| John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...thee, Pharoah king of Egypt, the great dragon which iieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself." More harden'd after thaiv,J For ice >varmed gently into a thaw,is mademore rcceptiveot those saline... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.' Milton has given us another very noble and poetical image in the same description, which is copied... | |
| English essays - 1803 - 418 pages
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| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...thee, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. " Milton has given us another very noble and poetical image in the same description, which is copied... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...from hence the vanity of self love and VV applause. Something like Pharaoh's insolent language, v. 3. My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself, is very common among men ; they express great pride in what they call their property ; this substance,... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Egypt - 1810 - 412 pages
...thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that Keth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. • • Behold therefore, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that licth in the midst of his rivers, which, hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.' Milton has given us another very noble and poetical image in the same description, which is copied... | |
| Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 390 pages
...pride, in saying, " my river," the river Nile, (on which the land depended for its fruitfulness,) " my river is mine own ; and I have made it for myself."§ When God denounces his judgments against Tyrus, that centre of trade and riches, and mart of nations,... | |
| James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 452 pages
...Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth " in the midst of liis rivers, which hath said, My river is mine " own, and I have made it for myself. 4. But I will put " hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to " stick unto thy... | |
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