| 1917 - 692 pages
...this comment: " 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 help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination, to see spirits there at noonday." " This is clearly,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1925 - 450 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 help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day: You have Death perpetually... | |
| 1926 - 434 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 help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noonday : You have Death perpetually... | |
| Otto von Greyerz - 1933 - 434 pages
...precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certainscenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument", fdjreibt er naá) fetner Dîeife an einen greunb. Unb in bem une erhaltenen Srudjftiicf feiner 'Sicfjtung... | |
| H. N. Fairchild - 2010 - 428 pages
...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, 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... | |
| 1912 - 914 pages
...serene, merely a less intense form of awful doubt. The sense of the passage, surely, is akin to Gray's '' would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument." The interpretation " Teaches awful doubt, or faith so mild, so solemn, so serene that by such faith... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1959 - 374 pages
...famous letter that "not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religious poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument." No Grande Chartreuse, with or without argument, would have awed Swinburne into orthodoxy (any more... | |
| 1916 - 698 pages
...1739: "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument." The English Romantic Movement, (Boston; Ginn and Company, nd) p. 169. " Amory, John Buncle, (London,... | |
| Albert Furtwangler - 1993 - 292 pages
..."Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry," he wrote. "There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. . . . You have death perpetually before your eyes, only so far removed, as to compose the mind without... | |
| 1910 - 368 pages
..."I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining .... I am well persuaded St. Bruno was a man of no common genius to devise such a situation for his retirement, and perhaps should have been a disciple of his had I been... | |
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