 | Edward Parry - 1843 - 244 pages
...So pleased 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.'" During the summer season, this place is the general rendezvous of gentlemen who resort here for the... | |
 | Edward Parry - 1843 - 252 pages
...and in the distance rises Cader Idris with pre-eminent grandeur! " So pleased 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.'' During the... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...envies such a grave." LESSON CCCXLVII.—DECEMBER THE THIRTEENTH. The Glaciers. • • " 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 clouds and mountains seem the last: But those... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - 1844 - 624 pages
...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: Bnt those attain'd, we tremble to survey, The growing labours of the lengthen 'd way; Th' increasing... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - 1844 - 626 pages
...roo ft'e tl)rctt S5licï f)inrcerfen, ein neues l)er»or*): Art. 16. 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... | |
 | 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 clouds and mountains seem the last VOL. LVIL NO.... | |
 | 1845 - 842 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 clouds and mountains seem the last. VOL. LV1I.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 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 clouds and mountains seem the last. But those... | |
 | Edward Parry - 1847 - 378 pages
...Mawddu and Aran Penllyn ; and in the distant rises Cader Idris with pre-eminent grandeur. " 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 clouds and mountains seem the last " During... | |
 | 1848 - 622 pages
...yet is its beauty perhaps so very familiar that we scarcely notice its simple grandeur. So pleased at first the towering Alps we try Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky. and so on to the end. How true to nature in all its parts is that exquisite passage. In no quarter... | |
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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! 
