Nile Quotes
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It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.
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More Nile Quotes
As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (1775), Act III, Stanza 3.
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— 1775 Mrs Malaprop of Lydia Languish.The Rivals, act 3, sc.3.
And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, "All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile."
ralph waldo emerson— New England Reformers
It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.
— Book VIII, sec. 148.
He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.
— 1871-2 Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.9.
Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatraand sank.
John Mason Brown— 1937 In the NewYork Post,11 Nov.
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!
Lewis Carroll— 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.2,'The Pool of Tears'.
The Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of theThames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pupils might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctityand truth of the revelation of Mahomet.
Edward Gibbon— 1776-88 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.52.
The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.
John Hanning Speke— 1863 Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.
It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.
phaedrus— Book I, fable 25, line 3.
Sauckel, the greatest and cruelest slaver since the pharaohs of Egypt, produced desperately needed manpower by driving foreign peoples into the land of bondage on a scale unknown even in the ancient days of tyranny in the kingdom of the Nile.
fritz sauckel— Robert H. Jackson
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
lydia maria child— Supposititious Speech of James Otis. The Rebels, Chap. iv.
Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent center for trade, cornfields throughout all Egypt, and the great usefulness of the mighty river Nile, ordered him to build the city of Alexandria , named after the king. This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous.
vitruvius— Introduction, Sec. 4
The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Part I.
Whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 4, line 33.
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sonnet, To the Nile.
'Tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
— William Shakespeare, "Pisanio" in Cymbeline, Act III, scene 4, line 35.
The Mississippi , the Ganges, and the Nile , those journeying atoms from the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world. The heavens are not yet drained over ...
— Henry David Thoreau (1873), in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, p.16
Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine; A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Moral Essays. Epistle to Addison. line 27.
I do not understand the request of Moses, 'Show me thy glory,' but if he were here . . . after allowing him time to drink the glories of flower, mountain, and sky, I would ask him how they compared with those of the Valley of the Nile . . . and I would inquire how he had the conscience to ask for more glory, when such oceans and atmospheres were about him.
— John Muir, in John of the Mountains : The Unpublished Journals of John Muir (1938) edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe, p. 24
Everyone has his food , and his time of life is reckoned. Their tongues are separate in speech , And their natures as well; Their skins are distinguished, As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples. Thou makest a Nile in the underworld, Thou bringest forth as thou desirest To maintain the people According as thou madest them for thyself, The lord of all of them, wearying with them, The lord of every land , rising for them, The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
— Great Hymn to the Aten, as translated in The Ancient Near East, Vol. 1 : An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (1958) by James B. Pritchard, p. 227
It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.
— Book I, fable 25, line 3.
Where’s my serpent of old Nile? For so he calls me.
— Cleopatra, speaking of Antony, scene v
'Tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world.
— Pisanio, scene iv
To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay.
john greenleaf whittier— The Tent on the Beach, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
akhenaten— Great Hymn to the Aten, as translated in The Ancient Near East, Vol. 1 : An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (1958) by James B. Pritchard, p. 227
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
lydia maria child— Lydia Maria Child, Supposititious Speech of James Otis, The Rebels, Chapter IV.
