 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pages
...slow, The firm, connected bulwark seems to grow $ Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Gcoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent...beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow tufted bauk, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 pages
...methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long anus amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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...amphibious world beneath him smile : The slow canal, the yellow-blossomed vale. The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain... | |
 | 1821 - 270 pages
...methinks, and diligently slow, »The firm connected bulwark seems to grow i Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...diligently slow, Hie firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore :...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 426 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...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...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...methinks , and diligently slow , The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amid the watery roar ; Scoops out an empire , and usurps...While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile , Sees an ambitious world beneath him smile ». But see how Gray , while he never falls below , more frequently... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1064 pages
...methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amMst ssage down to th' earth, a passage wide. Wider by far than that of after times yellow blossom'd vale, The willow tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
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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,... 
