 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 páginas
...Hudibras is printed without this appendage. The piece we allude to is a short description of Holland : — A country that draws fifty foot of water. In which...feed, like cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germane up in diene« A land that rides at anchor, and is moored, In which they do not live,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 páginas
...Hudibras is printed without this appendage. The piece we allude to is a short description of Holland : A country that draws fifty foot of water, In which...feed, like cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes. A land that rides at anchor, and is moored, In which they do not live,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 páginas
...Hudibras is printed without this appendage. The piece we allude to is a short description of Holland : A country that draws fifty foot of water, In which...feed, like cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes. A land that rides at anchor, and is moored, In which they do not live,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 páginas
...Hudibras is printed without this appendage. The piece we allude to is a short description of Holland : A country that draws fifty foot of water, In which...feed, like cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes. A land that rides at anchor, and is moored, In which they do not live,... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 páginas
...meat, but as a guest." The author of Hudibras describes Holland as " 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. A land that rides at anchor, and is moored, In which they do not live, but go aboard." To the traveller... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 páginas
...'s but a fly, that turns about After his head 's pull'd off, to find it out. HOLLAND AND THE DUTCH. A country that draws fifty foot of water ; In which men live, as in the hold of Nature ; That feed, like cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousins-german up in dishes ; — A land... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 páginas
...greatest saints and sinners have been made Of proselytes of one another's trade. HOLLAND AND THE DUTCH. A country that draws fifty foot of water ; In which men live, as in the hold of Nature ; That feed, like cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousins-german up in dishes ; — A land... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 páginas
...greatest sainta and sinners have been made Of proselytes of one another's trade. HOLLAND AND THE DUTCH. A country that draws fifty foot of water ; In which men live, as in the hold of Nature ; That feed, like cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousins-merman up in dishes ; — A land... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1849 - 478 páginas
...inhabitants to a state of domestic existence analogous to that of Holland, as depicted by Butler : — " A country that draws fifty foot of water, In which men live as iu the hold of nature." Of Pontorson it may be said with equal propriety, that it is " A place that... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 312 páginas
...; And in a close confederacy link, For nothing else 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 spring a leak ; That always ply the pump, and never think They can be safe,... | |
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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... 
