| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pagina’s
...several broken arches, which added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred. As I was counting the arches the genius told me that this...; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and loft the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest... | |
| Salem Town - 1855 - 492 pagina’s
...broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number of about a hundred. 7. As I was counting the arches, the Genius told me that this...further," said he, " what thou discoverest on it." " I see mutitudes of people passing over it," said I, " and a black cloud hanging on each end of it." 8. A&... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pagina’s
...several broken arches, which added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred. As I was counting the arches the genius told me that this...beheld it. But tell me further, said he, what thou discoyerest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on... | |
| George S. Measom - 1856 - 266 pagina’s
...human life ; consider it attentively.' ' that were entire, made up the number about an hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this...rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I beheld it : " but tell me further," said he, " what thou discoverest on it." " I see multitudes of... | |
| Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pagina’s
...arches, which, added to thuse that were entire, made up the number about a hundred. As I was couuting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches : but that * great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. '... | |
| Louis Direy - 1858 - 186 pagina’s
...assigned. Its use in the following sentence from Sterne is a gallicism: The genius told me that the bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches; but that a great flood had swept away the rest. Sterne. , The compound past, had consisted, is wanted, instead of the past.... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 pagina’s
...broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about a hundred. 7. As I was counting the arches, the Genius told me that this...the ruinous condition I now beheld it. "But tell me farther," said he, " what thou discoverest on it." " I see multitudes of people passing over it," said... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1860 - 372 pagina’s
...broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about a hundred. 7. As I was counting the arches, the Genius told me that this...the ruinous condition I now beheld it. " But tell me farther," said he, " what thou discoverest on it." " I see multitudes of people passing over it," said... | |
| Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pagina’s
...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...rest and left the bridge in the ruinous condition in which I now beheld it : " but tell me further," said he, " what thou discovereat on it" " I see... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pagina’s
...away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it: ' but tell me farther,' said he, ' what thou discoverest on it. ' I see multitudes of people passing over it,' said 1. ' and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.' As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the... | |
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