So, or much like, our rebel elders driven
For aye from Eden, earthly type of heaven,
Lie languishing near Tigris’ grassy side.
Sylvester, Du Bartas, The Handycrafts.
Element. The air, as that among the four elements which is most present everywhere, was frequently ‘the element’ in our earlier literature.
When Pompey saw the dust in the element, and conjectured the flying of his horsemen, what mind he was of then it was hard to say.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 553.
The face therefore of the element you have skill to discern, and the signs of times can you not?—Matt. xvi. 3. Rheims.
There is no stir or walking in the streets,
And the complexion of the element
In favour is like the work we have in hand,