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" What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that... "
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected ... - Page 2
1797 - 1120 pages
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The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose ...

English instructor - 1801 - 272 pages
...I see vultures , harpies , ravens , cormorants , and among many other feathered creatures , several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These , said the genius , are envy , avarice , super-- z5o THE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. stition , despair...
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NL orphan barcodes on file at ReCAP

1804 - 412 pages
...see vultures,' harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among among many other feathered creatirres several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions...
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Beauties of British Prose

Sydney Melmoth - 1805 - 368 pages
...time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions...
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A Real Treasure for a Pious Mind

1806 - 118 pages
...flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and fettling upon it from time to time ? I fee vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants,...that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. 1 hefe, f?.id the genius, are envy, avarice, fuperftition, defpair, love, with the like cares and paflions,...
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The Spectator, Volume 3

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 312 pages
...time ? I see vultures,harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers, upon the middle arches. ' These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index

Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...time ll see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches."—" These," said the Genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like care» and...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...time? I see vultures, harpyes, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions...
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The Spanish language, la gramática inglesa, and the English reader

Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1811 - 606 pages
...time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...time? I see vultures, harpyes, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and pas....
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 1

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.' — ' These,' said the genius, ' are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares...
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