 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...again adverts to this memorable visit : ' In our little journey up the Grande Chartreuse,' he says, ' were, In crimson colours саше. A little distance from the prow Those crimson restraining. Л'о! a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff', Imt ¡я pregnant with religion and poetry.... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 pages
...brush. 1 own I have not, as yet, any where met with those grand and simple works of art, that arc «o amaze one, and whose sight one is to be the better...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.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1861 - 480 pages
...you will conclude we had no occasion to repent our pains." "I do not remember," he writes to West, "to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pungent with religion and poetry.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pages
...of Nature have aftonifhed me beyond expreflion. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreufe, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no reftraining : Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 pages
...Gray to Mr. West — The Grande Chartreuse. panels, and painting, wherever they could stick a brush. I own I have not, as yet, anywhere met with those...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.... | |
 | 1867 - 556 pages
...have riot, as yet, any where met with those grand and simple works of art, that are •o amaze or/e, and whose sight one is to be the better for: but those...ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, nota torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 456 pages
...you will conclude we had no occasion to repent our pains." " I do not remember," he writes to West, " to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pungent with religion find poetry.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1876 - 380 pages
...solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes 1 ever beheld." To the latter he writes, " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse,...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.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 246 pages
...behind him. In a delightful letter to West, written nine days later, he is still dreaming of the Alps. " I own I have not, as yet, anywhere met with those...ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining ; not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant irith religion and poetry.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 252 pages
...behind him. In a delightful letter to West, written nine days later, he is still dreaming of the Alps: "I own I have not, as yet, anywhere met with those...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.... | |
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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. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. 
