 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - 328 pàgines
...arrived in full time to see the most wonderful and sublime sight that nature can present. But here description must ever fall short, for no imagination...magnificent a scene. Neither is there on the surface of the globe, any one point that unites so many awful and sublime objects. The immense elevation from... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 420 pàgines
...wonderful and sublime sight that nature can present. . But here description must ever fall short, for nu imagination has dared to form an idea of so glorious...magnificent a scene. Neither is there on the surface of the globe, any one point that unites so many awful and sublime objects. The i elevation from the surface... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pàgines
...spectacles in creation. " No imagination," says Mr. Brydone, " can form an idea of so glorious and magnificent a scene; neither is there, on the surface...any one point that unites so many awful and sublime sub. jects. The view is absolutely boundless on every side, nor is there any1 one object within the... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pàgines
...LENOX AND T1LDKN FOUNDATIONS RL imagination," says Mr. Brydone, " can form an idea of so glorious and magnificent a scene; neither is there, on the surface...any" one point that unites so many awful and sublime sub. jects. The view is absolutely boundless on every side, nor is there any one object within the... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 538 pàgines
...splendid spectacles in creation. " Ne imagination," says Mr. Brydone, "can form an idea of so gloriout and magnificent a scene ; neither is there, on the surface of this globe, any one point that unites so tinny awful and sublime subjects. The view in absolutely boundless on every side, nor is there any... | |
 | Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 pàgines
...sent to bring them on board the ship. A DESCRIPTION OF SUN-RISE AT MOUNT ETNA. But here, says Brydone, description must ever fall short ; for no imagination has dared to form an idea of sp glorious and so magnificent a scene Neither is there on the surface of this glohe any one point... | |
 | 1823 - 494 pàgines
...to bring them on board the ship. . A DESCRIPTION OF SUN-RISE AT MOUNT ETNA. But here, says Brydone, description must ever fall short ; for no imagination has dared to form an idea of M glorious and so magnificent a scene. Neither is there on the surface of this globe any one point... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pàgines
....Etna, an acute traveller remarks, no imagination can form an idea of this glorious and magnificent scene; Neither is there on the surface of this globe any one point which unites so many and sublime objects: — the immense elevation from the surface of the earth,... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pàgines
...— to see the rising sun from the top of JEtna. 12. We at length arrived at the summit1' ; but here, description must ever fall short ; for no imagination...point, that unites so many awful and sublime objects : — 13. The immense elevation from the surface of the earth, drawn as it were to a single point,... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 622 pàgines
...sublime, and beautiful in nature, bursts at once upon the astonished eye. " But here," says Brydone, " description must ever fall short ; for no imagination...Neither is there, on the surface of this globe, any onе point that unites so many awful and sublime objects. The immense elevation frоrn the surface... | |
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But here description must ever fall short; for no imagination has dared to form an idea of so glorious and so magnificent a scene. 
