 | 1808 - 674 pages
...over it; but if the view from the top be ¡minrui and intolerable, that frum below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime, to be r'crt beyond what they are here:— so beautiful mi arch,so elevated, so light, and springing as it... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...fe^Si the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It i$ impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime,...the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable !' The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight, for a considerable distance above and below the... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1804 - 356 pages
...eligiuful in an equ.il extreme. It is imuleed, for the emotions arising from the i aucL i lion U &s: sublime to be felt beyond what they are here : so beautiful an arch, so elevated, ?o light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable... | |
 | 1811 - 576 pages
...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...the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here, on the night of so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, springing up as it were If to Heaven,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from the top he painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful...from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here : 90 beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, tbe rapture of... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 944 pages
...head-ache. If the " view from the top be painful and into" lerable, that from below is delightful in " an equal extreme. It is impossible for " the emotions...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, " and springing up as it were to heaven ! " The rapture of the spectator is really in" describable ! The fissure continuing... | |
 | Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 566 pages
...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 arising...here : so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, aud springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! This... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 344 pages
...painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for tin: emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing up as it were to heaven ! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure continuing... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1819 - 592 pages
...'' 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 are here: so beautiful an arch, so ele" vated, so light, and springing up as it were to " heaven ! The rapture of the spectator is really... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...from above be so exquisitely painful as not long to be borne, that from beneath is delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt iu a greater degree than at this spot. The rapture of the spectator cannot be described, when he surveys... | |
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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 springing... 
