Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Frontiers - Page 10by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1908 - 58 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies...had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother and destroys ; And worse than all, and most to be deplored, ' s human... | |
| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies...had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored As human... | |
| William Hendry Stowell - 1848 - 400 pages
...of these people, without a blush and a sigh for human nature ? "Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies...had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. Thus man devours his brother, and destroys !" COWPER'S TASK. 189. In the closing scenes of the Peloponnesian... | |
| 1848 - 602 pages
...— lands intersected by a narrow frith abhor each other, and a single mountain interposed " makes enemies of nations who had else, like kindred drops, been mingled into one." The Morisonians are yet in a transition state. The metal is not yet cooled. Those in proximity with... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. 15 Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies...had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys; 20 And worse than all, and most to be deplored, As human... | |
| James McKinney Alexander - 1908 - 464 pages
...Separated into clans, as they were, by almost impassable ridges, they were continually at warfare ; for " Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mixed into one." The chief cause of their wars was their cannibalism. Sometimes a band of them would... | |
| Oren Frederic Morton - 1910 - 540 pages
...was also a willingness to see it do so. The Alleghany rampart gave force to these lines of the poet: "Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who...else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one." Unlike the Seaboard the West was by nature a single stick instead of a bundle of thirteen sticks of... | |
| 1911 - 784 pages
...for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies...had else Like .kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And worse than all, and most to be deplored, As human... | |
| Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...To Tlic Lady of Tripoli Lands, intersected by a narrow frith, Abhor each other. Mountains interpos'd Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. 8373 Comer: Task. Bk.il Line 16 Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines ! lu the soft light iil these... | |
| William Leighton Grane - 1912 - 304 pages
...God's; and man must find the means for their removal. It is useless to say with our Olney poet — " Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who...else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one." Physical barriers, thanks to natural and mechanical science, are practically demolished. The adamantine... | |
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