 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 , A new creation rescued from his reign.  Atkinson's Casket - Page 4071833Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow 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. Thus, while around the wave-subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil, Industrious habits in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...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 rescued from his reign. Thus while around the wave-subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil, Industrious habits in... | |
 | 1826 - 300 pages
...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,...crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation rescu'd from his reign. Thus, while around the wave-subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...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 bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation rescnM... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land ; The slow canal, the yellow- blossom 'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The...crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation rescn'd from his reign. — The Traveller. acts! THE inundation of the rivers at Dort, in Holland,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow blossom'd vale, 110 Tho willow- tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation, rescu'd from his reign. Thus, while around the wave-subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil,... | |
 | Charles Boileau Elliott - 1833 - 358 pages
...represents the ocean as peeping over the dyke, and wondering at " The slow canal, the yellow-bosomed vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail ; The...cultivated plain, A new creation rescued from his reign." The towns in Holland are very similar in their arrangements, so that the description of one may apply... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...rising o'er the pile. Sees an amphibious world beneath him fmilc , The slow canal, the yellow-blossom 'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail. The...cultivated plain, A new creation rescued from his reign. Thus, while around the wave-subjected soil» Impels the native to repeated toil ; Industrious habits... | |
 | 1834 - 332 pages
...the whole extent of the bend. This plan however was violently The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The...cultivated plain, A new creation rescued from his reign. Traveller. opposed, and, at length, rejected ; when the Bedford Level Corporation, with other landed... | |
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