| 1861 - 590 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... | |
| 326 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... | |
| Meyer Howard Abrams - 1960 - 248 pages
...bare strand Of hillocks, heaped with ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, 5 Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds,...Abandons; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes n A narrow space of level... | |
| English literature - 1839 - 578 pages
...Of hillocks, heap'd from every shifting sand : Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds ; . . . . 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... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1878 - 1366 pages
...of a similar desolation in Julian and Maddalo : 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, Is thU ; an uninhabited sea-side, i Which the lune fisher, when his »cl s are dried, Abandons ; and no... | |
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