 | Susanna Centlivre - 1797 - 462 Seiten
...WELL LOST. ACT I. SCENE I. Tbt Temple of Isia. SERAFION, MYRIS, Priests of Isis, discovered. Serapion. PORTENTS and prodigies are grown so frequent, That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flow'd, ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected and so wondrous... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 458 Seiten
...WELL LOST. ACT I. SCENE 1. The Temple of Isis. SERAPION, MYRIS, Priests ef Isis, discovered. Serapion. PORTENTS and prodigies are grown so frequent, That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flow'd, ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected and so wondrous... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 946 Seiten
...Alexandria. ACT I. SCENE I.— The Temple of lia. SERAPIO.N, and MYRIS, Priesti of Isis, discovered. Ser. PORTENTS and prodigies are grown so frequent, That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Flowed, ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected, and so wondrous fierce,... | |
 | John Fletcher, David Garrick - 1808 - 410 Seiten
...LOVE. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. The Temple of his. SERAPION, MYRIS, Priests of lsist discovered. Ser. Portents and prodigies are grown so frequent That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flow'd, ere the wonted season, .with a torrent So unexpected, and so wond'rous... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 410 Seiten
...LOVE. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. The Temple of Isis, SERAPION, MYK.IS, Priests of Isis, discovered. Ser. Portents and prodigies are grown so frequent That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flow'd, ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected, and so wond'rous... | |
 | Baroness Mary Lepell Hervey Hervey - 1821 - 360 Seiten
...your daughter and yourself. The late events in your parish would seem very extraordinary, but that portents and prodigies are grown so frequent, that they have lost their name. I fear the only solution to your problem is the total throwing off of all decency, and the disregard... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 Seiten
...people who admire it on account of the deficiencies of the author, are little better than blockheads, " Portents and prodigies are grown so frequent, that they have lost their name." People, however, still continue to wonder at them, while the the real wonder is, not that these... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...have followed it, for I could not starve.' London Earthquakes and London Gossip. — Mar. 11, 1751. ws restrain, name.* My text is not literally true ; but as far as earthquakes go towards lowering the price of wonderful... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 488 Seiten
...charming irregularities. I am almost as fond of the Sharawaggi, or Chinese want of symmetry, in building, as in grounds or gardens. I am sure, whenever you...struck, and of which you can have no idea. Adieu! LETTER CCXII. Arlington-Street, March 11, 1750. Portents and prodigies are grown so frequent, That... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 484 Seiten
...we are struck, and of which you can have no idea. Adieu ! LETTER CO XII. Arlington-Street, March II, 1750. Portents and prodigies are grown so frequent, That they have lost their name.f MY text is not literally true ; but as far as earthquakes go towards lowering the price of wonderful... | |
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I am almost as fond of the Sharawaffffi, or Chinese want of symmetry, in buildings, as in grounds or gardens. I am sure, whenever you come to England, you will be pleased with the liberty of taste into which we are struck, and of which you can have no... 
