 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
 | Editor of The family manual and servant's guide - 1835 - 412 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." * Bulwer. 3o3 DOMESTIC SERVANTS. Man upon man depends, and, break the chain> He soon returns to savage... | |
 | 1836 - 932 str.
...cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable, which very noble fruits, had it been informed and guided by a suitable education. It is therefore mixt assembly, that was full of noise and mirth, when on a sudden an old woman unluckily observed there... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 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...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... | |
 | John Gay - 1838 - 254 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...nail, or a crooked pin, shoot up into prodigies." He closes the paper with some beautiful moral reflections : " It is the chief concern of wise men to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 str.
...cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable, which mixt assembly, that was full of noise and mirth, when on a sudden an old woman unluckily observed there... | |
 | 430 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 : a rusty nail or crooked pin shoot up into prodigies. — Additon, DIAMOND DUST. THE purest joy that we can experience... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1850 - 776 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...omens and prognostics. A rusty nail or a crooked pin shoots up into prodigies." The century and a quarter that has passed away since Addison wrote has seen... | |
 | Adolph Heimann - 1851 - 316 str.
...with omens150 and prognostics151: a rusty nail or a crooked152 pin shoot up153 into154 prodigies.155 I remember I was once in a mixed assembly, that was full of noise and mirth, when on a sudden156 an old lady unluckily 157 observed there were thirteen of us158 in company. This remark struck... | |
 | 1851 - 486 str.
...nothing so inconsiderable, which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is tilled with omens aud prognostics — a rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot up into prodigies. — Add-on. WHY Lrri:r.XRY MEN DO NOT MARRY LITERARY "WwBS. — I know not why it is, but your very... | |
 | 1852 - 436 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 : a rusty nail or crooked pin shoot up into prodigies! — . ... * * Aadison. PROMISERS.— There is a sort of people... | |
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