 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
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...Ms 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...which their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...V. 103. " On the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread." Milt. PL vii. 235. " O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty for th' ensuing spring." Denham. Cooper's Hill. W. V. 105. " Cepheam hie Meroen, fuscaque regna canat," Propert. iv. vi. 78.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no remembrance 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing. And hatches plenty for th' ensuing spring, And then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infanta overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave.... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...lus 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...which their infants overlay; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings , resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1852 - 500 pages
...the memorable lines of Sir John Denham on the Thames, to our own river ; and say, exultingly : Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam...explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore. A READER. From Fraser's Magazine. EDMUND BURKE AND HIS VIEWS OF OUR ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIES. The seeds... | |
 | Virginia - 1852 - 508 pages
...the memorable lines of Sir John Denham on the Thames, to our own river ; and say, exultingly : Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam...explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore. A READER. From Fraser's Magazine. EDMUND BURKE AND HIS VIEWS OF OUR ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIES. The seeds... | |
 | Virginia - 1852 - 508 pages
...Thames, to our own river ; and say, exultingly : Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, O * Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold ; His genuine...explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore. A READER. From Fraser's Magazine. EDMUND BURKE AND HIS VIEWS OF OUR ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIES. The seeds... | |
 | Norman Chevers - Public health - 1852 - 396 pages
...Even the author of Cooper's Hill was compelled to acknowledge of his favorite river, — " Though to those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is...their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth to explore, Search not his channel, but survey his shore." Some arguments of considerable apparent... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. 2. Though with those streams he no remembrance 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... | |
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