 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 páginas
...Or fnows di(Tolv'd,o'erflows th'adjoining plains, The hufbandmen with high-rais'd banks fecure Their greedy hopes; and this he can endure. But if with bays and dams they ft rive to force His channel to a new or narrow courfe, longer then within his banks he dwells; rirft... | |
 | 1806 - 408 páginas
...snows dissolv'd, o'erflows th' adjoining plains, The husbandmen with high-rais'd banks secure Their greedy hopes, an'd this he can endure. But if with bays and dams they strive to force His channel to a new, or narrow, course; No longer, then, within his banks he dwells,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 páginas
...o'erflows th" adjoining plains, •The husbandmen with high-rais'd banks secure Their greedy hope«, and this he can endure ; But if with bays and dams they strive to force His channel to a new, or narrow course, 'No longer then within his banks he dwells,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 páginas
...fet bounds between tiieir love and me? I am their mother, who fhall bar me from them? Shakefyeare. Stronger and fiercer by reftraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his pow'r his. fliorcs. 1 >.-.•,:•• ••-Anjr bounds made with body, even adamantine i walls, are... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 490 páginas
...are they gifts, but spoils.1 17» SIR JOHN DENHAM. The husbandmen with high-rais'd banks secure Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure ; But if with bays and dams they strive to force His channel to a new or narrow course, No longer then within his banks he dwells, First... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 páginas
...snows d.ssolv'd, o'erflows the' adjoining plaiu, The husbandmen with high-rais'd banks secure Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure ; But if with bays and dams they strive to force His channel to a new or narrow course, No longer then within his banks he dwells, First... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 páginas
...snows dissolv'd, o'erflows th' adjoining plains, The husbandmen with high raised banks secure Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure ; But if with bays and dams they strive to force His channel to a new or narrow course, No longer then within his banks he dwells, First... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...snows dissolv'd, o'erflows th' adjoining plains, the husbandmen with high-rais'd banks secure their greedy hopes, and this he can endure; but if with bays and dams they strive to force his channel to a new or narrow course, po longer then within his banks he dwells, first... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 páginas
...snows dissolv'd, o'erflows th' adjoining plains, the husbandmen with high-rais'd banks secure their greedy hopes, and this he can endure; but if with bays and dams they strive to force his channel to a new or narrow course, no longer then within his banks he dwells, first... | |
 | 1816 - 816 páginas
...to perifh by conflagration. Burnet's Theory, z. An overflowing of the natural bounds of a river. — But if with bays and dams they ftrive to force His channel to a new or narrow courfc, No longer then within his banks he dwells, Firft to a torrent, then a deluge fwells. Denb.iir..... | |
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First to a Torrent, then a Deluge swells: Stronger, and fiercer by restraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores. 
