Citations:kingdom of Pisces
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English citations of kingdom of Pisces
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- 1599, Thomas Nashe, “The praise of the red-herring”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, London: Reeves and Turner, published 1871, →OCLC, page 31:
- Now, it is high leaking[sic] time, and, be the winds never so easterly adverse, and the tide fled from us, we must violently tow, and hale in our redoubtable sophy, of the floating kingdom of Pisces, whom so much as by name I should not have acknowledged, had it not been that I mused, how Yarmouth should be invested in such plenty and opulence; considering, that, in Mr. Hakluyt's English Discoveries, I have not come in ken of one mizzen-mast of a man of war bound for the Indies, or Mediterranean stern-bearer sent from her zenith or meridian.
- 1630, John Taylor, “Jack a Lent: his beginning and entertainment”, in Charles Hindley, editor, The old book collector's miscellany or, A collection of readable reprints of literary rarities, illustrative of the history, literature, manners, and biography of the English nation during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, volume 2, London: Reeves and Turner, →OCLC, page 21 of chapter:
- […] they that have confirmed an everlasting league with Lent, and all the ragged aquarian regiments of the spacious kingdom of Pisces. For when they enter into their order first, they are enjoined never to touch or taste any manner of flesh whatsoever, […]
- 1975, Maxine Moore, That lonely game: Melville, Mardi, and the almanac, University of Missouri studies, number 63, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 141:
- The episode is also a love story between Captain Cook and his beloved sea: the adventures of Mars through Neptune's kingdom of Pisces.