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" 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. "
Letters of Thomas Gray: Two Volumes in One - Page 74
by Thomas Gray - 1820 - 244 pages
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 52

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...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 39

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...
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The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts

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:...
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The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical ..., Volume 2

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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

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...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 17

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...
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The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal ..., Volume 3

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...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 3

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...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 4

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 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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Parthenon: A Magazine of Art and Literature

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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