 | David Hirson - 2001 - 148 pages
...(MAURICE places his hand on DENNETT'S shoulder from behind.) MAURICE. (Softly.) Farewell, Alcibiades. "The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way; The increasing prospect tires... | |
 | Grant Ian Thrall - 2002 - 274 pages
...more advanc'd, behold 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,...survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! A... | |
 | Frank H. Herbstein - 2005 - 722 pages
...more advanc'd, behold with strange surprize New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales,...attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way, Th' increasing prospect tries our wand'ring eyes. Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 2005 - 1436 pages
...which this science leads us, we may well adopt the language of the philosophick poet j So pleas'd, at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales,...the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But these attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th' increasing prospect... | |
 | Mikel Vause - 2005 - 456 pages
...talked of the inborn need for man to ascent in the lines of his poem, "Alps on Alps": So pleas'd at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales and seem to touch the sky; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...more advanc'd, behold with strange Surprize New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise! So pleas'd at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the Vales,...survey The growing Labours of the lengthen'd Way, Th' increasing Prospect tires our wandering Eyes, Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise! A... | |
 | Nancy Bogen - 2007 - 426 pages
...more advanc'd, behold with strange surprize New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise! So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try, Mount o'er the Vales,...first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain 'd, we tremble to survey The growing Labours of the lengthen'd Way, Th' increasing prospect... | |
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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! 
