 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...dost nut comprehend." Upon looking up, " What mean," said I, " those great flights of birds that arc perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ; I see vultures, harpiea, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys that... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...any tlu'ng then dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, " What mean," aaid I, " those great (lights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to lime? I see vultures, h. rpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered c matures, several... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 292 pages
...said he, " and tell me if thou yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, " What mean," said I, " those great flights of birds that...about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to tune ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...said he, " and tell me if ihou 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 bridgre, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and,... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...said he, " and tell me if thou yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend. " Upon looking up, " What e two or three capers, ran to his partner, locked...her round cleverly above ground m such a manner, timer 1 see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several... | |
 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...bridge, and »titling upou it from time to time ? I see vultures, barpies, ravens, cormorants, and amung B ' ' ' number* upon the middle arches.' — ' These,' said the genius, are ' Envy, Avarice, Superstition,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...seest any thing thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, "What mean," said I, " those great nights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge,...— " These," said the genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition,Despair,Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." • I here fetched... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...said he, " and tell me if thou seest any thing thou dost not comprehend." 34. Upon looking up, " What mean," said I, " those great flights of birds that...that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches." 35. " These," said the genius, " are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...said he, "and tell me if thou yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, "What mean," said I, "those great flights of birds that...perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it trom time to time! 1 see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures,... | |
 | Franz C F. Demmler - 1842 - 92 pages
...bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou seest any thing thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, " What mean," said I, " those great flights of birds that...great numbers upon th'e middle arches." "These," said 12 ©rfd;6pft. the genius, "are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and... | |
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Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up, 'What mean,' said I, 'those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from... 
