The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers... The Retrospective Review.. - Página 312editado por - 1823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...sighed, we wept : we never blushed before. Discottrse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and...earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. From Anacreon. Drinking. Why Should every creature drink but I ? Why, man of morals, tell me why? md.... | |
| Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1875 - 480 páginas
...wife, And they lived full merrily. On Drinking, out of Anacrion. e thirsty Earth drinks up the Rain, J. And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The Plants...are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea it self, (which one would think Should have but little need to drink,) Drinks ten thousand Rivers up,... | |
| William Carew Hazlitt - 1875 - 330 páginas
...again The Plants fuck in the Earth and Aire With conftant drinking, frefh and faire. The Sea it felf (which one would think) Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thoufand Rivers up, So fill'd they overflow the cup. The bufie Sun (and one would guefs, By 's drunken... | |
| Lord Neaves - 1875 - 192 páginas
...leather bottfel. " The thirsty earth drinks up the rain," The plants, too, drink the moistened plain: " The sea itself, which, one would think, Should have but little need for drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up ; " While beasts and fishes share the cup : The Sun,... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...last. Anacreontics; Or some copies of verses translated paraphrastically out of Anacreon. Drinking. few men, have filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun — and one would guess By 's drunken fiery face no... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 564 páginas
...the seventeenth century. We must confine ourselves to a single specimen, taken from Cowley : — " The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By his drunken fiery face no less)... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 554 páginas
...of the seventeenth century. We must confine ourselves to a single specimen, taken from Cowley: — " The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By his drunken fiery face no less)... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 páginas
...and inexhaustible feeling of delight. Here are some of them : — DKINKING. " The thirsty earth souks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again....think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess... | |
| Charles James Dunphie - 1876 - 390 páginas
...? Mr. Abraham Cowley was not without warrant for his melodious utterances, when he declared that, " The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...and are With constant drinking fresh and fair." The verse is charming, and the Bacchanalian inference is not to be resisted, but beyond that point the... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 páginas
...farewell, kings And mighty numbers, mighty things ! Love tunes ray heart just lo my strings II. DRINKING. that sweet odor which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, As t suck-in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair; The sea itself (which one would think... | |
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