 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 - Seite 260von William Shakespeare - 1821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 Seiten
...i' the pyramid : they know , By the height, thelowness, or the mean, if dearth, Or foison , follow. The higher Nilus swells , The more it promises : as...sun : so is your crocodile. Ant. They are so. Pom. Sit, — and some wine! — A health to Lepidns. Lep. lam not so well as I should be, but I 'll ne'er... | |
 | 1904 - 926 Seiten
...renders summer field labor tolerable by tempering the ardor of the scorching sun. The higher Xilus swells. The more it promises: as it ebbs the seedsman...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. Day by (lay and year by year this seedsman, as Shakespeare makes Antony name him, with his body in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 Seiten
...scales i' the pyramid ; they know. By the height, tho lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow : a 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, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 570 Seiten
...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...to harvest. Lep. You have strange serpents there. 5 They have made him drink alms-drink.] A phrase, amongst good fellows, to signify that liquor of another's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 568 Seiten
...the middle. 8 Or foizon, follow :] Foizon is a French word signifying plenty, abundance. VOL. VII. L Ant. Ay, Lepidus. Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred...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 John Birch - 1848 - 570 Seiten
...holy, cold, and still conversation' — qualities which Shakspere makes go together. Lepidus says : — Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud, by the operation of your sun : so is your crocodile. Here we have equivocal generation still more plainly expressed. Antony says of it : — It is shaped,... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1850 - 92 Seiten
...scales i' the Pyramids j 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." Shakspeare is not quite correct as to the advantage of rising high; for were the Nile to rise twenty-eight... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 Seiten
...higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as it ebbs, the seedsman * Behaviour. t Dessert. J Feet. Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, And shortly...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 - 1851 - 530 Seiten
...between a pike and a halberd. By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth, Or foizon,1 follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises ; as...Ant. Ay, Lepidus. Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred npw of your mud by the operation of your sun ; so is your crocodile. Ant. They are so. Pom. Sit, —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 Seiten
...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...You have strange serpents there. Ant. Ay, Lepidus. Ant. They are so. Pom. Sit, — and some wine. — A health to Lepidus. Lep. I am not so well as I... | |
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