| James Russell Lowell - 1920 - 256 Seiten
...fancy: Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the offscouring of the British sand, And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heaved the lead, Or what by ocean's slow alluvium fell Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell;... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 Seiten
...Medway : " Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but th' off-scouring of the British sand, And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heav'd the lead, Or what by the Ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwreck'd cockle and the muscle-shell... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1927 - 372 Seiten
...Holland Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand • And so much Earth as was contributed By English Pilots when they heav'd the Lead ; Or what by th' Oceans slow alluvion fell, Of shipwrackt Cockle and the Muscle-shell... | |
| 1894 - 980 Seiten
...fancy : Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the offscouring of the British sand, And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heaved the lead, Or what by ocean's slow alluvium fell Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell;... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1985 - 324 Seiten
...Holland Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the off-scouring of the British sand; And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heaved the lead; Or what by th' ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwrecked cockle and the mussel shell;... | |
| Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 Seiten
...flooding: Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land. As but th' off-scouring of the British sand, And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heav'd the lead. Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwrackt cockle and the muscleshell:... | |
| Samuel Walker McCall - 1924 - 296 Seiten
...verse: Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the offscouring of the British sand, And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heaved the lead, Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle shell... | |
| 196 Seiten
...neighbour : Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the off-scouring of the British sand ; And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots, when they heaved the lead ; Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell, Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell.... | |
| 116 Seiten
...satirist : — Holland that scarce deserves the name of land, As but th' off-scouring of the British sand; And so much earth as was contributed By English Pilots when they heav'd the lead ; Or what by th' ocean's slow alluvion fell, Of shipwreck'd cockle and the muscle-shell;... | |
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