 | Robert A. Licht - 1991 - 220 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!26 One stands before this passage almost with the same sensation as Jefferson stood atop... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 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...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, at... | |
 | David E. Nye - 1996 - 388 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...considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens a short but very pleasing view of the North mountain on one side.3 Jefferson abandons the neutral scientific... | |
 | Barbara Crawford, Royster Lyle, Royster Lyle (Jr.) - 1995 - 274 str.
...his 1785 Notes on the State of Virginia as the "most sublime of nature's work" and noted that it was "impossible for the emotions, arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here . . ."3 The extent to which the bridge had entered the national consciousness is indicated by the fact... | |
 | David Emblidge - 1996 - 410 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...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, at... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1998 - 374 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,...indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and streight for a considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens a short but very pleasing view... | |
 | Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 str.
...middle, is about 60 feet, but more at the ends . . ." and so on. And then, with hardly a break: "It is impossible for the emotions, arising from the sublime,...to heaven, the rapture of the Spectator is really indiscribable!" The treatment of landscape in the Notes recalls a phrase from John Locke's second treatise... | |
 | J. Kent Minichiello, Anthony W. White - 2001 - 460 str.
...constituted by a coat of earth, which gives growth to many large trees. The residue, with the hill on ". . . so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing, as it were, up to heaven." Natural Bridge, H. Fenn, steel engraving from Picturesque America, 1872 both sides, is one solid rock... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 1997 - 368 str.
...imagination. Adopting the latent literary jargon of romantic enthusiasm, he found the Natural Bridge "so beautiful, an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were, up to Heaven!"11 In a similar passage worthy of Wordsworth, he described the magical view from Monticello:... | |
 | David Mazel - 2001 - 388 str.
...Virginia (1781-1784). He declares it "the most sublime of Nature's works." "It is impossible," he says, "for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt...rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." The Reverend Archibald Alexander, who as a youth visited it about 1789, speaks of it as exciting in him... | |
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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... 
