 | 1714 - 528 páginas
...Confines of adjoining Grounds, Two rtubborn Swains with Blows di(pute their Bounds; They tug, they fwear, but neither gain, nor yield One Foot, one Inch, of...: Thus, obftinate to Death, they fight, they fall, Nor thefe can. keep, nor thofe can win, the Wall : Their manly Breafts are pierc'd with many a Wound... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 464 páginas
...Two ftubborn fvvains with blows difpute their bounds ; They tugg, they fweatj but neither gain, nof yield, One foot, one inch, of the contended field : Thus obftinate to death, they fight, they fall; Nor thefe can keep, nor thofe can win the wait. Iliad, xii. 505. Another from Milton labours under... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - 578 páginas
...of adjoining grounds, Two ftubbof n fwains with blows difpute their bounds ; They tugg, they fweat ; but neither gain, nor yield, One foot, one inch, of...field : Thus obftinate to death, they fight, they fall ; Nor thefe can keep, nor thofe can win the wall. Iliad xii. 505Another, from Milton, lies open to... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1772 - 398 páginas
...of adjoining grounds, Two ftubborn fwains with blows difpute-their bounds; They tugg, they fweat ; but neither gain, nor yield, One foot, one inch, of...field : Thus obftinate to death, they fight, they fall ; Not thefe can keep, nor thofe can win the wall. Iliad xii. 505. . Another, from Milton, lies open... | |
 | Homer - 1773 - 248 páginas
...confines of adjoining grounds, Two ftubborn fwains with blows difputc their bounds; They tug, they fweat ; but neither gain, nor yield, One foot, one inch, of...field : Thus obftinate to death, they fight, they fall ; Nor thefe can keep, nor thofe can win the wall. Their manly breads are pierc'd with many a wound,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1777 - 348 páginas
...confines of adjoining grounds, Two ftubborn fwains with blows difpute their bounds ; They tug, they fweat, but neither gain nor yield One foot, one inch of the...: Thus obftinate to death, they fight, they fall, Nor thefe can keep, nor thofe can win the wall. ILIAD XII. 505. That there can be no merit in a fimile... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 408 páginas
...tug, they fweat ; but neither gain or yield, . . p One foot, one inch, of the contended field :. iThus obftinate to death they fight, they, fall ; 515 Nor thefe can keep, nor thofe can win, the wall, _ Their manly breafts are pierc'd with many a wound, . Loud ftrokas are heard, and rattling arms .refouncf,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1788 - 590 páginas
...of adjoining grounds, Two ftubborn fwains with blows difpute their bounds ; They tug, they fweat ; but neither gain, nor yield, One foot, one inch, of...field : Thus obftinate to death, they fight, they fall ; Nor thefe can keep, nor thofe can win the wall. Iliad, xii. 505. Another, from Milton, lies open... | |
 | Anselm Bayly - 1789 - 402 páginas
...confines of adjoining grounds, Two ftubborn fwains with blows difpute their bounds; They tug, they fweat ; but neither gain nor yield, One foot, one inch of...field : Thus obftinate to death they fight, they fall ; Nor thefe can keep, nor thofe can gain the wall. " Here the meafures or poles, with which the fwains... | |
 | Homer - 1796 - 386 páginas
...adjoining grounds. ~\ This fimilc, Euftathius, is wonderfully proper ; it has one circumftance that They tug, they fvveat; but neither gain, nor yield,...field: Thus obftinate to death, they fight, they fall; 5i5 Nor thefe can keep, nor thofe can win the wall. Their manly breafts are pierc'd with many a wound,... | |
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As, on the confines of adjoining grounds, Two stubborn swains with blows dispute their bounds ; They tug, they sweat; but neither gain nor yield One foot, one inch, of the contended field : Thus obstinate to death they fight, they fall, Nor these can... 
