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" What mean, said I, 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... "
The Works of Joseph Addison - Page 237
by Joseph Addison - 1842
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The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the ..., Volume 3

1794 - 450 pages
...yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend. Upon looking up, what mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge,...arches. — These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest hitman life. ' I here fetched...
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The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose ...

English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...seest any thing thou dost not comprehend. Upon looking up , What mean , said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge...arches. These , said the genius , are envy , avarice , super-- z5o THE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. stition , despair , love , with the like cares and passions that...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 472 pages
...great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon VOL. II. B b It from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies ravens,...arches." " These," said the Genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." ' I here fetched...
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The Spectator ...

English essays - 1803 - 466 pages
...great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon VOL. IL B b it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens,...arches." " These," said the Genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Pespair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." ' I here fetched...
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Beauties of British Prose

Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend. Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge,...arches. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. I here fetched...
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The Spectator, Volume 3

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures,harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered...arches. ' These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.' ' I here fetched...
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The Spectator, Volume 3

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 324 pages
...seest any thing thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, "what mean," said I, " those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge,...arches." " These," said the genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Lore, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. ' I here fetched...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index

Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ll see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among...arches."—" These," said the Genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like care» and passions that infest human life." ' I here fetched...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpyes, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered...arches. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and pas. sions that infect human life. " I here fetched...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpyes, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered...arches. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infect human life. " I here fetched...
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