 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 438 pages
...shining seas that ran among them, I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by...happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through tin; gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by...and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, failing waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 816 pages
...shining streams that flow between them. We see those persons in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by...of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and, like him, we wish for the wings of an eagle, that we might fly to those happy seats, and be at rest.... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 278 pages
...shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by...those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...shining seas that ran among them. 15. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads passing among the trees, lying down by...voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me at the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon kness and precision in seizing the stress of a question,...enterprising, and overbeariug. He hid been bred up in urinals, bridge, ip-doors ,eir way, iped had them. ; myself Id me I t: Take , and tell dost not p,... | |
 | David Williamson - 1824 - 802 pages
...shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by...sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers. — Gladness grew in me on the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle,... | |
 | David Williamson - Christianity and other religions - 1824 - 400 pages
...shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers.—Gladness grew in me on the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by...happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by...sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers. Gladness grew in me at the discovery of so delightful a scene. 1 wished for the wings of an eagle that... | |
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... fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle,... 
