 | Wayne Franklin - 1989 - 328 halaman
...writes that, from the lower perspective, one looks through the arch to a "very pleasing view" beyond: "the North mountain on one side, and Blue ridge on the other, at the distance each of them 27 Discovery of about five miles."11 Thus the viewer is so placed that the natural Narrativi' object... | |
 | Jack Mclaughlin - 1990 - 496 halaman
...be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light: and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable." If these aesthetic notions derived from the literature of the sublime were not motivation enough, he... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - 1991 - 283 halaman
...were cleft by the fissure. Significantly, he told of what could only be viewed from the high place. "The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and straight,...pleasing view of the North mountain on one side and the Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles." 51 Jefferson had been... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 halaman
...be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is...pleasing view of the North mountain on one side and the Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles. . . . FROM QUERY XI.... | |
 | David E. Nye - 1996 - 388 halaman
...be felt beyond what they are here, so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is...but very pleasing view of the North mountain on one side.3 Jefferson abandons the neutral scientific tone as he recalls powerful emotions and urges the... | |
 | David Emblidge - 1996 - 410 halaman
...be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is...pleasing view of the North mountain on one side and the Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles. This bridge is in the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1998 - 374 halaman
...be felt beyond what they are here: so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is...indescribable! The fissure continuing narrow, deep, and streight for a considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens a short but very pleasing view... | |
 | David Mazel - 2001 - 388 halaman
...be felt beyond what they are here: so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to Heaven. The 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... | |
 | E. M. Halliday - 2009 - 306 halaman
...be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!" In a letter to John Adams in 1812, Jefferson recalled how a Cherokee chief, Ontassete, had stirred... | |
 | Orvar Löfgren - 1999 - 344 halaman
...be felt beyond what they are here. So beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!" 12 COLLECTING SCENERIES Linnerhielm's baggage does not include a measuring rod or a knotted rope, but... | |
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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 springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable... 
