 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pagini
...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...amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow tufted bauk, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | 1821 - 270 pagini
...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pagini
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pagini
...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 :...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pagini
...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 pagini
...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,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pagini
...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 pagini
...tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward , methinks , and diligently slow , The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amid the watery...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 - 1062 pagini
...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pagini
...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'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, _/• The crowded mart, the cultivated... | |
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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,... 
