 | Tobias Smollett - 1787 - 510 pages
...over into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful to the... | |
 | 1787 - 512 pages
...parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave nie a violent hcad-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from belo\v is delightful in the extreme.' It is impoflihle for the emotions arifing from the fublime to... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - 522 pages
...refolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down...from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 pages
...to walk to them, and look over Into the abyfs. — You involuntarily fall upon your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. LookIng down from this height aboi^ta minute, gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from the top be pain.ful and intolerable,... | |
 | Miscellanea Perthensis - 1801 - 242 pages
...into the abyfs, but involuntarily fall on their handsand feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from bo low is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impofiible for" D » the the emotions arifing from... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 pages
...and peeps over it- Looking down from this height about a misKe, Ea»e Mr Jefferfon a violent headach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,...that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It u impotfible for tbe emotion arifing from the fubtm< to be felt beyond what they are here : fa kautiful... | |
 | 1811 - 576 pages
...parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this heiglit about a minute gave me a violent head-ache. If 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... | |
 | 1816 - 782 pages
...peeps 6ver it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave Mr Jeflerfon a violent head.ich. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an erjua! extreme. It is impoflible for the emotions ariling from the fublime to be felt beyond what they... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 344 pages
...to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall upon your hands and feet, creep to fhe parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from, this height about a minute gave me a violent headacb. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1819 - 592 pages
...parapet, and peep " over it. Looking down from this height about " a minute gave me a violent head-ache. If the " view from the top be painful and intolerable, '' that from below is delightful in an equal ex" treme. It is impossible for the emotions aris*c ing from the sublime to be felt beyond what " they... | |
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Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it.... 
