 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - Liczba stron: 524
...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...amphibious world beneath him smile; The slow canal, the yellow-blossora'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - Liczba stron: 348
...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...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,... | |
 | 1854 - Liczba stron: 534
...methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads ita long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps...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... | |
 | 1886 - Liczba stron: 562
...firm-connected bulwark seems to grow, Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire arid usurps the shore, While the pent ocean, rising o'er...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - Liczba stron: 608
...tall rampire's artificial pride, (toward, methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amid the watery...roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore. Wliile the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world before him smile; The slow canal,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1887 - Liczba stron: 476
...Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoopa out an empire and usurps the shore, While the p«nt ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow blosaom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail ; The crowded mart, the cultivated... | |
 | 1887 - Liczba stron: 410
...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...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—... | |
 | 1887 - Liczba stron: 842
...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...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 - 1887 - Liczba stron: 254
...diligently slow, The firm-connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, 290 Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore. While...amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, 295 The crowded mart, the cultivated... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - Liczba stron: 640
...diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the waters roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore....amphibious world beneath him smile; The slow canal, the yellow blossomed vale, The willowtufted 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 roar,... 
