...met with those grand and simple works of art that are to amaze one, and whose sight one is to be the better for ; but those of nature have astonished me...a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument....

...70—71. Milton suggests " by slow Maeander's margent green" as the haunt of the nymph Echo. Phelps. 73. 'In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse,...torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.e Gray to West (Nov. 16 NS 1739). This thought never left his mind: it finds its first expression...

...sentiments. — ' In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse,' he writes to his friend West, ' I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.' But if Gray was one of the earliest writers who discovered that mountains were to be admired, Horace...

...Chartreuse, which he calls "one of the most solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes." * " I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. . . One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noonday." f Walpole's letter...

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...met with those grand and simple works of Art that are to amaze one, and whose sight one is to be the better for : but those of Nature have astonished me...a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument....

...What French writer in 1739 would have said, with Gray, during the ascent to the Grande-Chartreuse : " 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." It was in 1730 that Thomson — the...

...horror, while Gray is as enthusiastic as Wordsworth or Ruskin in his admiration of the scenery — " not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry ; " but Gray, like Walpole, preferred the Chartreuse to the Mont Cenis. Gray is probably the first...

...What French writer in 1739 would have said, with Gray, during the ascent to the Grande-Chartreuse : " Not a precipice, not ; a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetryThere are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief." It was in 1730 that Thomson...

...have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restrain1 Works, Vol. I., page 240. ing. 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...