 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 416 pages
...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 bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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 bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smite ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom 'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...; Spreads its 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...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...; 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 blossoin'J vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...; 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 bank, the gliding sail, ThC'Crowded mart, the cultivated plain,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...grow ; Spreads its 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,... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...grow ; Spreads its 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,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...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 htm smite ; The slow canal, the yellow blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...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 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... 
