 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 324 pages
...reserved for him." I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, shew me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under...clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rocks of adamant. The genius making me no answer, I turned me about to address myself to him a second... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...reserved for him. I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, shew me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...reserved for him. I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, shew me now, I beseech thee* the secrets that lie hid under...him a second time, but I found that he had left me j I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but, instead of the rolling... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 606 pages
...him. 1 gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, Show me now, t beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those...ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant. The genkis iiq making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but 1 found... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.' — I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, * Show me now, I...those dark clouds, which cover the ocean on the other fide of the rock of adamant.' The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him... | |
 | William Godwin - Gods, Greek - 1814 - 342 pages
...superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. At length, said I, shew me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under...dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side beyond the end of the bridge. The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...him. — I gwed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, Shew me KW, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those...which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of jJanant. The genius making me no an•w, I turned about to address myself to Ion a second time, but... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...inexpressihle pleasure on these happy islands. « At length, said I, show roe now, I hrsccrh thec , the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean, on the other side of die rock nf adamant. » The Genius making me no answer, I turned an'oul to address myself to him n... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - English language - 1817 - 594 pages
...made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him. I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, Show me now, I beseech...The genius making me no answer, I turned about to addrcuS' myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...reserved for him." I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, shew me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under...adamant. The genius making me no answer, I turned me about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again... | |
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I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length said I, ' Show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant.' The genius making me no answer,... 
