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" With ceaseless motion comes and goes the tide, Flowing, it fills the channel vast and wide; Then back to sea, with strong majestic sweep It rolls, in ebb yet terrible and deep: Here samphire-banks and salt-wort bound the flood, There stakes and sea-weeds... "
The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: The borough - Page 19
by George Crabbe - 1834 - 336 pages
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The Borough: A Poem, in Twenty-four Letters

George Crabbe - 1810 - 402 pages
...yet terrible and deep : * The white Water-Lily. Nymphaea alba. Here Sampire-Banks * and Salt-wort + bound the Flood, There Stakes and Sea-weeds withering...the place. Thy gentle River boasts its pigmy Boat, Urg'd on by pains, half grounded, half afloat ; While at her Stern an Angler takes his stand, And marks...
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The Borough: A Poem in Twenty-four Letters

George Crabbe - 1810 - 372 pages
...with strong majestic sweep It rolls, in ebb yet terrible and deep: Here sampire-banksf and salt-wort^: bound the flood, There stakes and sea-weeds withering...the place. Thy gentle river boasts its pigmy boat, Urg'd on by pains, half grounded, half afloat : While at her stern an angler takes his stand, And marks...
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The Borough: A Poem, in Twenty-four Letters

George Crabbe - 1810 - 612 pages
...yet terrible and deep : * The white Water-Lily. Nymphaca alba. Here Sam pi re-Banks* and Salt-wort + bound the Flood, There Stakes and Sea-weeds withering...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has rolFd upon the place. Thy gentle River boasts ils pigmy Boat, Urg'd on by pains, half grounded, half...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 37

1811 - 696 pages
...terrible and deep : Here fampire-banks* and fah-wort t bound the flood, There (takes and fea-Weeds withering on the mud ; And higher up, a ridge of all things bafe, \Vhich fome ftrong tide has roll'd upon the place* j " Thy gentle river boafts its pigmy boat,...
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 37

1811 - 694 pages
...terrible and deep : Here fampirc-banks * and falt-wort i bound the flood, There (lakes and fe.i.wc.\is withering on the mud ; And higher up, a ridge of all things bafe, Which fomc ftrong tide has roll-'d upon (he place. gentle river boalb its pigmy boat, Urg'd on...
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The works of George Crabbe, Volume 2

George Crabbe - 1816 - 340 pages
...ebb yet terrible and deep, The white Water-lily. Nymph«a alba. Here Sampire-Banks* and Salt-wort t bound the Flood, There Stakes and Sea-weeds withering...the place. Thy gentle River boasts its pigmy Boat, Urg'd on by pains, half grounded, half afloat; While at her Stern an Angler takes his stand, And marks...
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The Borough: A Poem, in Twenty-four Letters

George Crabbe - 1816 - 338 pages
...while WateMily. Njmpbast alba. 4 GENERAL DESCRIPTION. [Letter 1. Here Sampire-Banks*and Salt-wort t bound the Flood, There Stakes and Sea-weeds withering...strong tide has roll'd upon the place. Thy gentle River hoasts its pigmy Boat, Urg'd on by pains, half grounded, half afloat ; While at her Stern an Angler...
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The borough

George Crabbe - 1820 - 346 pages
...ebb yet terrible and deep ; ' Tho white Water-lily. Nymphaa alba. Here Sampirc-Banks* and Salt-wort t bound the Flood, There Stakes and Sea-weeds withering...the place. Thy gentle River boasts its pigmy Boat, TJrg'd on by pains, half grounded, half afloat ; While at her Stern an Angler takes his stand, And...
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The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With Life

George Crabbe - 1899 - 540 pages
...strong majestic sweep It rolls, in ebb yet terrible and deep ; Here Samphire-banks f and Saltwort} bound the flood, There stakes and sea-weeds withering...gentle river boasts its pigmy boat, Urged on by pains, half-grounded, half afloat : While at her stern an angler takes his stand, And marks the fish he purposes...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 11; Volume 59

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1834 - 636 pages
...painted with all the minuteness of a Dutch landscape : — •• Here samphire banks and saltwort bound the flood, There stakes and sea-weeds withering...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has rolled upon the place Yon is our quay ! those smaller boys from town, Its various wares for country...
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