 When tides were neap, and, in the sultry day, Through the tall bounding mud-banks made their way, Which on each side rose swelling, and below The dark warm flood ran silently and slow; There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head,...  The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits - Sida 146efter William Hazlitt - 1825Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1810 - 702 sidor
...The dark warm flood ran silently and slow; There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy...left upon the mud, Slope their slow passage to the fallen flood; — Here dull and hopeless he'd lie down and trace How side-long crabs had scrawl'd their... | |
 | 1812 - 954 sidor
...The dark warm flood ran »ilemly and slow ; There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy...shallows play; Where gaping muscles, left upon the mud, Horrors that would the sternest mindi amaze. Horrors that demons might be proud to raise ; And though... | |
 | 1810 - 538 sidor
...dark warm flood ran silently and slow ; There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide," There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy channel slowly glide ; Wiiere the small eels that left die deeper way For the warm shore, within the shallows play ; Where... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1810 - 612 sidor
...Flood ran silently and slow; ,- , There anchoring, Peter chose from Man to hide, . r. -A } There hang his Head, and view the lazy Tide • > In its hot...left upon the Mud, Slope their slow passage to the fallen Flood ; — Here dull and hopeless he'll lie down and trace How sidelong Crabs had scrawl'd... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1810 - 372 sidor
...The dark warm flood ran silently and slow; There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide. There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy...play ; Where gaping muscles, left upon the mud, Slope sheir slow passage to the fallen flood ; Here dull and hopeless he'd lie down and trace How side-long... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1810 - 402 sidor
...dark warm Flood ran silently and slow ; There anchoring, Peter chose from Man to hide, x There hang his Head, and view the lazy Tide ; . ,>' In its hot slimy Channel slowly glide ; • .^.. i. J; Where the small Eels that left the deeper way . . For the warm Shore, within the Shallows... | |
 | 1811 - 566 sidor
...to hide, -1 There hang his Head, and view the lazy Tide I In its hot slimy Channel slowly glide , J Where the small Eels that left the deeper way For...left upon the Mud, Slope their Slow passage to the Fallen Flood — Here dull and hopeless he'd lie down and trace How side-long Crabs had scrawled their... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 340 sidor
...The dark warm Flood ran silently and slow; There anchoring, Peter chose from Man to hide, There hang his Head, and view the lazy Tide In its hot slimy...left upon the Mud, Slope their slow passage to the fallen Flood;—, Here dull and hopeless he 'd lie down and trace How sidelong Crabs had scrawl'd their... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 338 sidor
...The dark warm Flood ran silently and slow ; There anchoring, Peter chose from Man to hide, There hang his Head, and view the lazy Tide In its hot slimy...within the Shallows play ; Where gaping Muscles, left npon the Mud, Slope their slow passage to the fallen Flood ; — Here dull and hopeless he 'd lie down... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 346 sidor
...The dark warm Flood ran silently and slow; There anchoring, Peter chose from Man to hide, There hang his Head, and view the lazy Tide In its hot slimy...left upon the Mud, Slope their slow passage to the fallen Flood;— Here dull and hopeless he 'il lie down and trace How sidelong Crabs had scrawl'd their... | |
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