| John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns (frore^ and cold performs the effect of fire. Thither, by harpy-footed Furies... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 136 pages
...gathers heap, and ruin seems 590 Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice ; A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. 595 Thither by harpy-footed furies... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...the obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. Booh ii. Line 568. A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies... | |
| Dawson William Turner - 1874 - 130 pages
...not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; or else deep snow and ice ; A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns fröre, and cold performs the effect of fire. Translale into Latin Lyrics.... | |
| William Latham Bevan - 1875 - 740 pages
...this, describes whole armies as having perished in it, and he is followed by Milton, who speaks of that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old Where armies whole have sunk. — -Par. Lost, ii. 293. i Sunt Thasiœ vites, sunt et Mareotides albœ,— VIRO. Georg, ii. 91. Mentemque... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...the obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. Book ii. Line 568. A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies... | |
| Isaac Plant Fleming - 1875 - 382 pages
...— . D." Explain the allusions in the following passages : (a) The wealth of Ormus and of Ind. (6) That Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk. (c) Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. (<*) When Argo passed Through Bosphorus, betwixt the justling... | |
| alexander thom - 1875 - 758 pages
...fortunate periods of our history this country was governed by a connexion. d. This point is the great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk. e. I am bold to say that so sudden a calm recovered after so violent a storm is without a parallel... | |
| William Mathews - 1876 - 322 pages
...to tax her American Colonies; "so has a man a right to shear a wolf. * * This point is 'the. great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.' I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question is... | |
| 1877 - 508 pages
...heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile : all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Scrbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed furies... | |
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