 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...  Select Works - Page 115by Abraham Cowley - 1772Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...»me copies of versea translated parnphrasücally out of Anocrcon. Drinking. The thirsty earth soaks that dimmed were \Vith darksome cloud, now show their goodly suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...again. The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup. The husy sun (and one would guess... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...again. The plants sack in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks twice ten thousand riven up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1845 - 242 pages
...some of them : — * See his Lives of the British Poets, Vol. I. DRINKING. " 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. The sea itself, which one would think... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...again. The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking, fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun, (and one would guess By 's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...copie» of тепе* translatai paraphrastlcaUy out of Anacreon. Drinking. The thirsty earth soaks C : \^ k,` o suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1848 - 414 pages
...drinking (Anacreontiques, No. 2), which seem appropriate to the subject. " 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. The sea itself, which one would think... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1848 - 400 pages
...again. The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess... | |
 | Peter Adam Schenck - Cooking - 1851 - 306 pages
...at the proper time is necessary to ensure success. APPLICATION OF WATER. " The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinidng fresh and fair." In the article called " THE CISTERN,"... | |
 | Peter Adam Schenck - Cooking - 1851 - 320 pages
...but a little attention at the proper time is necessary to ensure success. " 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." In the article called " THE CISTERN,"... | |
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