...places of the earth. " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse," he writes to West, in 1739, " I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry."' Thirty years later, a wanderer amongst the wild beauty of upper Wharfedale, he stood amidst the shadows...

...I am pleased with the sight of a plain!" Gray, after a similar journey in 1739, wrote of the Alps, "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." Although there are many beautiful and vivid descriptions of nature in the poems of Gray, Collins, Cowper,...

...admiration. In a letter to West (November 16, 1739) he uses the now famous phrase, describing the Alps, " not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." In 1741 Gray and Walpole, who had been too long in exclusive mutual companionship, quarrelled, and...

...were picturesque, alwve all they were full of literature: " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces...cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." We have still some way to go to the dreaming of Obermann in the high and lonely valleys or to Byron's...

...were picturesque, above all they were full of literature: " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces...without an exclamation that there was no restraining. Xot a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant, with religion and poetry." We have still...

...natur. Gray blir ej blott överväldigad, han visar sig även äga den rent poetiska uppfattningen: »Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.» Men även om han markerar en utveckling förbi det typiska lyoo-talet når han ännu ej fram till en...

...bien connue de Gray, écrivant quarante ans plus tard à la Grande Chartreuse : « Not a précipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. » Et certes la différence entre les deux formules paraît frappante. Encore faudrait-il se méfier...

...West on November 16, 1739, where he is thrilled by the scenery on the way to the Grande Chartreuse: "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but...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...

...Professor Phelps quotes from a letter of the poet Gray's on the Grande Chartreuse, written in 1739: "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument." The English Romantic...

...Gray, seeing the Grande Chartreuse for the first time, reported to Richard West in a famous letter that "not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religious poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help...