 | Sir John Denham - English drama - 1709 - 354 pages
...Snows diffolv'd, o'erflows th' adjoining Plains, The Husbandmen with high-rais'd banks fecure Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure. But if with...banks he dwells, Firft to a Torrent, then a Deluge f wells: Stronger and fiercer by reftraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his Pow'r his Shoars.... | |
 | Sir John Denham - 1709 - 24 pages
...diffolv'd. overflows the adjoyning Plain?, , ; ,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 Chant! to a new or narrow Courfe ; No longer then within his Banks he dwells, ; Firft to a Torrent,... | |
 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...Husbandmen with higb-rais'd Banks Secure Their greedy Hopes ; ana this he can endure . • • But But if with Bays and Dams they ftrive to force His...Reftraint he roars, And knows no Bound, but makes his Pow'r his Shores. Denb. Thus rifing in his Might, the King of Floods Rufh'd through the Forefts, tore... | |
 | John Dryden - Classical poetry - 1716 - 412 pages
...Snows diflblv'd, o'er-flows th" adjoyning Plains, The Husbandmen with high-rais'd Banks fecure Their greedy Hopes, and this he can endure. But if with...Dams, they ftrive to force His Channel to a new or nartow Courfe, No longer then within his Banks he dwells, Firft to a Totrenr, then a Deluge fwelis... | |
 | John Dryden, John Milton, William D'Avenant - 1716 - 418 pages
...Snows diffolv'd, o'er-flows th' adjoyning Plains, The Husbandmen with high-rais'd Banks fecure Their greedy Hopes, and this he can endure. But if with Bays and Dams, they drive to force His Channel to a new or narrow Cotufe, No longer then within his Banks he dwells, Firft... | |
 | Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 490 pages
...Snows diflblv'd, o'eiflows th' adjoyning Plains, The Hu/bandmen with high-rais'd Banksfecure Their greedy Hopes; and this he can endure : But if with...a new, or narrow Courfe, No longer then within his Bankt he dwells, Hrft to a Torrent, then a Deluge fwells : Stronger and fiercer by Reftraint, he roars;... | |
 | Sir John Denham - 1719 - 258 pages
...Bays and Dams they ftrivc to force His Channel to a new, or narrow Courfe; No longet then within hii Banks he dwells, Firft to a Torrent, then a Deluge...Reftraint he roars, And knows no Bound, but makes his Pow'r hit ' Shoars. PREFACE TO THE j , . : Deftruftion of TROT, &c. THERE are Jo few Tr /inflarions... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...fnows diflblv'd, o'erflows th' adjoining plains, The hufbandmen with high-rais'd banks fecure Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure. But if with...reftraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his pow'r his mores. ELOISA E'LOISA TO ABELARD. The harmony of numbers in this poem is very fine. It is... | |
 | English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...fnows diflblv'd, o'erfiows th' adjoining plains. The hufbandmen, with high-rais'd banks, fecure Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure : But if with...reftraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his pow'r his mores. O O *: AN ELECIACK ODE. WRITTEN IN THE WOOD XEAR CASTLE, MBCCLXII. BY MR. MICKLE.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1781 - 512 pages
...plains. The hufbandmen, with high-rais'd banks, fecure Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure i But if with bays and dams they ftrive to force His...banks he dwells, Firft to a torrent, then a deluge fweljs ; Stronger and fiercer, by reftraint he roars. And knows no bound, but makes his pow'r his.... | |
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First to a Torrent, then a Deluge swells: Stronger, and fiercer by restraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores. 
