 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pagina’s
...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 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 - 1822 - 426 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pagina’s
...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 Platts - 1822 - 844 pagina’s
...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 - 1822 - 404 pagina’s
...the word prospect i» 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 ; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pagina’s
...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 - 1823 - 406 pagina’s
...the word 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 ; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the lost : But those... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pagina’s
...VARIATIONS. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps to try, Fill'd with ideas of fair Italy, The 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 - 1824 - 398 pagina’s
...VARIATIONS. Ver. 225. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps to try, Fill'd with ideas of fair Italy, The 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...strange surpris« New distant scenes ofendiese science rise ! So pleas'd at first the towering Alps own To dwell on even ground now with thy sons : Yet dou ; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds aud mountains seem the Ut : But those... | |
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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,... 
