| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1775 - 664 pages
...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. There are certain fcenes that C c 4 would would awe an atheift into belief, without the help of other irgqment. One need... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1775 - 552 pages
...Chartreufe, I do not' remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, thac there was no reftraining : not a precipice, not a torrent, not a clifF, but is...pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain fcenes that would awe an atheift into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have... | |
| John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...reasoners, that the English nation has ever produced. " In our little journey up to the grande chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...that would awe an atheist into belief, without the kelp of other argument, one need not have a very fantastic imagination to sec spirits there at noon-day:... | |
| Biography - 1808 - 578 pages
...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...and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe au atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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 without an...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... | |
| 1853 - 640 pages
...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 without an...that would awe an atheist into belief, without the helps of other argument." Of the spot here mentioned he was so enamoured as to pay it a second visit... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...enjoyment of it. " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse," he writes to his friend West, " 1 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... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...enjoyment of it. " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse," he writes to his friend West, " 1 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 Tar removed, as to compose the... | |
| 1826 - 484 pages
...find him writing in the following -terms : — " 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 i .not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are... | |
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