 These splendid remnants of decaying grandeur speak to the imagination in a style of eloquence, which the stripling cannot reach : they record the history of some storm, some blast of lightning, or other great event, which transfers its grand ideas to...  Ireland Illustrated: From Original Drawings - Seite 44von George Petrie, George Newenham Wright, William Henry Bartlett, Thomas Mann Baynes - 1831 - 80 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1832 - 618 Seiten
...But what theories soever may be formed of their origin and use, it is obvious that these venerable remains of decaying grandeur speak to the imagination...any magnitude can reach. They transfer their grand and solemn visages to the landscape ; and, in the representation of elevated subjects, present, in... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1834 - 432 Seiten
...record the history of some storm, some blast of lightning, or other great event, which transfers its grand ideas to the landscape; and in the representation of elevated subjects assists the sublime. Whether these maladies in trees ever produce beauty in adorned Nature, I much... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1883 - 428 Seiten
...record the history of some storm, some blast of lightning, or other great event, which transfers its grand ideas to the landscape, and, in the representation of elevated subjects, assists the sublime. Whether these maladies in trees ever produce beauty in adorned Nature, I much... | |
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