 | Janet Todd - 1997 - 612 Seiten
...Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off- scouring of the Brittish Sand . . . This indigested vomit of the Sea, Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety. In 1664 a pamphlet, ingratiatingly called Dutch Boare Dissected; or, a Description of Hogg-land (1664),... | |
 | Anne Norton - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...uncertain: changed by war and nature certainly, but also by their own labor. They, with mad labor, fished the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth as if' t had been of ambergris... Who best could learn to pump an earth so leak Him they their Lord, and Country's... | |
 | Anne Norton - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...uncertain: changed by war and nature certainly, but also by their own labor. They, with mad labor, fished the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth as if't had been of ambergris... Who best could learn to pump an earth so leak Him they their Lord, and... | |
 | Anne Norton - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...uncertain: changed by war and nature certainly, but also by their own labor. They, with mad labor, fished the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth as iFt had been of ambergris . . . Who best could learn to pump an earth so leak Him they their Lord,... | |
 | Mary Lou Lustig - 2002 - 356 Seiten
...Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but th' off-scouring of the British sand; . . . This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. —Andrew Marvell, "The Character of Holland" 1 HOLLAND, OR MORE PRECISELY THE NETHERLANDS, FIGURED... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 366 Seiten
...what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell, Of shipwreck'd cockle and the mu.ssel-shell. Glad then, (is miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour,*...dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if 't had been of ambergreccc ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - 510 Seiten
...the lead, Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell, Of shipwrecked cockle and the mussel-shell,— This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch...miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour, fished the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth as if't had been of ambergreece... | |
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ocean's slow alluvion fell. Of shipwreck'd cockle and the muscle shell ; 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, fish'd the land to shore, And dived as... 
