 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 oldal
...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 oldal
...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 oldal
...Epicurean animal!) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest. DRINKING. From Anacreon. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and...would think, Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The husy sun, and one would guess,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 oldal
...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...would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up So fill'd that they o'crflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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.... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1875 - 480 oldal
...wife, And they lived full merrily. On Drinking, out of Anacrion. e thirsty Earth drinks up the Rain, J. And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The Plants...are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea it self, (which one would think Should have but little need to drink,) Drinks ten thousand Rivers up,... | |
 | Lord Neaves - 1875 - 192 oldal
...leather bottfel. " The thirsty earth drinks up the rain," The plants, too, drink the moistened plain: " The sea itself, which, one would think, Should have but little need for drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up ; " While beasts and fishes share the cup : The Sun,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 oldal
...hangs at last. Anacreontics; Or some copies of verses translated paraphrastically out of Anacreon. nook Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun — and one would... | |
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The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. 
