 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
..."I see a bridge," said I, "standing in the midst of the tide." " The bridge thou seest," said ne, " is human life : consider it attentively." Upon a more leisurely survey Of hV I found that it consisted of three-score and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which,... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...— "I see a bridge," said I, " standing in the midst of the tide."—" The bridge thou s^est," said her countrymen, and wake him on occasions to consult his safety. an hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this > iic ! ;; <• consisted at... | |
 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...tide.' — ' The bridge thou west,' said he, ' в human life ; consider it attentively.' Upon a шаге Tuckey & Co. WM couuting the arches, the genius told me that thU bridge consisted at ¿rat of a thousand arches... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...see a bridge," said I, ' ' standing in the midst of the tide. " — " The bridge thou seest," said he, "is human life, consider it attentively." Upon...to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...midst of the tide." " The bridge thou seest," said he, " is human life ; consider it attentively." 14. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of three score and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
..."I see a bridge," said I. ' ' standing in the midst of the tide. "—"The bridge thou seest," said u hast no thought of me. Nor what I have endur'd an hundred. As I was countng the arches, the genius told me that this jridge consisted at first of... | |
 | Franz C F. Demmler - 1842 - 92 pages
...attentively.1, Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I 7 Say : is a part. found that it consisted of seventy entire arches, with several broken arches, which,...added to those that were entire, made up the number to about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me, that this bridge consisted at... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 648 pages
...in It.' 'I see a bridge/ said I, 'standing In the midst of the tide.' 'The bridge thou seest, 'said he, 'Is Human Life ; consider it attentively.' Upon...leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of three -score and ten arches, which, added to thoae that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1844 - 476 pages
...it." " I see a bridge," said I, " standing in the midst of the tide." " The bridge thou seest," said he, " is human life ; consider it attentively." Upon...arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at n'rst of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...it." " I see a bridge," said I, "standing in the midst of the tide." "The bridge thou seest," said he, " is Human Life ; consider it attentively." Upon...added to those that were entire, made up the number to about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at... | |
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I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken... 
