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" 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 192
avtor: Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - 1828 - 450 strani
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Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early ...

Leslie Scott Philyaw - 2004 - 216 strani
...However, he found that after "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." Jefferson concluded his discussion of this natural wonder by noting that the stream...
Omejen predogled - O knjigi

Soziologie der Landschaft

Stefan Kaufmann - 2005 - 376 strani
...to be feit beyond what they are here: so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing äs it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!224 Das Unwillkürliche des Niederfalls als psychomechanische Reaktion, die hervorgerufenen...
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Looking Beyond the Highway: Dixie Roads and Culture

Claudette Stager, Martha Carver - 2006 - 328 strani
...from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, springing as it were up to heaven. The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable."1 Indescribable, but not unobtainable. In 1774 Jefferson bought the bridge and 1 57...
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The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals ...

Iain Murray - 2008 - 370 strani
...parapet and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,...to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! His first visit to the bridge appears to have been in 1767. It seems that he decided...
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Enlightened Republicanism: A Study of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia

David Tucker - 2008 - 182 strani
...the emotions arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable. The rapture passed quickly. Jefferson concluded the passage on the natural bridge by...
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The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature

Kevin J. Hayes - 2008 - 653 strani
...the emotions arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here: so beautiful an arch, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and streight for a considerable distance above...
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Moon Virginia: Including Washington, D.C.

Julian Smith - 2008 - 426 strani
...Cedar Creek. Thomas Jefferson, who once owned Natural Bridge, called it "so beautiful in archeology, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to Heaven, [that] the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." Natural Bridge is spectacular, to be...
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Rambles in the Path of the Steam-horse: An Off-hand Olla Podrida, Embracing ...

Eli Bowen - 1855 - 442 strani
...Peaks of Otter. 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....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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Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: With One Hundred ..., Količina 1

Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 478 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,...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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