 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
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 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 dissipatell psrt of the mist that... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 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...several generations of mortals that fall into it." From the two foregoing rules, and the matter from which these rales are evolved, it will be seen that... | |
 | William Stones (travel writer.) - 1870 - 286 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 sider
...being 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... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 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 setting out for eternity, but cast thine eyes on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 444 sider
...compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect : look no more, said he, on man in thé first stage of his existence, in his setting out for...eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which thé tide bears thé several générations of mortals that fall into it. — I directed my sight as... | |
 | John Young Sargent - 1873 - 188 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 setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eyes on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 sider
...moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit s.• uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his...force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before to" thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 sider
...death!" The genius, being moved with compassion, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look 110 more on man in the first stage of his existence, in his...I directed my sight as I was ordered, and, whether tho good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 sider
...with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a" 30 prospect. ' Look no more,' said he, ' on man in the first stage of his existence, in his...(whether or no the good genius strengthened it with a supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate)... | |
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