...Virginia (1781-1784). He declares it "the most sublime of Nature's works." "It is impossible," he says, "for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt...to Heaven. The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." The Reverend Archibald Alexander, who as a youth visited it about 1789, speaks of it...

...wrote in Notes on Virginia, "for the emotions The Natural Bridge, as painted by Frederick Edwin Church. arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they...to heaven! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!" In a letter to John Adams in 1812, Jefferson recalled how a Cherokee chief, Ontassete,...

...arch approaches the Semi-elliptical form; but the larger axis of the ellipsis which would be the cord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse....to heaven! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! Query V, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 Ignorance is preferable to error; and...

...Linnaeus, but all of a sudden the language changes into a style that Linnerhielm would have liked. n "It is impossible for the emotions arising from the...to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!" 12 COLLECTING SCENERIES Linnerhielm's baggage does not include a measuring rod or a...

...effusive in his praise in Query V for the beauty of the Natural Bridge, located in Rockbridge County: It is impossible for the emotions, arising from the...to heaven, the rapture of the Spectator is really indiscribable!16 Jefferson's moving images portraying Virginia as a magnificent state with awe-inspiring...

...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet of fixed rocks, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about...to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight, for a considerable distance above...

...could be made of the arch and its surroundings, he expressed his feelings with the fervor of an artist: "It is impossible for the emotions, arising from the...rapture of the Spectator is really indiscribable! " 14 It is fortunate that he is spared the disillusion of seeing how his "public trust" has been desecrated....

...the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, Nature's Beauty . 39 and peep over it. Looking down from this height about...to heaven! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! Monticello at Charlottesville, Virginia. And our own dear Monticello — where has Nature...

...is resettled only moments later in an act of recovery, as the I resumes its consistency of identity: "If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,...to heaven! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!"25 This is the movement that Jefferson's authorial "I" accomplishes: he is the indigenous...

...the North ridge; and, descending then to the valley below, the sensation becomes delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions, arising...to heaven, the rapture of the Spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continues deep and narrow and, following the margin of the stream upwards...