 | John Madox - 1834 - 498 ページ
...put into the mouth of Mark Antony : They take the flow o' the Nile By certain scales 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 it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the... | |
 | John Madox - 1834 - 518 ページ
...put into the mouth of Mark Antony : They take the flow o' the Nile By certain scales 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 it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 ページ
...scales i' the pyramid; they know, By the height, the Inwncss, or the mean, if dearth, Or foi/.on,3 follow : The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the .slime and oo/.c- scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest.* I*ep. You have strange serpents there. Ant.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 ページ
...animating presence of the eye toftt them." By the height, the lov/ness, or the 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, And shortly comes to harvest. Lep. You have... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1887 - 606 ページ
...certain scales 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...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 ページ
....int. Thus do they, sir : [To Caesar.] They take the flow o'the Nile By certain scales i'lhe 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 it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 526 ページ
...presence of the eye to Jill them." By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth, Or foizon,1 follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises...his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. Lep. You have strange serpents there. Ant. Ay, Lepidus. Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 ページ
...i'the pyramid ; they know, By the heigm, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth, Or foizon, follow :8 The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as...his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. Lep. You have strange serpents there. Ant. Ay, Lepidus. Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 ページ
...weapon 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;...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. Ant. Ay, Lepidus. Lep. You have strange serpents there. Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your... | |
 | William Fullerton Cumming - 1839 - 838 ページ
...makes them to be Nilometers — " They take the flow of the Nile By certain scales of the Pyramid : they know By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow," For myself, I think the most probable conjecture is that generally received, of their having been the... | |
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They take the flow o' the Nile 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... 
