 | 1905 - 408 страници
...had been of ambergreese; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building-swallows bear away; Or than those pills which sordid 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... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1906 - 442 страници
...the 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 dunghil soul. How did they rivet, with gigantick piles, Thorough... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1902 - 476 страници
...piece Of earth, as if it had been of ambergreece ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, I,ess than what building swallows bear away ; Or than those pills which sordid beetles roll, Transferring into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet with gigantic piles Thorough the centre... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 470 страници
...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...roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul." been East, the strange things that were coming to our eyes through the cabin windows of our boat. One... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1907 - 484 страници
...poems 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - 572 страници
...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...away, Or than those pills which sordid beetles roll, I5 Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet with gigantic piles, Thorough the... | |
 | Charles William Previté-Orton - 1910 - 264 страници
...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 aw&y, Or than those pills which sordid beetles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. This... | |
 | Henry Albert Willem van Coenen Torchiana - 1915 - 136 страници
...land to shore ; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if't had been of amber greece; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear away. How they did rivet, with gigantic piles, Through the center their new-catched miles; And to the stake... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 страници
...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1920 - 256 страници
...with mad labor, fished their land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth as if 't had been of ambergreese Collecting anxiously small...which sordid beetles roll. Transfusing into them their sordid soul. How did they rivet with gigantic piles Thorough the centre their new-catched miles, And... | |
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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... 
