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" The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers... "
The Retrospective Review.. - Seite 312
herausgegeben von - 1823
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 Seiten
...sighed, we wept : we never blushed before. Discottrse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and...earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. From Anacreon. Drinking. Why Should every creature drink but I ? Why, man of morals, tell me why? md....
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Merry Drollery Compleat Being Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, &c

Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1875 - 480 Seiten
...wife, And they lived full merrily. On Drinking, out of Anacrion. e thirsty Earth drinks up the Rain, J. And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The Plants...are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea it self, (which one would think Should have but little need to drink,) Drinks ten thousand Rivers up,...
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Fugitive Tracts Written in Verse which Illustrate the Condition of ..., Band 2

William Carew Hazlitt - 1875 - 330 Seiten
...again The Plants fuck in the Earth and Aire With conftant drinking, frefh and faire. The Sea it felf (which one would think) Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thoufand Rivers up, So fill'd they overflow the cup. The bufie Sun (and one would guefs, By 's drunken...
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Songs and Verses Social and Scientific

Lord Neaves - 1875 - 192 Seiten
...leather bottfel. " The thirsty earth drinks up the rain," The plants, too, drink the moistened plain: " The sea itself, which, one would think, Should have but little need for drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up ; " While beasts and fishes share the cup : The Sun,...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Band 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 Seiten
...last. Anacreontics; Or some copies of verses translated paraphrastically out of Anacreon. Drinking. few men, have filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun — and one would guess By 's drunken fiery face no...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 564 Seiten
...the seventeenth century. We must confine ourselves to a single specimen, taken from Cowley : — " The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By his drunken fiery face no less)...
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A Manual of English Literature...

Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 554 Seiten
...of the seventeenth century. We must confine ourselves to a single specimen, taken from Cowley: — " The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By his drunken fiery face no less)...
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Lectures on the English Poets and the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 Seiten
...and inexhaustible feeling of delight. Here are some of them : — DKINKING. " The thirsty earth souks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again....think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess...
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The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman

Charles James Dunphie - 1876 - 390 Seiten
...? Mr. Abraham Cowley was not without warrant for his melodious utterances, when he declared that, " The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...and are With constant drinking fresh and fair." The verse is charming, and the Bacchanalian inference is not to be resisted, but beyond that point the...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 Seiten
...farewell, kings And mighty numbers, mighty things ! Love tunes ray heart just lo my strings II. DRINKING. that sweet odor which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, As t suck-in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair; The sea itself (which one would think...
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