 To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward...  A Scripture Herbal - Sivu 71tekijä(t) Lady Maria Callcott - 1842 - 544 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 sivua
...minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patieut sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land,...bulwark seems to 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,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 sivua
...minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land,...bulwark seems to 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,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 sivua
...minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land,...bulwark seems to 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,... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 sivua
...savage into day ». And again , when he speaks of Holland : « Methinks her patient sons before me stand , Where the broad Ocean leans against the land , And sedulous to stop the coining tide , Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward , methinks , and diligently slow ,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sivua
...minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me s amMst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore: While the pent ocean rising o'er... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sivua
...minds my fancy flies, Imbosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land,...tide. Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward mcthinks, and diligently slow, The firm, connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidit... | |
 | W. Plees - 1824 - 424 sivua
...several places, the contiguous meadows are liable to be overflowed by equinoctial tides ; for here " The broad ocean leans against the land ; '' And sedulous to stop the coming tide," the wary inhabitants " Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride." GOLDSMITH, iurslve waves, has been... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 sivua
...minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land,...pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The firm conneeted bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out an empire,... | |
 | 1826 - 300 sivua
...minds my fancy flies, Bmbosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, "Where the broad ocean leans against the land,...Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, melhinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 sivua
...meeting of a friend ; Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies, Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land,...coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. GOLDSMITH. In a moral application these terms bear a similar analogy ; check nas the import of diminishing... | |
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