| 1794 - 450 pages
...away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. But. tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes...passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors... | |
| English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...away the rest , and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it : but tell me further , said he , what thou discoverest on it ? I see multitudes...» As I looked more attentively , I saw several of passengers 248 THE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...away the rest, and left the bridge in. the ruinous condition I now beheld it. But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. 'I see multitudes...passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and, upon, further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors... | |
| Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge...passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...• the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. " But tell me further," said he, " what thou discoverest on it." " I see multitudes...on each end of it." As I looked more attentively, 1 saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. ' But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it.' I see multitudes...passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it : and upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes...passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes...passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors... | |
| Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 606 pages
...away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it ; but tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes...passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon. further examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors... | |
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