Part 75

+Eindruck+, m.

pile of ice, +Eismasse+, f.

+unmittelbar.+

Use the gen. of the def. art.

+betreten+, v. tr.

it seemed = it had the appearance. The adverbial circumstance of time ‘for a few moments’ may be emphasized by being placed immediately after the conj. ‘and’.

Darkness is coming on, +die Dunkelheit bricht herein+.

But — moments = But soon.

Form a comp. n.

The passage ‘more — yet’ may be elegantly rendered by ‘+welche alles bereits Geschaute noch an Herrlichkeit übertraf+’.

Form a comp. n.

to change into something, +in etwas ü´bergehen+.

+Farbentöne.+

+Rosenrot+, n.

A — clouds, +Ein weißes Gewölk+.

rested = hung.

kindled = reddened (+errö´ten+).

glared = glowed (+erglü´hen+).

as — them, +wie von einem Lichtgeiste erfüllt+.

Section 97.

THE GLACIERS AT SUNSET.

II.

You did not lose your idea of the dazzling, spiritual whiteness of the snow; yet you seemed to see it through a rosy veil, the sharp edges of the glaciers and the hollows between the peaks reflecting wavering tints of lilac and purple. The effect was solemn and spiritual above everything I have ever seen. These words, which had often been in my mind through the day, and which occurred more often than any others while I was travelling through the Alps, came into my mind with a pomp and magnificence of meaning unknown before:—“For by (+durch+) Him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him: and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist (Col. i. 16, 17).”—MRS. BEECHER STOWE.

Say ‘The idea (+Bild+, n.) of the dazzling, spiritual (+geisterhaft+) whiteness of the snow lost itself not; it seemed, however, as if one saw it (+als sähe man es+) through a rosy veil, whilst the sharp edges (+Zacke+, f.) of the glaciers and the hollows (+Vertiefung+, f.) between the peaks were beaming (+erstrahlen+) in wavering (+unbestimmt+) colours of lilac and purple’.

Say ‘The impression (+Eindruck+, m.) of it (S. 4, N. 5, B) surpassed in (+an+) solemnity and sublimity everything (+alles+, S. 3, N. 7) that I had (App. § 22) ever seen’.

Say ‘The following words’.

which — mind, +die mir ... oft vor der Seele gestanden+.

and — before = and of (+an+) which I was most reminded during my Alpine journey (+Alpenreise+), revealed themselves only (+erst+) now to my mind in their whole splendour and magnificence.