 | 1787 - 668 pages
...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 - 62 pages
...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 - 414 pages
...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 - Italy - 1834 - 648 pages
...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 - 416 pages
...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 - English fiction - 1854 - 216 pages
...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 - 228 pages
...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 - Ethiopia - 1868 - 220 pages
...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 - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...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 - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...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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His figure 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. 
