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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. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers... "
Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of Milton - Page 71
by Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 118 pages
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Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...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...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...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...
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All the Year Round, Volume 4; Volume 24

Charles Dickens - 1870 - 632 pages
...service of drink : The thirsty earth drinks up the rain, And thirsts and gapes for drink again. The see itself (which one would think, Should have but little need of drink) Brinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So full that they o'erflow the cup, The busy sun (and one would...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...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...little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So filled that they o'erflow the cup. The husy sun, and one would guess, By's drunken fiery face, no less,...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...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...Drinks ten thousand rivers up So fill'd that they o'crflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By his drunken fiery face no less) Drinks up the...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 626 pages
...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....
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...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 ?...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 898 pages
...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....
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Merry Drollery Compleat Being Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, &c, Part 1

Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1875 - 480 pages
...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,...
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Fugitive Tracts Written in Verse which Illustrate the Condition of ..., Volume 2

William Carew Hazlitt - 1875 - 326 pages
...again The Plants fuck in the Earth and Aire With conftant drinking, frefh and faire. The Sea it felf (which one would think) Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thoufand Rivers up, So fill'd they overflow the cup. The bufie Sun (and one would guefs, By 's drunken...
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