...Alps. He wrote to his friend West, for example: "In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." This is wholly in the manner of Wordsworth, but the creative poetic impulse moved Wordsworth to write...

...attested by an often-quoted passage in his letters : "In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is fragrant with religion and poetry" (Nov. 16, 1739). The moderns have, however, carried the love of...

...which he made with his friend Horace Walpole, he writes of the scenery about the Grande Chartreuse: "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noonday." Years after, in the...

...Gray's day as was Gothic architecture. He says : — In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant -with religion :1 z R, I ? 8 § and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without...

...interest lies in his attitude towards natural beauty. Speaking of the Grande Chartreuse he says : "I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining .... I am well persuaded St. Bruno was a man of no common genius to devise such a situation for his...

...aquas, nemorumque noctem. But it is to be regretted that he should also have written respecting it, ' there are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of other argument — I am well persuaded St. Bruno was a man of no common genius to choose such a place for his retirement.'...

...lakes, waterfalls, and mountains. In 1739, fifty years in advance of the times, Gray said of the Alps, " Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." And in 1769, one year before Wordsworth was born, he visited the English lakes alone, and wrote back...

...order. He was only twenty-three when he wrote to West the celebrated passage referring to the Alps, " Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." At twenty-six we find him saying that "the language of the age is never the language of poetry; except...

...of Nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grand Chartreuse I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would drive an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic...

...horror, while Gray is as enthusiastic as Wordsworth or Ruskin in his admiration of the scenery — " not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry"; but Gray, like Walpole, preferred the Chartreuse to the Mont Cenis. Gray is probably the first writer...