 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...served up for C'abillau ; Or, as they over the new level ranged, For pickled herring, pickled heerun changed. Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake,...For, as with Pigmies, who best kills the crane, Among the hungry he that treasures grain, Among the blind the one-eyed biiukard reigns, So rules among the... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 pages
...cabillau ; Or, as they over the new level ranged, For pickled herring pickled heeren changed ... J Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw...Something like government among them brings. For as with pygmies, who best kills the crane, Among the hungry he that treasures grain, Among the blind the one-eyed... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...served up for Cabillau; Or, as they over the new level ranged, For pickled herring, pickled heeren changed. Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake,...For, as with Pigmies, who best kills the crane, Among the hungry he that treasures grain, Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns, So rules among the... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1881 - 328 pages
...over the new level rang'd, For pickled herring, pickled herring chang'd. Nature, it seem'd, asham'd of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake." The author of ' Hudibraa * describes Holland as *' A country that draws fifty feet of water, Jn which... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...and Marvell wrote a Whimsical Satire on Holland, from which a few lines are here printed. HOLLAND. Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake,1 Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like Government among them brings. For,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 592 pages
...changed. Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would t. rjw their land away at duck-and-drakc. Therefore, Necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings : For as with Pigmys, who best kills the crane, Among the hungry he that treasures grain. Among the biind the one-eyed... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 588 pages
...changed. Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would t. row their laud away at duck-and-drake. Therefore, Necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings : For as with Pigmys, who best kills the crane, Among the hungry he that treasures grain, Among the blind the one-eyed... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 pages
...they over the new level rang'd For pickled herring, pickled heeren chang'd. Nature, it seem'd, asham'd of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake. " Unfortunately, the indignation of the writer, which equals that of Juvenal, knows no bound of discretion,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 pages
...they over the new level rang'd For pickled herring, pickled heeren chang'd. Nature, it seem'd, asham'd of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake." Unfortunately, the indignation of the writer, which equals that of Juvenal, knows no bound of discretion,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 pages
...they over the new level rang'd For pickled herring, pickled heeren chang'd. Nature, it seem'd, asham'd of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake." Unfortunately, the indignation of the writer, which equals that of Juvenal, knows no bound of discretion,... | |
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Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with... 
