Chapter 2

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.

in — earth, +im Himmel und auf Erden+.

whether they be, +seien sie+.

+Gewalten.+

is before = stands above.

+bestehen+, which place after ‘Him’.

Section 98.

THE LOST CHILD FOUND.