 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 232 pages
...to Richard West, November 16, 1739 : " I own I have not, as yet, anywhere met with those granciand simple works of Art, that are to amaze one, and whose...appealed to his own feelings in a very different way. ing. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 400 pages
...lays." Those who are familiar with Gray's letters will remember the one to West, where he says : — " 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."... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 618 pages
...sight one is to be the better for; but those of nature have astonished me beyond expression. In onr little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse I do not...ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining; not a precipice, not a torrent, not a clip, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 388 pages
...happiest part of Gray's life. " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartrense," he wrote to West, " 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."... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 250 pages
...Nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do 5 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.... | |
 | Charles Dent Bell - 1895 - 296 pages
...thoughts still lingered among the wonders he had left behind. " I own I have not as yet [he wrote] anywhere met with those grand and simple works of...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.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1898 - 346 pages
...70—71. Milton suggests " by slow Maeander's margent green" as the haunt of the nymph Echo. Phelps. 73. '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.e... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 pages
...Chartreuse, which he calls "one of the most solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes." * " 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.... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1898 - 240 pages
...sentiments. — ' In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse,' he writes to his friend West, ' 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.'... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1899 - 268 pages
...and looking-glass ; inlaid floors, carved pannels, 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.... | |
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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. 
