 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...it : and upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon...immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set veiy thick at the entrance of the bridge ; so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 324 pages
...it ; and upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon,...that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cioud, hut many fell into them. They grew thinner to\yards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...; and, upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon,...the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falb were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke... | |
 | William Godwin - Gods, Greek - 1814 - 342 pages
...it; and upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon,...bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke the cloud but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay con.* cealed in the bridge, which the passcngeis no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into...very thick at the entrance of the bridge , so that thrones of people no sooner broke thro' the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - English language - 1817 - 594 pages
...it; and upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide, and im mediately disappeared. These hidden pii-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge,... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, than they fell through them into the tide, and immediately...throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, than many iell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the pasengers rown, printer. pitfalswere set very thick at 'he entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...it; and, upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in . Such a temper is the first principle of self-enjoyment...contentious, the- rude and quarrelsome, are the bane во that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...innumerable trap-doers that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, than they fell through them into the tide, and immediately...throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud than many fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together... | |
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As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which... 
