 | 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... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 554 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... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 540 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,...the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure 7 continuing narrow, deep, and straight, for a considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1898 - 820 ページ
...Virginia (1781-1784). He declares it "the most sublime of Nature's works." " It is impossible," he says, " for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt...rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." The Reverend Archibald Alexander, who as a youth visited it about 1789, speaks of it as exciting in him... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1898 - 914 ページ
...Virginia (1781-1784). He declares it "the most sublime of Nature's works." " It is impossible," he says, " for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt...rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." The Reverend Archibald Alexander, who as a youth visited it about 1789, speaks of it as exciting in him... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1898 - 846 ページ
...Virginia (1781-1784). He declares it "the most sublime of Nature's works." "It is impossible," he says, "for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt...rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." The Reverend Archibald Alexander, who as a youth visited it about 1789, speaks of it as exciting in him... | |
 | 1898 - 518 ページ
...in the Land Office of Richmond. Jefferson wrote, in his "Notes on the State of Virginia ' ' : "It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime...were, up to heaven ! The rapture of the spectator is reallv indescribable." THE SPREAD EAGLE. After he became President, Jefferson built a cabin for the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 576 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... | |
 | Robert Alexander Lancaster - 1915 - 574 ページ
...the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here : on the sight of so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 ページ
...from this height about a minute, gave me a violent headache." But from below the view was sublime : "so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven." A few years later in Paris (December 26, 1786) Jefferson still stoutly maintained the superiority of... | |
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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... 
