 | Art - 1808 - 674 pages
...over it; but if the view from the top be ¡minrui and intolerable, that frum below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime, to be r'crt beyond what they are here:— so beautiful mi arch,so elevated, so light, and springing as it... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...fe^Si the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It i$ impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime,...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable !' The fissure continuing... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1804 - 356 pages
...eligiuful in an equ.il extreme. It is imuleed, for the emotions arising from the i aucL i lion U &s: sublime to be felt beyond what they are here : so beautiful an arch, so elevated, ?o light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable... | |
 | Books - 1811 - 576 pages
...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...the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here, on the night of so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, springing up as it were If to Heaven,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...head-ache. If the view from tlie top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in au equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! This Bridge is in the... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...head-ache. If the view from the top he painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in au equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising...from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here : 90 beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, tbe rapture of... | |
 | Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 566 pages
...violent head-ache. 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...here : so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, aud springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! This... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 538 pages
...violent head- ache. 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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! This bridge is in the... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...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 iu a greater degree than at this spot. The rapture of the spectator cannot be described, when he surveys... | |
 | Decorative arts - 1822 - 466 pages
...violent head-ache. 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...beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator ij really indescribable! This bridge is in the... | |
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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 as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable! 
