WOE to the land shadowing with wings, Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia : That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, Even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying. Go, ye swift messengers, To a nation scattered and peeled, To a people terrible from... The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets - Page 1211813Full view - About this book
| 1898 - 354 pages
...the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. WOE to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond...swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto ; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land... | |
| 1902 - 394 pages
...the heritage of the servants of Jahveh, and their righteousness is of me, saith Jahveh. (xviii.) Ho to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond...swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto, a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 274 pages
...characteristic 'highserious ' manner in which prophecy is cast. Cf. '' Bel Ixiweth down, Nebo stoopeth." "Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond...swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto. " Cf. p. xlviii. 12 Waking dreams. ' Dreams in... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 270 pages
...stoopeth." "Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which i» beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, that scndeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes...swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto." Cf, p. xlviii. 12 Waking dreams. ' Dreams in waking... | |
| Andrew Bruce Davidson - 1902 - 274 pages
...morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, And the lot of them that rob us. 10 * Woe to the land shadowing with wings, Which is beyond...Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and 13 peeled, To a people terrible from their beginning hitherto ; A nation meted out and trodden down,... | |
| Charles Francis Horne, Julius August Brewer - 1910 - 604 pages
...gram unto Ihe dhnft. i]OE to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels...swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land... | |
| Daniel Macgregor - 1911 - 192 pages
...inheritance. It will be found in America. And this is the very land specified in prophecy. Woe (Ho!) to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond...swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land... | |
| Marc Lescarbot - 1914 - 598 pages
...threatening the Ethiopians and Assyrians, " Woe," says he, " to the land that sendeth ambassadors by the sea in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers," &c.2 The Egyptians, neighbours to the Ethiopians, had in the time of Julius Caesar the same vessels,... | |
| John Harden Allen - 1918 - 418 pages
...Israel, we have the following: "Ho (or Hail, not Woe, as in the King James version of the Scriptures) to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond...swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning [note that] ; hitherto a nation meted out [measured out by... | |
| John Harden Allen - 1920 - 136 pages
...Atlantic ocean], even in vessels of bulrushes [whirling things, water-drawing things, ie, steam machinery] upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out [measured by a time prophecy]... | |
| |