 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 str.
...them, and mention Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian1 bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore,2 and cold performs the effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed furies... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 450 str.
...thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authoritios lift up their h«ads on both sides ; mid there is no sure footing in the middle. This point...the " great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Uasius old, where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 398 str.
...disputed question of right, Mr. / Burke declined to enter on the abstract merits of the dispute — " That great Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, ! . Where armies whole have sunk." But he wholly gave up the exercise of this supposed right, and thereby laid the ground for an amicable... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1859 - 444 str.
...touch its deceitful surface, they fare as the lords of creation did in a long posterior age, in that " Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk." But, as happened to so many of the heroes of classic history, death is fame here, and by dying they... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 str.
...gathers heap, and ruin seems 590 Of aneient pile ; all else deep snow and iee, A gulf profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parehing air 570. gross, ie large ; gros, Fr. 577. Slgx : ffTvfeia, to hate. — Aeheron: &XOfJKU,... | |
 | Charles Cavendish Clifford - 1860 - 52 str.
...sportsman on Scottish hills stalks the stag. For miles around were morasses : A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog . Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk. At one moment I was surprised at seeing nothing but the ears and neck of my horse, the rest of his... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 str.
...touch its deceitful surface, they fare as the lords of creation did in a long posterior age, in that ' Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk.' But as it happened to so many of the heroes of classic history, death is fame here, and by dying they... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 str.
...only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lilt up their heads on hoth sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is the great Serhonian hog, hetni»t Dami(Ua and Mount Casiua old, where armirs whoU have •un&. I do not intend... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 str.
...but gathers heap, and ruin seems 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... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle - 1860 - 478 str.
...deceitful surface, they fare as the lords of creation did in a long posterior age, in that " Serboniun bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk." But, as happened to so many of the heroes of classic history, death is fame here, and by dying they... | |
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These are deep questions where great names militate against each other; where reason is perplexed; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing... 
