A Pipe of Dutch Kanaster; Or, Six Days in Holland1860 - Netherlands - 236 pages |
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A Pipe of Dutch Kanaster: Or Six Days in Holland (1860) Twynihoe William Erle No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 236 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore...
Page 60 - OF 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...
Page 236 - While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation rescued from his reign.
Page 60 - That feed, like cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes. A land that rides at anchor, and is moored, In which they do not live, but go aboard.
Page 68 - I roved at random thro' the town, And saw the tumult of the halls ; And heard once more in college fanes The storm their high-built organs make, And thunder-music, rolling, shake The prophets blazon'd on the panes ; And caught once more the distant shout, The measured pulse of racing oars Among the willows ; paced the shores And many a bridge, and all about The same gray flats again, and felt The same, but not the same- ; and last Up that long walk of limes I...
Page 115 - And, last of all, an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name, A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
Page 41 - Odds bobs! how delighted I was unawares With the fiddles I heard in the room above stairs, For music is wholesome the doctors all think For ladies that bathe, and for ladies that drink; And that's the opinion of Robin our driver, Who whistles his nags while they stand at the river: They say it is right that for every glass A tune you should take, that the water may pass: So while little Tabby was washing her rump, The ladies kept drinking it out of a pump.
Page 90 - This is perhaps the first picture of portraits, in the world, comprehending more of those qualities which make a perfect portrait, than any other I have ever seen...
Page 59 - Outside this rampart or dyke a ringsot or surrounding drain is made, of dimensions sufficient to be a navigable canal. Windmills are then erected on the edge of the dyke, each of .which works a waterwheel. Pumps are very seldom used in draining, as the water is usually highly charged with silt, and is not required to be raised a very great height. The instruments employed are, the scoop-wheel the screw of Archimedes, and the inclined scoop-wheel, or ckhardt wheel.
Page 39 - The line from Rotterdam to Amsterdam deserves the attention of the engineer, from the number of canals which it has to cross, which presented considerable difficulty, overcome by ingenious expedients, such as rolling and swing-bridges.