 | Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth as if it had becn of ambergrease, Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than...swallows bear away, Or than those pills which sordid bectles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. Yet still his claim the injured ocean laid,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 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, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. He goes on in a strain of exquisite hyperbole •... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 350 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, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. He goes on in a strain of exquisite hyperbole •... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Belgium - 1838 - 612 pages
...propriety. " Glad, then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour, fish'd the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if 't been of ambergris ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows bear... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1839 - 574 pages
...with mad labour, fish'd the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if Ч been of ambergris ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building swallows hear away ; Or than those pills which sordid beetles roll, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 pages
...land to shore: And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if it had bocn of ambergroeco; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay. Less than...bear away : Or than those pills which sordid beetles rowl. Transfusing into them their dunghill will. He goes on in a strain of exquisite hyperbole :—... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 580 pages
...with mad labour fish'd the land to shore ; And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth, as if it had been of ambergris ; Collecting anxiously small...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour, fish'd the land to shore : And div'J rny aventure, Ambcrgrea.sc ; Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, I.*sa than what building swallows bear away... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 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, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. He goes on in a strain of exquisite hyperbole :—... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 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, Transfusing into them their dunghill soul. He goes on in a strain of exquisite hyperbole :—... | |
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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... 
