 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
 | John Blair Linn - American poetry - 1804 - 192 pages
...most eloquent rhetoricians, and gigantic reasoners, that the English nation has ever produced. exa" In our little journey up to the grand chartreuse,...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 - 1807 - 728 pages
...beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have goneten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining:...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... | |
 | Artists - 1812 - 424 pages
...letter to his friend West, he says, with his wonted enthusiasm, "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 j not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1907 - 656 pages
...to West, dated November 10, 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:... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...after visiting this place for the first time, he says ; — " 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 did!, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes, that would awe an atheist... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 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...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 - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...of nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse. 1 do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 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...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... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...enjoyment of it. " 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." And again—" You have death perpetually before your eyes ; only so far removed, as to compose the... | |
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