 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1775 - 552 pages
...Chartreufe, I do not' remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, thac there was no reftraining : not a precipice, not a torrent, not a clifF, but is...pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain fcenes that would awe an atheift into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1775 - 664 pages
...Chartreufe, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no reftraining : not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is...pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain fcenes that C c 4 would would awe an atheift into belief, without the help of other irgqment. One need... | |
 | Biography - 1808 - 578 pages
...the mountain's top." — And, in a letter to his friend West, he says, with his wonted enthusiasm, " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse,...and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe au atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...carved pannels, and painting, wherever they could stick a brush. I own I have not, as yet, any where met with those grand and simple works of art, that...torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion aqd poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 592 pages
...Aleaic Ode" in the album of the fathers of this monastery. Gray's account of this grand scene, where "not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry," will be found in his letter to West, dated Turin, Nov. 16, NS 1739. Works, vol. ii. p. 69.— E. b... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 596 pages
...Aleaic Ode" in the album of the fathers of this monastery. Gray's account of this grand scene, where " not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry," will be found in his letter to West, dated Turin, Nov. 16, NS 1739. Works, vol. ii. p. 69.— E. b... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...again adverts to this memorable visit : ' In our little journey up the Grande Chartreuse,' he says, ' , when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And tliat mould awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...brush. 1 own I have not, as yet, any where met with those grand and simple works of art, that arc «o amaze one, and whose sight one is to be the better...cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There arc certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...you will conclude we had no occasion to repent our pains." "I do not remember," he writes to West, "to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that...Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pungent with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an d^ieist into belief, without... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pages
...Chartreufe, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no reftraining : Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is...pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain fcenes that would awe an atheift into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have... | |
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I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. 
