 From his broad bosom life and verdure flings. And broods o'er Egypt with his wat'ry wings, If with advent'rous oar and ready sail, The dusky people drive before the gale; Or on frail floats to neighb'ring cities ride, That rise and glitter o'er the ambient...  Recollections - Page 62by Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 253 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...want and liberty, ( As lawless force from confidence will grow) Insult the plenty of- the vales below? What wonder, in the sultry climes, that spread, Where...ready sail The dusky people drive before the gale; Or on frail floats to neighb'ring cities ride, That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide #***•***•**... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...want and liberty, (As lawless force from confidence will grow) Insult the plenty of the vales below ? What wonder, in the sultry climes, that spread Where...broad bosom life and verdure flings, And broods o'er JEgypt with his wat'ry wings, If with advent'rous oar and ready sail The dusky people drive before... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...want and liberty, (As lawless force from confidence will grow) Insult the plenty of the vales below ? What wonder, in the sultry climes, that spread Where...ready sail The dusky people drive before the gale ; Or on frail floats to neighb'ring cities ride, That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide / % SOJVJYET... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...contrasted scene, and gives, in a fine style of poetical painting, a sketch of Egypt under an inundation. What wonder, in the sultry climes that spread Where Nile redundant o'er his summer bed From his broad bosom life and verdure Hings, And broods o'er Egypt wiih his wat'ry wings;... | |
 | William Jones - Bailments - 1804 - 324 pages
...of peculiar importance to that venerable empire : its whole surface is intersected by navigable «' What wonder, in the sultry climes, that spread, " Where Nile redundant o'er his summer bed rt Frem his broad bosom lift and verdure flings, " And broods o'er Egypt with his wat'ry... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
...redundant o'er his summer bed, From his broad bosom life and verdure flings, And broods o'er Kcjypt with his wat'ry wings; If with advent'rous oar, and...ready sail, The dusky people drive before the gale; Or on frail floats to neighbouring cities ride, That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide. (Mason's... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
...the poetic eye of Gray had seen the same objects with a keener glance: • J & • i-'ii,, •'*<; J. What wonder in the sultry climes that spread, Where Nile, redundant o'er his summer bed, From his broad bosom life and verdure flings, ,,,'-> f, And broods o'er Egypt with his... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...them to their native liberty and equality, and to give them again the power of supporting danger and If with advent'rous oar and ready sail The dusky people drive before the gale; l05 Or on frail floats to neighb'ring cities ride, That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide. NOTES.... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...will grow) Insult the plenty of the vales below? ( What wonder, in the sultry climes, that spread 100 Where Nile redundant o'er his summer-bed From his...ready sail The dusky people drive before the gale ; 105 NOTES. Ver. 9 1 . With side-long plough to quell the flinty ground] " Or drives his venturous... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...vales below ? What wonder, in the sultry climes, that spread, Where Nile redundant o'er his summer bed From his broad bosom life and verdure flings, And...ready sail, The dusky people drive before the gale ; Or on frail floats to neighb'ring cities ride That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide. ON VICISSITUDE.... | |
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