 | 1843 - 288 pages
...inethinks, and diligently slow, The firm, connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads ils lung arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire and usurps the...Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile; The slow canals, the yellow blossomed vale, The willow. tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...diligently slow, Ihe firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arme amidst the watery roar, storm has gone over me, and I lie ike one of those...scattered about me. I am stripped of all my lonours ; I yellow-blossomed vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out ал empire, and usurps the shore : . . _ ; we their country, their resentment would operate like...and leave your cause to be defended by those on w yellow-blossomed vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 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...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 - 1845 - 550 pages
...diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore....amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'J vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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...shore. While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, See an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow blossomed vale, The willow-tufted... | |
 | 1845 - 612 pages
...methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow, Spre;i'ls its long arms amid em come ; * risins o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile; The flow canal, the yellow-blossomed... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...diligently slow, The linn 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... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...encamped on the confines of the devoted land. " The pent ocean," says Goldsmith, in his rich numbers, " rising o'er the pile, Sees an 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 412 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...ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world before him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow blossom'd vale. The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail,... | |
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