 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 588 pages
...land to shore ; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if 't had been of ambergrecce ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...building swallows bear away : Or than those pills whieh sordid beetles rowl Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. He goes on in a strain of exquisite... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 pages
...forced ground: Building their wat'ry Babel far more high To catch the waves than those to scale the sky. Yet still his claim the injured ocean layed, And oft at leap-frog o'er their steeples playsd; As if on purpose it on land had come To show them what's their mare Liberum ; * A daily deluge... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 440 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...beetles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet, with gigantic piles, Thorough the centre their new-catched miles ; And to the stake... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 462 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...beetles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet, with gigantic piles, Thorough the centre their new-catched miles ; And to the stake... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1892 - 320 pages
...land to shore, 10 And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if t had been of ambergris, Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...beetles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet with gigantic piles, Thorough the centre their new-catched miles ? And to the stake... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1896 - 446 pages
...laud 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 what building swallows bear away ; Or lhan those pills which sordid beetles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 pages
...land to shoar ; 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 roul, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet with gigantick piles, Thorough... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 pages
...land to shoar ; 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 roul, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet with gigantick piles, Thorough... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1898 - 448 pages
...piece Of earth, as if 't had been of ambergreece ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, I>ess than what building swallows bear away ; Or than those...beetles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet, with gigantic piles. Thorough the centre their new-catched miles; And to the stake... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 510 pages
...of Andrew Marvell, where we read that in that debateable patch of pseudo-land stolen from the sea " Yet still his claim the injured ocean layed, And oft at leap-frog o'er their steeples played . . . The fish oft-times the burgher dispossessed And sat, not as a meat, but as a guest." This again... | |
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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... 
