 | William Henry Bartlett - Massachusetts - 1853 - 312 pages
...• • Glad then as miners who have found the ore, They, with mod labour, Csh'd the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth,...than what building swallows bear away, Or than those gulls which sordid beetles rowl, Transfi-sing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet with... | |
 | Henry Rogers - Faith and reason - 1853 - 478 pages
...the land to shore; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as it had been of ambergris ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear away ; For as with pigmies who best kills the crane, Among the hungry he that treasures grain, Among the... | |
 | Henry Rogers - Faith and reason - 1853 - 470 pages
...the land to shore ; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as it had been of ambergris ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear away ; For as with pigmies who best kills the crane, Among the hungry he that treasures grain, Among the... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 408 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... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - Menapii - 1858 - 578 pages
...the land to shore. And div'd as desperately for ouch 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 Through the centre their new-catched miles ! And to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...land to shore ; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if it had been of ambergreece ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...bear away ; Or than those pills which sordid beetles rowl, Transferring into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet with gigantic piles Thorough the... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 364 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...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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 370 pages
...each piece Of earth, as if 't had been of ambergris ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Tiess than what building swallows bear away; Or than those...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... | |
 | 1861 - 790 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...beetles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet, with gigantic piles, Thorough the centre their new-catehed miles ; And to the stake... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1862 - 220 pages
...land to shore ; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if it had been of ambergreece ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...bear away ; Or than those pills which sordid beetles rowl, Transferring into them their dunghill soul. How did they rivet their gigantic piles Thorough... | |
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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... 
