 | Leonard Benton Seeley - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 398 pages
...season was too far advanced. She gives an animated description of her feelings in crossing the Alps, ' a sensation of fulness never experienced before, a...— some object capable of contenting even fancy." She had the satisfaction of seeing a chamois at a distance, and spoke with a fellow who had killed... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 394 pages
...season was too far advanced. She gives an animated description of her feelings in crossing the Alps, ' a sensation of fulness never experienced before, a...— some object capable of contenting even fancy.' She had the satisfaction of seeing a chamois at a distance, and spoke with a fellow who had killed... | |
 | Geography - 1917 - 598 pages
...mountain country " horror constitutes beauty." She finds that " such tremendous appearances inspire a satisfaction that there is something great to be seen on earth " and proceeds to a rather elaborate piece of word-painting of Savoyard scenery, while she declares... | |
 | Harold Spender - Alps - 1912 - 316 pages
...17M, 1784. Mrs. Piowi in WE have at length passed the Alps, and are safely arrived at this tbe Alps lovely little city, whence I look back on the majestic...satisfaction that there is something great to be seen on earth—some object capable of contenting even fancy. I had the satisfaction of seeing a chamois at... | |
 | Geography - 1917 - 618 pages
...mountain country " horror constitutes beauty." She finds that " such tremendous appearances inspire a satisfaction that there is something great to be seen on earth " and proceeds to a rather elaborate piece of word-painting of Savoyard scenery, while she declares... | |
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Surely the immediate sensation conveyed to the mind by the sight of such tremendous appearances must be in every traveller the same, a sensation of fulness never experienced before, a satisfaction that there is something great to be seen on earth —... 