 | English literature - 1841 - 606 pages
...Genius, the crowded bridge and the rushing river disappeared from the eyes of Mirza, leaving before him nothing but the long hollow Valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing on the sides of it. To one inmate of Port- Royal the terrors of an impending war had brought no disquietude.... | |
 | William Godwin - Gods, Greek - 1814 - 342 pages
...vision which I had been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide and the arched bridge, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad,...oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it. A second thing, the consideration of which is necessary to the right understanding of the religion... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1825 - 272 pages
...so long contemplating ; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw. nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad,...oxen, sheep, and camels, grazing upon the sides of it. The Earl of Strafford. 1. THE Earl of Strafford defended himself ag&inst thfe a cusations of the House... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...so loner contemplating ; bvit instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad,...oxen, sheep, and camels, grazing upon the sides of it. . .LESSON LXVI. The Chameleon* — MERRICK. 1. OFT it has been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking... | |
 | Franz C F. Demmler - 1842 - 92 pages
...been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad,...oxen, sheep, and camels, grazing upon the sides of it. Printed by J . Wertbetaer and Co., Circui Place, Finslmrj Circus. ... | |
 | Sir James Stephen - Biography - 1843 - 418 pages
...Genius, the crowded bridge and the rushing river disappeared from the eyes of Mirza, leaving before him nothing but the long hollow Valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing on the sides of it. To one inmate of Port-Royal the terrors of an impending war had brought no disquietude.... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...Genius, the crowded bridge and the rushing river disappeared from the eyes of Mirza, leaving before him nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing on the sides of it. To one inmate of Port-Royal the terrors of an impending war had brought no disquietude.... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 362 pages
...crowded bridge and the rushing river disappeared from the eyes of Mirza, leaving before him nothing bat the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing on the sides of it. To one inmate of Port-Royal the terrors of an impending war had brought no disquietude.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...dark clouds, that cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant." and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad,...oxen, sheep, and camels, grazing upon the sides Of it. AD DI SON . Q r E s T iox s. — What is this kind of fiction called ? Why is the scene of almost all... | |
 | 1849 - 814 pages
...Genius, the crowded bridge and rushing river disappeared from the eyes of Mirza, leaving before him nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing on the sides of it." With the Essays on Luther, Baxter, and Mr. Isaac Taylor, we need not trouble ourselves.... | |
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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... 
