| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore: 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,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...shore : While the pent Ocean, rising o'er the pUe, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile | THE The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale. The willow-tufted...cultivated plain, A new creation rescued from his reign. Thus, while around the wave -subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil. Industrious habits... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...grow ; Spreads its long arms amMst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore: While after times yellow blossom'd vale, The willow tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
| Charles Tennant - 1824 - 506 pages
...from this elevated road, the dyke is seen intersecting in all directions the wide expanse around, " The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail." In short, every object which meets the eye bespeaks the industry of man, and possesses something to... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore ; While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious...yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, _/• The crowded mart, the cultivated plain., A new creation rescued from his reign. Thus while around... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore. While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious...canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted b^nk, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation rescued from his reign.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...long arms amidst the watery roar, Seoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent oeean, ` eanal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The erowded mart, ihe eultivated... | |
| 1826 - 300 pages
...; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : "While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blosom'd vale, « The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...grow ; Spreads its long arms amid the watery roar, Scoops out an empire and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-bosomed vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mast, the cultivated plain,... | |
| Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...an amphihious world beneath him smile ; The alow canal, the yellow blossom'd vale, The wiilow-tnfted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation rescued from his reign. SWITZERLAND. GOLDSMITH. TURN we to survey Where rougher climea a nobler race display ; (Where the bleak... | |
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