 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...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, A new creation rescu'd from his reign. Thus, while around the wave-subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil,... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...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 bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...long arm* 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 caval, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-iafted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...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 bank, the gliding sail,. The crowded mart, the cultivated... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...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 btossom'd vale, The willow tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...loog 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 bVossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out au 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,... | |
 | Sir Richard Colt Hoare - France - 1815 - 402 pages
...overlooks the marshes beneath. To adopt the beautiful description of Goldsmith : 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,... | |
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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. 
