| 1787 - Počet stránok 668
...overftep nature and probability, but even to pafs beyond the verge of polTibility, and fuppofe things, which cannot be for a moment conceived. For example,...was angry, became fo terrible, that no perfon could be.ir to behold it, and the wretch, upon whom it was fixed, inftantly fell backwards, and fometimes... | |
| William Gill Thompson - 1821 - Počet stránok 62
...pleasing and majestic figure, " but when he was angry, one of his eyes became so ter' rible that no person could bear to behold it; and the wretch upon whom it was fixed, instantly fell backward and sometimes r^ pired. ' " See " VATHEK," a tale of great beauty, force, and... | |
| William Beckford - 1834 - Počet stránok 414
...was pleasing and majestic : but when he was angry, one of his eyes became so terrible, that no person could bear to behold it; and the wretch upon whom it was fixed, instantly fell backward, and sometimes expired. For fear, however, of depopulating his dominions, and... | |
| William Beckford - 1834 - Počet stránok 648
...was pleasing and majestic : but when he was angry, one of his eyes became so terrible, that no person could bear to behold it ; and the wretch upon whom it was fixed, instantly fell backward, and sometimes expired. For fear, however, of depopulating his dominions, and... | |
| William Beckford - 1836 - Počet stránok 416
...was pleasing and majestic: hut when he was angry, one of his eyes became so terrible, that no person could bear to behold it; and the wretch upon whom it was fixed, instantly fell backward, and sometimes expired. For fear, however, of depopulating his dominions, am'... | |
| William Beckford - 1854 - Počet stránok 216
...was pleasing and majestic : but when he was angry, one of his eyes became so terrible, that no person could bear to behold it; and the wretch upon whom it was fixed, instantly fell backward, and sometimes expired. For fear, however, of depopulating his dominions, and... | |
| William Beckford - 1868 - Počet stránok 228
...was pleasing and majestic; but when he was angry one of his eyes became so terrible, that no person could bear to behold it, and the wretch upon whom it was fixed instantly fell backward, and sometimes expired. For fear, however, of depopulating his dominions and... | |
| William Beckford - 1868 - Počet stránok 220
...pleasing and majestic ; but when he was angry, one of his eyes 2 became so terrible that no person could bear to behold it ; and the wretch upon whom it was fixed instantly fell backward, and sometimes expired. For fear, however, of 1 This title amongst the Mahometans... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - Počet stránok 870
...was pleasing and majestic ; but when he was angry, one of his eyes became so terrible that no person H instantly fell backward, and sometimes expired. For fear, however, of depopulating his dominions, and... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - Počet stránok 582
...was pleasing and majestic; but when he wns angry one of his eyes became so terrible that no person could bear to behold it; and the wretch upon whom it was fixed instantly fell backward, and sometimes expired. Fur fear, however, of depopulating bis dominion*, and... | |
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