 | John Aikin - 1806 - 346 Seiten
...circumstances of generality ; such as those on ascending a steep and lofty hill, in the following lines : Still the prospect wider spreads, Adds a thousand...risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a prospect lies below ! &c. It is not necessary to have climbed Grongar hill, to feel the descriptive... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 Seiten
...his brooks and meads behiadr And groves and grottoes where I lay, And vistoes shooting beams of day : Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth...meads, Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow ; What a landskip lies below ! No clouds, no vapours... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 Seiten
...his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistoes shooting beams of day: Wide and wider spreads the vale ; As circles on a...the others rise : Still the prospect wider spreads, Adda a thousand woods and mead*; vOL. Iv. Sf Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...groves and grottos, where I lay, And vistas shooting beams ot" day. Wide and wider spreads the vale, A) d after ill, and after pain delight; Alternate, like...the scenes of day and night : Since ev'ry man who l iheir summits trom the skies. And lessen as the others rise. Slid the prospect wider spreads, Adds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 Seiten
...his hrooks and meads hehind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistas shooting heams of day : Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth...meads; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen dill. Now, I gain the mountain's hrow, What a landscape lies helow ! No clouds, no vapours... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 Seiten
...brooks and meads behind. And groves and grottos where I lay, And vistoes shooting beams of day ; Wider and wider spreads the vale; As circles on a smooth...meads; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 Seiten
...his brinks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistas shooting beams of day : Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth...woods and meads ; Still it widens, widens still, And siuks the newly-risen hill. Now, T gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 Seiten
...brooks and meads behind. And groves and grottos where I lay, And vistoes shooting beams of day ; Wider and wider spreads the vale; As circles on a smooth...meads; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! . No clouds, no vapours... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 Seiten
...viftos fhooting beams of day. _. *• Wide and wider fpreads the vale, £°' " As circles on a fmooth canal : The mountains round, unhappy fate, Sooner or later, of all height ! Withdraw their fummits from the skies, And leflen as the others rife. Still the profpect wider fpreads, Adds a thoufand... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 Seiten
...his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottos where I lay, And vistos shooting beams of day: Wide and wider spreads the vale ; As circles on a...meads ; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. No clouds, no vapours intervene ; But the gay, the open scene, Does the face of nature... | |
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Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still... 
