 There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day : You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only so far removed, as...  Letters of Thomas Gray: Two Volumes in One - Page 74de Thomas Gray - 1820 - 244 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1775 - 664 pages
...common genius, to choofe fuch a fituatioa for his retirement ; and perhaps (hould bare been a difctple of his, had I been born in his time. You may believe Abelard and Heloife were not forgot upon this occallon: if I do not miftake, I faw you too every now and then at... | |
 | John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 pages
...of other argument, one need not have a very fantastic imagination to sec spirits there at noon-day: you have death perpetually before your eyes, only...to choose such a situation for his retirement; and I perhaps should have been a disciple of his, had I been born in his time. You may believe Abelard... | |
 | John Blair Linn - 1804 - 192 pages
...of other argument, one need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day : you have death perpetually before your eyes, only...to choose such a situation for his retirement; and I perhaps should have been a disciple of his, had I been born in his time. You may APPENDIX. believe... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day: You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only...have • been a disciple of his, had I been born in Jiis time. You may believe Abelard and Ileloi'se were not forgot upon this occasion : If I do not mistake,... | |
 | 1808 - 578 pages
...help of other argument. One need 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 without frightening it. I am well persuaded, St. Bruno was a man of no common genius, to choose such a situation... | |
 | 1812 - 424 pages
...help of other argument. One need 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 without frightening it. I am well persuaded, St. Bruno was a man of no common genius, to choose such a si t... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noonday : you have death perpetually before your eyes, only...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
...of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day : You have death perpetually before your eyes ; only...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 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,... | |
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