 | 1878 - 896 páginas
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 | John Mitchell Kemble - 1876 - 560 páginas
...londmearce neah, nigh to the landmark. Cod. Exon. p. 280. Prometheus hung in the SfipoTos e'pt1/iia ; though perhaps there is another and deeper feeling...the Nicors house by the side of lakes and marshes i : Grendel, the man-eater, is a "mighty stepper over the mark 2 " : the chosen home of the firedrake... | |
 | 1878 - 786 páginas
...the Matabele is about thirty miles wide, beyond which, as they tell you, extends a country to which "no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." That was the question which Vasson proposed to test. A week's journey through lands where his oxen... | |
 | 1878 - 818 páginas
...the Matabele is about thirty miles wide, beyond which, as they tell you, extends a country to which "no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." That was the question which Vasson proposed to test. A week's journey through lands where his oxen... | |
 | 1878 - 906 páginas
...the Matabele is about thirty miles wide, beyond which, as they tell you, extends a country to which "no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." That was the question which Vasson proposed to test. A week's journey through lands where his oxen... | |
 | English Dialect Society - 1888 - 508 páginas
...abodes of monsters and dragons; wood spirits bewilder and decoy the wanderer to destruction ; the Mear's house by the side of lakes and marshes; Grendel, the man-eater, is a "mighty stepper over the mark;" the chosen home of the firedrake is a fen.' — Saxons in England, Book I., c. ii. As to Nicor,... | |
 | Peter Taylor Forsyth - 1889 - 380 páginas
...into the caked soil — the record of a long, long journey from Zion and its peace, through a land where " no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." We see the bent and smitten head, the dull dying eye, the parched and gasping mouth. But through and... | |
 | 1908 - 412 páginas
...of touch with time and space. This surely is never friendly Wessex soil ; rather some " waste land where no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." A stillness as of the Ancient of Days, before that impertinent accident called Life had appeared, to... | |
 | 1910 - 950 páginas
...up for a moment at the wake. A wilderness indeed! It seemed that waste land of which Tennyson sang, "where no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." I thought of the steamboats and the mackinaws and the keelboats and the thousands of men who had pushed... | |
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That was the question which Vasson proposed to test. A week's journey through lands where his oxen found abundance of forage, showed him that the Matabele, in this respect as in others, are indifferent to the truth. He came upon a... 
