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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... "
The Cambrian Tourist; Or, Post-chaise Companion Through Wales ... - Page 218
1828 - 316 pages
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 63

Tobias Smollett - 1787 - 510 pages
...parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful to the extreme. It is impoffible for the emotions arifing from the fublime to be felt beyond what thejr...
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 5

1787 - 512 pages
...parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave nie a violent hcad-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from belo\v is delightful in the extreme.' It is impoflihle for the emotions arifing from the fublime to...
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The American Geography: Or, a View of the Present Situation of the United ...

Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - 522 pages
...parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impoffihle for the emotions anfing from the fublime, to be felt beyond what...
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An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of ..., Volume 3

William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 pages
...into the abyfs. You involuntarily fall on your hands 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. It is impoffible for the emotions arifing from the fublime, to be felt beyond what...
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The Monthly Magazine, Volume 25

1808 - 674 pages
...but if the view from the top be ¡minrui and intolerable, that frum below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime, to be r'crt beyond what they are here:— so beautiful mi arch,so elevated, so light, and springing as it...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 pages
...your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. LookIng down from this height aboi^ta minute, gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from the top be pain.ful and intolerable, fhat from .below is .delightful in an equal extreme. It is impoflib'le for the emotions truing fr&m...
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Miscellanea Perthensis

Miscellanea Perthensis - 1801 - 242 pages
...into the abyfs, but involuntarily fall on their handsand feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from bo low is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impofiible for" D » the the emotions arifing from...
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...over it. Look ing down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ach. If the view fe^Si the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It i$ impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what...
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The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and sciences, Volume 4

Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 pages
...and peeps over it- Looking down from this height about a misKe, Ea»e Mr Jefferfon a violent headach. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It u impotfible for tbe emotion arifing from the fubtm< to be felt beyond what they...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

1811 - 576 pages
...fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking down from this heiglit about a minute gave me a violent head-ache. If the...arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here, on the night of so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, springing up as it were If to Heaven,...
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