 | Edmund Spenser - 1750 - 324 Seiten
...Shall drown all Holland with his Excrement, And /hall fee Stamford, though now homely hid, Then (hine in Learning more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's goodly Beams. And .next to him the Nine down foftly flid ; And bounteous Trent, that in himfelf enfeams Both thirty... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1762 - 286 Seiten
...true (which god forbid} Shall drowne all Holland with his excrement, And mall fee Stamford, though now homely hid, Then mine in learning, more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's goodly beanies. Holland is the maritime part of Lincolnfhire, where the river Welland flows. By the old fawes... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 692 Seiten
...drown all Holland ( ;/) withjiis excrement, And shall see Stamford, though now homely hid, Then shine in learning more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's goodly beams. Nor can yon apply this, but to much younger time than Bladud's reign. As he those four proud streets... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 276 Seiten
...Shall drown all Holland with his excrement, And shall see Stamford, though now homely hid, Then shine in learning more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's goodly beams. And next to him the Nene down softly slid ; And bounteous Trent, that in himself enseams Both thirty... | |
 | George Burton (of Stamford.) - 1846 - 412 Seiten
...Shall drown all Holland with his excrement, And shall see Stamford, tho' now homely hid, Then shine in learning more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's goodly beams." The times have altered much since the above verse was written, us the following lines from " Drunken... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 392 Seiten
...Shall drown all Holland* with his excrement, And shall see Stamford, though now homely hid, Then shine in learning more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's goodly beams. And next to him the Nen down softly slid ; And bounteous Trent, that in himself enseams1 Both thirty... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870 - 664 Seiten
...Shall drown all Holland - with his excrement, And shall see Stamford, though now homely hid, Then shine in learning more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's goodly beams. And next to him the Nen down softly slid ; And bounteous Trent, that in himself enseams 3 Both thirty... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1876 - 734 Seiten
...Shall drown all Holland* with his excrement, And shall see Stamford, though now homely hid, Then shine in learning more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's goodly beams. And next to him the Nen down softly slid; And bounteous Trent, that in himself enseams1 » Enriches,... | |
 | Charles Nevinson - 1879 - 182 Seiten
...Shall drown all Holland with its excrement, And shall see Stamford, though now homely hid, Then Rhine in learning more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's goodly beams.' We should be deeply grieved to see the neighbouring fens exposed to the dire calamity here threatened,... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1898 - 510 Seiten
...Spenser in his Faerie Quecne thus alludes to the town : — Stamford, though now homely hid, Then shone in learning more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's goodly beams. But besides the remains of its ancient colleges, Stamford possesses several fine old churches of exceptional... | |
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And after him the fatal Welland went, That if old saws prove true (which God forbid!) Shall drown all Holland* with his excrement, And shall see Stamford, though now homely hid, Then shine in learning more than ever did Cambridge or Oxford, England's... 
