...he was profoundly affected by his first sight of the Alps. He wrote to his friend West, for example: "In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse,...cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." This is wholly in the manner of Wordsworth, but the creative poetic impulse moved Wordsworth to write...

...literature. The reality of Gray's love for mountains is attested by an often-quoted passage in his letters : "In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse...not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is fragrant with religion and poetry" (Nov. 16, 1739). The moderns have, however, carried the love of...

...which he made with his friend Horace Walpole, he writes of the scenery about the Grande Chartreuse: "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noonday." Years after, in the...

...was considered as undesirable and barbaric in Gray's day as was Gothic architecture. He says : — In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse...torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant -with religion :1 z R, I ? 8 § and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without...

...met with those grand and simple works of Art, that are to amaze one, and whose sight one is to be the better for: but those of Nature have astonished me...a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument....

...lakes, waterfalls, and mountains. In 1739, fifty years in advance of the times, Gray said of the Alps, " Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." And in 1769, one year before Wordsworth was born, he visited the English lakes alone, and wrote back...

...order. He was only twenty-three when he wrote to West the celebrated passage referring to the Alps, " Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry." At twenty-six we find him saying that "the language of the age is never the language of poetry; except...

...met with those grand and simple works of Art, that are to amaze one, and whose sight one is to be the better for : but those of Nature have astonished me...a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument....

...for ! but those of Nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grand Chartreuse I do not remember to have gone ten paces...a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would drive an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument....

...Robertson, the historian, told Samuel Rogers this. 3 Letters, I, pp. 7-8. 3 Nov. 16, 1739, 1, P- 44Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces...a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief." This way of regarding mountain scenery,...