| Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1794 - 568 pages
...affurances of fafety; and none were more bufy in making provifions for a long voyage, than they whom all but themfelves faw likely to perifh foon by irreparable...was the Gulph of Intemperance, a dreadful whirlpool, intcrfperfed \\iih rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed underwater, and the tops covered... | |
| Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1796 - 634 pages
...voyage, than they whom all but themfelves faw likely to perifh loon by irreparable decay. In the mid ft of the current of life was the Gulph of Intemperance, a dreadful whirlpool, intcrfperfed with rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed under water, and the tops covered... | |
| English literature - 1799 - 334 pages
...aflurances of fafety ; and none were more bufy in making provifions for a long voyage, than they whom all but themfelves faw likely to perifh foon by irreparable...water, and the, tops covered with herbage, on which Eafe fpread couches of repofe, and with fhades, where Pleafures warbled the fong of invitation. Within... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...aflurances of fafety ; and none were more bufy in making provifions for a long voyage, than they whom all but themfelves faw likely to perifh foon by irreparable...water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which EASE fpread couches of repofe, and with fhades, where PLEASUSE warbled the fong of invitation. Within... | |
| 1801 - 326 pages
...aiTurances of fafety ; and none were more bufy in making provifions for a long voyage, than they whom all but themfelves faw likely to perifh foon by irreparable...water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which EASE fpread couches of repofe,' and with iliades where PLEASURE warbled the fong of invitation. Within... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 458 pages
...; and none were more bufy in making provifions for a long voyage, than they whom all but themfclves faw likely to perifh foon by irreparable decay. In...water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which EASE fpread couches of repofe, and with fhades, where PLEASUSE warbled the fong of invitation. Within... | |
| Hugh Blair - Conduct of life - 1801 - 156 pages
...current of life was the gulp!) of Intemperance, a dreadful whirlpool, interspersed with the socks, of which the pointed crags were concealed under water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which Ease spreads couches of repose ; 84 and with shades, where Pleasure warbled the song of invitation.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 316 pages
...In the midst of the current of life was ikegulpb of INTEMPERANCE, a dreadful whirlpool, interspersed with rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed...water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which EASE spread couches of repose, and with shades where PLEASURE warbled the song of invitation. Within... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 304 pages
...voyage, than they whom all but themselves saw likely to perish soon by irreparable decay. In the midst of the current of life was the gulph of INTEMPERANCE, a dreadful whirlpool, interspersed with rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed under water, and the tops covered... | |
| Conduct of life - 1806 - 360 pages
...aflurances of fafety; and none were more bufy in making provifion for a long voyage, than they whom all but themfelves faw likely to perifh foon by irreparable...Intemperance, a dreadful whirlpool, interfperfed with C ^ lock rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed under •water, and the tops covered with... | |
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