...admiration. In a letter to West (November 16, 1739) he uses the now famous phrase, describing the Alps, " not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." In 1741 Gray and Walpole, who had been too long in exclusive mutual companionship, quarrelled, and...

...admiration. In a letter to West (November 16, 1739) he uses the now famous phrase, describing the Alps, " not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." In 1741 Gray and Walpole, who had been too long in exclusive mutual companionship, quarrelled, and...

...of Nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restrain1 Works, Vol. I., page 240. 2 The word sounds conventional, more like Augustan style; but what...

...of Nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restrain1 Works, Vol. I., page 240. 2 The word sounds conventional, more like Augustan style; but what...

...of Nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restrain1 Works, Vol. I., page 240. 2 The word sounds conventional, more like Augustan style; but what...

...Nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do 5 not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation,...atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. I0 One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noonday ; you have Death...

...remember the one to West, where he says : — " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." — November 16, 1739. 83. Far from the sun, etc. In the more northern clime of England — far from...

...happiest part of Gray's life. " In our little journey up to the Grande Chartrense," he wrote to West, " I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." Unfortunately they quarrelled, near Bologna, and came home singly and by separate routes in the autumn...

...of nature have astonished me beyond expression. In onr little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an...restraining; not a precipice, not a torrent, not a clip, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist...

...Grande Chartreuse, "One of the most solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes . . . Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." In Petrarch's letter we observe the deficiency in absorbing enthusiasm for the grander forms of nature,...