 | Samuel Butler, Robert Thyer - 1759 - 538 pàgines
...And in a clofe Confederacy link, For nothing elfe, but only to hold Drink. DESCRIPTION OF HOLLAND. A Country that draws fifty Foot of Water, In which...Nature ; And when the Sea does in upon them break, And drown a Province, does but fpring a Lake That always ply the Pump, and never thin! They can be fafc,... | |
 | Pomponius Mela - 1761 - 168 pàgines
...country. An English poet, years ago, described Holland thus : — " A country that draws fifty feet of water, In which men live as in the hold of nature,...break, And drowns a province, does but spring a leak." Notice the number of canals stretching here, there, and everywhere. They are used as high roads, as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 376 pàgines
...arc done, Has nothing he can call his own, -But a mere livelihood alone. DESCRIPTIO -10 F HOLLAND. A -COUNTRY that draws fifty foot of water, In which men live as in the hold of Nature, And, when the fea does in upon them break, And drowns a province, does but {pring a leak ; That always ply the pump,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 386 pàgines
...Has nothing he can call his own, But a mere livelihood alone. DESCRIPTION OF HOXLAN D. AC OU NTR Y that draws fifty foot of water, In which men live as in the hold of Nature, And, when the fea does in upon thenrbreak, And drowns a province, does but fpring a leak ; That always ply the pump,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1803 - 522 pàgines
...But a mere livelihood alone. 1 i DESCRIPTION OF HOLLAND. ACOUNTRY that draws fifty foot of water, Jn which men live as in the hold of Nature, And when the feadoes in upon them break, And drowns a province, does but fprmg a lake ; That alwavs ply the pump,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 pàgines
...close, and we entered the river of a country which our Hudibrasdc Butler thus peevishly describes : " A country that draws fifty foot of water, " In which...drowns a province, does but spring a leak; " That always ply the pump, and never think " They can be safe, but at the rate they stink; " That live as... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 pàgines
...close, and we entered the river of a country which our Hudibrastic Butler thus pec-- describes : " A country that draws fifty foot of water, " In which...drowns a province, does but spring a leak; " That always ply the pump, and never think " Tlicj' can be safe, but at the rate they stink ; " That live... | |
 | sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pàgines
...Butler thus peevishly describes : *' A country that draws fifty foot of water, " In which men lire as in the hold of nature ;• " And when the sea does...drowns a province, does but spring a leak; " That always ply the pump, and never think " They can be safe, but at the rate they stink ; " That live as... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 414 pàgines
...done, Has nothing he can call his own, But a mere livelihood alone. DESCRIPTION Or HOLLAND. A conntry that draws fifty foot of water, In which men live as in the hold of Nature, And when the na does in upon them break, And drowns a province, docs but spring a leak ; That always ply the pump,... | |
 | 1807 - 514 pàgines
...verse, of which the following half dozen may be sufficient : — " A country that draws fifty feet of water, " In which men live as in the hold of nature; " That always ply the pump, and -.ever think " They ran be safe, but at the rate they stink ; " 1 hat... | |
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HOLLAND. A COUNTRY that draws fifty foot of water, In which men live as in the hold of Nature, And when the sea does in upon them break, And drowns a province, does but spring a leak... 
