 | Tobias Smollett - 1787 - 510 strani
...over into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful to the... | |
 | 1787 - 512 strani
...parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave nie a violent hcad-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from belo\v is delightful in the extreme.' It is impoflihle for the emotions arifing from the fublime to... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - 522 strani
...have refolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it....from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an... | |
 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 strani
...into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet and peep over it. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,...from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impoffible for the emotions arifing from the fublime, to be felt beyond what they are here : fo beautiful... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 strani
...-refolution to walk to them, and look over Into the abyfs. — You involuntarily fall upon your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. LookIng down from this height aboi^ta minute, gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from the top be pain.ful and intolerable,... | |
 | Miscellanea Perthensis - 1801 - 242 strani
...into the abyfs, but involuntarily fall on their handsand feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from bo low is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impofiible for" D » the the emotions arifing from... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 strani
...over it. Look ing down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ach. If the view fe^Si the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It i$ impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here : so... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 strani
...and peeps over it- Looking down from this height about a misKe, Ea»e Mr Jefferfon a violent headach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,...that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It u impotfible for tbe emotion arifing from the fubtm< to be felt beyond what they are here : fa kautiful... | |
 | 1811 - 576 strani
...fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this heiglit about a minute gave me a violent head-ache. If the...and intolerable, that from below is delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 strani
...resolution to walk to them and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands, i reep to the parapet; and peep over it. Looking down from...gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from the top he painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in au equal extreme. It is impossible for... | |
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Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it.... 
