 | 1844 - 574 pages
...irresistibly ridiculous : 1 Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the off-scourin g of the British sand ; And so much earth as was contributed...the muscle-shell; This indigested vomit of the sea feU to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour... | |
 | Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...paragraphs of Owen Feltham. JTlOLLAND, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the jffscouring of the British sand ; And so much earth, as was contributed By English pilots, when they heaved the lead ; Or what by the ocean's slow allusion fell, Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle shell... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 644 pages
...the name of laud, As but th' oft'-scou-ring of the British sand; And so much earth as was conlributed By English pilots, when they heav'd the lead ; Or...ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwreck'd cockle and the muscle shell ; This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 696 pages
...Folio, containing eight Pages. HOLLAND, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but th' off-scowring of the British sand ; And so much earth as was contributed...ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwreck'd cockle and the muscle shell ; This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just proprietyGlad then, as miners... | |
 | 1810 - 620 pages
...Folio, containing eight Pages. HOLLAND, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but th' off-scowring of the British sand; And so much earth as was contributed...ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwreck'd cockle and the muscle shell; This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 630 pages
...HOLLAND, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but tlr oiT-scowring of the British sand ; And so muclt earth as was -contributed By English pilots, when...ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwreck'd cockle and the muscle shell; This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...opens the battery upon our amphibious neighbour :— Holland, that scarce deserves the name of hind, As but the off-scouring of the British sand ; And...earth as was contributed By English pilots, when they heaved the lead; Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell, Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell.... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...opens his battery upon our amphibious neighbour : — Holland, that scarce deserves the name ofland, As but the off-scouring of the British sand ; And...earth as was contributed By English pilots, when they heaved the lead ; Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell, Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell.... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...lire, but fo aboard. BUTLER. H 'land, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the ofi-scourintl of the British sand ; And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots, when they heaved the lead; Or what by the ocean 's slow alluvion fell, Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell.... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 136 pages
...part of it: — THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND. Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but th' off-scouring of the British sand ; And so much earth...slow alluvion fell, Of shipwreck'd cockle and the muscle shell ; This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as... | |
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