The phrase "able to look upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing the capability or permission to see or regard something, often in a poetic or formal context.
Example: "She felt fortunate to be able to look upon the breathtaking landscape from her balcony."
Alternatives: "capable of seeing" or "permitted to gaze at".
Maybe 20, 30 years later I'll be able to look upon it like an old photograph.
The little bungalows called Dunroamin and Welikeit and Vi-and-I will not, we feel, be able to look upon this austere concrete without feeling embarrassed and inferior.
Visitors to the exhibition, simply titled "Pearls," will still be able to look upon pearls that have adorned Queen Victoria and a daughter of Peter the Great, Marie Antoinette and Napoleon's Josephine, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.
They would be able to look upon the subject of those embodied desires as alien to their true selves.
Within months, Severus departed Rome in a second war against the Parthians, sacking its capital, Ctesiphon, early in AD 198, "just as if," writes Dio, "the sole purpose of his campaign had been to plunder this place". He visited Palestine and Syria and toured Egypt, viewing the embalmed body of Alexander the Great, then sealed the tomb, says Dio, so that no one else would be able to look upon him.
But I doubt that anyone visiting Hawaii this summer will be able to look upon this beautiful beach with greater feelings of joy and satisfaction than the rowers aboard the boats competing in this year's Great Pacific Race.
Computer programs or people interested in doing that kind of business would be able to look up the agreed upon e-form and use it in their computer, toward the same gains but with much less effort.
In one of the most eloquent have-you-no-decency documents in history, Brattle asked how anyone involved in the trials would be able to "look back upon these things without the greatest of sorrow and grief imaginable".
If it passes, however, Bloomberg-Farley will not be able to look back upon this as another health benefit for our city's smokers.
According to their account of his doctrines, he was totally opposed to authority in matters of knowledge, believed in the progress of the arts and sciences, and held that all reasonable human beings are equally able to look after their own affairs, equally inspired and able to know the truth of what earlier teachers had taught, and equally able to improve upon it.
