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 237by Joseph Addison - 1842Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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