I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, apparitions, of towns taken, cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland, &c.,... The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ... - الصفحة 5بواسطة Robert Burton - 1800عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...delighted to hear " new news every day," "rumours of plagues, fires, thefts, murders, inundations, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies,...besieged, in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland, itc.," as much as if he had lived at the present day, and gone to the Union to read hia Times and Telegraph,... | |
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