| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 páginas
...behind ; But more advanc'd, beheld, with 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 4.0 tread the skj ; Tb' eternal snows appear already- past, And the first clouds and mountains seem... | |
| 1821 - 656 páginas
...thousand blanks to a prize are forgotten in trying the " towering Alps'" of fortune, where always " The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last." But there is a moral motive for adventuring, highly in favour of trying one's fortune in the lottery ;... | |
| John Walker - 1822 - 404 páginas
...province. The same may be observed of the word prospect i» the last line of the following passage : So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount...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. How... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 páginas
...behind; But more advanc'd, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount...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 /... | |
| John Platts - 1822 - 844 páginas
...behind ; But more advanc'd, behold, with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So, pleas'd, at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 páginas
...{ But, more ndvanc'd, behold, with strange surprise, New ilist:.ni scenes ot endless science rise ! So, pleas'd at first the tow-ring Alps we try, Mount...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 páginas
...appears evidently to have been suggested by the following one in the Works of Drummond, p. 38. 4to. Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first...survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, 230 Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 páginas
...appears evidently to have been suggested by the following one in the Works of Drnmmond, p. 38. 4to. Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first...survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, 230 Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise... | |
| 1822 - 880 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 !... | |
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