 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
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 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... | |
 | Francis Wyse - 1846 - 482 strani
...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 sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - 1778 - 392 strani
...from above be so exquisitely painful as not long to be borne, that from beneath is delightful in the extreme . It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt in a greater degree than at this spot . The rapture of the spectator cannot be described, when he surveys... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 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... | |
 | Algernon Graves - 1905 - 458 strani
...the courage to look over the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and knees to peep over it. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be beyond what they are on viewing it from below. This bridge is in Upper Virginia, about 180 miles from... | |
 | Robert Alexander Lancaster (Jr.) - 1915 - 568 strani
...from this height about a minute, gave me a violent headON THE ROAD TO NATURAL BRIDGE (1889). 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... | |
 | Frederick Doveton Nichols, Ralph E. Griswold - 1978 - 228 strani
...Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head ach." But, he went on reassuringly, "if the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme."7 Karl Lehman has called Jefferson the greatest classicist of his time in America, and we... | |
 | Stefan Kaufmann - 2005 - 376 strani
...parapet and peep over it. Looking down from its height about a minute, gave me a violent head ache. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,...impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime, to be feit beyond what they are here: so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing äs it were... | |
 | Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 strani
...unübertreffliche Gewalt des Eindrucks heraus, den die erhabene Landschaft Nordamerikas auf den Betrachter mache: „It is impossible for the emotions, arising from the sublime, to be feit beyond what they are here: so beautiful an arch, so elevated a light, [...] the rapture of the... | |
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