 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1844 - 388 strani
...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 (frozen), and cold performs the effect of foe1." PARADISE LOST, Book... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 strani
...each other ; where reason is perplexed ; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads...the great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casitts old, where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 448 strani
...reason is perplexed, and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion: for high and revered authorities lift up their heads on both sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle : this is, in the language of Milton, — A gulf profound, as that Serbonian bog, 'Twixt Damietta and mount... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - 504 strani
...cannot see how they keep themselves out of that great Serbonian bog to which Mr. Burke alluded — " The great- Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk." On the one hand, they may stand on the notion of private property, and maintain the ecclesiastical... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 strani
...heap, and ruin seems 590 Of ancient pile ; or else deep snow and ice, i ! 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... | |
 | Edward Backhouse Eastwick - 1849 - 284 strani
...once what I had heard of — its being covered at flood-tides — was true.* It seemed like " that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk." As I was aware that seven persons who had attempted the * That I have not exaggerated the difficulties... | |
 | George Warburton - 1849 - 528 strani
...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, (frozen) and cold performs the effect of fire.' — Paradise Lost,... | |
 | George Warburton - 1850 - 376 strani
...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 (frozen), and cold performs the effect of fire.' Paradise Lost, B. 2.... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - 1851 - 620 strani
...millions of our money, and all the interest thereon, that work was, A gulf profound as that Scrbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: — He feared the entire amount was irrecoverably gone. Mr. D. then «aid, that some remarks of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 strani
...each other ; where reason is perplexed ; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads...overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether... | |
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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... 
