 | Samuel Butler, Robert Thyer - 1759 - 538 pages
...link, For nothing elfe, but only to hold Drink. DESCRIPTION OF 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 drown a Province, does but fpring a Lake That always ply the Pump, and never thin! They... | |
 | Pomponius Mela - 1761 - 168 pages
...will find these dykes all over the country. An English poet, years ago, described Holland thus : — " A country that draws fifty feet of water, In which...hold of nature, And when the sea does in upon them break, And drowns a province, does but spring a leak." Notice the number of canals stretching here,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 376 pages
...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 Butler - 1803 - 522 pages
...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 - 328 pages
...of a country which our Hudibrastic Butler thus pec-- describes : " 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; " That always ply the pump, and never think... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 pages
...a country which our Hudibrasdc Butler thus peevishly describes : " 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; " That always ply the pump, and never think... | |
 | 1807 - 514 pages
...describes." Here follow sixteen lines in 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 414 pages
...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,... | |
 | sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pages
...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 in upon them break, " And drowns a province, does but spring a leak; " That always ply the pump, and never think... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...own, But a mere livelihood alone. DESCRIPTION OF HOLLAND. ACOCSTRY that draws fifty foot of water, la 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; That always ply the pump, and never think They... | |
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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... 
