 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 554 sider
...violent head-ach. 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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure continuing... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 564 sider
...violent head-ach. 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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure continuing... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 560 sider
...violent head-ach. 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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure continuing... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1898 - 820 sider
...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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to Heaven. The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." The Reverend Archibald... | |
 | 1898 - 514 sider
...preserved 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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing, as it were, up to heaven ! The rapture of the spectator is reallv indescribable." THE SPREAD EAGLE.... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1898 - 846 sider
...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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to Heaven. The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." The Reverend Archibald... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1898 - 914 sider
...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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to Heaven. The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." The Reverend Archibald... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 574 sider
...violent head ach.1 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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing... | |
 | Algernon Graves - 1905 - 458 sider
...the courage to look over the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and knees to peep over it. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be beyond what they are on viewing it from below. This bridge is in Upper Virginia, about 180 miles from... | |
 | William B. Cairns - 1909 - 520 sider
...violent head ach. 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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing... | |
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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 springing as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! 
