 I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas ! 'said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect....  Beauties of British Prose - Side 346av Sydney Melmoth - 1805 - 360 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 sider
...in the compassion towards roc, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect, ' Look no more.' said be, ' on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thitie eye on4hat thick mist into midst of the tide.'—' The bridge thou secst,' said he, ¡ which... | |
 | William Stones (travel writer.) - 1858 - 268 sider
...other, and is that portion of eternity which is called time. Now cast thine eye," said the genius, " on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it." I did so, and saw the valley opening at the further end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that... | |
 | Salem Town - 1859 - 496 sider
...moved with compassion toward me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no more," said he, " on man, in the first stage of his existence, in his...several generations of mortals that fall into it." 3. I directed my sight as I was ordered, and, whether or no the good Genius strengthened it with any... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 sider
...moved with compassion toward me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. "Look no more," said he, " on man in the first stage of his existence, in his...several generations of mortals that fall into it." 14. I directed my sight as I was ordered, and, whether or no the good Genius strengthened it with any... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 698 sider
...moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect : look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his...mortals that fall into it. I directed my sight as 1 was ordered, and (whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 sider
...moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no more," said he," on man in the first stage of his existence, in his...for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist 1 into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it." I directed my sight... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 sider
...look no more, said hé, on man in the first stage of his existence, iu his setling oui for eteruity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals tbat fall into it. I directed niy sigbt as 1 was ordered, and (whéthér or no the good genius strenglhéned... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sider
...moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no more," said he, " on man in the first stage of his existence, in his...directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or not the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 sider
...moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. ' Look no more,' said he, ' on man in the first stage of his existence, in his...generations of mortals that fall into it.' I directed my eight as I was ordered, and I saw the valley opening at the further end, and spreading forth into an... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 sider
...moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no more," said he, " on man in the first stage of his existence, in his...directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or not the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that... | |
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