 Cooper's Hill, My eye, descending from the Hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays ; Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to...  Poems - Page 6by Joseph Addison - 1810 - 597 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 328 pages
...Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity; Though with those streams heno resemblance hold, Whose foam is 'amber, and their gravel gold : His genuine and less guilty wealth to' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1822 - 486 pages
...sea, Like mortal life, to meet eternity. Though with those slreums he no resemblance hold, Whose foHm is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth t'exidore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore." Pope was not insensible to the merit of Denham's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...meaning in few words, and exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk. On the Thames. " Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam...explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore." On Strafford. " His wisdom such, at once it did appear Three kingdoms'' wonder, and three kingdoms'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...meaning in few words, and exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk. On the Thames. " Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam...their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth to explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore." On Strafford. " His wisdom such, at once... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...meaning in few words, and exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk. On the Thames : Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam...explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore. On Strafford: His wisdom such, at once it did appear Three kingdoms' wonder, and three kingdoms' fear.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblanee stirr'd in me sudden appetite Seareh not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er whieh he kindly spreads his spaeious wing, And hatehes... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hoi*. Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold, His genuine...spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty for the ensuing spring : Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers who their infants overlay... | |
 | Horace Wellbeloved - London (England) - 1826 - 138 pages
...his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea. Like mortal life to meet eternity, Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam...genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not the bottom, but survey his shore; O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...embraces runs ; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though mth those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is...genuine and less guilty .wealth t' explore, Search not Ms bottom, but survey his shore; O'er which he kindly spreads bis spacious wing, And hatches plenty... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams lie no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their...genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not Ins bottom, but survey Ins shore ; O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty... | |
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