 | Robert A. Licht - 1991 - 220 sider
...entirely different: 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!26 One stands before... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 sider
...violent head-ache. 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... | |
 | David E. Nye - 1996 - 388 sider
...violent head-ache. 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... | |
 | Barbara Crawford, Royster Lyle, Royster Lyle (Jr.) - 1995 - 274 sider
...his 1785 Notes on the State of Virginia as the "most sublime of nature's work" and noted that it was "impossible for the emotions, arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here . . ."3 The extent to which the bridge had entered the national consciousness is indicated by the fact... | |
 | David Emblidge - 1996 - 410 sider
...violent head-ache. 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... | |
 | J. Kent Minichiello, Anthony W. White - 2001 - 460 sider
...the North ridge; and, descending then to the valley below, the sensation becomes delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions, arising...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing, as it were, up to heaven, the rapture of the Spectator is really indiscribable! The fissure continues... | |
 | Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 sider
...the middle, is about 60 feet, but more at the ends . . ." and so on. And then, with hardly a break: "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 really indiscribable!" The treatment of landscape... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 2001 - 326 sider
...Blue ridge . . . and, descending then to the valley below, the sensation becomes delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions, arising...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing, as it were, up to heaven, the rapture of the Spectator is really indiscribable!" (24-25). Notes Introduction... | |
 | David Mazel - 2001 - 388 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... | |
 | E. M. Halliday - 2009 - 306 sider
...wrote in Notes on Virginia, "for the emotions The Natural Bridge, as painted by Frederick Edwin Church. arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!" In a letter to John... | |
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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! 
