 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 páginas
...strange surprise. New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But, those... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 páginas
...prospect, in the last line but one of the following passage : So pleas'd at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 páginas
...More heights before him than he left behind. Drum. p. 38, 4to. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; Tb' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But those... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 páginas
...sirange surprise,. New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the...first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; The increasing prospect... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 páginas
...pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, 225 ;Ui mill, o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ! Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; 230 Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, 225 Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem -the last : But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, 230 Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 páginas
...scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vale*, and seem to tread the sky ; The' eternal snows appear...past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the laat : But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1780 - 494 páginas
...succession but an increase of new objects and new difficulties. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the...first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way : The increasing prospect... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 páginas
...time can ne'er exhaust! •» THOMSON. No. LXXVI. ON MOUNTAINS. So pleased at first the towering Alps we try. Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But, those... | |
 | 1845 - 816 páginas
...strange surprise. Far distant views of endless science rise ! So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clonds and mountains seem the last. VOL. LVTL... | |
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While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise. So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales,... 
