 | John Fletcher Hurst - 1867 - 552 oldal
...the people, employs his wit upon the irrational land, calling it, " 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." But while the political status of Holland has been inferior and unobserved during the last century... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 oldal
...feeling by the humorous exaggeration of their satires. Thus Butler could write of Holland, as — " 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 live as if they had been run aground, And, when they... | |
 | f. d. richards - 1867 - 844 oldal
...it most graphically, though a little over charged, — " A country that draws fifty feet of wuter, In which men live as in the. hold of nature. And when...break, And drowns a province, does but spring a leak." It is scarcely possible for a person to conceive of a land more diverse, in all its geographical details,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1867 - 770 oldal
...steeples played." And. the author of Hudibras describes it as — "A country that draws fifty feet of water. In which men live as in the hold of nature...sea does in upon them break And drowns a province, docs but spring a leak." These descriptions are not wholly caricatures. The traveller who now passa... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), John Murray (publishers.) - 1868 - 748 oldal
...duck and drake," 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, And when the sea «loes in upon them break, And drowns a province, does but spring a leak." And its inhabitants —... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 380 oldal
...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-gentians up in dishes. A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 366 oldal
...appendage. The piece we allude to is a short description of Holland : — "A country that draws fifiy foot of water, In which men live as in the hold of...feed, like cannibals, on other fishes. And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes. A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live,... | |
 | Mrs. Bury Palliser - 1869 - 574 oldal
...public authorities aud private individuals. CHAPTER XX. HOLLAND, GERMANY, AND SWITZERLAND. HOLLAND. " A country that draws fifty foot of water, In which...as in the hold of nature, And when the sea does in them break, And drowns a province, does but spring a leak." lludibroi. WE know little of the early... | |
 | Mrs. Bury Palliser - 1869 - 546 oldal
...XX. HOLLAND, GERMANY, AND SWITZERLAND. HOLLAND. " A country that draws fifty feet of water, In whicli men live as in the hold of nature, And when the sea does in them break, And drowns a province, does but spring a leak." Hutlibnu. WE know little of the early fabrics... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin DeCosta - 1869 - 236 oldal
...ancher." As we sailed on, it became evident that we were approaching " A country that draws liny feet of water, In which men live as in the hold of nature. * * * * * A land that rides at anchor, and is moored, In which they do not live but go aboard." Or,... | |
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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... 
