 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...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, and seem to tread the sky ! Th' eternal snows appear already pass'd, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : Bat,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 350 pages
...science rise." " Science !" interrupted Harry. " Now, my dear, I can go on by myself." " 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...more advanced, hehold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleased elans came unhid, the fast. 485 The chiefs surround the destined heast, pass'd, And the first clonds and mountaius seem the last But, those attain'd, we tremhle to survey... | |
 | 1826 - 82 pages
...may be observed of the word prospect, in the last line but one of the following passage : 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 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... | |
 | 1826 - 688 pages
...the student's progress to that of a traveller over the Alps. So pleased at first, the towering Alp« 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... | |
 | Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 928 pages
...and contrast their colossean proportions with the diminutive stature of every living thing. " Tho' pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, " Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; " I'll' eternal suows appear already past, " And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: "... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...strange surprise', New distant scenes of endless science riseM 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',... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...So pleas'dat 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: Hut those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way ; Th' increasing... | |
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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! 
