 With which she calculates, computes and scans All distance, motion, magnitude, and now Measures an atom, and now girds a world? In London ; where has commerce such a mart, So rich, so throng'd, so drain'd, and so supplied, As London— opulent, enlarged,...  London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis ... - Сторінка 3автори: David Hughson - 1808Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 стор.
...thronged, so drained, and so supplied, As London, — opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London ? Babylon of old Not more the glory of the earth than she, A more accomplished world's chief glory now. EAST LONDON. William Cowper. Til WAS August, and the fierce sun... | |
 | William Collins Sons and Co - 1880 - 222 стор.
...or gardens. The poet Cowper, in his Task, more than a hundred years ago, appreciatively spoke of " The villas with which London stands begirt, Like a swarth Indian with his belt of beads." We wonder what he would think now of the many houses of this kind which extend, in some directions,... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 стор.
...thronged, so drained, and so supplied, As London — opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London ? Babylon of old Not more the glory of the earth than she, A more accomplished world's chief glory now. Cowper, The Sofa. LONDON. WHEN I consider this great city in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1885 - 352 стор.
...throng'd, so drain'd, and so supplied, As London, opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London f Babylon of old Not more the glory of the earth, than she A more accomplish'd world's chief glory now. She has her praise. Now mark a spot or two That so much heauty would do well to purge ; And show this... | |
 | Charles A. Gillig - 1886 - 224 стор.
...appreciate the gentle and loving Cowper, when, more than a century ago," he wrote in the "Task " of " The villas with which London stands begirt, Like a swarth Indian with his belt of beads." The village of Hampstead, long since swallowed up by insatiable demands for more room, was known in... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 604 стор.
...drain'd, and so supplied As London^^jjjulent, enlarg'd, and still Increasing London ? Babylon of old No more the glory of the earth than she, A more accomplish'd world's chief glory now ! " The river, as the source of almost all the greatness and wealth of the metropolis, and also as one of its... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 стор.
...thronged, so drained, and so supplied, 720 As London, opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London ? Babylon of old Not more the glory of the earth than she, A more accomplished world's chief glory now. She has her praise. Now mark a spot or two That so much beauty... | |
 | William Cowper - 1891 - 204 стор.
...thronged, so drained, and so supplied, As London, opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London ? Babylon of old Not more the glory of the earth, than she A more accomplished world's chief glory now She has her praise. Now mark a spot or two That so much beauty... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1891 - 246 стор.
...finds philosophy her eagle eye'—' where has commerce such a mart'—he asked, if not in London ? ' Babylon of old Not more the glory of the earth than she, A more accomplished world's chief glory now.' For many poets the chief charm of London has lain in its associations,... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1896 - 492 стор.
...clamors, and so keen their arms. POPE'S Homer. In like manner, Cowper degrades in these lines : — " The villas with which London stands begirt, Like a swarth Indian with his belt of beads." Bombastic Figures. — An error opposite to the last is that of comparing trivial things to others... | |
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