 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pagina’s
...sublime delight, which every man of common sensibility feels upon his first prospect of Rome ? It is ks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell amidst the ruins of that magnificence which it once adorned. It is not the triumph of superstition... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pagina’s
...every accident the Tiber, diminished in his imagination to ft paltry stream, flowing amidst the ruias of that magnificence which it once adorned. It is...and its monuments erected upon the very spot where tlie first honours of humanity have been gained. It is the ancient. Home which fills his imagination.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 528 pagina’s
...sublime delight which every man of common sensibility feels upon his first prospect of Rome ? It is not the scene of destruction which is before him....diminished in his imagination to a paltry stream, flowing amidst the ruins of that magnificence which it once adorned. It is not the triumph of Superstition... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - 2000 - 596 pagina’s
...is hefore him. It is not the Tiher, diminished in his imagination to a paltry stream and stagnating amid the ruins of that magnificence which it once...monuments erected upon the very spot where the first honors of humanity have heen gained. It is ancient Rome which fills his imagination. It is the country... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee - 1994 - 224 pagina’s
...account for the "emotion of sublime delight" that the spectator feels on first perceiving Rome? It is not the scene of destruction which is before him....monuments erected upon the very spot where the first honors of humanity have been gained. It is ancient Rome which fills his imagination. It is the country... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - 1972 - 598 pagina’s
...sublime delight which every man of common sensibility feels upon the first prospect of Rome? It is not the scene of destruction which is before him....Tiber, diminished in his imagination to a paltry stream and stagnating amid the ruins of that magnificence which it once adorned. It is not the triumph of... | |
 | Margaret M. McGowan - 2000 - 490 pagina’s
...of sublime delight which every man of common sensibility feels upon the first propect of ROME? It is not the scene of destruction which is before him. It is not the Tyber diminished in his imagination to a paltry stream flowing amid the ruins of that magnificence... | |
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And what is it that constitutes that emotion of sublime delight, which every man of common sensibility feels upon the first prospect of Rome ? It is not the scene of destruction which is before him. 
