 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...pleas'd at first the tow 'ring Alps we try, tS.-' 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 Hut those atain'd, we tremhle to survey, The growing lahours of the lengthen'd way; 30 Tli' increasing... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, Mount...the vales, and seem to tread the sky ! The' eternal suows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those attain'd, we... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise I So pleas'd 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: But, those... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...sträng« surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! .So pleas'«) at first the tow'riug Alps we try. Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; Т1Г eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: Rut, those... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount 0*cr the vales, and seem lo tread the siy; Th' y God ! From what pure wells Of milky light, what soft o'crdowing urn. Are theList. Hut, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengtnen'd way; Th' increasing... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 pages
...find i 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... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...word 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...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 to tread the sky ; Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But, those... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pages
...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... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...more advanced, behold with 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 advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! 
