| Samuel Butler, Robert Thyer - 1759 - 538 pagina’s
...feed, like Canibals, on other Fifhes, And ferve their Coufin-Germans up in Difhes : A Land, that rides at Anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard. TWO SP E ECHES MADE IN THE RUMP- PARLIAMENT, When it was reftor'd by the Officers of the Army in the... | |
| Pomponius Mela - 1761 - 168 pagina’s
...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 but go aboard." Some one else said that the reason the Dutch have such extensive pantaloons, and copious knickerbockers,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 386 pagina’s
...feed, like Cannibals, on other fifhes, And ferve their coufm-germans up in difhes : A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard. TO I TO HI SM IS T£,ES S. DO not unjuftly blame My guiltlefs breaft, For venturing to difclofe a flame... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1803 - 522 pagina’s
...feed, like Cannibals, on other fiftics, And ferve their coufin germans up in difhes ; A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard. 16 TO HIS MISTRESS. -Uo not unjuftly blame My guiltlefs breaft, For vent'ring.to difelofe a flame It... | |
| sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pagina’s
...cousin germans up in dishes, " A land that rides at anchor, and is raoor'd, " In which they do not lire, but go aboard." The Duke of Alva, with more whimsicality...consequence of the tide being always very rapid when going out, and the wind again falling, we came to an anchor in the mouth of the Maas. One of the first objects... | |
| 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...hat feed like car.ibals on other fislv.-s, " And serve tueircouBiu-genuansupiu dishes." The Dukeof Alva, with more whimsicality and less bitterness,...any people on the earth, for they dwelt the lowest." We were sorry to find such a quotation as this last here. If the epithet applied to Butler be tolerated,... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 pagina’s
...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,...Alva, with more whimsicality and less bitterness^ •bserved, " that the Dutch were the nearest neighbours to hell of any people on the earth, for they... | |
| 1807 - 550 pagina’s
...Th»t feed like canibals on otiier ashes, " And serve tUeii couiiu-gcrmansupiu dishes." The Dukeof Alva, with more whimsicality and less bitterness,...observed, "That the Dutch were the nearest neighbours to iiell of any people on the earth, for they dwelt the lowest " We were sorry to find such a quotation... | |
| Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 414 pagina’s
...feed, like cannibals, or other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans Op in dishes : A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard. ^ TO HIS MISTRESS. Uo not unjustly blame My guihless breast, For vent'ring to disclose a flame It had... | |
| 1823 - 730 pagina’s
...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 but go a-board." How Hercules wooed Omphale we know not ; in a worse style, we apprehend, than a Quaker. The only nonsense... | |
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