 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 516 pages
...the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and knees, creep to the parapet and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me... | |
 | 1843 - 758 pages
...the sides of the bridge are provided in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the...and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. While the view from the top is painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme.... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - 1843 - 604 pages
...the sides of this bridge are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the...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.... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1843 - 866 pages
...provided, in some pans, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk •-J '.hem and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall...parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this beitrht about a minute, pave me a violent headache. 'If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1808 - 658 pages
...the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands, creep to the parapet, and peep over it; but if the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...the bridge," says he, " are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You voluntarily fall on your hands and knees, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...the bridge," says he, " are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and knees, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the height about a minute, gave me a violent... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1845 - 252 pages
...the sides of the bridge are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the...height about a minute, gave me a violent headache. 3. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme.... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...the bridge," says he, " are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and knees, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the height about a minute, gave me a violent... | |
 | Francis Wyse - 1846 - 482 pages
...the sides of this bridge are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the...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.... | |
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Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it.... 
