| Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...interrupted the courfe of the veflel, and drew it by' infenfible rotations towards the center. She then repented her temerity, and with all her force endeavoured...was generally too ftrong to be overcome ; and the paffenger having danced in circles with a pleafing and giddy velocity, was at laft overwhelmed and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 288 pages
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| English literature - 1773 - 394 pages
...interrupted the courfe of the vefTel, and drew it, by infenfible rotations, towards the centre. She then repented her temerity, and with all her force endeavoured...retreat ; but the draught of the gulph was generally too flrong to be over- come ; and the pafTenger having danced in circles with a pleafing and giddy velocity,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1784 - 372 pages
...interrupted the courfe of the veffel, and drew it, by infenfible rotations, towards the center. She then repented her temerity, and with all her force endeavoured...and the paflenger, having danced in circles with a .pleafmg and giddy velocity, was at laft overwhelmed and loft. Thofe few whom REASON was able to extricate,... | |
| 1785 - 596 pages
...interrupted the courfe of the veflel, and drew it, by infenfible rotations, towards the center. She then repented her temerity, and with all her force endeavoured...retreat; but the draught of the gulph was generally too'ltrong to be overcome; and the paflenger, having danced in circles with a pleafing and giddy velocity,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 472 pages
...interrupted the courfc of the veflel, and drew it, by infenfible rotations, towards the center. She then repented her temerity, and with all her force endeavoured...danced in circles with a pleafing and giddy velocity, was at laft overwhelmed and loft. Thofe few whom REASON was able to extricate, generally fuffered fo... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...veflel, and drew it, by infenfible rotations, towards the center. She then repented her temerity, atnd with all her force endeavoured to retreat; but the...gulph was generally too ftrong to be overcome; and the pafienger, having danced in circles with a pleafing and giddy velocity, was at laft overwhelmed and... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...interrupted the courfe of the veflel, and drew it, by infenfible rotations, towards the centre. She then repented her temerity, and with all her force endeavoured to retreat ; but th« draught of the gulph was generally too ñrong to be overcome ; and the paflenger, having danced... | |
| Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...interrupted the courfe of the vtfltl, and drew it, by infenfiblc rotations, towards the centre. She then repented her temerity, and with all her force endeavoured...was generally too ftrong to be overcome ; and the paiTengcr, having danced in circles with a plcafmg and giddy velocity, was at laft overwhelmed and... | |
| Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1794 - 568 pages
...interrupted the courfe of the veflel, and drew it by infenfible rotations towards the centre. She then repented her temerity, and with all her force endeavoured...retreat, but the draught of the gulph was generally too ftrongto be overcome; and the paflenger, having danced in circles with a pleafing and gi'ldy velocity,... | |
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