 those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it 'from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great...  The Spectator - Pagina 2091853 - 742 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Phineas Garrett - 1914 - 248 pagina’s
...birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among...creatures, several little winged boys that perch in groat numbers upon the middle arches." " These," said the genius, "are envy, avarice, superstition,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 962 pagina’s
...that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it [160 from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many...deep sigh. 'Alas,' said I, 'Man was made in vain! how [170 is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! ' The... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pagina’s
...birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many...here fetched a deep sigh. 'Alas,' said I, 'Man was 115 made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 pagina’s
...ravens, cormorants, and among many other feather'd creatures several little winged boys, that perched in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said...the like cares and passions that infest human life. 1 here fetched a deep sigh, alas, said I, man was made in vain ! How is he given away to misery and... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 984 pagina’s
...settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormo184 JOSEPH ADDISON rants, and among many other feathered creatures several little..."I here fetched a deep sigh. 'Alas,' said I, 'Man wasup made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1921 - 720 pagina’s
...birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many...despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infect human life. I here fetched a deep sigh; alas, said I, man was made in vain! How is he given... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 pagina’s
...birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among...the like cares and passions that infest Human Life." 15 12. Does Addison mean to convey in this, that we should not be so wrapped up in thinking about being... | |
 | CHARLES H. SYLVESTER CHROUGH BOOKLAND - 1922 - 530 pagina’s
...birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among...the like cares and passions that infest Human Life." 15 12. Does Addison mean to convey in this, that we should not be so wrapped up in thinking about being... | |
 | John Henry Grafton Grattan - 1925 - 354 pagina’s
...himself into his clothes, and his clothes into his portmanteau." DICKENS, Pickwick Papers. 14. " I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many...that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches." ADDISON, The Vision of Mirzah. 15. " I have heard thee in thy soliloquies." Ibid. 16. " So Samson advises,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 278 pagina’s
...birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many...vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality I tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! ' The genius, being moved with compassion towards me,... | |
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