 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....  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
 | A. N. - 1833 - 110 strani
...feet, creep to the parapet and peep over it. Looking down from this height gave me a violent headach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable...impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime, to be f felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, springing as it were... | |
 | 1833 - 448 strani
...parapet, and peep over it. Looking down frorn this height about a minute gave me a violent headache. But if the view from the top be painful and intolerable,...delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible, indeed, for the emotions arising from the sublime to he feit beyond what they are here ; so beautiful... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 strani
...the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the height about a minute, gave me a violent headacli. If the view from the top be painful 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... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 strani
...parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ach. But if the view from the top be painful and intolerable,...delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible, indeed, for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here; BO beautiful... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1838 - 242 strani
...wall breast-high. Resolution, courage. Abyss, gulf. •Involuntarily, instinctively. •Height, hite Headache. If the view from the top be painful and...'intolerable, that from below is delightful in an' equal extreme.—It is impossible for the 'emotions, arising out of the sublime, to be felt beyond what they... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 strani
...the hill on both sides, is one solid rock of limestone. ' The arch approaches the serai-elliptical form, but the larger axis of the ellipsis, which would...extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising out of the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here, so beautiful tin arch, so elevated, so light,... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1843 - 866 strani
...and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this beitrht about a minute, pave me a violent headache. 'If the view from the top be...extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising oot of the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here, so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light,... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - 1843 - 604 strani
...into the abyss. 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,...extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising out of the gublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light,... | |
 | 1843 - 758 strani
...fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. While the view from the top is painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful...extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising out of the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 strani
...the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the height about a minute, gave me a violent head ache. If the view from the top be painful 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... | |
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