 Cooper's Hill, My eye, descending from the Hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays ; Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to...  Poems - Страница 6по Joseph Addison - 1810 - 597 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1851 - 496 страници
...Ms embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam...which their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 страници
...V. 103. " On the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread." Milt. PL vii. 235. " O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty for th' ensuing spring." Denham. Cooper's Hill. W. V. 105. " Cepheam hie Meroen, fuscaque regna canat," Propert. iv. vi. 78.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 страници
...tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no remembrance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth to explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 страници
...shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing. And hatches plenty for th' ensuing spring, And then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infanta overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave.... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 страници
...lus embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity; Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam...which their infants overlay; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings , resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1852 - 500 страници
...the memorable lines of Sir John Denham on the Thames, to our own river ; and say, exultingly : Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam...explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore. A READER. From Fraser's Magazine. EDMUND BURKE AND HIS VIEWS OF OUR ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIES. The seeds... | |
 | 1852 - 508 страници
...the memorable lines of Sir John Denham on the Thames, to our own river ; and say, exultingly : Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam...explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore. A READER. From Fraser's Magazine. EDMUND BURKE AND HIS VIEWS OF OUR ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIES. The seeds... | |
 | 1852 - 508 страници
...Thames, to our own river ; and say, exultingly : Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, O * Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold ; His genuine...explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore. A READER. From Fraser's Magazine. EDMUND BURKE AND HIS VIEWS OF OUR ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIES. The seeds... | |
 | Norman Chevers - 1852 - 396 страници
...Even the author of Cooper's Hill was compelled to acknowledge of his favorite river, — " Though to those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is...their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth to explore, Search not his channel, but survey his shore." Some arguments of considerable apparent... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 страници
...tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. 2. Though with those streams he no remembrance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth to explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious... | |
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