 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1847 - 348 pages
...the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if't had been of ambergris; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul." BUIKSLUT. T7AN BERCHEEM had told me I must go over to • Buikslut to see the ship-canal ; so, one... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1847 - 356 pages
...the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if 't had been of ambergris ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul." BUIKSLUT. T7AN BERCHEEM had told me. I must go over to " Buikslut to see the ship-canal ; so, one sunny... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...land to shore : And div'd as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if × had been of Ambergrease ; g, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, m rowl, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet, with gigantic piles, Thorough... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...each piece Of earth, as if × had been of Ambergrease ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Lera t is pretension, Tell charity of coldness, Tell law it is contention. And àä t rowl, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. Ho* did they rivet, with gigantic piles, Thorough... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - 1849 - 424 pages
...land to shore ; And div'd as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if 't had been of ambergreece ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...bear away ; Or than those pills which sordid beetles rowl, Transfusing into them their dung-hill soul. How did they rivet, with gigantic piles, Thorough... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...land to shore : And div'd as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if 't had been of Ambergrease ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...bear away ; Or than those pills which sordid beetles rowl, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet, with gigantic piles, Thorough... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 542 pages
...land to shore ; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if it had been of ambergris ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear away ; For as with pigmies, who best kills the crane, Among the hungry he that treasures grain, Among the... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1851 - 358 pages
...the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if't had been of ambergris; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...which sordid beetles roll, Transfusing into them their d mghill sonL" BUIKSLUT. T7AN BERCHEEM had told re I must go over to * Buikslut to see the ship-canal... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1851 - 608 pages
...land to shore ; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if it had been of ambergrease, Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear away ; ***** For as wilh pigmies, who best kills the crane, Among the hungry he that treasures grain, Among... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 440 pages
...land to shore ; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if it had been of ambergrease ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...dunghill soul. Yet still his claim the injured ocean laid, And oft at leap-frog o'er their steeples play'd ; As if on purpose it on land had come To show... | |
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This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour... 
