 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
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw "7 Newcomer Alphonso Gerald" Alphonso Gerald Newcomer( upon the sides of it." MATTHEW PRIOR ( 1 664-1 721 ) I I TO A CHILD OF QUALITY FIVE YEARS OLD Lords,... | |
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...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. — Tlie Spectator. THE PERILS OF INVISIBILITY— WS GILBERT. Old Peter led a... | |
 | Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - English essays - 1913 - 614 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,' POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas, Nocturnes lemures,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 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 end of the first vision of Mirzah. The Spectator, No. 159. Saturday, September... | |
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...long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw the City of Destruction, which is the place of all evil, and am going to the City upon the sides of it." HILPA AND SHALUM NO. 584. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1714 Hie gdidi f antes, hie mollia... | |
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...long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw r the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfine upon the sides of it." HILPA AND SHALUM NO. 584. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1714 Hie gelid! fantes, hie mollia... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
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...to pierce the secret behind that part 'of the mist which did not lift, the vision faded, and ' I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it '. BOOK II. CHAPTER XVII PAGE 113. adscititious. See note to p. 188. callosity,... | |
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...long contemplating ; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw urely,' said I, 'man is but a shadow, and life upon the sides of it." HILPA AND SHALUM1 NO. 584. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1714 Hic gelidi fontes, Me ninllia... | |
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...long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw land upon the sides of it." C. 203 ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) Ode on Solitude HAPPY the man, whose wish... | |
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