 | Charles Jean Delille - 1844 - 476 pages
...about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several...deep sigh. "Alas," said I, " man was made in vain ! How is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! " The... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...about the bridge, and setting upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several...deep sigh. " Alas," said I, " man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life and swallowed up in death !" The... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several...fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several...a deep sigh. Alas ! 'said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 pages
...about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several...perch, in great numbers, upon the middle arches." 13. "These," said the Genius, "are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several...fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1851 - 506 pages
...about the bridge, and settling upon it 'from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several...deep sigh. "Alas," said I, " man was made in vain ! How is he given away to misery and mortality 1 tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! " The... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...about the bridge, and settling npon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravenf, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several...fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The genius,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see i 5 vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants ; and, among many other feathered creatures, several...deep sigh. " Alas !" said I, " man was made in vain. How is he given away to misery and mortality; tortured in life, and swallowed up in death !" The genius,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several...deep sigh. " Alas," said I, " man was made in vain ! how he is given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, swallowed up in death!" The genius,... | |
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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... 
