 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 Seiten
...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'...survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes; Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. POPE... | |
 | 1822 - 880 Seiten
...So plcas'd at first the towering Alps we fry» Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds...to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; The increasing prospect tries our wandering eyes, Hills pee)) o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 Seiten
...So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ! The' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds...survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; The' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise !... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 Seiten
...surprise, New ilist:.ni scenes ot 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 ;...first clouds and mountains seem the last : But. those ittnir.'ii, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengihcn'd way; h-mcreasmg prospect tires... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 Seiten
...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'...first clouds and mountains seem the last • But those atlaiu'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen 'd way; Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | 1822 - 666 Seiten
...So, pleas'd at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds...attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengtben'd way ; Tu' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes; Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps... | |
 | 1822 - 690 Seiten
...blanks to a prize are forgotten in trying the " towering Alps'' of fortune, where always " The rternal snows appear already past. And the first clouds and mountains seem the last." But there is a moral motive for adventuring, highly in famir of trying one's fortune in the lottery; how... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 Seiten
...prospect in the last line 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 ;...past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the lost : But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; Th' increasing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...surpris« New distant scenes ofendiese science rise ! So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, well on even ground now with thy sons : Yet doubt...in valley and in plain God is as here, and will be aud mountains seem the Ut : But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengtheu'd... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 350 Seiten
...interrupted Harry. " Now, my dear, I can go on by myself." " So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ;...to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way : Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise."... | |
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While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise! 
