 | 1822 - 466 str.
...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...it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator ij really indescribable! This bridge is in the county of Hockbridge, to which it has given name, and... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 str.
...the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions, arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are on the sight of so beautiful an arch; so elevated and so light, springing up, as it were to heaven.... | |
 | Samuel Latham Mitchill - 1826 - 92 str.
...accompaniment of planets, and the starry firmament at night; and when he declares that " it is impossible for emotions arising from the " sublime to be felt beyond what they are there," he did not recollect the avalanches from the Alps, burying whole villages with ice and snow... | |
 | Samuel Latham Mitchill - 1826 - 76 str.
...accompaniment of planets, and the starry firmament at night; and when he declares that " it is impossible for emotions arising from the " sublime to be felt beyond what they are there," he did not recollect the avalanches from the Alps, burying whole villages with ice and snow... | |
 | Bernhard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - 1828 - 478 str.
...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 heaven! The rapture of the spectator is really indiscribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight, for a considerable distance above... | |
 | 1828 - 348 str.
...the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in the extreme. It is impossible for the emotions, arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are on the sight of so beautiful an arch ; so elevated and so light, springing up, as it were, to heaven.... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 str.
...view from the top is painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime...considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens a short, but very pleasing view of the North Mountain on one side, and the Blue Ridge on the other,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 362 str.
...view from the top is painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime...considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens a short, but very pleasing view of the North Mountain on one side, and the Blue Ridge on the other,... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1831 - 236 str.
...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...'rapture of the 'spectator is really 'indescribable ! As we stood under this beautiful arch, we saw the place where visiters have often taken pains to... | |
 | 1831 - 234 str.
...infinite wisdom the universe, with all its wonders, was created. Through the fissure, which continues narrow, deep, and straight, for a considerable distance above and below the bridge, the spectator catches a pleasing view of the North-mountain on one side and Blue-ridge on the other,... | |
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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... 
