 By certain scales i' the pyramid : they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow '. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, And shortly comes...  The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 260by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...pent lo linger But with a grain a day, I would not buy Their mercy at the price of one fair word. Id. As it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. 1,1. Thou cxist'st on many thousand grain! That issue out of dust. id. ¡feature for Measure. By intelligence... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 606 pages
...Nilus swelln, The more it promises : as it ebb?, ihr seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters bis , — save for a night of groans EndurM of lier, for...youth, But mine shall be a comfort 10 your age. Tho vour crocodile. Anf. They are so. Pom. Sit, — and some wine. — A health to Ix*ptdus. Lep. I am... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...i'the pyramid ; they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean,' ¡I dearth, Or foixon,' follow: The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as...to harvest. Lep. You have strange serpents there. .Inl. Ay, Lepidus. Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud, by the operation of your sun... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...ooze scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. Lep. You have strange serpents there. ./!.'. Ay, Lepidus. Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now...the operation of 'your sun: so is your crocodile. Ля!. They »re so. Pom. Sit, — and some wine,— A health to Lepidus. / . , . I am not so well... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 1022 pages
...comes to harvest. Lrp. \ou have strange serpents there. Ant. Ay, Lt-pidiis. Lep. Your serpent of Eijypt nih;ht not you, my lord, receive attendance For those that she calls servants, or from mi ?o. Pom. Sit,— and some wine.— A health to L*pidiu. Lip. I am not so well as I should be, but I'll... | |
 | John Madox - 1834 - 518 pages
...i' the pyramid ; they know By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth, Or foizon, follow : the higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest,* The wind being in our favour, we went at the rate * Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Scene 7. of five... | |
 | John Madox - Middle East - 1834 - 498 pages
...i' the pyramid ; they know By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth, Or foizon, follow : the higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest." The wind being in our favour, we went at the rate " Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Scene 7. of five... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...meap, if dearth, Or foizon,1 follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises ; as it ebbs, tlie seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,...sun ; so is your crocodile. Ant. They are so. Pom. Sit, — and some wine. — A health to Lepidus. Lep. I am not so well as I should be ; but I'll ne'er... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...i' the pyramid; they know, By the height, the Inwncss, or the mean, if dearth, Or foi/.on,3 follow : ther, and wherefore should one bastard ? Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us : if th oo/.c- scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest.* I*ep. You have strange serpents there. Ant.... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1887 - 606 pages
...i' the pyramid ; they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foizon, follow : The higher Nilus swells The more it promises : as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest." The crop of wheat, flax or beans, is sown without ploughing in November, and reaped in March. During... | |
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