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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 Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 4

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 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 Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 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 Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ...

1854 - 630 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...
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The Fifth, Or, Elocutionary Reader, in which the Principles of Elocution are ...

Salem Town - 1855 - 492 pages
...time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorantet and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch, in great numbers, upon the middle arches." 2. " These," said the Genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superetftion, Despair, Love, with the like cares...
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Light from the East: Tales, Moral and Instructive, of Oriental Origin Or ...

George S. Measom - 1856 - 266 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...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 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].

Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants and among many other feathered creatures several d degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are set — • These,' said the genius, are ' Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Lore, with the like cares...
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The First-[fifth] Reader, Volume 4

Marcius Willson - 1860 - 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." 13. "These," said the Genius, "are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares...
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Advanced Reading Book: Literary and Scientific

Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...time 1 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...
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Readings from the best authors, ed. by A.H. Bryce, Issue 10

Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 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...
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