 Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles that glittered in their eyes and danced before them, but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them their footing failed and down they sunk.  The Spectator - Pagina 2091853 - 742 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 pagina’s
...catching at every thing that stood by them to save themselves. Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thoughtful posture, and in the midst of a speculation...sight. Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of baubles that glittered in their eyes and danced before them, but often when they thought themselves... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pagina’s
...would hurt the ear by a repetition of the same sound, if this sense of it were, otherwise, allowable. a thoughtful posture, and in the midst of a speculation...sight. Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of baubles that glittered in their eyes and danced before them, but often when they thought themselves... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pagina’s
...heaven in a thoughtful posture, and in the midst of a speculation »tumbled and fell out ol signt. Twas this dppriv'd my sou] of rest. And raised such...tumults in my breast * : My bosom glow'd ; the su ; but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them, their footing failed, and down they... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 pagina’s
...catching by every thing that stood by them to save themselves. Some were looking up toward the heavens in a thoughtful posture, and, in the midst of a speculation,...that glittered in their eyes and danced before them ; but often, when they thought themselves within the reach of them, their footing failed, and down... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pagina’s
...catching at everything that stood by them, to save themselves. Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thoughtful posture, and, in the midst of a speculation,...that glittered in their eyes, and danced before them ; but often, when they thought themselves within reach of them, their footing failed and down they... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pagina’s
...catching at everything that stood by them to save themselves. Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thoughtful posture, and in the midst of a speculation...that glittered in their eyes and danced before them; but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them, their footing failed, and down they... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 698 pagina’s
...by them to save themselves. Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thoughtful posture, anil in the midst of a speculation stumbled and fell out...that glittered in their eyes and danced before them; but often when they « ment doux et se promenait en une variété de tons « d'une mélodie inexprimable,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 pagina’s
...catching at every thing that stood by thém to save thémselves. Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thoughtful posture, and in the midst of a speculation...very busy in the pursuit of bubbles that glittered in théir eyes and danced before thém; but often whén théy « ment doux et se promenait en une variété... | |
 | William Lennie - 1863 - 150 pagina’s
...sentence may be resolved into its elementary parts, in the manner above shown. 3. THE COMPOUND SENTENCE. " Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles...that glittered in their eyes, and danced before them ; but often, when they thought themselves within the reach of them, their footing failed, and down... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 pagina’s
...jollity, and catching at everything that stood by them to save themselves. Some were looking up towards heaven in a thoughtful posture, and in the midst of...that glittered in their eyes and danced before them ; but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them, their footing failed, and down they... | |
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