 | Robert Sears - 1854 - 668 ページ
...painfi'l HI ^ intolerable, that from bclc\v is d< ' 'jhtfiil in an equal extreme ; it i», irnposslbl" for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt...considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens a short but very pleasing view of the North mountain on one side, and Blue ridge on the other, at the... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1855 - 444 ページ
...view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime,...considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens a short but very pleasing view of the North mountain, on one side, and the Blue Ridge, on the other... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1855 - 432 ページ
...215 feet above the stream which flows under it, 80 feet wide and 93 feet long ;" and again he says, " so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing...rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." These are but a moiety of the magnificent scenes of the country ; every where in the Great Valley,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 922 ページ
...from the top be pain ful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime,...considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens a short but very pleasing view of the North Mountain on one side, and Blue Ridge on the other, at the... | |
 | Frederick Bartlett Goddard - 1869 - 688 ページ
...feet above the stream which flows under it, 80 feet wide, and 93 feet long — so beautiful, and areh, so elevated, so light, and springing, as it were,...rapture of the spectator is really indescribable" Madison's and "Weir-s oaves, near Staunton, are also well known as points of interest to the tourist... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1876 - 664 ページ
...from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme ; it is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime...considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens a short but very pleasing view of the North mountain on one side, and Blue ridge on the other, at the,... | |
 | Pennsylvania railroad co - 1884 - 216 ページ
...and (sic) descending then to the valley below, the sensation becomes delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime...the spectator is really indescribable. The fissure continues deep and narrow, and following the margin of the stream upwards, about threeeighths of a... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 632 ページ
...read: "and descending then to the valley below, the sensation becomes delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime...the spectator is really indescribable. The fissure continues deep and narrow, and following the margin of the stream upwards, about three-eighths of a... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 574 ページ
...: "and descending then to the valley below, the sensation becomes delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime...the spectator is really indescribable. The fissure continues deep and narrow, and following the margin of the stream upwards, about three-eighths of a... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 560 ページ
...view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime,...considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens a short but very pleasing view of the North mountain on one side, and Blue ridge on the other, at the... | |
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If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and... 
