| Thomas George Shaw - 1863 - 564 페이지
...courage, ou d'eloquence ! Cowley, in his imitation of Anacreon, rises to this pitch of extravagance : — The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and...think, Should have but little need of drink) Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess... | |
| Thomas George Shaw - 1863 - 530 페이지
...courage, ou d'eloquence ! Cowley, in his imitation of Anacreon, rises to this pitch of extravagance : — The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again ; The plants Buck in the earth, and are, With constant drinking, fresh and fair ; The sea itself (which, one would... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 페이지
...BicnNERS. Heraldic Blnztmrg. t God made the country, and man made the town. COWI-ER. The Tusk. Cook i. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain And drinks and...earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. From Anacreon Why Should every creature drink but I ? Why, man of morals, tell me why ? Ibid. His time... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 페이지
...himself, was yet the writer of this paraphrastic version of one of Anacreon's sparkling lyrics : — The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again : 60 The plants suck in the earth, and are, With constant drinking, fresh and fair. The sea itself,... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 페이지
...LL iv. 3. He that holds more wine than others can, I rather count a hogshead than a man. Randolph, The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and...earth, and are. With constant drinking, fresh and fair. Anacrcon (Cowley). Why should ev'ry creature drink but I ? Why, man of morals, tell me why? Anacrcon... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 페이지
...and poetry ; Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine. On the Death of Mr. William Harvey. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain And drinks and...earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. From Anacrcon. Why Should every creature drink but I ? V/hy, man of morals, tell me why ? md. His time... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1870 - 632 페이지
...service of drink : The thirsty earth drinks up the rain, And thirsts and gapes for drink again. The see itself (which one would think, Should have but little need of drink) Brinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So full that they o'erflow the cup, The busy sun (and one would... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 페이지
...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...fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should hare but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup.... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 페이지
...sighed, we wept : we never blushed before. Discourse coneerning 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. Drinhing. Why Should every creature drink but I ? Why, man of morals, tell me why ?... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 페이지
...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.... | |
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