 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 - 1894 - 358 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. For my own part, I should be very much troubled were I endowed with this divining quality, though it... | |
 | A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 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 vapors produces infinite disturbances of this kind among... | |
 | George Crabb - 1896 - 870 str.
...produced bv what we learn. None so renown'd With breathing brass to kindle fierce alarms. DRTDIH. I waJ once in a mixed assembly, that was full of noise and mirth, when on a sudden an old hwnan unluckily observed there were thirteen of ov In company. The remark struck A panic terror into... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1901 - 208 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...This remark struck a panic terror into several who were present, insomuch that one or two of the ladies were going to leave the room ; but a friend of... | |
 | Delfina Forti - 1900 - 546 str.
...baiul of robbers ; nay, the voice of a cricket hatli struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. A rusty nail, or a crooked pin shoot up into prodigies. I know but a way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors of mind, and that is,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Kenneth Deighton - 1901 - 252 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 10 infinite disturbances of this kind among... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 478 str.
...Singer, i. 1o7. 1828. Here is a witty turn given to it by Addison: " I remember that I was once in a mixt assembly that was full of noise and mirth, when, on a sudden, an old woman unluckily observed that there were thirteen of us in company. This remark struck a panic-terror into several who were... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 str.
...Prognosticks. A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot up 15 into prodigies. I remember I was once in a mixt assembly, that was full of noise and mirth, when on...were thirteen of us in company. This remark struck a panick terror into several who were present, insomuch 20 that one or two of the Ladies were going to... | |
 | 1906 - 578 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...This remark struck a panic terror into several who were present, insomuch that one or two of the ladies were going to leave the room; but a friend of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 str.
...cricket hath 20 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. 25 I remember I was once in a mixed assembly, that was full of noise and mirth, when on a sudden an... | |
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