 | England - 1888 - 962 pages
...the sultry summer mornings, we found the island exactly as it had been left by Byron and Shelley :— "An uninhabited sea-side Which the lone fisher, when...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 258 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice. A bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 634 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice: a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...breeds, Is this; an uninhabited sea-side, Which the lone n'sher, when his nets are dried, The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes i« Broken and unrepaired,... | |
 | Diagonal White (pseud.) - Sailing - 1894 - 202 pages
...strand, which Shelley's words well describe — A bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever shirting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds Such as from earth's embrace the salt-ooze breeds, Is this : an uninhabited seaside Which the lone fisher, when his nets are dried,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1895 - 780 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...embrace the salt ooze breeds, Is this; an uninhabited sca-side, Which the lone fisher, when his nets arc dried, Abandons ; and no other object breaks The... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1899 - 836 pages
...the flow riding Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand on o Q^ jjillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes 10 Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 550 pages
...talk, Shelley rode with Byron on the Lido— " a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever -shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from Earth's embrace the salt-ooze breeds." (See the opening lines of Julian and Maddalo). As they rode, "our conversation consisted... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1911 - 708 pages
...which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes 10 Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 454 pages
...which breaks the flow Or Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand... | |
 | H. Neville Maugham, Henry Neville Maugham - Architecture - 1903 - 494 pages
...published an account of a journey undertaken long after the poet's death, but it lacks in interest. Is this, an uninhabited sea-side Which the lone fisher,...Abandons ; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand... | |
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I RODE one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze... 
