 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...; A search the flight of time can ne'er exhaust! •» THOMSON. No. LXXVI. ON MOUNTAINS. 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... | |
 | 1820 - 190 pages
...other's woe, down Virtue's manly cheeks. DARWIN ASCENDING THE ALPS. PLEASED at the 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 are mountains seem thelast: But, those... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 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, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 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... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 pages
...of 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... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 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... | |
 | 1822 - 874 pages
...Imaginations. it* very threshold. The course of the critic is, in moral life, the only course of happiness : " So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the voles, and seem to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...observed of 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...behind ; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surpris« New distant scenes ofendiese science rise ! pre-eminence thou hast lost, brought down 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...behind ; But more advane'd, behold with strange surprise New distant seenes of endless seienee rise ! ture wrought, To instruet our wandering Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first elouds and mountains seem the last : 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 advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! 
