 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 páginas
...rains or snows dissolved, o'erflows the 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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...Or snows dissolv'd, o'erflows th'adjoining plains, 350 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 No longer then within his banks he dwells, First to a torrent, then a deluge swells:... | |
 | Laura Brown - 2001 - 292 páginas
...rains Or snows dissolved, o'erflows th'adjoining plains, The husbandmen widi 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... | |
 | Joshua Scodel - 2002 - 388 páginas
...Or Snowes dissolv'd o'reflowes th'adjoyning Plaines, The Husbandmen with high rais'd bankes secure Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure. But if with Bays, and Dammes they strive to force, His channelI to a new, or narrow course, No longer then within his bankes... | |
 | Felicity Nussbaum - 2005 - 408 páginas
...rains Or snows dissolved, 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... | |
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o'erflows th' adjoining plains, The husbandmen with high-rais'd banks fecure Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure. But if with bays and dams they ftrive to force His channel to a new, or narrow courfe; No longer then within his banks he dwells,... 
