 There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered •with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered...  The Spectator - Page 223edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...seemed to rise above the clouds: There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass...themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes as her garments hovered in the wind. There was something wild and distracted in her looks. Her name was Fancy.... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...seemed to rise above the clouds. There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands,and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered with several figures of fiends and spectres,... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...seemed to rise above the clouds. There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass...thousand chimerical shapes, as her garment hovered 1 Addison contributed altogether 30'.' l*pers to the Taller, Sixtclalor. and Guardián; Steele contributed... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 310 pages
...seemed to rise above the clouds. There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass...themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes, as her garments hovered in the wind. There was something wild and distracted in her looks. Her name was Fancy.... | |
 | 1875 - 324 pages
...seemed to rise above the clouds. 3. There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass...themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes, as her garments hovered in the wind. There was something wild and distracted in her looks. Her name was Fancy.... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...seemed to rise above the clouds. There was a certain lady 4 of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass...spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical5 shapes as her garment hovered in the wind. There was something wild and distracted in her... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 498 pages
...seemed to rise above the clouds. 3. There was a certain lady of a thin, airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass...robe, embroidered with several figures of fiends and specters, that discovered themselves in a thousand "^chimerical shapes, as her garments hovered in... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 428 pages
...carts to London, and so carried through the city to the Tower, to be there coined." — Clarendon. ' ' She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands,...themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes, as her garments hovered in the wind." — Addison. ' ' I asked her how she got hither ; but her consternation... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 pages
...seemed to rise above the clouds. There was a certain lady, of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass...something wild and distracted in her looks. Her name was FANCT. She led up every mortal to the appointed place, after having very officiously assisted him in... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...seemed to rise above the clouds. There was a certain lady, of a thin, airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass...themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes as her garments hovered in the wind. There was sometiling wild and distracted in her looks. Her name was Fancy.... | |
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