 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
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 pages
...for: 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...restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, [io but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pages
...for: but those of Nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande ress a sweeter sod 5 [10 but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into... | |
 | Robert Huntington Fletcher - 1916 - 406 pages
...Grande Chartreuse as 'one of the most solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes. . . . I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, nor a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.' 4. The same passionate appreciation extends... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1916 - 100 pages
...educated to find that exaltation in the terrors of mountainous regions which Gray expressed when he said: "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." The weaker side of modern Romance, the play-acting and pretence that has always accompanied it, may... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1916 - 96 pages
...educated to find that exaltation in the terrors of mountainous regions which Gray expressed when he said: "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." The weaker side of modern Romance, the play-acting and pretence that has always accompanied it, may... | |
 | 1917 - 692 pages
...265 Gray's notes on the Alps. His letter to Kichard West, November 16, 1739, contains this comment: " 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... | |
 | Robert Huntington Fletcher - 1919 - 524 pages
...Grande Chartreuse as " one of the most solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes. ... I do not remember to have gone ten Paces without an...was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, nor a cliff, but is pregnant with re 'igion and poetry." IV. The same passionate appreciation extends... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 pages
...later, can break into rhapsodies over the glory of the mountain landscape around the Grande Chartreuse : "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." Mountains to him were "monstrous creatures of God." The experiences of his spirit among the English... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1919 - 708 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." THOMAS GRAY On his return to England, Gray lived for a short time at Stoke Poges, where he wrote his... | |
 | Charles Milner Atkinson, John Edwin Mitchell - 1920 - 266 pages
...little journey to the Grande "Chartreuse," wrote Thomas Gray in 1739 to his friend, Richard West, " I do not remember to have gone ten paces "without...cliff, but is pregnant with " religion and poetry."' [" The convent itself,"] explained Horace Walpole to the same correspondent "stands on a large " space... | |
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