 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound ? E'en now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests, and through dangerous ways,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1811 - 212 pages
...maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main; 410 Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound? E'en now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests, and through dang'rous ways;... | |
 | Joshua Marsden - Bermuda Islands - 1816 - 324 pages
...to Little York, the capital of Upper Canada, and not far from the scene of Goldsmith's fiue couplet: Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound. We were precisely between Oswego and Niagara, though we could neither see the swamps of the one, nor... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound? E'en now, perh aps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests, and through dangerous ways,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 238 pages
...maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main; 410 o "Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound ? E'en now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests, and through dang'rous ways;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main j Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around. And Niagara stuns with thundering sound P E'en now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays, Through tangled forests, and through dangerous ways;... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound? E'en now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests and through dangerous ways;... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train. To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound ? Casts a lonç look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathise with mine. Even now,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 462 pages
...blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound ? Ev'n now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests, and through dangerous ways;... | |
 | English periodicals - 1838 - 750 pages
...the Empire referred to as a few acres of snow in Canada*, where now, as in the days of Goldsmith, " Wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound." At Quebec, in lat. 46° 48' 49" N., the orchards yield apples and peal's of very superior flavour.... | |
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Grist-mills were erected in Western New York. Through all the vast region " Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound," the Mohawk, the Oneida, and the Seneca, pounded his maize and ate his unbolted meal in undisturbed... 
