 A screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers; nay, the voice of a cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable, which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is filled...  The Spectator - Strana 40upravili: - 1898Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 str.
...cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable, which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is...rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot up into prodigies. <r; I remember I was once in a mixt assembly, that was full of noise and mirth, when on a sudden an... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 str.
...cricket hath struck mo"e terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable, which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is...filled with omens and prognostics. A rusty nail, or a crioked pin, shoot up into prodigies. — Addison. DCCXXXV. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 str.
...prognostics. A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot up into prodigies. I remember I was once in a mixt assembly, that was full of noise and mirth, when on a sudden an old woman unluckily observed there where thirteen of us in company. This remark struck a panic terror into several who were present, insomuch... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 str.
...terrai than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so iu considerable, which may not appear dreadful to imagination that is filled with omens and prognostics....rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot up into prodigies. THE SPECTATOR. tevcral who were present, insomuch that one or two of the ladies were going to leave... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - 274 str.
...cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is filled with omens and prognostics." MIRACULOUS SOLUTIONS. Sir Thomas Browne thus corrects the common error of referring points of obscurity... | |
 | Adolph Heimann - 1859 - 446 str.
...6 more terror * * ' than the roaring ' * 8 of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable148, which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is filled with omens ' 5 ° and prognostics ' 5 ' : a rusty nail or a crooked ' 5 * pin shoot up ' s 3 into ' 3 * prodigies.... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 136 str.
...cricket has struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is...prognostics. A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot 2 up into prodigies. 8. I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and... | |
 | George Crabb - 1863 - 546 str.
...terrour disarm« us; None во rencwn'd With breathing brass to kindle fierce alarms. DRY D EM. 4 1 was once in a mixed assembly, that was full of noise...unluckily observed, there were thirteen of us in company The remark struck a. panick terrour into several of u* ' ADDIS ON-. Fright ia л Irs? vivid pmolion... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1863 - 202 str.
...cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is...rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot up into prodigies. An old maid that is troubled with the vapours, produces infinite disturbances of this kind among her... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1864 - 334 str.
...cricket has struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is filled with omens and prognostics." To spill the salt — to sit at a table where you make the thirteenth guest — to walk under a ladder... | |
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