| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...self-applause. To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Mcthinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad...coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, melhinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms... | |
| Lady Maria Callcott - Botany, Medical - 1842 - 578 pages
...builders neither history nor tradition has preserved the slightest memorial, though their sons still "stand Where the broad ocean leans against the land;...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... | |
| Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...the deep where Holland lies. Meihinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean learn against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward inethinks, and diligently slow, The firm, connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads ils lung... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...draws, Xor weighs the solid worth of self-applause. To men of other minds my fancy flies, Kiubosomrd us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life H here the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...draws, Nor weighs the solid worth of self-applause. To men of other minds my fancy Hies, Kmbosomed plexity and distress. You may determine to support the very ministr stund, Where the broad ocean leans against the laud, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the... | |
| William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...afforded me of appreciating its graphic accuracy and beauty. "To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks...And, sedulous to stop the coming tide. Lift the tall vampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...draw?, Nor weighs the solid worth of self-applause. To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient...And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's2 artificial pride. 1 They please, Sfc. — " There is perhaps no couplet in English rhyme... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...Cmboeom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Rethinks her patient sons before me stand, \ li, T..- the brood ocean leans against the land And, sedulous to stop...coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long... | |
| English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...self-applause. To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies. Melhinks sicken at so foul a prey ! Only the fierce hyœna stalkst Throughout the knd, And, sedulous to stop the coining tide, Lift the nil rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...self-applause. To men of other minds my fancy flies, ¡mliosom'd in the deep where Holland lies, flcthinks kley Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The linn connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms... | |
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