 The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating ; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 3351841Full view - About this book
 | William Godwin - Gods, Greek - 1814 - 342 pages
...which I had been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide and the arched bridge, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it. A second thing, the consideration of which is necessary to the right understanding... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1825 - 272 pages
...long contemplating ; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw. nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels, grazing upon the sides of it. The Earl of Strafford. 1. THE Earl of Strafford defended himself ag&inst thfe... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...loner contemplating ; bvit instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels, grazing upon the sides of it. . .LESSON LXVI. The Chameleon* — MERRICK. 1. OFT it has been my lot to mark... | |
 | Franz C F. Demmler - 1842 - 92 pages
...long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels, grazing upon the sides of it. Printed by J . Wertbetaer and Co., Circui Place, Finslmrj Circus. ... | |
 | Sir James Stephen - Biography - 1843 - 420 pages
...implored them to lay aside their weapons; and in long-suffering to submit themselves and their course to the Supreme Disposer of events. At an instant the...camels grazing on the sides of it. To one inmate of Port-Royal the terrors of an impending war had brought no disquietude. Angelique remained there, the... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...implored them to lay aside their weapons ; and in long-sutiering to submil themselves and their course to the Supreme Disposer of events. At an instant the...camels grazing on the sides of it. To one inmate of Port-Royal the terrors of an impending war had brought no disquietude. Angelique remained there, the... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 362 pages
...crowded bridge and the rushing river disappeared from the eyes of Mirza, leaving before him nothing bat the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep,...camels grazing on the sides of it. To one inmate of Port-Royal the terrors of an impending war had brought no disquietude. Angelique remained there, the... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1848 - 358 pages
...from the eyes of Mirza, leaving before him nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oiten, sheep, and camels grazing on the sides of it. To one inmate of Port-Royal the terrors of an impending war had brought no disquietude. Angelique remained there, the... | |
 | 1849 - 814 pages
...was a change as sudden and as complete as when, at the bidding of the Genius, the crowded bridge and rushing river disappeared from the eyes of Mirza,...oxen, sheep, and camels grazing on the sides of it." With the Essays on Luther, Baxter, and Mr. Isaac Taylor, we need not trouble ourselves. The first and... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...clouds, that cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant." and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels, grazing upon the sides Of it. AD DI SON . Q r E s T iox s. — What is this kind of fiction called ? Why is... | |
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