 In our little journey up to the grand chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain...  The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts - Page 114by John Blair Linn - 1804 - 155 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1907 - 656 pages
...to West, dated November 16, 1739, this peculiarity of his mental stratification is neatly exposed. ' Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff but is pregnant with religion and poetry,' he wrote from Turin six weeks after the crossing. A few sentences before he had written of Turin itself:... | |
 | 1910 - 370 pages
...chief interest lies in his attitude towards natural beauty. Speaking of the Grande Chartreuse he says: "I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining .... I am well persuaded St. Bruno was a man of no common genius to devise such a situation for his... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1909 - 684 pages
...winter, " wrapped in muffs, hoods and masks of beaver, fur boots, and bearskins," but wrote ecstatically, "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff but is pregnant with religion and poetry." On his return to England, Gray lived for a short time at Stoke Poges, where he wrote his " Ode on Eton,"... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1909 - 638 pages
..." wrapped in muffs, hoods and masks of beaver, fur boots, and bearskins," but wrote ecstatically," Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff but is pregnant with religion and poetry." THOMAS GRAY On his return to England, Gray lived for a short time at Stoke Poges, where he wrote his... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1911 - 444 pages
...but those of Nature have astonished me , beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces...with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John - 1911 - 270 pages
...lakes, waterfalls, and mountains. In 1739, fifty years in advance of the times, Gray said of the Alps, " Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." And in 1769, one year before Wordsworth was born, he visited the English lakes alone, and wrote back... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...: but those of Nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces...with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 pages
...Nature," he goes on, "have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces...with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief." This way of regarding mountain scenery, which we sometimes... | |
 | Archibald MacMechan - 1914 - 330 pages
...miracle. Every one knows the famous sentences, all glowing beneath their eighteenth-century precision: "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff but is...with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of other argument. One need not have a very... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1915 - 252 pages
...mind from a very early period. See his letter to West about his journey to the Grande Chartreuse : ' not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry ' (Letters, \. 44). It is interesting to find Keble, over whom Gray exercised a marked influence, writing... | |
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