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... The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 901811Full view - About this book
| Tobias Smollett - 1787 - 510 pages
...parapet, and look 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, that from below is delightful to the extreme. It is impoffible for the emotions arifing from the fublime to be felt beyond what thejr... | |
| 1787 - 512 pages
...parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave nie a violent hcad-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from belo\v is delightful in the extreme.' It is impoflihle for the emotions arifing from the fublime to... | |
| Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - 522 pages
...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, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impoffihle for the emotions anfing from the fublime, to be felt beyond what... | |
| William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 pages
...into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet and peep over it. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impoffible for the emotions arifing from the fublime, to be felt beyond what... | |
| 1808 - 674 pages
...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 - 1801 - 402 pages
...your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. LookIng down from this height aboi^ta minute, gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from the top be pain.ful and intolerable, fhat from .below is .delightful in an equal extreme. It is impoflib'le for the emotions truing fr&m... | |
| Miscellanea Perthensis - 1801 - 242 pages
...into the abyfs, but involuntarily fall on their handsand feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from bo low is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impofiible for" D » the the emotions arifing from... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...over it. Look ing down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ach. If the view 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, to be felt beyond what... | |
| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 pages
...and peeps over it- Looking down from this height about a misKe, Ea»e Mr Jefferfon a violent headach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It u impotfible for tbe emotion arifing from the fubtm< to be felt beyond what they... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...involuntarily fall on your hands, i reep to the parapet; and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent 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... | |
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