 Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to 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 is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth...  A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling [etc.] - Seite 141von Thomas Best - 1808 - 186 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity ; Though with those streams he no 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... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 Seiten
...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 wing, And hatehes plenty for the ensuing spring; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...foam is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth to explore, Search not hi« s at best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, an th' ensuing spring, And then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay... | |
 | 1851 - 496 Seiten
...tribute to the sea, like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold : His genuine...spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty for th' ensuing spring ; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...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 - 1851 - 602 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 Seiten
...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,"... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 Seiten
...tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity; Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold: His genuine...spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty for th' ensuing spring ; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay;... | |
 | 1852 - 508 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 508 Seiten
...Thames, to our own river ; and say, exultingly : Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, 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... | |
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