| English literature - 1773 - 394 pages
...tell me if them feeft any thing thou doit not comprehend. Upon looking up, What mean, faid I, thofe great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and fettling upon it from time to time? I fee vultures, harpies, raven?, cormorants, and among many other<... | |
| Young women - 1778 - 124 pages
...me, if thou yet feeft any Thing thou doft not comprehend. Upon looking up, What mean, faid I, thofe great Flights of Birds that are perpetually hovering about the Bridge, and . fettling upon it from Time to Time ? I fee Vultures, Harpies, Ravens, Cormorants, and, among feveral... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...tell me if thou feelt any thing thou doft not comprehend. Upon looking up, What mean, laid 1, thofe great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and fettling upon it from time to time i I fee vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other... | |
| 1794 - 450 pages
...indulge myself on this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. Take thine eyes off the bridge, said he, and tell me if thou yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend. Upon looking up, what mean, said I, those great flights of birds... | |
| Addison (pseud.) - Anecdotes - 1794 - 564 pages
...yet fee'ft any thing thou ( 217 ) thou doft not comprehend. Upon looking up, what mean, faid I, thefe great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and fettling upon it, from time to time ? I fee vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many... | |
| English essays - 1803 - 466 pages
...enough upon it. " Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, " What...perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon VOL. IL B b it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other... | |
| 1803 - 472 pages
...indulge myself on this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. " Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, " What mean," said I,." those great flights of... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...indulge myself on this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. Take thine eyes off the bridge, said he, and tell me if thou yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend. Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds... | |
| Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it : take thine eyes off the bridge, said he, and tell me if thou yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend. Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds... | |
| Meditations - 1806 - 118 pages
...and tell if thou feeft any thing thou doft not comprehend. Upon locking up, "What mean, faid I,thofe great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and fettling upon it from time to time ? I fee vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other... | |
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