 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 - Page 2091853 - 742 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 pages
...birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among...a deep sigh. "Alas," said I, "man was made in vain I how is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! " The... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...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...genius, "are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, and Love, with the like cares and passions that infest Human Life." . I here fetched a deep sigh. "... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...perpetually hovering ahout the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpyes, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered...the like cares and passions that infest human life.' life, and swallowed up in death ! ' The genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pages
...lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. . . . ' I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was...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... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 200 pages
...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." A.DDISON. TO AUTUMN. SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom friend of the maturing sun... | |
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 232 pages
...birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among...that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches." " Those," said the genins, " are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - 232 pages
...harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, thdt perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.' 'These,'...envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the liko cares and passions that infest human life.' " I here fetched a deep sigh ; ' Alas,' said I, '... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 pages
...flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge and settling upon it from time to time 4. These said the genius are envy avarice superstition...the like cares and passions that infest human life. 5. I here fetched a deep sigh alas said I man was made in vain here is he given away to misery and... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches? " " These," said the genius, " arc envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the...life." ••.I here fetched a deep sigh. " Alas, man was made in vain! how is he given away to misery and mortality ; tortured in life, and swallowed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 pages
...birds that are per20 petually 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 infwft i, life ' • I here fetched a deep sigh ; < ££^ *?%£ ^ nude in vain ! how is he given away... | |
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