 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. " At length," said I, " show me пои, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the orean un the other si.le of the rock of adamant." The Genius making me no answer, I turned about to... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...reserved for him.' — I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, * Show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie...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
...eternity reserved for him. I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, Show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie...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... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...him." I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. " At length," Mid I, " show me now, 1 beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those...rock of adamant." The Genius making me no answer, 1 turned about to address myself to him a second time, but 1 found thai he had left me ; I then turned... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 438 pages
...reserved for him." I gazed . with ioexprcsaibk pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said L, 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...reserved for him. — I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, Shew ugh we behold him as yet but in the first faint discoveries...that we can imagine as great, glorious, or amiable. rae no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left... | |
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The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I 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, and... 
