 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...on a Lady's girdleNo. 15*. THE SPECTATOR. 155 Mirza, which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other...and offered up my morning devotions. I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in. order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...struck my young fancy before I was capable of fixing an idea to a word of three syllables. " On the 5tk day of the moon, which, according to the custom of...and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day In meditation and prayer. " • This day... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...others I met with one entitled, The Visions of Mirzah, which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other...according to the custom of my forefathers I always kept holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my rooming devotions, I ascended the high hills... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...have read over with great pleasure, and translated word for word, as follows. THE VISION OF MIRZA. 0 8 the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the...and offered up my morning devotions , I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...From Waller's verses on a lady's girdle. M 3 of Mirza, which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other...and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here... | |
 | British prose literature - 1819 - 364 pages
...struck my young fancy before I was capable of fixing an idea to a word of three syllables, " On the 5th day of the moon, which, according to the custom of...and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.". We know nothing,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...amendment, " I am, SIR, your gentle reader." of Mirza, which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other...and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 438 pages
...Mirza, which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when 1 have uo other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with...and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bag<!:,i. in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 278 pages
...others I met with one entitled, The Visions of Mirza, which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other...begin with the first vision, which I have translated wordjbr word as follows: ' On the fifth* day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers,... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...others I met with one entitled, The Visions of Mirza, which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other...and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here... | |
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I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains. I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and, passing from one thought... 
