 There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day : You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only so far removed, as...  Letters of Thomas Gray: Two Volumes in One - Page 74by Thomas Gray - 1820 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Gosse - Poets, English - 1918 - 254 pages
...Bruno was a man of no common genius, to choose such a situation for his retirement ; and perhaps I should have been a disciple of his, had I been born in his time." It is hard to cease quoting, all this letter being so new, and beautiful, and suggestive ; but perhaps... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English letters - 1925 - 450 pages
...of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day : You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only...been born in his time. You may believe Abelard and Helolse were not forgot upon this occasion : If I do not mistake, I saw you too every now and then... | |
 | 1926 - 434 pages
...of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noonday : You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only...been a disciple of his, had I been born in his time. And now hear Wordsworth's account just after he had crossed the Alps : — The immeasurable height... | |
 | H. N. Fairchild - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 428 pages
...of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day: You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only...removed, as to compose the mind without frighting it."18 Notice the phrase "religion and poetry" — apparently there is not much difference — and... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - Authors, English - 1996 - 572 pages
...of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noonday: You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only...been a disciple of his, had I been born in his time. [...] Mont Cenis, I confess, carries the permission mountains have of being frightful rather too far;... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 578 pages
...of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noonday: You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only...perhaps should have been a disciple of his, had I been bom in his time. [...] Mont Cenis, I confess, carries the permission mountains have of being frightful... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - History - 1999 - 442 pages
...awe an atheist into belief." This letter also mentions fear, the distanced fear of Burke's Enquiry: "You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only...removed, as to compose the mind without frighting it." Aestheticians might reject Burke 's fearful sublime from their quiet studies; Gray would not. He was... | |
 | George Dekker - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 342 pages
...of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day: You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only...removed, as to compose the mind without frighting it ... You may believe Abelard and Helo1se were not forgot upon this occasion: If I do not mistake, I... | |
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