 Flow'd ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected, and so wondrous fierce, That the wild deluge overtook the haste Ev'n of the hinds that watch'd it: men and beasts Were borne above the tops of trees, that grew On th' utmost margin of the water-mark.  Memoirs of Richard Cumberland - Sayfa 167Richard Cumberland tarafından - 1856 - 397 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | John Bell - 1797 - 458 sayfa
...WELL LOST. ACT I. SCENE 1. The Temple of Isis. SERAPION, MYRIS, Priests ef Isis, discovered. Serapion. PORTENTS and prodigies are grown so frequent, That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flow'd, ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected and so wondrous fierce,... | |
 | Susanna Centlivre - 1797 - 462 sayfa
...WELL LOST. ACT I. SCENE I. Tbt Temple of Isia. SERAFION, MYRIS, Priests of Isis, discovered. Serapion. PORTENTS and prodigies are grown so frequent, That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flow'd, ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected and so wondrous fierce,... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 946 sayfa
...Alexandria. ACT I. SCENE I.— The Temple of lia. SERAPIO.N, and MYRIS, Priesti of Isis, discovered. Ser. PORTENTS and prodigies are grown so frequent, That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Flowed, ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected, and so wondrous fierce, That... | |
 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 sayfa
...THE DOMESTIC QUALITIES OF GARRICK J WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF MR. CUMBERLAND, THE DRAMATIST. THE happy hit of the West Indian drew a considerable...circumstances, yet with every elegance and comfort, that would render it a welcome and agreeable rendezvous) to my guests. I had six children, whose birth-days... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 410 sayfa
...LOVE. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. The Temple of Isis, SERAPION, MYK.IS, Priests of Isis, discovered. Ser. Portents and prodigies are grown so frequent That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flow'd, ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected, and so wond'rous fierce,... | |
 | John Fletcher, David Garrick - 1808 - 410 sayfa
...LOVE. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. The Temple of his. SERAPION, MYRIS, Priests of lsist discovered. Ser. Portents and prodigies are grown so frequent That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flow'd, ere the wonted season, .with a torrent So unexpected, and so wond'rous fierce,... | |
 | Baroness Mary Lepell Hervey Hervey - 1821 - 360 sayfa
...your daughter and yourself. The late events in your parish would seem very extraordinary, but that portents and prodigies are grown so frequent, that they have lost their name. I fear the only solution to your problem is the total throwing off of all decency, and the disregard... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 sayfa
...people who admire it on account of the deficiencies of the author, are little better than blockheads, " Portents and prodigies are grown so frequent, that they have lost their name." People, however, still continue to wonder at them, while the the real wonder is, not that these stall-fed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sayfa
...have followed it, for I could not starve.' London Earthquakes and London Gossip. — Mar. 11, 1751. ws restrain, My text is not literally true ; but as far as earthquakes go towards lowering the price of wonderful... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 484 sayfa
...struck, and of which you can have no idea. Adieu ! LETTER CO XII. Arlington-Street, March II, 1750. Portents and prodigies are grown so frequent, That they have lost their name.f MY text is not literally true ; but as far as earthquakes go towards lowering the price of wonderful... | |
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