 It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure continuing...  Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826 - Stran 192avtor: Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - 1828 - 450 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Wayne Franklin - 1989 - 328 strani
...writes that, from the lower perspective, one looks through the arch to a "very pleasing view" beyond: "the North mountain on one side, and Blue ridge on the other, at the distance each of them 27 Discovery of about five miles."11 Thus the viewer is so placed that the natural Narrativi' object... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - 1991 - 283 strani
...were cleft by the fissure. Significantly, he told of what could only be viewed from the high place. "The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight,...pleasing view of the North mountain on one side and the Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles." 51 Jefferson had been... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 strani
...light, and springing as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight,...pleasing view of the North mountain on one side and the Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles. . . . FROM QUERY XI.... | |
 | David E. Nye - 1996 - 388 strani
...light, and springing as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight,...but very pleasing view of the North mountain on one side.3 Jefferson abandons the neutral scientific tone as he recalls powerful emotions and urges the... | |
 | David Emblidge - 1996 - 410 strani
...light, and springing as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight,...pleasing view of the North mountain on one side and the Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles. This bridge is in the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1998 - 374 strani
...rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and streight for a considerable distance above and below the bridge,...other, at the distance each of them of about five miles.26 This bridge is in the county of Rock bridge, to which it has given name, and affords a public... | |
 | Michael P. Branch, Scott Slovic - 2003 - 390 strani
...that from below the bridge, looking down the gorge, "The fissure continuing narrow, deep and streight for a considerable distance above and below the bridge,...Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them about five miles" (54). As both Robert Lawson-Peebles and Garry Wills have noted, this view was not... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 612 strani
...light, and springing as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight,...pleasing view of the North mountain on one side.' Jeflerson abandons the neutral scientific tone as he recalls powerful emotions and urges the reader... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - 2008 - 653 strani
...rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and streight for a considerable distance above and below the bridge,...at the distance each of them of about five miles. (Jefferson 1982, 263-264) An unusual geologic formation, the Natural Bridge derived its beauty not... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1855 - 442 strani
...and springing, as it were, up to heaven, — the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight...pleasing view of the North mountain, on one side, and the Blue Ridge, on the other — at the distance, each of them, of about five miles/' This bridge is... | |
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