 | John Mitchell Kemble - Great Britain - 1876 - 560 pages
...londmearce neah, nigh to the landmark. Cod. Exon. p. 280. Prometheus hung in the SfipoTos e'pt1/iia ; though perhaps there is another and deeper feeling...the Nicors house by the side of lakes and marshes i : Grendel, the man-eater, is a "mighty stepper over the mark 2 " : the chosen home of the firedrake... | |
 | England - 1878 - 786 pages
...the Matabele is about thirty miles wide, beyond which, as they tell you, extends a country to which "no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." That was the question which Vasson proposed to test. A week's journey through lands where his oxen... | |
 | England - 1878 - 818 pages
...the Matabele is about thirty miles wide, beyond which, as they tell you, extends a country to which "no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." That was the question which Vasson proposed to test. A week's journey through lands where his oxen... | |
 | Scotland - 1878 - 906 pages
...the Matabele is about thirty miles wide, beyond which, as they tell you, extends a country to which "no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." That was the question which Vasson proposed to test. A week's journey through lands where his oxen... | |
 | English Dialect Society - 1888 - 508 pages
...abodes of monsters and dragons; wood spirits bewilder and decoy the wanderer to destruction ; the Mear's house by the side of lakes and marshes; Grendel, the man-eater, is a "mighty stepper over the mark;" the chosen home of the firedrake is a fen.' — Saxons in England, Book I., c. ii. As to Nicor,... | |
 | Peter Taylor Forsyth - Art and religion - 1889 - 380 pages
...into the caked soil — the record of a long, long journey from Zion and its peace, through a land where " no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." We see the bent and smitten head, the dull dying eye, the parched and gasping mouth. But through and... | |
 | Nature - 1908 - 412 pages
...of touch with time and space. This surely is never friendly Wessex soil ; rather some " waste land where no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." A stillness as of the Ancient of Days, before that impertinent accident called Life had appeared, to... | |
 | John G. Neihardt - Missouri River - 1910 - 360 pages
...a haughty cry in a silence. A wilderness indeed ! It seemed that waste land of which Tennyson sang, "where no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." I thought of the steamboats and the mackinaws and the keel-boats and the thousands of men who had pushed... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 950 pages
...up for a moment at the wake. A wilderness indeed! It seemed that waste land of which Tennyson sang, "where no man comes nor hath come since the making of the world." I thought of the steamboats and the mackinaws and the keelboats and the thousands of men who had pushed... | |
 | David George Hogarth - Archaeologists - 1910 - 300 pages
...lying patches. It is a mystery how men ever lived and tilled in a land, whither one would surely say no man comes Nor hath come since the making of the world. For they had no pumps, those husbandmen of the Roman time, and their drainage must have been by natural... | |
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That was the question which Vasson proposed to test. A week's journey through lands where his oxen found abundance of forage, showed him that the Matabele, in this respect as in others, are indifferent to the truth. He came upon a... 
