 | Tobias Smollett - 1775 - 552 pages
...clifF, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain fcenes that would awe an atheift into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very fan taftic imagination to fee fpirits there at noon-day : you have death perpetually before your eyes,... | |
 | John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 pages
...restraining: not a precipice, not a torrent) not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the kelp of other argument, one need not have a very fantastic imagination to sec spirits there at noon-day:... | |
 | 1808 - 578 pages
...torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe au atheist into belief, without the help of other argument....not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits at noon-day. You have death perpetually before your eyes ; only so far removed, as to compose the mind... | |
 | 1812 - 424 pages
...restraining ; not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist...not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits at noon-day. You have death perpetually before your eyes ; only so far removed, as to compose the mind... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...restraining : not a precipice, not a torrent, not a did!, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes, that would awe an atheist...the mind without frighting it. I am well persuaded, Bruno was a man of no common genius, to choose such a situation for his retirement ; and perhaps should... | |
 | 1821 - 394 pages
...restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist...am well persuaded St. Bruno was a man of no common genins, to choose such a situation for his retirement ; and perhaps should have been a disciple of... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 pages
...restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist...very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon- day: You have death perpetually before your eyes; only so far removed, as to compose the mind... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 pages
...remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining." And again — " You have death perpetually before your eyes ; only...removed, as to compose the mind without frighting it." When in the North of England, speaking of a cataract, he says: "I stayed there, not without shuddering,... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining." And again — " You have death perpetually before your eyes ; only...removed, as to compose the mind without frighting it." When in the North of England, speaking of a cataract, he says : " I stayed there, not without shuddering,... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...restraining : not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the helps of other argument." Of the spot here mentioned he was so enamoured as to pay it a second visit... | |
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I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without... 
