 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 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...elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven!17 Farmers are God"s chosen people Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God,... | |
 | Bernard W. Sheehan - 1974 - 324 str.
...portraits of his favorite Virginia scenes. Of the Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, he wrote that it was "impossible for the emotions, arising from the sublime,...to heaven, the rapture of the Spectator is really indiscribable!" Also his prose sketch of the confluence of the Potomac and the Shenandoah, less scenic,... | |
 | Wayne Franklin - 1989 - 328 str.
...beneath, from which acclivity becomes beauty, the "parapet" (itself an architectural image) becomes "so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing, as it were, up to heaven"; and the redefinition of the upper surface itself, the extension of a metaphor implicit in the object's... | |
 | Merritt Roe Smith - 1980 - 372 str.
...Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, for example, as though he were evaluating a work of art. "It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here," he observed. "So beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the... | |
 | Thomas J. Schlereth - 1999 - 456 str.
...place in the scheme of Nature. As Thomas Jefferson mused in Notes on the State of Virginia, "1t is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime...rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." What was first worshipped as a gift from the Creator was soon reduced to the status of a natural resource,... | |
 | Jack Mclaughlin - 1990 - 496 str.
...writers of his age in affixing to a lofty natural phenomenon an ineffable spasm of feeling: "It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime,...rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." If these aesthetic notions derived from the literature of the sublime were not motivation enough, he... | |
 | Hans Huth - 1990 - 368 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 indescribable.7 In evaluating this emotional outburst we must not forget that the Natural Bridge ranked... | |
 | Gunther Barth - 1990 - 257 str.
...County in the 1787 edition of his Notes on the State of Virginia. "It is impossible," he stressed, "for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here." Edmund Burke had associated the sublime with pain, and Jefferson regarded the view from the top "painful... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - 1991 - 283 str.
...impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here," he affirmed. "So beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and...to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!"50 Yet, if Jefferson had conformed his memory to Burkean categories, he had also confused... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - 1991 - 283 str.
...intolerable," but that from below was "delightful in an equal extreme." Jefferson was enthusiastic: "It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here," he affirmed. "So beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven! the... | |
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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... 
