 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...admiration. In a letter to West (November 16, 1739) he uses the now famous phrase, describing the Alps, " not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." In 1741 Gray and Walpole, who had been too long in exclusive mutual companionship, quarrelled, and... | |
 | Robert Huntington Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 524 pages
...Grande Chartreuse as " one of the most solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes. ... I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, nor a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." IV. The same passionate appreciation extends... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1919 - 572 pages
...later, can break into rhapsodies over the glory of the mountain landscape around the Grande Chartreuse : "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." Mountains to him were "monstrous creatures of God." The experiences of his spirit among the English... | |
 | Charles Milner Atkinson, John Edwin Mitchell - Great Britain - 1920 - 266 pages
...little journey to the Grande "Chartreuse," wrote Thomas Gray in 1739 to his friend, Richard West, " I do not remember to have gone ten paces " without an...cliff, but is pregnant with " religion and poetry."* [" The convent itself,"] explained Horace Walpole to the same correspondent "stands on a large " space... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 488 pages
...of the earth. " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse," he writes to West, in 1739, " I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." l Thirty years later, a wanderer amongst the wild beauty of upper Wharfedale, he stood amidst the shadows... | |
 | George Goodchild - English literature - 1922 - 264 pages
...appeal strongly to him. When he crosses the Alps for the first time he writes home to a friend, that " not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry " ; and he speaks of the Scottish Highlands as ecstatic, and thinks they ought to be visited in pilgrimage... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Literary Collections - 1959 - 374 pages
...Gray, seeing the Grande Chartreuse for the first time, reported to Richard West in a famous letter that "not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religious poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Romanticism - 1973 - 564 pages
...Shaftesbury, Addison, and Thomas Gray, who had vied in representing prospects where, as Gray said, "not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." 60 Wordsworth's description of the ravine below Simplon thus epitomizes a century of commentary on... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...characteristic awed praise of mid and later eighteenth-century and nineteenth- and twentiethcentury travellers: Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff but is pregnant with religion and poetry. (Gray, 1739) Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath... | |
 | Rob Wilson - American poetry - 1991 - 358 pages
...as in his letter to Richard West, 16 Nov. 1739: "In our little journey up to the Grand Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...into belief, without the help of other argument." 1 The postmodern landscape has changed and emerged more densely textured, but the recoding of such... | |
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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. 
