| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1799 - 442 pages
...road often obliged the -wanderers to alight from their little carriage, but they thought the mfelves amply repaid for this inconvenience by the grandeur...elevate, the heart, and fill it with the certainty ofaprefent God! Still the enjoyment of St. Aubert was touched with that penfive melancholy, which gives... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 344 pages
...travellers had leisure to linger amid these solitudes, and to indulge the sublime reflections, which soften while they elevate the heart, and fill it with the certainty of a present God ! Still the enjoyment of St. Aubert was touched with that pensive melancholy which gives... | |
| Ann Radcliffe - 1877 - 696 pages
...travellers had leisure to linger amid these solitudes, and to indulge the sublime reflections, which soften while they elevate the heart, and fill it with the certainty of a present God ! Still the enjoyment of St. Aubert was touched with that pensive melancholy which gives... | |
| Anne Kostelanetz Mellor - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 292 pages
...pleasure rather than fear. For Emily St. Aubert and her father, the grandeur of the Pyrenees "soften, while they elevate, the heart, and fill it with the certainty of a present God" (28). Radcliffe parts company from Coleridge's treatment of the sublime, however, by grounding... | |
| John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1094 pages
...with pleasure rather than fear. For Emily St. Aubert and her father, the majestic Pyrenees "soften, while they elevate, the heart, and fill it with the certainty of a present God." Radcliffe s work diverges from later poetic treatments of the sublime — in which the... | |
| Anne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 325 pages
...travellers had leisure to linger amid the solitudes, and to indulge the sublime reflections, which soften, while they elevate, the heart, and fill it with the certainty of a present God! (P. 28) The Book of Nature is I'ecriture feminine indeed—the most material of possible... | |
| George Dekker - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 342 pages
...travellers had leisure to linger amid these solitudes, and to indulge the sublime reflections, which soften, while they elevate, the heart, and fill it with the certainty of a present God! (28) Just as the blurring of colors in the far distance (like the "blue mysterious tint,... | |
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