 | Charles Williams - 1856 - 200 pages
...Borough " on the Suffolk coast, which Crabbe has so graphically portrayed, he says : — " Thy gentler river boasts its pigmy boat, Urged on by pains, half grounded, half afloat; — Far other craft our prouder river shows, Hoys, pinks, and sloops ; brigs, brigantines, and snows:... | |
 | William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...been 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 hoys from town, Its various wares for country... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1858 - 588 pages
...— " Here, Samphire-banks and Salt-wort bound the flood ; There, stakes and sea-weeds, withering in the mud ; And higher up, a ridge of all things base,...Which some strong tide has roll'd upon the place." The broad bare tract of shore that intervenes between this line and the now distant water (for the... | |
 | 1859 - 584 pages
...Aid to the town, and receding, leaves the muddy banks exposed : " Here samphire-banks and saltwort bound the flood, There stakes and seaweeds withering...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has rolled upon the place." On this river is Slaughden Quay ; and here, in his father's warehouse, the... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...Aid to the town, and receding, leaves the muddy banks exposed : " Here samphire-banks and saltwort bound the flood, There stakes and seaweeds withering...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has rolled upon the place." On this river is Slaughden Quay ; and here, in his father's warehouse, the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...Crabbe has so graphically portrayed, he says : — ' the Borough," on the Suffolk coast, " Thy gentler river boasts its pigmy boat, Urged on by pains, half grounded, half afloat ; Far other craft our prouder river shows, Hoys, pinks, and sloops ; brigs, brigantinos, and snows... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1861 - 452 pages
...amphibious in the docks Bear for the sea those castles on the stocks. Here samphire banks and salt-wort bound the flood, There stakes and seaweeds withering...higher up a ridge of all things base, Which some strong flood has rolled upon the place. Yon is our quay ; those smaller hoys from town Its various wares for... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1861 - 452 pages
...amphibious in the docks Kear for the sea those castles on the stocks. Here samphire banks and salt-wort bound the flood, There stakes and seaweeds withering...higher up a ridge of all things base, Which some strong flood has rolled upon the place. Yon is our quay ; those smaller hoys from town Its various wares for... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1869 - 630 pages
...the scene. Slaughden quay he touches like a little Vandervelde : Here samphire banks and salt wort bound the flood, There stakes and seaweeds withering on the mud ; And higher up a ridce of all things base, Which some strong tide hae rolled upon the place ; Yon is our quay ! those... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1870 - 344 pages
...Slaughden quay touched as by Vandervelde : " Here samphire banks and salt wort turned the flood, Their stakes and seaweeds withering on the mud ; And higher...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has rolled upon the place ; Yon is our quay ! those smaller hoys from town Its various wares for country... | |
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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... 
