 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 pàgines
...where we arrived in full time to see the " most wonderful and most sublime sight in nature. " But here description must ever fall short ; for no " imagination...unites so " many awful and sublime objects. The immense eleva" tion from the surface of the earth, drawn as it were " to a single point, without any neighbouring... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 586 pàgines
...the globe," says Mr. Brydone, " that unites so many awful and sublime objects as the top of Etna, and no imagination has dared to form an idea of so glorious and magnificent a scene. The body of the sun is seen rising from the ocean, immense tracts both of sea... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1852 - 372 pàgines
...point on the surface of the globe that unites so many awful and sublime objects as the top of Etna, and no imagination has dared to form an idea of so glorious and magnificent a scene. The body of the Sun is seen rising from the ocean, immense tracts both of sea... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1856 - 312 pàgines
...summit, where we arrived in full time to see the most wonderful and sublime sight in nature. But here description must ever fall short ; for no imagination...magnificent a scene. — Neither is there on the surface of,this globe, any one point that unites so many awful and sublime objects. — The immense elevation... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pàgines
...the globe," says Mr. Brydone, "that unites so many awful and sublime objects as the top of Etna, and no imagination has dared to form an idea of so glorious and magnificent a scene. The body of the sun is seen rising from the ocean, immense tracts both of sea... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1860 - 372 pàgines
...summit, where we arrived in full time to see the most wonderful and sublime tight in nature. But here description must ever fall short; for no imagination...— Neither is there on the surface of this globe, an v one point that unites so many awful and sublime objects. — The immense elevation from the surface... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 340 pàgines
...motive, too, — to see the rising sun from the top of Etna. At this point we at length arrived. But here description must ever fall short; for no imagination...point that unites so many awful and sublime objects. 10. The immense elevation from the surface of the earth, drawn as it were to a single point, without... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1871 - 346 pàgines
...to see the rising sun from the top of Etna. At this point we at length arrived. But here descnplion must ever fall short; for no imagination has, dared...scene ; neither is there, --on the surface of this glpbe, any one point that unites so many awful and sublnlie o meets. 10. The immense elevation from... | |
 | Associazione italiana di anglistica. Congresso - 2003 - 580 pàgines
...sublime, such as when he describes the emotion felt while admiring dawn from the top of mount Etna: Neither is there on the surface of this globe, any...point that unites so many awful and sublime objects [my italics] (Brydone 1773:1, 187). Brydone was not a genuine antiquarian, as he did not visit the... | |
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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. 
