Unsheltered else, and many an ample port, Repel the assailing storm ; and where his roads In beautiful and sinuous line far seen, Wind with the vale, and win the long ascent, Now o'er the deep morass sustained, and now Across ravine, or glen, or estuary,... Friendship's Offering: A Literary Album. L. - Page 167edited by - 1826 - 13 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1840 - 662 pages
...Dee, Aloft in air, at giddy height upborne, ('arried his navigable road,* and hung High o'er Menai's straits the bending bridge ; Structures of more ambitious...the age of old romance, To their own Merlin's magic have ascribed.' The success of this work directed the attention of other nations to the erection of... | |
| Gift books - 1826 - 480 pages
...Dee, Aloft in air, at giddy height upborne, Carried his navigable road ; and hung High o'er Meniii's straits the bending bridge ! Structures of more ambitious...Merlin's magic lore ascribed. Nor hath he for his native laud performed Less, in this proud design ; and where his piers, Arouud her coast, from many a fisher's... | |
| English literature - 1828 - 500 pages
...Dee, Aloft in air, at giddy height upborne, Carried his navigable road ; and hung High o'er Menai's straits the bending bridge ; Structures of more ambitious...Than minstrels, in the age of old romance, To their old Merlin's magic lore ascribed. Nor hath he for his native land performed Less, in this proud design... | |
| Allan Cunningham - English literature - 1829 - 398 pages
...Dee, Aloft in air, at giddy height upborne, Carried his navigable road, and hung High o'er Menai's straits the bending bridge ; Structures of more ambitious...piers Around her coast from many a fisher's creek Unsheltered else, and many an ample port, Repel the assailing storm ; and where his roads In beautiful... | |
| Robert Southey - 1839 - 840 pages
...Dee, Aloft in air, at giddy height upborne, Carried his navigable road, and hung High o'er Mortal's straits the bending bridge; Structures of more ambitious...magic lore ascribed. Nor hath he for his native land perform'd Less in this proud design; and where his piers Around her coast from many a fisher's creek... | |
| Industrial arts - 1841 - 554 pages
...navigable road, and bring High o'er Menai's strait, the bending bridge,— Structure of more ambitions enterprise Than minstrels, in the age of old romance, To their own Merlin's magic lore ascribed ! " THE MISSING "PRESIDENT." Sir, — I hope I shall not be justly chargeable with converting a public... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1845 - 848 pages
...road, and hung High o'er Mena'i's straits the bending bridge ; Structures of more ambitious enterprize Than minstrels in the age of old romance To their...magic lore ascribed. Nor hath he for his native land perform'd Less in this proud design ; and where his piers Around her coast from many a fisher's creek... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1845 - 848 pages
...of old romance To their own Merlin's magic lore ascribed. Nor hath he for his native land perform'd Less in this proud design ; and where his piers Around her coast from many a flsher's creek Cnshelter'd else, and many an ample port, Repel the assailing storm ; and where his... | |
| Electronic journals - 1856 - 568 pages
...Dee, Aloft in air, at giddy height upborne, Carried his navigable road, and hung High o'er Menai's Straits the bending bridge; Structures of more ambitious...romance To their own Merlin's magic lore ascribed." SOUTHKY. teen further, it it >y ttanding on the shovlderi of giants. '"t The author of Raymond de Monthault,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 pages
...famous iron tubes — capacious tunnels placed high in air, and secure under the heaviest trains : — ' Structures of more ambitious enterprise Than minstrels,...the age of old romance, To their own Merlin's magic have ascribed.' A line from Edinburgh to Dalkeith, worked by horses, was commenced in 1826, and opened... | |
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