr.