 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 from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing...  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
 | 1843 - 758 strani
...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 are here ;...rapture of the spectator is really indiscribable. THE DARING ADVENTURER. The following account is from an authentic source. As we stood under this most beautiful... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1843 - 866 strani
...that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising oot of the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here,...to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! of the North mountain on one side, and the Blue ridge on the other, at the distance... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - 1843 - 604 strani
...below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising out of the gublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful...springing, as it were, up to heaven, the rapture of the spectacle is really indescribable. " The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight for a considerable... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1808 - 658 strani
...from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here: — so beautiful an srch,soelevated, so Imlit, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The bridge is in the county of Rock bridge, to which it bus given name, affords a public... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1845 - 252 strani
...parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent headache. 3. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,...to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure, continuing narrow, deep, and straight, for a considerable distance above... | |
 | Francis Wyse - 1846 - 482 strani
...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 are here ;...springing, as it were, up to heaven, — the rapture of the spectacle is really indescribable. bridge, to which it has given name ; and affords a public and commodious... | |
 | 1848 - 460 strani
...the arch, is many times larger than the transverse." * * * "The view from below is delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising...to Heaven ! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." [Jefferson's Notes on Virginia. f L. How grand — how graceful — is that airy arch... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1848 - 460 strani
...the arch, is many times larger than the transverse." * * * "The view from below is delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising...to Heaven ! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." {Jefferson's Notes on Virginia. How grand — how graceful — is that airy arch !... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1008 strani
...rock of lime-stone. The arch approaches the semi-elliptical form, but the larger axis of the ellipse, which would be the chord of the arch, is many times...to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight for a considerable distance above... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 632 strani
...approaches the semi-elliptical form ; but the larger axis of the ellipsis, which would he the cord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse....to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight, for a considerable distance above... | |
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