| William Henry Bartlett - 1866 - 296 pages
...land to shore, And dived as desperately for euch piece Of earth, as it it hud bceu of ambcrgrccse. Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear away, Or than those gulls which sordid beetles rowl, Tiansfi sing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet wilh... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 822 pages
...land to shore ; And div'd 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 they did rivet, with gigantic piles, Thorough the centre their new catched miles ; And to the stake... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 380 pages
...land to shore ; And dived 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 dunghill soul." He goes on in a strain of exquisite hyperbole : —... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 366 pages
...land to shore ; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if 't had been of ambergreecc ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...bear away ; Or than those pills which sordid beetles rowI, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul." He goes on in a strain of exquisite hyperbole : —... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pages
...with mad labour, fished the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if t had been of ambergreese, Collecting anxiously small...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 - 1870 - 224 pages
...the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if't had been of ambcrgreese, 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 ncw-catchcd miles, And to the stake... | |
| 1871 - 910 pages
...the land to shore, And div'd 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... | |
| Birmingham central literary assoc - 1883 - 452 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 what building swallows bear away. " How did they rivet with gigantic piles, Thorough the centre their new-catched miles ! And to the... | |
| Thomas Craddock - 1873 - 424 pages
...the land to shore: And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if it had been ambergrease ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear away. Building their watery Babel far more high To reach the sea, than those to scale the sky. Yet still... | |
| John Murray - 1876 - 364 pages
...the land to shore, And div'd as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if Ч had been of amberyris ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...pills which sordid beetles roll, Transfusing into them theirdunghill soul. " How did they rivet with gigantic piles, Thorough the centre their new-catched... | |
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