 At one side of the walks you have a near prospect of the Alps, which are broken into so many steps and precipices, that they fill the mind with an agreeable kind of horror, and form one of the most irregular misshapen scenes in the world.  The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison - Seite 210von Joseph Addison - 1830Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Addison - 1718 - 406 Seiten
...At one Side of the Walks you have a near Profpeft of the Alps, which are broken into Ib many Steeps and Precipices , that they fill the Mind with an agreeable kind of Horror , and form one of the moft irregular mifhapen Scenes in the World. The Houfe that is now in the Hands of the Carthufians... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1765 - 400 Seiten
...At one fide of the walks you have a near profpect of the Alpes, which are broken into fo many fteeps and precipices, that they fill the mind with an agreeable kind of horror, and form one of the mofl irregular mif-fhapen fcenes in the world. The houfe, that is now in the hands of the Carthu/ians,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1773 - 324 Seiten
...fide of the walks you have a near profpe£t profpe& of the Alps, which are broken into fo many fteeps and precipices, that they fill the mind with an agreeable kind of horror, and form one of the mofl irregular mif-fhapen fcenes in the world. The houfe, that is now in the hands of the Carihufians,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 486 Seiten
...a near prospect! of $%t,Akp&ti which are broken into so many steeps and precipices, that they iill the mind with an agreeable kind of horror, and form...most irregular misshapen scenes in the world, The housentbab ia now in the hands of the Carthusians belonged formerly to the Hermits of St. Maurice,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 458 Seiten
...At one side of the walks you have a near prospect of the Alps, which are broken into so many nteeps and precipices, that they fill the mind with an agreeable...the most irregular mis-shapen scenes in the world. Tim house that is now in the bauds of the Carthusians, belonged formerly to the hermits of St. Maurice,... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1843 - 272 Seiten
...at one side of which " you have, a near prospect of the Alps, which are broken into so many steeps and precipices, that they fill the mind with an agreeable...the most irregular misshapen scenes in the world." Versoy, in the Canton of Berne, attracted the notice of our traveller as the last asylum of Edmund... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 Seiten
...one side of the walks you have a near prospect of the Alps, which are broken into <. so many steeps and precipices that they fill the mind with an agreeable...the most irregular misshapen scenes in the world." As if, in a happier world, the tops of mountains should be shaped like Corinthian columns ! Of Berne... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, Martin Wright Sampson, William Strunk, Frank Thilly - 1910 - 538 Seiten
...extremely barren of curiosities." 27 The Alps do not move him to admiration; atRipaille, however, "y° u have a near prospect of the Alps, which are broken...the most irregular, misshapen scenes in the world."" He is thankful for an easy journey over Mont Cenis. "On the top of this high mountain," he observes,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1914 - 518 Seiten
...one side of the walks you have a near prospect of the Alpes, which are broken into so many steps 8 and precipices, that they fill the mind with an agreeable...hands of the Carthusians belonged formerly to the Hermites of St. Maurice, and is famous in history for the retreat of an Anti-pope, who 7 called himself... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 Seiten
...'At one Side of the Walks you have a near Prospect of the Alps, which are broken into so many Steeps and Precipices, that they fill the Mind with an agreeable kind of Horror, and form the most irregular mis-shapen Scenes in the World.' " Gray on the other hand exclaims: 'not a precipice,... | |
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