 | Europe - 1799 - 678 pages
...Fare,"—A person, or a number of persons, conveyed in a hired vehicle by land or water. Then with 1 closed eyes, clench'd hands, and quick-drawn breath,...closing waters whelm— —Laughs the glad THAMES, uiul clasps each Fair one's charms That screams and scrambles in his oozy arms. —Drench'd each smart... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 270 pages
...with closed eyes, clench'd hands, and quickdrawn breath, Darts at the central arch, nor heeds the gulf beneath. — Full 'gainst the pier the unsteady timbers...surge the closing waters whelm — — Laughs the glad 1 hames, and clasps each fair one's charms That screams and scrambles in his oozy arms. — Drench'd... | |
 | Anti-Jacobin The - 1801 - 276 pages
...closed eyes, clench'd hands, and quick-drawn breath, Darts at the central arch, nor heeds the gulf beneath. — Full 'gainst the pier the unsteady timbers...starting own the impetuous shock ; The shifted oar, dropp'd sail, and steadied helm, With angry surge the closing waters whelm — Laughs the glad Thames,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...clos'd eyes, clench'd hands, and quick-drawn breath, Darts at the central arch, nor heeds the gulf beneath. Full 'gainst the pier the unsteady timbers...and clasps each fair one's charms That screams and scrabbles in his oozy arms. Drench'd each smart garb, and clogg'd each struggling limb, Far o'er the... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - United States - 1809 - 428 pages
...clos'd eyes, clench'd hands, and quick-drawn breath, Darts at the central arch, nor heeds the gulf beneath. Full 'gainst the pier the unsteady timbers...and clasps each fair one's charms That screams and scrabbles in his oozy arms. Drench'd each smart garb, and clogg'd each struggling limb, Far o'er the... | |
 | English poetry - 1813 - 254 pages
...with closed eyes, clench'd hands, and quickdrawn breath, Darts at the central arch, nor heeds the gulf beneath. —Full 'gainst the pier the unsteady timbers...— — Laughs the glad Thames, and clasps each fair one'i charms That screams and scrambles in his oozy arms. — Drench'd each smart garb, and clogg'd... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...clench'd hands, and quickdrawn breath, [beneath. Darts at the central arch, nor heeds the _ gulf — Full 'gainst the pier the' unsteady timbers knock...starting own the' impetuous shock ; The shifted oar, dropp'd sail, and steadied helm, With angry surge the closing waters whelm — — Laughs the glad... | |
 | William Wadd - Medicine - 1827 - 322 pages
...dart beneath ; Full 'gainst the pier the unsteady timbers knock, The thin planks starting, own th' impetuous shock :— The shifted oar, drop't sail,...and clasps each fair one's charms, That screams and struggles in his oozy arms." With most powerful claims to popular estimation, a vigorous mind, brilliant... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - Commonplace-books - 1838 - 404 pages
...they dart beneath, Full 'gainst the pier th' unsteady timbers knock, The thin planks starting own th' impetuous shock, The shifted oar, dropt sail, and...and clasps each fair one's charms, That screams and struggles in his oozy arms." The tremendous rafts which at a certain time considerably agitated the... | |
 | Anti-Jacobin The - 1852 - 272 pages
...unsteady timbers knock, The loose planks, starting, own the impetuous shock; The shifted oar, dropp'd sail, and steadied helm, With angry surge the closing...charms, That screams and scrambles in his oozy arms. Drenched each smart garb, and clogged each struggling limb, Far o'er the stream the Cockneys sink or... | |
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Then with clos'd eyes, clench'd hands, and quickdrawn breath, Darts at the central arch, nor heeds the gulf beneath. — Full 'gainst the pier the... 
