 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,...  Atkinson's Casket - Page 4071833Full view - About this book
 | 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...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 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, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 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 Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow blossom'd vale, The willow... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 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. 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 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 ; 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... | |
 | 1826 - 300 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 : "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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...the entire scene. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected rampart seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amid the watery roar, Scoops...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... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...diligently slow, The firm couneeted hulwark teems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the waiery roar. Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore. While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphihious world heneath him smile; The slow canal, the yellow hlussom'd vale, The willow-tulted... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...The firm counected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops oat an empire, and usurps the shore. While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphihious world beneath him smile ; The alow canal, the yellow blossom'd vale, The wiilow-tnfted... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...The firm, connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops oat an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sect an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossomed vale, The willow-tnfted... | |
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