 | Michael Russell - Egypt - 1831 - 536 pages
...iv. 290. And where the stream from India's swarthy sons, Close on the verge of quivered Persia runs, Broods o'er green Egypt with dark wave of mud, And pours through many a mouth its branching flood. SOTHEBY. Lucan indulges in his usual mysticism, and appears satisfied that, by a decree of the fates,... | |
 | Michael Russell - Egypt - 1835 - 356 pages
...iv. 290. And where the stream from India's swarthy sons, Close on the verge of quivered Persia runs, Broods o'er green Egypt with dark wave of mud, And pours through many a mouth its branching flood. SOTHEBY. Lucan indulges in his usual mysticism, and appears satisfied that, by a decree of the fates,... | |
 | Michael Russell - Egypt - 1842 - 356 pages
...where the stream front India's swarthy sons, Close on the verge of quivered Peraia runs, , Broods-o'er green Egypt with dark wave of mud, And pours through many a mouth its branching flood. SOTHIBY. Lucan indulges in his usual mysticism, and appears satisfied that, by a decree of the fates,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 240 pages
...process of the suns." VII. " Et viridem JEgyptum nigra faecundat arena, Et diversa ruens septem discunit in ora." VIRGIL, Georgics iv. 200 " And where the...And pours through many a mouth its branching flood." SOTHEBY. [IDDING farewell to Thebes, we resume our voyage up the Nile, whose banks are here enriched... | |
 | William Beamont - 1871 - 348 pages
...of all this boundless fertility, the broad and wondrous river which Broods o'er green Egypt with its wave of mud, And pours through many a mouth its branching flood. Virg. Georg. IV. 290. In one field a man was ploughing, like Elisha, with twelve yoke of oxen, and... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 390 pages
...I. ESNEH—THE ALMEHS, OR DANCING GIRLS 'EILYTHIA: THE ROCK TOMBS EDFOO, AND ITS TEMPLE-—SILSILEH, AND ITS QUARRIES—KOUM OMBOS, Et viridem Aegyptum...And pours through many a mouth its branching flood. SOTHEBY. JIIDDING farewell to Thebes and its Monuments, we resume our voyage up the Nile. The first... | |
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AND ITS QUARRIES—KOUM OMBOS. Et viridem Aegyptum nigra faecundat arena, Et diversa ruens septem discurrit in ora. Virgil, Georgics, iv. 200. And where the stream . . . Broods o'er green Egypt with dark wave of mud, And pours through many a mouth its... 