 | Edward Verrall Lucas - Art, Dutch - 1906 - 442 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - Art, Dutch - 1906 - 438 pages
...Glad then, as miners who have found the ore They, with mad labour, fish'd 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 what building swallows bear away... | |
 | Charles William Previté-Orton - English poetry - 1910 - 264 pages
...excellently well. Glad then as miners that have found the ore, They with mad labour fish'd the land to shore, And dived as desperately for each piece Of earth,...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 - California - 1915 - 136 pages
...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 - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour, fish'd the 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 what building swallows bear away... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1923 - 168 pages
...then, as Miners that have found the Oar, They with mad labour fish'd 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 then what building Swallows bear away... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1924 - 440 pages
...then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour, fish'd the 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 what building swallows bear away... | |
 | Anne Norton - Philosophy - 2002 - 220 pages
...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 Father, speak... | |
 | 196 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 : —... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1850 - 412 pages
...with mucli labour fished the land to shore, And dived in desperately for ench piece Of earth, as if't had been of ambergris, Collecting anxiously small loads of clay, Less than what building-swallows bear away." But how did they manage to keep away the water? Hear old Andrew Marvel... | |
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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... 
