 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...bulwark seem» to grow ; Spread* its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops oat an empire, and usurpa ten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken,...and collate the distresses of all men in all countri yellow-blossomed vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 Seiten
...diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amid the watery roo» Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore. While...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 Seiten
...tall ramplre's artificial pride, Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amid the watery...amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd rale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | John Algernon Clarke - 1852 - 284 Seiten
...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 the...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,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : 280 While the pent ocean, 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,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1852 - 518 Seiten
...incessant vigilance and attention. Thus the barrier raised by human hands — " Spreads its long arm amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire and usurps the shore ; While the pent ocean, rising o'er tho pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile : The slow canal, tho yellow blossomed Tale, Tho... | |
 | 1853 - 458 Seiten
...creating a sphere lor its labors hy that lirrn connected bulwark, which " Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire and usurps the...amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow bloHsom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail; The crowded mart, the cultivated plain... | |
 | 1853 - 888 Seiten
...long arms amidst the watery roar, Sewta out an empire and usurps the than, While the pent ocean riling o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world Beneath him smile ;* The slow canal, the yellow hlossom'd vale, The willow tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 Seiten
...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,... | |
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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,... 
